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The Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards
Brought to you by theCUBE, the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards recognize the world's most innovative companies, visionary leaders and groundbreaking technologies that are pushing the boundaries of what's possible. With categories spanning AI innovation, company growth, product development, leadership and implementation success, the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards honor the many contributions of the companies and individuals shaping the future of B2B and B2B2C technology.
Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a powerful ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands, with a reach of 15+ million elite tech professionals, 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni, 4+ million SiliconANGLE readers and 250,000+ social media subscribers.
Key Dates
September 28, 2026
Submissions open
December 18, 2026
Submissions close
January 26, 2027
Finalists announced
February 23, 2027
Winners announced
Deadlines & Fees
Friday, October 16, 2026 – Super Early Rate: $595
Friday, October 30, 2026 – Early Rate: $695
Friday, November 20, 2026 – Regular Rate: $795
Friday, December 4, 2026 – Extended Deadline: $845
Friday, December 18, 2026 – Last Chance Deadline: $895
For companies submitting multiple entries, each additional category entered beyond the first has a fee of $395. This applies to all deadlines.
2026 Winners by Category
Congratulations to all of the Winners! To view previous winners and finalists or watch their videos, visit the official awards archive.
Company
People
Technology
HyperCUBEd Innovation Award Startup WINNER
Jasper
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FINALISTS:

FuriosaAI Voltage Park
HyperCUBEd Innovation Award Private Company WINNER
Anaconda
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FINALISTS:

SAS VAST Data
HyperCUBEd Innovation Award Public Company WINNER
AppFolio
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FINALISTS:

Netscout
AI Innovator of the Year WINNER
Kong
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FINALISTS:

Celonis Doppel
Data Platform Innovator of the Year WINNER
Confluent
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FINALISTS:

dbt Labs Hammerspace
Security Innovator of the Year WINNER
Skyhawk Security
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FINALISTS:

Portnox SandboxAQ
Responsible AI Innovator of the Year WINNER
Responsive
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FINALISTS:

Gluware Relyance AI
Observability Innovator of the Year WINNER
Grafana Labs
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FINALISTS:

Riverbed Technology SolarWinds Observability SaaS
Rocketship Award WINNER
Coderabbit
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FINALISTS:

Kilo Code
Cloud Innovator of the Year WINNER
US Signal
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Collaboration Innovator of the Year WINNER
Lucid Software
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Network Innovator of the Year WINNER
Zayo
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CMO of the Year WINNER
Barbara Lewis
Barbara Lewis
CMO | Coactive AI
CMO of the Year WINNER
Monica Kumar
Monica Kumar
CMO | Extreme Networks
CMO of the Year WINNER
Jenn Chase
Jenn Chase
CMO | SAS
CMO of the Year WINNER
Brian Goldfarb
Brian Goldfarb
CMO | SolarWinds
Innovative Women in Tech Leadership WINNER
Nancy Wang
Nancy Wang
CTO | 1Password
Innovative Women in Tech Leadership WINNER
Bianca Lewis
Bianca Lewis
Executive Director | OpenSearch Software Foundation
Innovative Women in Tech Leadership WINNER
Megan Fales
Megan Fales
Co-founder & CEO | Transcenda
AI Innovator of the Year WINNER
Nabil Bukhari
Nabil Bukhari
President, AI Platforms & CTO | Extreme Networks
AI Innovator of the Year WINNER
Danny Brickman
Danny Brickman
CEO & Co-founder | Oasis Security
AI Innovator of the Year WINNER
Umesh Sachdev
Umesh Sachdev
CEO & Co-founder | Uniphore
GTM Leader of the Year WINNER
Alex Mosher
Alex Mosher
President & CRO | Armis
GTM Leader of the Year WINNER
Steve Sullivan
Steve Sullivan
CRO | Infinidat
Most Innovative Tech Startup Leader WINNER
Yevgeny Dibrov
Yevgeny Dibrov
CEO & Co-founder | Armis
Career Achievement Award WINNER
Shlomo Kramer
Shlomo Kramer
CEO | Cato Networks
CMO of the Year Finalists

Jyothi Swaroop (DDN), Eric Herzog (Infinidat)

Innovative Women in Tech Leadership Finalists

Melissa Di Donato (Kyriba)

