New York— Controlant, the provider of Cold Chain logistics and supply chain monitoring and visibility solutions that is leading the digital transformation of the Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences and Food & Beverage industries, announced Controlant’s Cold Chain as a Service®, was acknowledged as a Finalist in the Pandemic Response category and an honorable mention in the AI & Data, Established Excellence, and General Excellence categories of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards.

The Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards honors the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.

Now in its fifth year, the World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 33 winners, more than 400 finalists, and more than 800 honorable mentions—with Health and Wellness, AI & Data for which Controlant received Honorable Mention, among the most popular categories.

A panel of eminent Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 4,000 entries across transportation, education, food, politics, technology, and more. Plus, several new categories were added, including Pandemic Response, Urban Design, and Architecture. The 2021 awards feature entries from across the globe, from Brazil to Denmark to Vietnam.

“We feel honored to have Controlant’s Cold Chain as a Service® acknowledged by Fast Company in the Pandemic Response, and other categories, for our team’s achievements in leading the digital transformation of cold chain logistics and supply chain monitoring, that enable our customers to deliver, with integrity in tact, the critical medicines, vaccines, foods and products that save and improve lives,” said Gisli Herjolfsson, Co-founder and CEO of Controlant. “

“There is no question our society and planet are facing deeply troubling times. So, it’s important to recognize organizations that are using their ingenuity, impact, design, scalability, and passion to solve these problems,” says Stephanie Mehta, editor-in-chief of Fast Company. “Our journalists, under the leadership of senior editor Morgan Clendaniel, have discovered some of the most groundbreaking projects that have launched since the start of 2020.”