This awards recognizes women representation in Akraino community. This category identifies the individual who has been a champion for Akraino community and has provided a significant contribution as a committer, contributor, sub-committee, and/or TSC member.

1. Yanjun Chen, China Mobile
Nomination Text: Yanjun has led edge computing deployment relevant to Akraino blueprints to 100+ field trials.

2. Rong Huang, China Unicom 

Nomination Text: Rong has led edge computing deployment relevant to Akraino blueprints to 100+ field trials.

3. Liya Yu, Baidu
Nomination Text: Liya has led AI Edge Blueprint Family blueprints for real world deployment, cutting edge technology development.

Champion of Akraino - This individual helps Akraino community to build, spread awareness about the Akraino community in the industry and in its Blueprint. Created an impact in the Akraino community and helped build this community stronger, driving interest and excitement in the community.

Voting Body: TSC+PTLs

1. Jeff Brower, Signalogic
Nomination Text: Jeff appears in all the places there is dilemma, and takes a lead to solve the problems with engagement in the industry.

2. Oleg Berzin, Equinix
Nomination Text: Oleg as TSC Co-Chair, shows strong technical leadership for a high bar for blueprints development and deployments, especially in public clouds and 5G MEC areas, leading the deep collaboration with ETSI MEC.

3. Ike Alisson, Alicon
Nomination Text: Ike gives its comments, shares his thoughts to the community, reviewed the new blueprint proposals, release, maturity review, and regional communities.

This award recognizes the individual, who excels in the technical contributions to Akraino projects. The Top Committer made significant contributions to the key features in the Akraino project, that is more important and beneficial to the projects and Akraino as whole. The contribution is so important that it has uplifted the Akraino community and created an external impact as well.

Voting Body: Voting members from the recent TSC Member election

1. Trevor Tao, Arm
Nomination Text: As the coordinator of IEC blueprint family, having 5 blueprints under it, he guided new committers for code development, suggested code structures, submitted patches, built CI/CD environment, went through security scanning, etc.

2. Tucker Wang, Tencent
Nomination Text: The Connected Vehicle Blueprint was deployed in Winter Olympic. Mature technology stack and integration ensured the vehicles in the area of freeski big air.

3. Khemendra Kumar, Huawei
Nomination Text: Khem has been committer of ELIOT and 5G MEC System blueprint families, for 6 releases, set up gold standard for meeting the criteria of development, deployment, and long term suport.

4. Sachin Verma
Nomination Text: contributor in EALTEdge BP

Nominations for "Top Blueprints of the year" 2021 - 2022

This is an exclusive award category for recognizing the Blueprint team that has created a huge impact in the Akraino community. This award recognizes the Blueprints that has showcased significant and rich technical features, very successful in Akraino community for collaborations(within the Akarino community or with Universities and NGOs), achieved landing applications and successfully show casing the features through PoC , field trails and production.

Voting Body: TSC+PTLs

1. 5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming (PTL: Feng Yang, Tencent)

Nomination Text: 5G MEC/Slice System to Support Cloud Gaming, HD Video and Live Broadcasting Blueprint is being deployed as B2B2C for 5G MEC.

2. CPS Robot Blueprint (PTL: Colin Peters, Fujitsu)

Nomination Text: CPS Robot Blueprint family set up a good example of following release process on time, and deploying it at campus.

3. Smart Data Transaction for CPS Blueprint (PTL: Fukano Haruhisa, Fujitsu)

Nomination Text: Smart Data Transaction for CPS blueprint hit a high standard as its first release, deployed and infused with other systems, LF Edge projects.

4. EALTEdge BP (PTL: Gaurav Agarwal, Huawei)

Nomination Text: EALTEdge(Enterprise application on light weight 5G telco edge) BP has show case demo in collaboration with Cross LFEdge projects EdegGallery, Fledge, eKuiper. A customer experience lab setup has been created in LFEdge Lab.