Milipol Innovation Awards Ceremony

Milipol Innovation Awards

Published on by Ghislain VACHEROT - updated on

Milipol Paris hosts during the event the Milipol Innovation Awards, a competition designed to reward the most innovative companies related to the homeland security and safety industry.

The Milipol Innovations Awards highlight the innovation in the 5 following categories :

  • Cybersecurity (fight against cyberthreats and cybercriminality solutions)
  • Large events Security Management (access control, flow managment, biometrics solutions, cctv, detectors, IA solutions and new technologies…)
  • Individual Equipment / first responder protection (materials, textiles, fabrics & accessories)
  • Drone & anti-drone systems, robotics
  • Crisis Management (emergency population warning systems, crisis management, command & control)

Entry terms and conditions

  • Free competition only open to exhibiting companies (which are not part of the jury members) of Milipol Paris 2023.
  • To agree with the competition rules.
  • To complete the entries in English on the Exhibitor Area.
  • Competitors may submit one or more entries, and a same entry can be submitted in two different categories max.
  • Any technology, product, etc. submitted must:
    • Have been released or officially announced in 2021 minimum
    • At least, be prototypes which can be presented to the judges if requested

The evaluation of entries and the selection of the finalists will be done thanks to the innovative nature of the technology, product, etc. proposed by the competitor (10 points) and the opportunity for the market (8 points).

Milipol Innovation Awards 2021 Winners

Crisis management
  • NUVIA - NuGBalls, the deployable sensor network to map radiological or chemical contaminated areas in real-time (France)
Cybersecurity
  • COGNYTE, former Verint - BLINK (Israel) 
Drone & anti-drone systems, robotics
  • SKY-HERO - LOKI Mk2 (Belgium)
Individual equipments / First responder protection
  • PANGOLIN DEFENSE - Innovative ballistic protection (France)
Large events security management
  • ELISTAIR - Orion 2 (France)

More details on the winners and their solution.

Jury 2021

The jury is composed of international experts in their field.

Crisis management

Emily HOUGH
Crisis Response Journal
Editor in Chief

Tim CUTBILL
Protect and Prepare Ltd
Director

Cybersecurity

Loïc GUEZO
European cluster of excellence (CLUSIF)
Board member

Anne Le HENANFF
Commission " usages numériques et smartcity" de la FNCCR
President

Philippe TROUCHAUD
PwC
Chief technology officier and Cyber leader 

Drone & anti-drone systems, robotics

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe MEINBERG
TITUS Research GmbH
Head of Board (CURPAS e.V)

Mariane RENAUX
KYREMA
President

Individual equipments / First responder protection

Olivier BRUN
Direction of Performance Evaluation, Procurement, Finance and Real Estate (DEPAFI)
Deputy Director of Equipment 

Nick BUTLER
Technical Textile International
Editor

Large events security management

Christophe RAMU
ITER Organization
Head of security, health and safety division

Jean-Christophe CHWAT
GPMSE Fédération
President