Most Innovative Security Solution
1Password Extended Access Management Suite
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FINALISTS:
BlueFlag Security Platform, Wallarm Security Edge
Most Innovative Cyber Resilience Solution
Commvault Cloud Rewind
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FINALISTS:
ExtraHop RevealX, Illumio Insights
Most Innovative AI-Powered Security Solution
SandboxAQ AQtive Guard
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FINALISTS:
Deep Instinct's Artificial Neural Network Assistant (DIANNA), Proofpoint Prime Threat Protection
Most Innovative Data Platform
Aerospike Database
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FINALISTS:
Hammerspace Data Platform, Komprise for Intelligent AI Data Workflows
Most Innovative AI-Powered Data Platform
KumoRFM
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FINALISTS:
Coactive Multimodal AI Platform, Gong Agents
Most Innovative AI Product
Kognitos Neurosymbolic AI Platform
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FINALISTS:
Dataiku Agent Hub, Diligent GovernAI
Most Innovative Agentic AI Solution
Pega Blueprint
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FINALISTS:
Twine Security AI Digital Employee in IAM (Alex), Workato ONE
Most Innovative AI Solution for Developers
SmartBear Reflect
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FINALISTS:
Coder Premium Edition, Deepgram Flux
Most Innovative Solution for DevOps
Harness
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FINALISTS:
Prismatic, SonarQube
Most Innovative Data Storage Solution
Rakuten Cloud-Native Storage
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FINALISTS:
Backblaze B2 Overdrive, VDURA Data Platform V5000
Most Innovative Cloud Infrastructure Solution
Vultr Cloud GPU
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FINALISTS:
Azul Platform Prime, Eon Platform
Most Innovative Product for Platform Engineering Teams
Anyscale Platform
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FINALISTS:
Buildkite Agentic Workflow Components for AI-Driven CI, Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP)
Most Innovative Observability/Monitoring Platform
Ciroos AI SRE Teammate
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FINALISTS:
Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb.io
Most Innovative Networking Solution
NetBrain Next-Gen R12
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FINALISTS:
agentgateway, IP Fabric
Most Innovative Trustworthy AI Solution
Kyriba’s Trusted AI Portfolio
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FINALISTS:
FICO Focused Foundation Model, WitnessAI Platform
Most Innovative Database
Neo4j for Infinigraph
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FINALISTS:
Couchbase 8.0, EnterpriseDB Postgres AI
Most Innovative FinOps and Cloud Optimization Solution
Kion
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FINALISTS:
DoiT Cloud Intelligence, Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM)
Most Innovative AI-Infrastructure Security Solution
Auth0 for AI Agents
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FINALISTS:
Atsign atPlatform, Securiti AI Gencore AI
Most Innovative Data Protection Solution
Bedrock Data Platform
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FINALISTS:
Proofpoint Unified Data Security, Seraphic Secure Enterprise Browsing Platform
Most Innovative IoT or Edge Platform
Cisco Unified Edge
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FINALISTS:
Red Hat Device Edge, ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes App Flows
Most Innovative Agent-Ready Data Platform
Starburst Enterprise Platform
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FINALISTS:
SnapLogic Agentic, Integration Platform
Most Innovative Analytics & Insights Solution
Neo4j Aura Graph Analytics
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FINALISTS:
Datarails FP&A Platform
Most Innovative Automation Product
Gluware IDE
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FINALISTS:
Harness AI
Most Innovative Use of AI for Network Management
Extreme Networks Extreme Platform ONE
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FINALISTS:
Cisco Agentic Workflows with Cisco AI Assistant
Most Innovative Reasoning and Decision Intelligence AI Solution
Grokstream Grok
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Most Innovative AI-Powered Data Protection Solution
Bedrock Data
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Most Innovative Cloud Application Modernization Platform
Broadcom VMware Avi Load Balancer
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Most Innovative Kubernetes-Native Development Platform
Cast AI Workload Optimization
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Most Innovative Software Development Agent
Tabnine Agentic Platform
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Most Innovative Agent Development Platform
Dataiku AI Agents
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Most Innovative Collaboration Solution
Certinia Professional Services Cloud
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Most Innovative Contact Center Solution
Five9 Agentic CX
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What sets the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards apart?

