Two days of inspirational keynotes, panels and our EMA Future Innovator of The Year Challenge. Storytellers, Investors, Innovators, Activists and Visionary Executives come together for one main goal. Helping create a path to a better tomorrow.
The biggest innovators in the environment, the organization that helped launch Toyota's Prius. Where will you be when EMA Impact Summit 2017 makes the next impact?
The Innovator Challenge
EMA's first ever competition will invite the best and brightest minds of tomorrow to solve our planet's biggest issues of today. Innovative students from the top Universities in the U.S. will compete for The New Pacific Future Innovator of The Year Grant.
A one hundred thousand dollar prize, split into two payments of fifty thousand per year, sponsored by New Pacific that includes mentorship by our Senior Impact Advisory Board.
Our eight finalists will compete day one, pitching their world changing concepts in a late afternoon judging round before the final four are announced.
Day two, our four hopefuls will return to stage to illuminate the panel of esteemed judges and make the case for why their idea is worthy of the New Pacific Future Innovator of The Year Grant.
Finalists unveiled February 2017.
About EMA
The Environmental Media Association (EMA) is a Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization founded in 1989 to inspire solutions for the environment through our impact in media and pop culture.
The organization has grown into a diverse subsection of entertainment industry tastemakers, entrepreneurs in finance and technology, and green icons dedicated to the mission of promoting environmental progress and innovations through celebrity role modeling, campaign work, year round programs and large scale annual events, The EMA Awards and EMA's Impact Summit.
Every year EMA’s mission of advocacy and change through celebrity and media gets a global platform at the iconic Environmental Media Awards Gala. The EMA Awards have been honoring film/tv and beyond for excellence in environmental messaging for 27 years, with the last Awards in 2016 nearing 2 billion media impressions. The EMA Awards is truly the premier annual gala for the environmental and entertainment community.