Criteria for judgement are as given below:

• Design - Innovation, aesthetics, clarity of idea, character of form, ergonomics
• Technology - Appropriates application , human centric
• Material - Innovation in using materials, fusion of different materials, surface quality, textures etc.
• Quality of presentation
• Feasibility
• Social Acceptance
• Environmental Compatibility

Judging Process
A Team of international and national jury members will short list finalist online at first stage.
At second stage jury will meet up together to discuss concepts in details and decide winners.

Abhijit Bansod
Abhijit Bansod designs from his heart. Emotion underline his products, giving them inspired meaning. They kindle the audience by telling vivid stories, by overlaying the familiar with the new, and surprising. Abhijit believes in celebrating creativity combining it with fragments of Indian tradition with cutting-edge technology, fusing cultural motifs and contemporary forms that conjure up sophisticated products. The extraordinary designs resonate with India’s rich past. Propelled by the humor, craft, rituals, people, situations and heritage of India, Abhijit creates products that speak a unique language- an Indian design vocabulary.

Dedicated to create a whole and sustainable experience for the buyer, Abhijit focuses on fine-tuning details and expressing design all the way from product to packaging. His portfolio includes designing consumer products, packaging, spaces, and luxury experiences through lifestyle products. He is currently evolving a new design process, inspired by the cycle of Karma.

 Abhijit’s work has won many national and international design awards, including Designer of The Year 2008 at Businessworld-NID Design Brilliance Awards.

Kalhan Mattoo
'In partnership with Santha, Kalhan heads Planet 3 Studios Architecture, a young, internationally acclaimed practice at the vanguard of avant-garde design in India. Their eclectic portfolio of built projects includes path breaking architecture, interiors, product design and art. Recognized with over twenty prestigious international and national awards over three years, their work has been displayed at museums and galleries in New York, Barcelona and Singapore.

They use intense programming and address fundamentals by staying focused on the context, the constraints and the opportunity that a project presents. Co-creating with the client, they offer solutions that balance wit and wisdom, bring delight and joy, that keep it fresh and never lose the visual appeal. Being light on ideology and heavy on creativity and innovation is their way!'

Prof. P. Achutha Rao
Prof. P. Achutha Rao is currently the Chair Holder of O P Jindal's Design Research Chair at National Institute of Design R&D Campus, Bangalore.

Prof. P. Achutha Rao is a Product Designer by profession and holds an extensive experience of about 30 years in the areas of Product Design & Development, Manufacturing and Innovation. He belongs to the first batch of Product Designers from the Industrial Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also been teaching ‘Product Design” since the year 2000 at the Master’s Level.

Prof. Rao is credited for developing the Master’s Programme in ‘Product Design’ for the Coventry University, U. K. delivered at M. S. Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies, Bangalore when he was associated with them during 2003 - 2005.

Prof. P. Achutha Rao is associated with many firsts in this country, some of which are as follows:

• Development of the first in the world digital “paper and film processor” for the publishing industries - 1986
• Development of micro-ohmmeter in 1971 for testing the quality of welding of MIG aircraft
• Development of first pager in India in 1972

Stephane Paumier
Paumier, French architect, arrived in India 13 years back to work as an architect for the French Embassy in Delhi, India. 

He conceived many notable projects such as the Alliance Française of New Delhi, the Triburg Headquarters in Gurgaon, the Tarun Tahiliani Design Headquarters in Gurgaon, the French Institute of Pondicherry, the residence of the French Trade Commissioner in Sunder Nagar, Delhi, and the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing in Amber, Jaipur, the French Trade Commission for the Govt. of France in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Africa .

Stephane Paumier, is currently designing the campus of the OP Jindal Global University in Sonepat, Haryana and the Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipura, Kashmir.

He holds a degree in Industrial Design from Ecole Olivier de Serres, National School of Applied Arts and Crafts, Paris and completed his postgraduate degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture of Paris-Belleville, Paris. Paumier is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. 

Paumier has been involved in designing numerous institutional buildings, university campuses and offices. He has done considerable research in the field of architecture and design and has 20 publications to his credit. He was awarded the Young architect Prize by the Architecture + Design Magazine in 2003 and 2004 and the prestigious Silver Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 2005.

Theo J.J Groothuizen
Counselor for Design, Science and Technology
The Embassy of the Netherlands, New Delhi
Theo Groothuizen is the Counselor for Science and Technology at the Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi since August 2006. After completing his masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, he pursued his study in architecture for some years.

Previously, he worked for Royal Dutch Telecom for 6 years. With his expert design sensibilities and scope of knowledge in the field of architecture he started running his own professional design practice. He was co-founder of Design Consultancy Landmark in the Netherlands (1986), of which he became principle in 1994. He is also the founder of Landmark Switzerland.

In his career path, he was also an Executive Board Member of the Dutch Designer's Association (BNO) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and Convener for the Bureau of European Designers Associations (BEDA). He is also the honorary member of BNO, Regional Advisor for ICSID and Fellow of Design for the World.

He has delivered several lectures at top universities and was member of the external research advisory board of the faculty of Design, Engineering and Manufacturing at the Delft University of Technology. Known for his expertise in design and architecture, Groothuizen was invited on numerous occasions as speaker, workshop leader, jury member, moderator or curator. He was instrumental in organizing several events to promote Dutch Design worldwide. Prior, to his current assignment, Groothuizen was professor of Industrial Design Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea.

Currently, Groothuizen resides in New Delhi with his family.

Vibhor Sogani
Vibhor Sogani, an alumnus of prestigious National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmadabad, India. He has been one the forerunners in the field of developing retail and brand identities. His intensive experience with exposure to the best in the industry has helped him to achieve a firm technical and design grounding. It was under leadership that art of crafting steel took a shape of Lifestyle Accessories with establishment of The Studio, first Designer Indian Signature Brand. It is synonymous with a collection of lifestyle accessories rich in form and bold in material usage, adding to the pleasure of living.

Vibhor's foray into the corporate segment has been strong and decisive. He has been credited for handling projects for industry giants like JK Tyres. Standardizing its showrooms countrywide with a cohesive retail identity approach, he has executed several projects from them. He has also developed the first four Go-carting tracks in the country, designing all the constituent components, promotional and interactive installations. He went ahead with consulting an exporter, developing a range of home accessories for the kitchen, dining, living and encompassing barbecue and garden tools, for TAG-USA.

Various other retail identity projects include Pepsi Urbanwear, Adidas, Lufthansa and Whirlpool. Vibhor has made a mark in the world of exhibition with prestigious projects for Ford, Jet Airways, Escorts Yamaha and recently the 1500 sqm DRDO pavilion at the DEF EXPO '02.

With conscious approach to every detail, Vibhor Sogani's trademark is the ability to carry through good design to good production standards. Passionate about his work Vibhor believes creating design that epitomizes quality, functionality and urban aesthetics.