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2026 Info-Tech Awards: Recognizing IT Leaders and Organizations for Innovation and Business Impact

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Info-Tech Research Group’s annual awards program recognizes achievements in IT performance, organizational transformation, and technology leadership across five categories. The 2026 recipients span the public and private sectors, highlighting IT’s role in improving operations, meeting business priorities, and developing future leaders.

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 13, 2026 /CNW/ — Info-Tech Research Group has announced the winners of its 2026 Info-Tech Awards. This year’s program names 68 award recipients worldwide for their achievements in IT leadership, innovation, and organizational performance.

The annual awards program recognizes organizational innovation through the Innovator of the Year category and individual leadership through four distinct Leader of the Year categories: Women Leading IT, IT Transformation, IT Excellence, and IT Impact. The evaluation process draws on diagnostic data, nomination forms, and interviews, with criteria specific to each category.

“IT leaders earn credibility when the value they deliver is clear to the rest of the business,” says Info-Tech Research Group’s Chief Global Services Officer, Hannes Scheidegger. “That can mean stronger service, more effective operations, or a new way to solve a longstanding problem. This year’s Info-Tech Awards winners demonstrate the leadership and follow-through needed to make those improvements happen, and we’re proud to recognize their achievements.”

The Info-Tech Awards spotlight the success and impact of recipients from organizations that vary in size, sector, and operating environment. The program includes North American divisions for large and enterprise organizations and for small and medium organizations, as well as a Global division for recipients outside North America. This year’s winners reflect the international reach of the awards and the contributions of IT leaders and teams across both public and private sector organizations.

2026 Info-Tech Awards Winners
The 2026 award recipients represent multiple industries, including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and higher education, as well as government and public services. Their recognition spans technology initiatives that address business challenges, measurable improvements in IT processes and stakeholder satisfaction, and leadership that advances women in technology.

Across the five award categories, the winners have demonstrated how effective IT leadership contributes to organizational performance and the continued evolution of the profession.

2026 Innovator of the Year Award
The Innovator of the Year Award recognizes organizations that deliver impactful, technology-driven initiatives to solve business challenges, improve efficiency, and set new standards for innovation.

The following organizations have been named recipients for 2026:

North America – Large and Enterprise DivisionFirst Student (USA)The Regional Municipality of Durham (Canada)General Dynamics Mission Systems (USA)State of Minnesota – Minnesota Department of Human Services (USA)New York Life Insurance Company (USA)North America – Small and Medium DivisionWhatfix (USA)Vituity (USA)tZERO (USA)Datamotive (USA)Forte Group (USA)GlobalECH Inc. (APAC)Lewis Silkin (EMEA)CTM360 (EMEA)South East Water (APAC)

2026 Women Leading IT Award
The Women Leading IT Award celebrates women who demonstrate innovation, inclusive leadership, and mentorship within their organizations and across the broader industry, helping to shape the next generation of leaders.

This year’s honorees are:

North America – Large and Enterprise DivisionAlisha Garrett, Chief Enterprise Strategy Officer, Utah Transit Authority (USA)Priya Nair, Manager of Customer Support and Training, Aspen Tech, an Emerson Company (USA)Priya Udeshi, Senior Director, IT PMO & Chief of Staff, MongoDB (USA)Hina Gandhi, Software Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco (USA)Anh Selissen, Chief Information Officer, Texas Department of Transportation (USA)Robin Alexander, VP, Global Technology Organization, Mattel, Inc. (USA)Sarah Vlasic, VP of Enterprise Data and AI Workforce Productivity, Vertex Inc. (USA)Andrea Savage, Lead Executive, Data Strategy, Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield (USA)Dawn Borent, Head of Retirement Technology Transformation, Manulife (Canada)North America – Small and Medium DivisionAnn Mengelson-Clark, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Kuvare (USA)Karen D’Amico, IT Director, DeVry University (USA)Deborah Duran, Data Science Advisor & Director, National Institutes of Health (USA)Lisa Faison, Chief Information Officer, City of Goodyear (USA)Jaya Srinivasan, CISO, M Financial Group (USA)GlobalNeena Goel, Group Vice President – DPO, Comviva (APAC)Radhika Chennakeshavula, CIO, Silicon Labs (APAC)Kerrie Woods, Director, R&D Clinical Informatics Portfolio, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (EMEA)Nthabiseng Mosupye, CITO, Rand Water (EMEA)Liubov Shchigoleva, Chief of Operations, Qualtir (APAC)

2026 IT Transformation Award
The IT Transformation Award recognizes IT leaders who implemented strategic initiatives aligned with organizational goals and achieved measurable results using Info-Tech’s CIO Playbook.

