Innovation Awards

Every year, inventors and innovators gather from far and wide to be part of the prestigious MTE Innovation Awards Programme. A recognition by MTE is highly regarded and one that is coveted by many in the industry. Check out our exclusive awards.

Awards Briefing for participants

International Innovation Awards

21 Jan 2025 - 2.30 pm (GMT+8)

Public Service Innovation Asia

22 Jan 2025 - 2.30 pm (GMT+8)

Asian Youth Innovation Awards

23 Jan 2025- 2.30 pm (GMT+8)

Leading the Way: Honoring the Innovators Behind the Award-Winning Solutions

Earn industry recognition

Winners will be conferred with a medal and personalized certificate

Outstanding Innovation Awards to the best innovations selected by the Awards Committee

Applicable for IIA only.

Special Awards Sponsored by International Organisations and Industry Bodies

Use of the official MTE Innovation Awards logos on all organizational materials

Connect with potential business partners and investors

Awards Participants can choose to participate in person or virtually

Malaysia Technology Expo offers both in-person and virtual participation options for exhibitors and awards participants. This means that regardless of where you are in the world, you can be a part of this exciting event. Our hybrid format ensures that everyone can benefit from the opportunity to showcase their innovations and research, connect with like-minded professionals, and gain recognition for their work.

As part of our commitment to inclusivity, all in-person exhibitors at Malaysia Technology Expo will receive a free virtual booth/virtual storefront from the organizer. This means that even if you choose to attend the event in-person, you can also enjoy the benefits of having a virtual presence. Your virtual booth/storefront will enable you to showcase your products, services, and research to a global audience, and to connect with attendees who may not be able to attend in-person.

All in-person participants will receive a free virtual booth/virtual store front from the organiser

Benefits of joining a hybrid event

By participating in a hybrid event like Malaysia Technology Expo, you can enjoy the best of both worlds. In-person attendance allows you to connect with others face-to-face, to experience the event’s energy and atmosphere first-hand, and to explore the exhibits and awards ceremonies in real-time.

Virtual attendance, on the other hand, enables you to participate from anywhere in the world, to save on travel and accommodation costs, and to benefit from the convenience of online access. By choosing to participate in the format that works best for you, you can maximize your engagement with the event and optimize your overall experience.

International Innovation Awards (IIA)

MTE’s International Innovation Awards (IIA) have a long and successful tradition of honouring breakthroughs and recognising achievement in R&I. For over a decade, the event has been at the forefront in showcasing emerging technologies and transformative innovations. IIA is an excellent platform for presenting your innovations and trailblazing mindset.

Public Service Innovation Awards (PSIA)

The Public Service Innovation Asia (PSIA) Awards were established to recognise and reward these creative achievements and contributions of public service institutions that lead to more effective and responsive public administration. In other words, they must adjust to people’s needs, deliver efficient and effective services, and establish their credibility.

Asian Youth Innovation Awards (AYIA)

The Asian Youth Innovation Awards, or AYIA, were launched in 2014 by MTE to nurture, develop, and encourage youth engagement in Science, Technology, and Innovation. It gives crucial first-hand experience of participating in the “real world,” strengthening their life skills and preparing them for employment as a platform for teenagers to show and share their work with the public.

Awards Categories

2025 Awards Committee

The Awards Chair and its Committee will select jurors from both Industry and Academia, who are the subject matter experts in the categories that they will be judging. The deliberations of the Awards Committee will be confidential and independent of outside influences.

International Innovation Awards
Awards Chair

Professor Dato' Seri Ir. Dr. Noor Azuan Abu Osman

Awards Chief Juror

Professor Ir. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj

Awards Deputy Chair (Industry)

Kamarulzaman Kamaruddin

Asian Youth Innovation Awards
Awards Chair
Public Service Innovation Asia
Awards Chair

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Noraini Idris

En. Hussein Mohd Ariff

International Innovation Awards 2025
Chair of the Awards Committee

Professor Dato' Seri Ir. Dr. Noor Azuan Abu Osman

Vice-Chancellor, Universiti Malaya (UM)

Professor Dato’ Seri Ir. Dr. Noor Azuan Abu Osman graduated from University of Bradford, UK with a B.Eng. Hons. in Mechanical Engineering, followed by MSc. and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Dato’ Seri Noor Azuan’s research interests are quite wide-ranging under the general umbrella of biomechanics and mechanical engineering. However, his main interests are the measurements of human movement, prosthetics design, the development of instrumentation for forces and joint motion, and the design of prosthetics, orthotics and orthopaedic implants. He has publications in books, conference proceedings and journals. He is also a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) and Fellow (FIMechE) with The Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK, Chartered Professional Engineer (C.PEng) and Fellow (FIEAust) with Engineers Australia, and Fellow of Academy Sciences of Malaysia.