Video + Editorial Coverage
Industry-leading video analysis and editorial coverage across theCUBE and theCUBE Research are central to the awards
Expert B2B Technology Judges
Our judging panel includes top-ranked tech analysts, journalists, practitioners, tech leaders and investors from across the industry.
Simple to Submit
Streamlined, user-friendly submission process makes it easy to highlight achievements
Categories
Company Categories
Recognizes companies that have consistently pushed the boundaries of technology and demonstrated unparalleled creativity in developing new solutions and delivering proven results. This award celebrates companies that innovate at scale and influence the direction of the tech industry. There are three subcategories: startups, private companies and public companies. HyperCUBEd winners will be featured in remote video interviews with John Furrier or Dave Vellante at no additional cost.
Recognizes a B2B tech company whose commercial use of AI has changed how its customers run a business function, process or significant workflow.
Recognizes a B2B tech company whose innovation in data management, analytics or platform solutions helps customers find new insights and make better business decisions.
Recognizes a B2B tech company whose innovation in monitoring, logging or observability gives customers clearer visibility into their systems and helps them resolve issues faster.
Recognizes a B2B tech company that has shown leadership in building ethical and transparent AI solutions while maintaining high standards for fairness, accountability and societal benefit.
Recognizes a B2B tech company whose innovation in cybersecurity solutions or practices protects customers against emerging threats and strengthens their security posture.
People Categories
Honors three outstanding women in the B2B tech industry whose technical innovation or organizational leadership has made a lasting impact on their companies, their teams and the broader tech community. This award celebrates women who have advanced their organizations, opened doors for others and helped shape the direction of the industry.
Recognizes three chief marketing officers in B2B tech whose leadership and strategy have delivered measurable business results. This award celebrates CMOs who have grown brand awareness, accelerated revenue growth and led creative campaigns that stood out in the market.
Honors three individuals in the B2B tech industry who are advancing artificial intelligence through technical innovation, strategic leadership or inventive applications. This award celebrates leaders whose work is expanding what AI can do, delivering business impact and influencing how the technology is built and used across the industry.
Recognizes three senior cybersecurity leaders in the B2B tech industry who have made significant contributions through security innovation and strategy. This award celebrates people who have strengthened cyber resilience, advanced security practices and made a measurable difference for their organizations and the broader tech sector. Nominees may include CISOs, chief security officers and other senior executives responsible for cybersecurity strategy.
Technology Categories
AI
Recognizes an innovative product or solution that applies artificial intelligence to solve business challenges, improve decision-making, automate complex processes, enhance customer experiences or create new capabilities. This award celebrates AI products that demonstrate technical innovation and practical application, including reasoning and decision intelligence, intelligent automation, autonomous systems, physical AI and other emerging applications of artificial intelligence.
Recognizes an innovative AI solution that uses autonomous agents to reason, make decisions and execute tasks with limited human intervention. This award celebrates agentic applications that address real-world business needs and demonstrate meaningful outcomes through autonomous or multi-agent capabilities.
Recognizes an innovative platform designed to build, deploy, manage or orchestrate AI agents at scale. This award celebrates solutions that advance how organizations develop and operate AI agents, providing the infrastructure, tools and controls needed to support reliable, secure and effective agentic AI applications.
Recognizes an innovative solution that advances the responsible development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence. This award celebrates technologies that strengthen AI governance, transparency, explainability, accountability, safety and trust while supporting effective business use of AI.
Recognizes an innovative infrastructure solution designed to support the development, deployment and operation of AI applications and workloads. This award celebrates technologies that advance AI performance, scalability and efficiency across compute, storage, networking and other infrastructure essential to running AI at enterprise scale.
Recognizes an innovative AI-powered tool that helps developers build, test, deploy or maintain software more effectively. This award celebrates solutions that apply AI to improve the developer experience, accelerate software development, automate complex tasks and help development teams produce higher-quality software.
Security
Recognizes an innovative security solution that helps organizations protect systems, applications, data or networks from evolving threats. This award celebrates technologies that advance threat prevention, detection, protection or response and demonstrate meaningful improvements to an organization's security posture.
Recognizes an innovative security solution that applies artificial intelligence to improve threat detection, prevention, investigation or response. This award celebrates technologies that use AI to identify emerging threats, automate security processes and help organizations strengthen their overall security posture.
