MYQER founder Anita Boros has been nominated for Female Innovator of the Year at the Innovation Awards 2026.
The category recognises women whose ideas are helping move UK industry forward, with Anita named alongside founders, business leaders and innovators from organisations spanning technology, research, financial services and industry.
For Anita, the nomination marks another deeply personal moment in a journey that never began with the intention of becoming an innovator.
It began with being a mum.
When her daughter Gia suffered a severe allergic reaction at two years old, the immediate emergency was treated, but one question remained long afterwards.
What happens if it happens again when I am not there?
At the time Anita already understood urgent and emergency care through her professional experience. But experiencing an emergency as a parent exposed a different problem completely.
Important information might exist.
Medication might be available.
People might desperately want to help.
And yet, in the moment, somebody could still lose precious time simply trying to understand what was happening and what they needed to know.
That gap became the starting point for MYQER, My Quick Emergency Response, pronounced “my care”.
Anita did not come to MYQER as a traditional technology founder.
She learned by building.
She questioned systems, taught herself unfamiliar technical concepts, worked through privacy and product decisions, and continued developing MYQER around the ordinary realities of family life and motherhood.
The platform that emerged is designed to make important emergency information easier to access when somebody may not be able to explain it themselves.
A MYQER Emergency Access Profile can contain information such as allergies and reactions, medications, conditions, emergency contacts, communication needs, care preferences and other information the individual chooses to make available.
MYQER supports both Online Emergency Access and Offline Emergency Access, while keeping control of that information with the person it belongs to.
By July 2026, the idea that began after Gia’s emergency had already travelled further than Anita originally imagined.
MYQER had received national recognition for social impact, Anita had been named among the inaugural Pioneers100, and only weeks earlier MYQER had won the North West StartUp For Good Award.
The Female Innovator of the Year nomination represented something slightly different.
This time, the recognition was for the woman behind the work.
The Innovation Awards described the nominees as women whose ideas are moving UK industry forward. Anita was one of 15 nominees put forward for the 2026 award, with public voting determining which five would progress as finalists.
For someone who started simply by trying to make her daughter safer, being described as an innovator still feels a little strange.
But perhaps that is what innovation often looks like.
Seeing a problem that matters.
Refusing to accept that the current answer is good enough.
And then building something that did not exist before.
MYQER is still evolving.
There is still more to learn, test and build.
But this nomination is another reminder that a solution born from one family’s experience can grow into something recognised far beyond that first moment.
And Gia is still at the heart of it.