These are the Stevie® Award-winning nominations in the third annual Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence, which celebrates the remarkable accomplishments of individuals, teams, and organizations shaping the future of technology across all industry sectors. Individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to enter - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.The 2026 winners were determined by the average scores of more than 160 professionals worldwide in the two-month judging process. Learn about the judging and awards process here.

The Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award will be celebrated during an awards event in Paris, France on Wednesday, October 28.

Company of the Year - Cloud Services
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Platform9, San Jose, California, United States: Platform9: A Proven Path Beyond VMware

Company of the Year – Software
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
QualiZeal, Irving, California, United States: QualiZeal: Technology Excellence in AI-Powered Quality Engineering
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Datanitiv, Atlanta, Georgia, United States: Datanitiv — Redefining Workforce Intelligence for the Global Contact Center Industry
Multisys Technologies Corporation, Paranaque, Metro Manila, Philippines: Multisys Technologies Corporation: Build to Last
Origina, Dublin, Ireland: Origina: Breaking the Cycle of Vendor Lock-In

Company of the Year – Telecommunications
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Dejero, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Dejero: Redefining Mission-Critical Connectivity for the Telecommunications Era
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Software Mind, Cracow, Małopolskie, Poland: Software Mind: AI-Driven Engineering with Telecom Expertise at Heart

Educational or Research Institution of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, United States: Transforming Research Administration Through an End-to-End Digital Workflow Ecosystem

Employee of the Year - Cloud Services
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Oracle, Austin, Texas, United States: Mehul Vani, Software Engineer and Researcher
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Coastal Bridge Advisors, Milford, Connecticut, United States: Yeshwanth Macha, Salesforce Administrator
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
IBM, Armonk, New York, United States: Ban Xu

Employee of the Year – Consultancy
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
ADP, Atlanta, Georgia, United States: Andrew Hallinson, Director of Analytics and Data Governance
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dallas, Texas, United States: Sudhir Ananthuni, Finance Transformation Leader

Employee of the Year – Cybersecurity
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, United States: Nirwan Dogra, Senior Software Engineer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
MacPaw, Kyiv, Ukraine: Kseniia Yamburh, Malware Research Engineer
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
CSAA Insurance Group, Glendale, Arizona, United States: Anil Kumar Soni, Lead SRE
Naga Sujitha Vummaneni, San Francisco, California, United States: Naga Sujitha Vummaneni
Pitney Bowes, Shelton, Connecticut, United States: Ravi Sharma, Senior Manager - Technology Audit

Employee of the Year - Hardware/Peripherals
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Advanced energy, Seattle, Washington, United States: Adithya Mallela, Senior Electronic Engineer
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
IBM Manufacturing Solutions Pte Ltd, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore: Samuel Sitorus, Senior Procurement Engineer HDD/SSD/NVMe Technology and Quality

Employee of the Year – Software
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
ValueLabs, Duluth, Georgia, United States: Mohnish Singh, Associate Director of Product Management
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
LPL Financial, Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States: Brij Mohan, Vice President | Principal Software Dev.
SIMS Metals, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States: Rameshkumar Varanganti, SAP Integration Lead and Architect

Employee of the Year – Telecommunications
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
T-Mobile, Lynnwood, Washington, United States: Harikishore Allu Balan, Principal Engineer

Executive of the Year – Cybersecurity
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
CyberSolve, Sterling, Virginia, United States: Amit Kumar Verma, Associate Vice President

Executive of the Year - Hardware/Peripherals
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Denise Ruffner Consulting, Pasadena, California, United States: Marta Estarellas, CEO

Executive of the Year – Software
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Equifax, Atlanta, Georgia, United States: Ankit Agrawal, Chief Technology Officer
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Epsilon3, El Segundo, California, United States: Max Mednik, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer

New Product of the Year – Cybersecurity
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Ontinue, Redwood City, California, United States: Ontinue ION MXDR
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Hornetsecurity, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States: AI Cyber Assistant (within Proofpoint 365 Total Protection)
MacPaw, Kyiv, Ukraine: Moonlock by MacPaw

New Product of the Year - Hardware/Peripherals
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
WD, San Jose, California, United States: WD Ultrastar® DC HC690

New Product of the Year - Managed Services
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Cisco CX Product Management, Morrisonville, North Carolina, United States: Future-Ready Managed Services: From Rule-Based Automation to AI-Powered Autonomy

New Product of the Year – Telecommunications
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Cisco Systems, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, United States: Cisco IQ — AI-Powered Digital Platform for Cisco’s Customer Experience

Technical Innovation of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Cisco Systems, San Jose, California, United States: Cisco Intelligent RMA Experience: Autonomous Enterprise AI for Faster Resolutions, Higher Customer Satisfaction, and Future-Ready Technical Support and Logistics Operations
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Avahi Inc., San Francisco, California, United States: Avahi presents Priority Software case study
FINN Partners, Westminster, Colorado, United States: TraceGains: Transforming Supply Chain Data into Compliance and Sustainability Innovation
SUNeVision Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong: The Largest Hyperscale Data Centre in Hong Kong

Technology Breakthrough of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Epsilon3, El Segundo, California, United States: Epsilon3
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Hangzhou Hyperchain Technology Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, China: Enabling Trusted Data Circulation Through Blockchain and Privacy-Preserving Computing

Technology Team of the Year – Cybersecurity
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
MacPaw, Kyiv, Ukraine: MacPaw's Moonlock Lab team

Technology Team of the Year - Data Management
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
IBM, Armonk, New York, United States: Mac@IBM Team: Transforming Enterprise Mac Device Migration

Technology Team of the Year – DevOps
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
IBM, Armonk, New York, United States: CIO PRM DevOps Team: Selective Apex Test Execution Framework

Technology Team of the Year - Platform Engineering
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York, United States: My EY: Secure Access Simplified - The Secure Digital Gateway for Authentication and Authorization Across EY

Technology Team of the Year - Software Development
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Cisco Systems, San Jose, California, United States: Redefine Software Engineering with AI
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Ernst & Young LLP, New York, New York, United States: My EY: Secure Access Simplified - The Secure Digital Gateway for Authentication and Authorization Across EY