Inference & Energy AI Awards
The prize for the most energy-efficient AI. We are looking for the labs, chips, models and infrastructures that deliver intelligence with far less energy.
Side to Geneva AI Summit
22 June 2027
Geneva
Call for Solutions
Where the energy goes
AI is moving from training to inference, from a few large runs to billions of daily queries. That is where energy cost compounds, and where 108 looks.
A satellite event
108 takes place alongside the Geneva AI Summit. It brings a focused, technical, industry-driven voice to a week otherwise shaped by policy and diplomacy.
A neutral home for the prize
Geneva offers a neutral setting for an award with no conflict of interest, and a deliberately open door to every serious candidate, wherever they are based.
Less energy, same intelligence
C1
New physics
Light, brain-inspired, new computing
C2
Smarter chips
Specialised architectures
C3
Cloud AI
AI in the data centre
C4
Local AI
AI on your own device
C5
Smarter
orchestration
Routing, harnesses and agents
C6
Datacenter
innovation
Innovation for leaner data centres
Maturity · 1
Frontier / Lab
Promising results, not yet in production.
Maturity · 2
Limited Production
In use with early customers or pilots.
Maturity · 3
Scaled Deployment
Running at scale in real conditions.
Our findings
A foresight model of 50 efficiency levers across the AI stack. Demand will still outgrow the grid.
Models and serving software
About three quarters of the potential.
Chips and memory
The floor that remains once accelerators improve.
Grid
The binding limit from about 2029 in high-demand scenarios.
Cooling and heat reuse
A small gain per task, but it frees capacity for compute.
Modelled estimate, based on vendor and public figures. The 108 Awards will test it.
Researchers · investors · industry · builders
Jury pool
Pre-selected from top universities
Jurors come from leading Swiss and international universities. Several belong to the Panoramai ecosystem, and others come from abroad. We are finalising one panel per category.
Jurors in the pre-list
10+
MATCHMAKING AT SCALE
Back the most energy-efficient AI and be part of the conversation in Geneva on 22 June 2027.
Partner contributions make the marketplace even more impactful and the prizes bigger. We are also open to contributions in efficient tokens.
Sponsorship by category: target the teams and investors of the category that matters to you, for highly targeted matchmaking.
Audience: 1,000+ registrations to the competition expected, 600 to 800 people on site across the day programme and the evening ceremony.
Parallel activities: visits such as CERN, and tailor-made activities organised with our Swiss partners.
Swiss 108 Trophies: outside the categories, run in partnership with Swiss AI Weeks.
Visibility: book a stand, or present your company in a parallel summit.
Continuity: the Awards are planned to return in the following years.
Partnership levels
Tier 1
Diamond
Strategic / Global partner
Tier 2
Gold
Main partner
Tier 3
Silver
Partner
LOCAL INNOVATIONS
Swiss Award
Swiss 108 Trophies, run in partnership with Swiss Ecosystems.
Category partners
C1
New physics
C2
Smarter chips
C3
Cloud AI
C4
Local AI
C5
Smarter orchestration
C6
Datacenter innovation
Calendar
Call for Solutions / Pre-registration
Open now
mid-january 2027
Solutions registration
1st of MARCH 2027
Shortlist and audits
1ST OF JUNE 2027
Day programme: panels and pitches
22 June 2027 · Geneva
Awards ceremony (evening)
22 June 2027 · Geneva
Committee
108 Inference & Energy AI Awards
Created by Panoramai, swiss non-profit association.