Recognizes a security solution specifically designed to protect AI systems, models and infrastructure from emerging threats and vulnerabilities. This award celebrates solutions that address the unique security challenges of AI deployments and ensure the integrity of AI-powered business operations.
Recognizes an innovative solution that uses AI to advance security operations and improve how organizations detect, investigate and respond to cyber threats. This award celebrates technologies, including autonomous and agentic capabilities, that accelerate threat detection and investigation, automate security workflows, reduce response times and help security teams operate more effectively.
Recognizes an innovative solution that protects and manages digital identities across users, applications, devices and AI agents. This award celebrates technologies that advance identity security by strengthening access controls, detecting and preventing identity-based threats and helping organizations securely manage access across complex IT environments.
Recognizes a product or platform that demonstrates exceptional capabilities in safeguarding against, recovering from and adapting to cyber threats. This category celebrates innovations that enhance an organization's ability to withstand cyberattacks (including ransomware attacks), ensure data integrity and maintain operational continuity.
Recognizes an innovative solution that helps organizations protect sensitive data across cloud, on-premises, hybrid and other environments. This award celebrates technologies that advance data security, privacy and resilience through capabilities such as data discovery and classification, encryption, access controls, threat detection, backup and recovery, or other approaches that protect data throughout its lifecycle.
Data
Recognizes an innovative platform that advances how organizations collect, integrate, manage, analyze and use data. This award celebrates solutions that improve data accessibility, intelligence and performance, including platforms that support data management, analytics, business intelligence and the delivery of actionable insights.
Recognizes an innovative data platform that uses AI to improve how organizations manage, process, analyze and derive value from their data, or provides the data foundation needed to support AI applications and agents. This award celebrates platforms that advance data intelligence, accessibility and performance while supporting modern AI workloads, including generative and agentic AI.
Recognizes a database that demonstrates innovation in addressing complex data challenges while delivering strong performance, scalability and reliability. This award celebrates database technologies that help organizations manage, access and use growing volumes of data more effectively while supporting modern applications, AI workloads and evolving enterprise requirements.
Recognizes an innovative data storage solution designed to meet the performance, scalability, reliability and accessibility requirements of modern enterprises. This award celebrates technologies that advance how organizations store, manage and access growing volumes of data while supporting AI workloads, cloud environments and other data-intensive applications.
Cloud, Infrastructure & Operations
Recognizes an innovative cloud infrastructure solution that helps organizations build, run and scale modern applications and workloads. This award celebrates technologies that advance cloud performance, scalability, reliability and efficiency while addressing complex enterprise infrastructure requirements.
Recognizes a solution that excels in optimizing cloud financial operations and resource management to maximize business value. This award celebrates solutions that deliver exceptional cost visibility, optimization and governance capabilities for cloud investments.
Recognizes an innovative solution that advances DevOps practices and improves how organizations build, deploy, manage and operate software. This award celebrates technologies that improve developer productivity, software delivery, automation and operational efficiency, including Kubernetes-native development platforms, CI/CD solutions and other tools that support modern application development and deployment.
Recognizes a solution designed specifically for platform engineering teams to significantly enhance the delivery of applications, improve developer experiences and optimize infrastructure management.
Recognizes a platform that provides exceptional visibility into system performance, behavior and health across complex technical environments. This award celebrates platforms that deliver comprehensive monitoring capabilities and actionable insights for maintaining optimal system operations.
Recognizes an innovative networking solution that advances connectivity, performance and network management across modern IT environments. This award celebrates technologies spanning areas such as software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), cloud networking and next-generation wireless technologies while supporting enterprise requirements for security, reliability and scale.
Recognizes an innovative platform that advances how organizations connect, manage and process data across IoT devices and edge environments. This award celebrates technologies that bring computing and intelligence closer to where data is generated, improving real-time decision-making, performance, reliability and operational efficiency across distributed environments.
Judges
Meet the Judging Panel for the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards.
John Furrier

