3 winners GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026

The winners of the GreenTech Innovation Awards were announced at the opening of GreenTech Amsterdam 2026. Sensie won the Innovation Award for its product, Sensie Omni. MANNA CEA won the Concept Award for MESH: AI Greenhouse Automation & Management. And PATS won the newly launched Impact Award for its product, PATS-C.
GreenTech Amsterdam will be held until Thursday, 11 June 2026, at RAI Amsterdam.

The GreenTech Innovation Award goes to: Sensie (Belgium)
Product: Sensie Omni
Product description: Sensie Omni is a wireless plant wearable that translates real-time root, climate, and plant signals into proactive growing strategies.
Egon Janssen (chairman jury): “One of the biggest challenges in horticulture is to put the plant truly in control. Sensie offers a simple and robust way to do exactly that. By bringing plant-based sensing from the scientific domain into everyday growing practice, this innovation has the potential to make a new generation of data-driven cultivation accessible to many more growers.”.

The GreenTech Concept Award goes to: MANNA CEA (Republic of Korea)
Product: MESH: AI Greenhouse Automation & Management
Product description: MESH is a modular AI greenhouse control ecosystem combining BLE Mesh, actuator-level modules, and edge intelligence for broader farm adoption.
Egon Janssen explains: “The jury sees MANNA’s concept as a highly scalable innovation with strong relevance for the large group of mid-tech greenhouses worldwide. By making advanced greenhouse automation more accessible, it opens clear opportunities to increase production while reducing the use of water, energy, and other resources. That combination of practicality, scalability, and impact made this concept stand out.”.

The GreenTech Impact Award goes to: PATS (the Netherlands)
Product: PATS-C
Product description: PATS-C is fully automated monitoring for moth pests that predicts caterpillars and helps growers prevent outbreaks, time interventions perfectly, and unlock biocontrol: Getting it right before they bite.
Egon Janssen explains: “What impressed the jury is how PATS has successfully scaled up by pivoting from catching caterpillars with drones to measuring and predicting the life cycle of the caterpillar. This gives growers the information they need to deploy natural predators at the right moment. In doing so, PATS delivers a practical and no-regret step forward for biological pest control.”.

Why a new ‘Impact’ category?

The purpose of this new category is to recognize organizations that have achieved significant real world impact with an existing product, with at least two years of market presence and proven high impact on sustainability and revenue growth.

Nominees and novelties

Check out the 9 nominees on the website. GreenTech is proud that these innovations will be showcased on the show floor, along with the full long list of novelties, 37 of which were submitted for the awards. You can find them here. 

Jury

The jury of the GreenTech Innovation Awards 2026 consists of:
• Chairman: Egon Janssen, TNO 
• Karin van der Eijk, VDE Plant 
• Roel Vanderbruggen, Proefcentrum Hoogstraten 
• Bart van Meurs, Division Q 
• Rick van de Zedde, Wageningen University & Research 
• Tijl Hoefnagels, Rubio 
• Jacco Strating, KAS Media

The jury’s advisory committee consists of:
• Brian Sparks, Greenhouse Grower (USA)
• Leonardo Capitanio, Vivai Capitanio (Italy)
• Enrico Verhoef, Total Greenhouse Service (Mexico)
More information at: https://www.greentech.nl/amsterdam/. 

Registration policy Visitors

GreenTech is offering a 3-day entrance ticket for €125 excl. VAT per person. More information and registration at https://www.greentech.nl/amsterdam/tickets.

GreenTech Amsterdam

GreenTech Amsterdam will be held from Tuesday 9 - Thursday 11 June 2026. The exhibition is a global meeting place for all horticultural technology professionals with a focus on the early stages of the horticultural chain and the current issues growers face. GreenTech is supported by AVAG, the industry association for the greenhouse technology sector in the Netherlands.
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