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Tulip Groundbreaker Awards

Groundbreakers recognizes manufacturing engineers and citizen developers who are making an impact in their organizations. Since Operations Calling, we have received our largest number of nominations from community members around the world, submitting their peers and teams to be considered for Golden Shovel and Greenhouse awards.

Nominations have closed. Stay tuned for 2025 nominations.

The Greenhouse Awards

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The Greenhouse Award recognizes manufacturing sites or companies who are empowering their team with digital tools in the spirit of growth and continuous improvement.

Winners of the Greenhouse receive recognition in the manufacturing industry and at Operations Calling, a collection of premium Tulip swag, and their very own trophy.

Read about our winners

Congratulations to our latest Greenhouse Winners:

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    Bloom Energy

    Company Wide Award

  • Logo. AstraZeneca is written in purple.

    AstraZeneca

    Awarded to the Tulip Lifecycle Solution Team

The Golden Shovel Award

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The Golden Shovel Award acknowledges individuals who have leveraged Tulip and their app-building expertise in creative, and interesting ways to solve problems, and drive operational value in their organization.

Winners of the Golden Shovel receive recognition in the manufacturing industry and at Operations Calling, access to the 2024 Digital Factory event, a collection of premium Tulip swag, and their very own trophy.

Read about our winners

Congratulations to the five individuals below named as the latest Golden Shovel winners:

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    Hivzo Cehajic

    Process Digitalization Lead, Novo Nordisk

  • Steve Midcalf Headshot

    Steve Midcalf

    Senior Control Systems Engineer, Generac

  • Esmeralda Gonzalez Headshot

    Esmeralda Gonzalez

    Digital Transformation Engineer, Stanley Black & Decker

  • Ryan Infantozzi headshot

    Ryan Infantozzi

    Systems Engineer, VEKA

  • Dan Ferrow Headshot

    Daniel Ferrow

    Manufacturing Engineer, Stanley Black & Decker

Past Groundbreaker Award Winners

Golden Shovel Award

  • Zeke Laws

    Application Engineer, Stanley Black & Decker

  • Hira Ahmad

    Staff Manufacturing Engineer, Form Energy

  • Eric Byers

    Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Piaggio Fast Forward

  • Allistair Adams

    Quality Engineer at Mack Molding

  • Alan Madorin

    Manufacturing Engineer at Terex

  • Pete Hartnett

    (Previously) Manufacturing Engineer at Protolabs

  • Nicolette Naya

    Senior MES Engineer, Tiffany & Co.

  • Pascal Wirths

    Project Manager Digitalisation, DMG MORI

  • Salim Jasarevic

    Smart Factory & Innovation Engineer, IAC Group

  • Leo Oh

    Senior Platform Engineer, Milwaukee Tool

Greenhouse Award

  • Outset Medical

    Company Wide Award

  • Ultra Clean Technology

    Company Wide Award

  • Stanley Black and Decker

    Awarded to Hermosillo, Mexico Plant

  • PlugPower

    Awarded to the Manufacturing System Integration Team

Groundbreakers 2025

Stay tuned for the 2025 Groundbreaker Awards coming this Summer, and register now for Operations Calling™!

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