International Innovation Awards 2025
Chief Juror

Professor Ir. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj

Deputy Executive Director,
University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), Universiti Malaya (UM)

Professor Ts. Dr. Jeyraj Selvaraj received the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2002, the M.Sc. degree in power electronics and drives jointly from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 2009. He is currently a professor and deputy executive director of University Malaya Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC), University of Malaya. He is also a member of IEEE, IEM and a member of working group committee on Photovoltaic Standards of Department of Standards Malaysia. With the experience in solar energy fields more than 15 years, he has monitored more than 75 onsite inverter tests under the FiT, LSS and NEM scheme in Malaysia and published more than 70 high impact journals, 50 conference papers and 4 book chapters. He is one of the recipients of NAM research training fellowship for young scientist and Royal Academy Engineering UK’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2019 he was awarded the Erasmus+ Mobility Programme Fellowship followed by Asian Universities Alliance Scholarship in 2020.

International Innovation Awards
Deputy Chair (Industry) of the Awards Committee

Kamarulzaman Kamaruddin

Senior Consultant
SIRIM Tech Ventures Sdn. Bhd.

Kamarulzaman Kamaruddin received bachelor’s degree (1992) in Biochemistry, specializing in Clinical and Industrial Molecular Biotechnology and M.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering (1993), from the University of Manchester.

In 1993, he joined Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM) and was a Senior Researcher in Molecular Microbiology, Enzymology and Industrial Biotechnology, until 2012. His research experience and expertise include Molecular Microbiology, Molecular Pharmacogenomics for Secondary Metabolites, Molecular Enzymology for the synthesis of Nano based Biomaterials (Cyclodextrin and Nano Cellulose); and Industrial Biotechnology (Bioreactor Design)

After being promoted to as a Consultant in 2012, in SIRIM, he was given a responsibility in developing Technology Strategic Planning for SIRIM Group of Companies, mostly responsible for Technology Road Maps Planning (Biotechnology and Nanotechnology), including International Research Collaboration with KRIBB, South Korea and Fujisawa Pharmaceuticals, Japan; R&D Strategic Planning and STI Development.

In January 2014, he was seconded to National Nanotechnology Centre (NNC), under Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia; as Research & Technology / Product Development Section Head.

He was appointed as the Acting Director of National Nanotechnology Centre, for a year in 2019. Since early 2020, he is reappointed again as the Research & Technology / Product Development Section Head by the Government of Malaysia.

In early 2022, he re-joined SIRIM Berhad as a Consultant in the Group Strategic Planning Department, focusing on Rolling Plans Development for the SIRIM Group in alignment with the 12th Malaysia Plan.

Since July 2022, he has been serving as a Senior Consultant in SIRIM Tech Venture, a subsidiary of the SIRIM Group, mandated as the technology adaptation, transfer, and commercialization arm of the SIRIM Group.

Asian Youth Innovation Awards 2025
Chair of the Awards Committee

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Noraini Idris

President National STEM Association

Professor Dato’ Dr. Noraini Idris is an educator, consultant, and distinguished mathematic educator. She gained her PhD from The Ohio State University, USA and has been entrusted with the position of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) at Sultan Idris Education University as well as well as Dean of the Faculty of Education at University of Malaya. She published a variety of national and international academics publications to her credit and is a Fulbright Research Fellow. Subsequently, she presented papers both nationally and internationally and conducted several researches with UNESCO, the British Council, Australian Universities – such as Melbourne, Sydney and the Sumitomo, Japan.

Her research areas are mathematics education, teacher education, computer-assisted assessment, higher education, and comparative education. She has been the principal investigator for a government-funded research on Development of A Teacher Education Model for Preparing Quality Teachers for The Future and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM). She is an active research member on Classroom for Teaching and Learning of Mathematics research team comprises of USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, and China. She is also an International Editorial Advisor/Reviewer for Journal of Mathematics Education, USA and Research Academic Journal, USA.

Among her distinctions are the Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Awards- the only Asian recipient for the project on Minority Young Scholars Project and the Graduate Research Alumni Student Award from Ohio State University, a Gold Medal for ITEX (Geneva, 2005) and Best Award at MTE 2007, 2009 on designing assessment system for school-based assessment and higher education on Gold Medal at ITEX 2011, 2013, 2014 for designing Module of Teacher Education. Most recently, she has been awarded the Leadership STEM 2018 from the Japan Intellectual Property Association (JIPA), Visionary Leadership Category from the International Education Award 2018 and Outstanding and Excellent Leadership in STEM, Republic of Croatia 2019.

Public Service Innovation Asia 2025
Chair of the Awards Committee

En. Hussein Mohd Ariff

President Malaysian Association of Creativity and Innovation (MACRI)

Hussein Mohd Ariff, President of the Malaysian Association of Creativity and Innovation (MACRI) for the current term of 2018-2020, has been involved in the field of innovation for more than 20 years.

From retail to training and consultancy and recipient of various commercialisation grants, Hussein has a passion for challenging boundaries in promoting and nurturing creative and innovative thinking.

As the PSIA Awards Committee Chairperson, he brings with him over 10 years experience of evaluating hundreds of innovation projects, especially from the public sector.