MILLENNIUM TECHNOLOGY PRIZE 2024
Award Ceremony on 30 October 2024
Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga, the winner of the 2024 Millennium Technology Prize, will be awarded at a ceremony held at Dipoli in Espoo on 30 October 2024.
The more than 400 invited guests include leading figures from academia, business, government, and diplomacy, as well as promising young researchers.
The patron of the prize is the President of the Republic of Finland, Alexander Stubb.
The Award Ceremony will be streamed globally on Yle Areena.
Watch the Award Ceremony on Yle Areena
7:00 – 7:45 p.m (UTC + 03:00)
Professor Bantval Jayant Baliga wins the Prize for his innovation IGBT
Professor Baliga’s innovation Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) has enabled dramatic reduction in worldwide electrical energy and petrol consumption. Since its development in the 1980s, the IGBT has been the most important semiconductor device for making electrical energy use and petrol
consumption more efficient and less polluting during the last 40 years.
The winner of the Millennium Technology Prize is selected through a multi-stage process
Our video series will take you behind the scenes to discover how the Millennium Technology Prize nominations are evaluated and how the winner is selected.