2024 Radical Innovation Award - Rethink. Reimagine. Redefine.

Deadline: June 01, 2024

Competitions

Business Plan Creative Ideas Tech & IT

Location(s)

  • Online
  • United States of America

Overview

Conceptualized in 2006, the Radical Innovation Annual Award Competition has been shifting the norm in the global hospitality industry by recognizing excellence in design, architecture, travel, products and more.  

Radical Innovation is an initiative that challenges creative thinkers and design visionaries at the professional and student level to pioneer compelling innovations that fuel the future of the hospitality and travel industries.  

Mobilizing innovators from around the world, Radical Innovation provided the platform for Real Estate Developers to join forces with design visionaries to connect, review, and brainstorm ways to disrupt the industry and bring innovations to market.

Details

Submit Your Radical Ideas

Through an annual competition, the Radical Innovation Award ® mobilizes innovators from around the world with the ideas to propel the industry forward. We create a platform for development and design visionaries to come together around innovations for the hotel and tourism industries.

We bridge the gap between dreamers and doers, fostering unique intersections of creative thought and business expertise. How do we do it? Through an international network of talent scouts and a call for entries. We discover these concepts and bring them to a global stage, nurturing the ideas, making introductions, award prizes and aiming to bring the concepts to fruition.

Dates

  • January 22 – Call for Entries Opens
  • June 3 – Call for Entries Closes
  • September 20 – Finalists are announced and Voting Opens
  • October TBD – Radical Innovation Awards Ceremony

Judging process

  • Through a blind judging process, the jury “Design Jury” will review all Project Submissions, and the “Product Jury” will review all the Product Submissions to select the finalists.

  • All concepts will be judged on originality, creativity, design, feasibility, and quality of presentation.

  • The finalists will be mentored by the Radical Innovation Jury and Advisory Board. The submissions will be showcased on this website and voting will open to the public.

  • Finalists will present their projects at an in-person event in October. After presentations are heard, the audience will vote and select their favorite concept. Winners will be announced that evening and will be published across multiple news outlets.

ABOUT RADICAL INNOVATION

Radical Innovation works to empower creative thinkers across hospitality, travel, and design. Through an annual competition, Radical Innovation mobilizes disruptors from around the world. The result is a creative community gathered by the same passion for innovation, introducing the dreamers to those equipped with the necessary resources to bring such concepts to life. The competition alone has awarded over $200,000 to pioneers in hospitality and design, but overall, Radical Innovation serves as a platform that connects and inspires.

ABOUT THE HARDY GROUP

The Hardy Group is the hospitality industry’s premier resource for the execution of development projects of any type or size. Through decades of experience, HARDY provides certainty in execution to owners and investors that reduces risk, exceeds expectations, and enables investment plans to be completed on-time and on-budget. HARDY strives to provide leadership, honesty, and excellence to every assignment.

For over 30 years HARDY has led projects throughout the USA and Caribbean hospitality industries. Featuring a robust portfolio, including but not limited to, full-service hotels, select service hotels, resorts, and adaptive reuse properties. Leveraging its expertise, HARDY works on individual deals and entire portfolios, delivering project management, construction management, owner’s representation, brand negotiation, project accounting and more. Tapping its diverse team, using proprietary project research and in-house budgeting software propels HARDY to the forefront of the industry.

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

Additional Information:

  • Concepts (existing or new) must be truly innovative and offer the market something that is not widely available.
  • Design/Concepts must include guestrooms and may include lobby/public areas. Including F&B facilities and other amenities is optional, but recommended.
  • Product concepts may be applicable to any aspect of the hospitality industry.
  • Multiple entries by a single entrant (or company) are permitted.
  • Existingt entries must have been completed within 18 months of the competition.
  • Must be able to provide a notarized disclosure form and certification of project originality and authenticity, if your entry makes it to the final four or the Special Judges Award.
  • Students will be considered alongside professionals
  • Requirements for submission: concept narrative, renderings of your concept. To be entered in a PDF less than 100MB.
  • PDF must have no names of entrants or companies associated. The jury review will be a blind process.

Dates

Deadline: June 01, 2024


Cost/funding for participants

The Radical Innovation Award Student Design winner will receive $5,000 and the opportunity to apply for an Assistantship and full Scholarship from our University Partners.

The Radical Innovation Award Student Product winners will receive $2,500, and the opportunity to attend The Makerspace at Black Fire Innovation.

The Radical Innovation Award University Partners offer the following opportunities to the Student Design Winners:

  • The University of Las Vegas Nevada (UNLV) offers the student design winner the opportunity to apply for an assistantship to their Masters of Architecture program.

  • The University of Illinois offers a Teaching Assistantship to their School of Architecture to a qualifying student winner.

  • NYU allows for the Student Winner to apply for a partial or full scholarship for a graduate degree from the NYUSPS Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality.

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