The following leaders have earned recognition for their transformation achievements in 2026:

North AmericaSherif Youssef, VP, Enterprise Architect, Cathay Bank (USA)David Blum, Chief Information Officer, United Wheels (USA)Chris LeLeux, Chief Information Officer / GM of IT, Colorado Springs Utilities (USA)Guillermo Garcia, Vice President, Information Technology, TMEIC (USA)George McNulty, Chief Business Technology Officer, State Medicaid CIO, State of Minnesota (USA)Robert Sprinkle, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Florida State University (USA)John Burris, Chief Information Officer, Southeastern Louisiana University (USA)GlobalAlex Bazin, COO and CTO, Lewis Silkin (EMEA)

2026 IT Excellence Award
The IT Excellence Award honors leaders who have demonstrated measurable improvements in IT processes and operational effectiveness, based on progress between assessments in Info-Tech’s IT Management & Governance Diagnostic.

The 2026 award recipients are:

North America – Large and Enterprise DivisionDaniel Christenson, Director IT Infrastructure, Kubota Tractor Corporation (USA)Dr. Monique Sendze, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, California State University, Chico (USA)Medhanie Tekeste, Chief Information Officer, City of Brampton (Canada)Pierre-Luc Simard, Vice President Information Technology, Premier Tech (Canada)North America – Small and Medium DivisionChad Ulland, Senior Manager, Information Technology & Enterprise Cybersecurity, Minnkota Power Cooperative (USA)Jassi Kaur, Chief Information Officer, Yorkville University (Canada)Ronald McKenzie, CIO/IT Director, Information Technology Services, City of Fort Lauderdale (USA)Eddie Huebsch, Business Solutions, Senior Manager, Chickasaw Nation Industries, Inc. (USA)Abdoul Kabaou, Chief Information Officer, City of Little Rock (USA)GlobalJosh Bovell, Chief Information Officer, Private Company (APAC)Esteban Remecz, Chief Information Officer, VP Information Technology & Digital, Maxion Wheels (EMEA)Nikunj Mandlas, Chief Information Officer, Department for Child Protection, South Australia (APAC)Barry Wiech, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Hastings Deering (APAC)Mark Bancroft, Head of IT, Ricoh Australia (APAC)

2026 IT Impact Award
The following leaders have been recognized for their achievements in this category:

North America – Large and Enterprise DivisionAJ Grande, Sr. Director, Enterprise Technology, Suns Legacy Partners (USA)Marlen Bogan, Chief Technology Officer, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (USA)Behzad Zamanian, Chief Information Officer, Washoe County, Nevada (USA)North America – Small and Medium DivisionAndrew Harsha, Chief Technology Officer, MSD Lawrence Township (USA)Suzanne Barnes, Chief Information Officer, American Mathematical Society (USA)Clayton von Helf, Information Systems Manager, City of Palm Desert (USA)Troy Cole, Information Technology Director, Montgomery County, Virginia (USA)Jason Frame, Chief Information Officer, Southern Nevada Health District (USA)Global Sean Carritt, Chief Information Officer, Infrastructure NSW (APAC)Artwell Bernard, Chief Information Officer, Bank of Jamaica (LATAM)Nick Garland, Group General Manager, Technology, HUB24 Limited (APAC)Sarah S. Alamri, Senior Officer – IT Strategy & Innovation, Arab National Bank (EMEA)Jacob Johnson, Head of Technology & Digital, Settlement Services International Limited (APAC)

For more information about the Info-Tech Awards and the complete list of winners, please visit the 2026 Info-Tech Awards page.

To request interviews or expert commentary from Info-Tech’s experts on the awards program or the evolving role of IT leadership and innovation, please contact pr@infotech.com.

About Info-Tech Research Group
Info-Tech Research Group is the “get things done” partner for over 30,000 IT, HR, and marketing leaders worldwide. The fastest growing research and advisory firm, Info-Tech enables leaders to make well-informed decisions and transform their organizations through AI, strategic foresight, step-by-step methodologies, practical tools, industry-leading advisory, and training programs. For nearly 30 years, tens of thousands of private and public organizations have trusted Info-Tech to lead their most important initiatives through periods of change and deliver outcomes that truly matter.

To learn more about Info-Tech’s HR research and advisory services, visit McLean & Company, and for data-driven software buying insights and vendor evaluations, visit the firm’s SoftwareReviews platform.

Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software, and hundreds of industry analysts through the firm’s Media Insiders program. To gain access, contact pr@infotech.com.

For information about Info-Tech Research Group or to access the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and X.

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Eventus’ Validus platform named Best AI Solution for Trade Surveillance at the AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026

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AUSTIN, Texas and LONDON, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eventus, a leading provider of comprehensive, at-scale trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, today was named Best AI Solution for Trade Surveillance at the second annual AI in Capital Markets Awards hosted by A-Team Group. The award for the firm’s Validus platform recognizes the innovative nature of its Frank AI solution introduced last fall within Validus.

