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
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
DailyPay, New York, New York, United States: DailyPay
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Boast AI, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Boast AI

Employee of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Walmart, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States: Ambika Saklani Bhardwaj, Director of Project Management
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Infosys Limited, Hartford, Connecticut, United States: Balaji Dhashanamoorthi, Project Manager
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dallas, Texas, United States: Sudhir Ananthuni, Finance Transformation Leader

Executive of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
iCapital, New York, New York, United States: Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Equifax, Atlanta, Georgia, United States: Ankit Agrawal, Chief Technology Officer
IVM Markets Inc, Dover, Delaware, United States: Ildar Farkhshatov, Co-founder & CTO
Kiavi, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States: Jonathan Muller, SVP of Product and Technology

Lifetime Achievement Award
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Cardiff, Del Mar, California, United States: William Stern: Lifetime Achievement in Modernizing Small Business Lending
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
RiskExec, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States: Dr. Anurag Agarwal: Three Decades Advancing Fair Access to Credit Through Technology

Management Team of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Forward Financing, Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Forward Financing Unlocks Capital For Small Business Through Proprietary Technology
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
INTUIT, Mountain View, California, United States: INTUIT - Management Team of the Year

New Service of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Digital Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Intelligent Government Finance at Scale: AI, Automation & Secure Platforms Powering Dubai’s Unified Financial Ecosystem
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
SEI, Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States: SEI Access™ for CITs Digital Onboarding: The Technology On‑Ramp to Private Markets in Defined Contribution
Standard Bank, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa: Standard Bank and The Financial Fitness Academy: Transforming financial health across Africa

Technical Innovation of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Chargebacks911, Clearwater, Florida, United States: UDMS: Building the World’s First Real-Time Dispute Infrastructure
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Savant Labs, San Mateo, California, United States: Savant AI Automation: Governed, Defensible AI for Finance, Tax and Accounting
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Acert System Product Certification Body Corp, Plano, Texas, United States: ACERT: RegStack — Ordinance-Grounded AI for Certification Workflows
Bank Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia: Rupiah Digital
IBM, Armonk, New York, United States: Technology-Driven Redesign of Enterprise Partner Payment Governance
Innowise, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States: Haust Network, a next-gen DeFi ecosystem powered by Layer-2 zk-rollups
Paymentus Corporation, Santa Clara, California, United States: Real-Time Financial Aggregation, A2A Payments, and Account Ownership Intelligence

Technology Breakthrough of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
GCash, Metro Manila, Taguig, Philippines: Care at Scale: Redefining Customer Experience Through AI-Powered Digital Workers
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Paymentus Corporation, Santa Clara, California, United States: A Unified Real-Time Financial Operating Layer for Payments, Aggregation, and Risk Intelligence

Technology Team of the Year
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Architecht, Istanbul, Türkiye: Disruptive Technologies & Business Development Team
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Architecht, Istanbul, Türkiye: crediTecht Team
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Architecht, Istanbul, Türkiye: Architecht DevOps Team: Scaling Excellence for 40+ International Fintech Clients through Infrastructure Automation
Architecht, Istanbul, Türkiye: Card Pos Campaign Team
Architecht, Istanbul, Türkiye: CounterFraud Team
Architecht, İstanbul, Türkiye: Enterprise Architecture API Team