The 2027 Mira Awards will take place Friday, April 23 at the brand-new Signia by Hilton Indianapolis, bringing together Indiana’s tech community for an evening of recognition, connection and celebration.
Nominate yourself, your company or someone whose work is moving Indiana tech forward. Explore the award categories and tell us what makes your nominee stand out.
Entry deadline: Friday, January 8
This April, the Mira Awards move to the new Signia by Hilton Indianapolis, where Indiana’s tech community will come together to celebrate the people, companies and innovations moving Indiana tech forward.
Hear from past winners and others across the community about the moments that stuck with them, the people they’ve met and why they’re IN for Mira 2027. We’ll share more stories as we count down to April 23.
Nov 12
Award Entries Open
Jan 8
Award Entry Deadline
Feb 10-11
Live Judging at TechPoint
Mar 12
Sponsorship Deadline
Apr 23
28th Annual Mira Awards
A longtime champion of Indiana’s tech community, he’s partnering with TechPoint to help shape this year’s event.
As honorary chair, the longtime Indiana tech champion is helping TechPoint elevate the attendee experience, strengthen judging for founders and create new ways for companies to support and participate in Mira.
Mira sponsors stand in front of the founders, executives and investors building Indiana’s tech economy, this year at the new Signia by Hilton Indianapolis. Choose from seven levels, from a cocktail table to presenting the night.
Presenting and Premier levels are limited to three sponsors total. TechPoint members can apply their membership sponsorship benefit.
Sponsorship deadline: Friday, March 12
Celebrating the people companies, technologies and investments building Indiana’s tech community. There’s one simple application for all categories. Nominate a person, nominate a company, or nominate yourself!
The highest honor for an Indiana technology company demonstrating exceptional performance, innovation, growth and influence. This is the company setting the standard for what Indiana tech can become.
Eligible: Established technology product companies, regardless of industry.
Recognizes an emerging Indiana tech company experiencing a defining moment of growth, whether through customer traction, revenue, market expansion or investment.
Eligible: Early-stage and scaling technology product companies.
Recognizes a breakthrough technology, product or technical achievement that solves a meaningful problem and has the potential to transform a market or industry.
Eligible: Startups, established companies, university commercialization teams and R&D organizations.
Recognizes an organization pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence through the development or transformative deployment of AI, with measurable results and responsible practices.
Eligible: AI-native companies and organizations deploying AI at scale.
Celebrates the application of technology to fundamentally improve how an established industry operates. Particularly relevant to Indiana's strengths in manufacturing, agriculture, life sciences and logistics.
Eligible: Technology companies and industry enterprises delivering measurable transformation.
Recognizes a partnership between organizations that unlocked an opportunity neither could have achieved alone, resulting in commercial success, technology deployment or significant economic impact.
Eligible: Startup-enterprise, university-industry and other cross-sector partnerships.
Celebrates a landmark financing, acquisition or public-market transaction that generates significant economic value and strengthens Indiana's position as a destination for technology investment.
Eligible: Indiana technology companies and their investors.
Honors an Indiana technology company whose products, services or innovations have achieved meaningful impact beyond Indiana, demonstrating the state's ability to compete on a national or global stage.
Eligible: Indiana-headquartered technology companies with significant external market reach.
Recognizes an exceptional executive whose leadership has driven business performance, developed talent and elevated Indiana's technology ecosystem.
Eligible: CEOs, founders and senior technology executives.
Recognizes the builders behind the breakthroughs. An exceptional engineer, scientist, developer, architect or technical innovator whose work has delivered outstanding results.
Eligible: Individual technical contributors and technical leaders.
Celebrates an emerging technology professional whose early achievements, leadership and potential signal an extraordinary future.
Eligible: Early-career professionals across technical, product and business functions.
The annual Trailblazer Award recognizes visionaries whose contributions have had a lasting and significant impact on Indiana's technology ecosystem. Honorees are innovative leaders whose work strengthens the state's competitiveness and fuels long-term economic growth.
Honors an individual or organization who have made an extraordinary contribution to building Indiana's tech ecosystem by connecting people, mobilizing resources, supporting founders or expanding opportunities.
Eligible: Investors, mentors, educators, ecosystem leaders and community builders.
Help recognize the people and companies moving Indiana tech forward. Submit an application for yourself or your organization, or nominate someone whose work deserves recognition.
View the photo gallery, watch winner speeches and backstage interviews from 2026.