The award category honors the AI technology that best enhances market integrity by detecting anomalies, identifying potential misconduct, and ensuring compliance in real-time trade surveillance. The AI in Capital Markets Awards are overseen by an independent Advisory Board that collaborates with the A-Team Insight editors to determine the shortlist. Members of the financial markets community vote for the winners.

Eventus CEO Cameron Routh said: “Our Frank AI solution is purpose-built for compliance users, ensuring that they achieve repeatable, transparent results with enterprise-grade security for any regulatory inquiries or audits. Frank gives users a fast, reliable way to get a straight answer out of their surveillance data without having to write code or wait for their IT department. We’re grateful that clients are finding important use cases for Frank and that A-Team and the industry recognize its value. We’re just scratching the surface of what Frank will be able to do for firms going forward.”

A-Team Group said the AI in Capital Markets Awards 2026 honor the “standout solutions driving real, measurable value in trading, data management, RegTech and enterprise AI” and “celebrate the breakthrough applications of artificial intelligence that are transforming financial enterprise operations.” They are recognizing vendors “who move beyond AI hype to deliver scalable, secure and impactful solutions for capital markets participants worldwide.”

Eventus’ Frank AI answers plain language queries about behavioral insights, anomalies, trends and custom data correlations through a chat interface into Validus data. Users can interact on-demand with their real-time data. Frank converts simple conversational prompts into scheduled reports and alerts that support a firm’s supervisory program. Frank’s suite of AI tools and behavioral analytics – using deterministic AI and technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) – helps clients automate complex processes, improve accuracy, dramatically reduce alert noise and enhance operational efficiency, as well as identify nuanced patterns of misconduct more effectively.

Eventus has won 54 awards and honors for its best-in-class trade surveillance solution since 2018. Other recent wins for Eventus include: Market Surveillance Solution of the Year at the FOW Asia Pacific Awards, Best Trade Surveillance Solution at A-Team’s Capital Markets Technology Awards APAC and Trade Surveillance Product of the Year at the Risk Technology Awards.

About Eventus 

Eventus provides state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense. Its powerful, award-winning Validus platform is easy to deploy, customize and operate across equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income, digital asset and prediction/information markets. Validus is proven in the most complex, high-volume, and real time environments of Eventus’ rapidly growing client base, including tier-1 banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants (FCMs), proprietary trading groups, market centers, buy-side institutions, energy and commodity trading firms, and regulators. Clients rely on the platform, coupled with the firm’s responsive support and product development, to overcome their most pressing trade surveillance regulatory challenges. For more, visit www.eventus.com.

 

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Mapbox Launches 3D Live Navigation in Neue Klasse BMW Vehicles

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Never miss a turn with lane-level guidance showing surrounding vehicles and road context in an integrated, live 3D map view.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Mapbox today announced that its Mapbox 3D Live Navigation feature powers BMW Maps with driver assistance in Neue Klasse vehicles from BMW Group. In a market first, this navigation experience combines lane-level navigation and live detections from the vehicle’s advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) into the map itself, showing turn-by-turn directions in context with the road, surrounding vehicles, and 3D buildings.

Mapbox 3D Live Navigation brings lane-level guidance and driver assistance to BMW Neue Klasse vehicles.

Mapbox designed the system to be the easiest for drivers to follow, so they never miss a turn. With Mapbox 3D Live Navigation, drivers simply follow the Mapbox Magic Carpet, a lane-level path that highlights the route.

Traditional in-car systems are not capable of integrating route guidance with information about the vehicle and its surroundings. Mapbox 3D Live Navigation brings these elements together, helping drivers understand their next move without piecing together information from separate displays.

The Mapbox live map powers the experience and refreshes with daily map updates, ensuring navigation reflects changing road conditions.

“Our mission is to assist drivers and machines to never miss a turn. 3D Live Navigation is a major milestone on this journey,” says Peter Sirota, Mapbox CEO. “We provide location infrastructure to our customers and enable them to invent highly differentiated experiences on top of our live map. It’s rewarding to see how BMW has turned that foundation into an experience that is distinctly their own.”

Reimagining Navigation

The power and flexibility of the Mapbox Navigation SDK gave BMW Group full control to build a navigation experience tailor-made for the Panoramic iDrive in its Neue Klasse vehicles—delivering an intuitive experience unlike anything else on the market. The vehicle’s Central Display, Panoramic Vision Display, and 3D Head-Up display present the right information at precisely the right time in the driver’s field of view.

