The Johnson Controls Tech Challenge, now in its 11th year, celebrates the creativity and innovation of the company’s global workforce while honoring the 140-year legacy of founder Warren Johnson. Open to all employees, the event serves as a platform for grassroots ideas and customer-driven innovations aimed at creating sustainable, healthy, and safe environments.

This year’s competition united over 2,000 employees from 30 countries, showcasing more than 600 groundbreaking ideas, including several new patents and customer-facing solutions.

"The incredible range of ideas presented at this year’s event truly highlighted our employees' passion for innovation and collaboration across regions," said Ian Casper, vice president of Global Engineering, Global Products at Johnson Controls. "It was inspiring to witness our employees advance Johnson Controls' mission toward a more sustainable future for our customers."

The Tech Challenge features two main competitions: Tech Innovations and Techathon. In Tech Innovations, teams present working prototypes of customer-driven innovations, product ideas, or process improvements. The Techathon, a hackathon-style event, saw over 150 teams from across all regions tackling real-world customer problems.

Congratulations to the winners: Zeal Patel, Chiragkumar Patel, Ronak Patel, and Susheel Copra for Tech Innovations, and Narendra Jagtap, Ewin Melwin, Priyanka Chavan, Chinmay K., Naveen Patil, Kimberly Demoore, Amarin Youthong, Ellen Taylor, Rishi Dabhi, and Dong Yiu Wu for Techathon.

The Tech Challenge underscores Johnson Controls' commitment to fostering innovative thinking and driving industry progress. To learn more about a career in the innovative building industry, visit our career page.