Electric charging for our transportation - vehicles, boats, planes, buses, fleets, and the grid is key to a clean future society. For this category, we want to hear about new services, solutions, and business ideas that will help scale the electric mobility sector, including the EV charging infrastructure ecosystem.

Smart lifestyle is the next phase of the connected home. These devices go beyond access to the internet. They improve power efficiency, automate processes, and make managing the increasing complexity of running a multi-person household that now often seconds as the home office, school, daycare facility, and family gathering place. LG's ThinQ platform is an open ecosystem built to help streamline tasks with data and information from your home appliances, entertainment devices and content services.

The metaverse is our next internet. It will be made up of VR, AR, and XR technology, along with blockchain, digital avatars and cryptocurrencies. The potential, from enterprise VR and gaming to online learning, is boundless.

This is an open category to broadly explore breakthroughs or adjacent innovations that create a positive impact on people, communities and the planet. We want to hear ideas that provide new solutions and services that impact and solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.