“An important step toward highly automated driving is the intelligent interaction between navigation and driver assistance. BMW Maps with driver assistance shows drivers how route guidance, environmental perception, and assistance functions work together. This provides better orientation when driver assistance is active—developed by the BMW Group in collaboration with Mapbox,” says Stephan Durach, Senior Vice President of Digital Services, Infotainment, and Connected Company at the BMW Group.

Inside Mapbox 3D Live Navigation

Mapbox 3D Live Navigation combines Mapbox’s automotive mapping, navigation, and real-time data capabilities. For BMW, the experience includes:

A dynamic, live 3D map. Lane geometry, road markings, crosswalks, and 3D buildings come together in a detailed view of the road, supported by Mapbox’s ongoing map updates that reflect new construction and road modifications.Lane-level Magic Carpet guidance. The vehicle is shown in its lane of travel, while Mapbox Magic Carpet highlights the path through the next maneuver, helping drivers see exactly where to go so they never miss a turn. When assisted driving features are active, Mapbox shows where the vehicle intends to go.Situational awareness. ADAS camera detections, such as pedestrians, road hazards, and other vehicles, appear directly on the 3D map alongside lane-keeping and collision warnings, connecting the digital view with the road ahead in real time.

To learn more about Mapbox 3D Live Navigation, visit Mapbox.com.

About Mapbox

Mapbox provides location infrastructure for AI. Developers use it to build intelligent apps, agents, and vehicles that understand the world. Mapbox SDKs and APIs for maps, search, and navigation power tens of thousands of applications.

Founded in 2013, Mapbox leads development of the modern geospatial stack. Trusted by automakers, logistics providers, retailers and app developers, Mapbox delivers scalable, highly customizable geospatial solutions that power billions of sophisticated location experiences worldwide. The platform is known for its built-in flexibility, elegant design, enterprise-grade security, strict data privacy and developer-first documentation.

The mission of Mapbox is to enable every team to build exceptional, location-aware applications that delight users, enhance operations and transform industries. Learn more at www.mapbox.com.

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How Behavioral Profiles Can Reduce Drop-Off and Sustain Weight Loss, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

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In this free webinar, learn how behavioral profiles can help identify adherence risk and support more personalized weight-management programs. The featured speakers will discuss how psychological factors, treatment beliefs and objective biometric data can help explain why some patients stay on therapy and others discontinue. Attendees will also explore how combining behavioral, biometric and social data can support earlier outreach and more sustained functional weight loss.

TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Weight-loss medications work only while patients keep taking them. The real goal is staying on medication long enough to achieve meaningful, functional weight loss and sustain it. This webinar explores why that’s harder than it sounds: not for the clinical reasons often expected, but rather because of the beliefs and psychology, including the significance of volitional medication use in obesity, that predict who stays engaged and who drops off before seeing the long-term benefits.

For pharma professionals supporting an obesity portfolio, that gap is an important challenge to address. Clinical trials show sustained weight reduction of 15–22% over 72 weeks, but real-world discontinuation can be up to 67% within 12 months. Side effects, cost and access explain only part of that drop-off. Most support programs have no validated way to identify behavioral risk before it impacts success.

Psychological factors, such as confidence, doubt and treatment identity, are increasingly recognized as independent predictors of discontinuation. Underlying motivations and beliefs about treatment, whether rooted in appearance, day-to-day function or long-term health risk, differ from patient to patient. Left unaddressed, these differences can determine whether someone stays on treatment and reaches a functional, lasting outcome. Digital health technology can help keep people engaged and on track.

The featured speakers will discuss findings from a novel study of 1,056 US adults using a GLP-1/GIP medication for weight management, evaluated using the SPUR behavioral framework alongside validated belief and mental-health measures. They’ll introduce Kaitality™, Clinical ink‘s general wellness app, and show how connecting biometrics (weight, body composition and activity), sociometrics (social context and daily environment) and psychometrics (validated psychological drivers of adherence) can generate real-world evidence and support progress toward sustained functional quality weight loss goals.

Register for this webinar to learn how a behavioral profile can help identify adherence risk, personalize patient support and support sustained functional weight loss.

Join experts from Clinical ink, Christian Djurhuus, MD, PhD, EVP Disease Management, Chief Scientific Officer; Nicholas Alp, MD, PhD, FACC Chief Medical Officer; and Bob DiLuzio (Moderator), Senior Vice President, Disease Management, for the live webinar on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 11am EDT (4pm CET / EU-Central).

For more information, or to register for this event, visit How Behavioral Profiles Can Reduce Drop-Off and Sustain Weight Loss.

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Every year, thousands of professionals rely on Xtalks for timely intelligence, peer perspectives and industry thought leadership. Join our life science community to stay informed, connected and ready for what’s next.

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