John Furrier

Co-founder and Co-CEO

SiliconANGLE Media

Dave Vellante

Dave Vellante

Co-founder and Co-CEO

SiliconANGLE Media

Kristen Martin

Kristen Martin

Chief of Staff

SiliconANGLE & theCUBE

Rob Hof

Rob Hof

Editor-in-Chief

SiliconANGLE

Brian Baumann

Brian Baumann

Director of Capital Markets, Technology

NYSE

David Linthicum

David Linthicum

Principal Analyst

theCUBE Research

Christophe Bertrand

Christophe Bertrand

Principal Analyst

theCUBE Research

Paul Nashawaty

Paul Nashawaty

Principal Analyst, Application Development and Modernization

theCUBE Research

Anand Pradham

Anand Pradham

Head of AI Center of Excellence

NYSE

Dr. Amit Elazari

Dr. Amit Elazari

Co-Founder and CEO

OpenPolicy

Louis Columbus

Louis Columbus

Marketing & Product Management Leader; LinkedIn Top Voice

Anurag Agrawal

Anurag Agrawal

CEO

Techaisle

Kevin Jackson

Kevin Jackson

Operations Lead

National DigiFoundry

Sanjeev Mohan

Sanjeev Mohan

SanjMo, Principal

theCUBE Collective

Maribel Lopez

Maribel Lopez

Founder and Principal Analyst

Lopez Research

Liz Miller

Liz Miller

VP and Principal Analyst

Constellation Research

Carolina Milanesi

Carolina Milanesi

President, Principal Analyst

Creative Strategies

Sarbjeet Johal

Sarbjeet Johal

Stackpan, Technology Analyst + GTM Strategist

theCUBE Collective

Harold Sinnott

Harold Sinnott

Tech Influencer and Industry Analyst

Jon Buckthorp

Jon Buckthorp

Commercial Director

Differentiated

Tim Crawford

Tim Crawford

CIO Strategic Advisor

AVOA

Zeus Kerravala

Zeus Kerravala

Founder + Principal Analyst

ZK Research

David Callisch

David Callisch

Startup Advisor

Jayeeta Putatunda

Jayeeta Putatunda

Director - AI CoE

Fitch Ratings

Ben Woo

Ben Woo

Principal Consultant & CEO

Neuralytix, Inc

Ravi Laudya

Ravi Laudya

Development Expert

SAP Concur

Jean Bozman

Jean Bozman

President

Cloud Architects Advisors

Gretchen Weaver

Gretchen Weaver

Marketing Communications Director

Innovation Works

Bob Gourley

Bob Gourley

CTO & Co-founder

OODA

Mallika Mitra

Mallika Mitra

Journalist, Writer & Editor

Freelance

Alok Shankar

Alok Shankar

Sr. Engineer Manager

Adobe

Anar Israfilov

Anar Israfilov

Cybersecurity Researcher & CISO Cyberoon

Cyberoon Enterprise

Manjunath Venkatram

Manjunath Venkatram

CEO and Founder

Thoughtdata.inc

Alastair Goldfisher

Alastair Goldfisher

Journalist & Podcaster

Independent

Howard Doherty

Howard Doherty

Chief Revenue Officer

Chief Outsiders

Sourav Khandelwal

Sourav Khandelwal

Sr. Software Engineer

Databricks

Dan Cahana

Dan Cahana

Investor

Notable Capital

Christine Hinton

Christine Hinton

SVP Marketing

Notable Capital

Tushar Sonawane

Tushar Sonawane

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

Kishy Kumar

Kishy Kumar

Director of Engineering

Oracle

Mahati Kumar

Mahati Kumar

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Meta Platforms, Inc

Annamalai Annamalai

Annamalai Annamalai

Senior Manager, Product Management

Walmart

Artem Kuznetsov

Artem Kuznetsov

Software Engineer

Meta

Ashwin Subramanian

Ashwin Subramanian

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft

Milana Kotova

Milana Kotova

Senior IT Business Analyst (AVP)

Barclays

Maryna Bautina

Maryna Bautina

Senior AI Consultant

SoftServe

Oleg Danyliuk

Oleg Danyliuk

Founder and CEO

Duanex

Shelly Kramer

Shelly Kramer

Founder + Principal Analyst

Kramer & Company

Jo Peterson

Jo Peterson

VP Cloud, Security and AI Solutions

Clarify360

Tirumala Rao Chimpiri

Tirumala Rao Chimpiri

Senior Programmer Analyst

Stony Brook University

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