5th Edition
The Most-awaited & admired
Data & AI Awards of 2026
Friday, 24th April 2026
Radisson Blu, Bengaluru
Last Date for Nominations:
Tuesday, 31th March 2026
3AI ACME Awards 2025 recognizes & rewards the outstanding contribution of AI & Analytics leaders, professionals, enterprises, GCCs & provider firms in driving significant value & outcomes
These Award Categories are open for
Leaders | Professionals | GCCs | Enterprises | Pure Play Analytics Firms | Startups |
BPM & Cloud providers | Technology services players | Consulting firms
The role of the Data & AI leaders in Enterprises, GCCs and Startups delivering Data & AI impact and business value have evolved far beyond curating new age AI capabilities, solutions & products to the corridors of strategic decision-making that shape the future of businesses. Today’s Data & AI practitioner are not only experts in AI- led transformation or champions of AI & Gen AI solutioning but also pivotal architects of innovation. Further, Enterprises and GCCs are seamlessly aligning AI strategy with organizational goals, driving game-changing business transformation.
These trailblazers – individuals, GCCs & enterprises, that continually raise the bar of excellence, deserve a credible platform that honor their remarkable achievements and sets the stage for future breakthroughs while inspiring the next generation of Data & AI leaders & professionals.
In its momentous fifth edition, 3AI ACME Awards 2026 Awards will recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions in Data & AI segments across enterprise , GCCs, Startups and Individuals across sectors and industries. This prestigious award ceremony will showcase business innovation & AI led transformation achievements, catalysing new ideas and groundbreaking solutions.
3AI ACME Awards 2026 winners will be felicitated at the 3AI flagship event –
BEYOND 2026 on 24th April 2026 at Radisson Blu, Bengaluru.
The 3AI ACME Awards 2025
Key Highlights
- 50 Awards: Honouring exceptional achievements across differentiated categories
- Rigorous Evaluation Process: A testament to the highest standards of excellence
- High-Profile Jury: Industry stalwarts leading the selection process
3AI ACME AWARDS 2025
Key Highlights
Credible Awards: Honouring exceptional achievements across differentiated categories
Rigorous Evaluation Process: A testament to the highest standards of excellence
High-Profile Jury: Industry stalwarts leading the selection process
Award Categories
Best from the Rest Leaders in Data & AI
This award recognises senior leaders delivering scalable business impact, innovation & transformation through Data & AI–powered solutions, services or capabilities. (Eligible for leaders with over 15 years of pertinent AI experience).
The category is open to leaders from GCCs, enterprises, startups, consulting firms, pure-play AI organisations, technology and platform companies, BPM firms and cloud providers.
The award celebrates individuals who demonstrate strong thought leadership, impactful AI engagements and the ability to translate Data & AI innovation into tangible business outcomes. It recognises leaders who have successfully led Data & AI portfolios, built differentiated AI capabilities , solutions, GTM strategies, or fostered a culture that promotes and accelerates Data & AI adoption, delivering measurable value for their organisations and clients.
AI ChangeMaker Awards
This award recognises fast-track, progressive and emerging leaders in the Data & AI industry with 5–15 years of pertinent AI experience. This award celebrates the professionals who have demonstrated exceptional impact and The primary evaluation criteria include meaningful contributions to Data & AI solutioning, team collaboration and client, stakeholder impact.
This category is open to professionals working across GCCs, enterprises, startups, consulting firms, pure-play analytics organisations, technology and platform companies, BPM firms and cloud providers.
Nominees may have introduced innovative approaches in AI engagements, successfully led AI projects through complex and challenging projects or developed new methods, processes or offerings for deploying AI & Analytics solutions, platforms or GTM initiatives, resulting in measurable client or business impact.
Inspiring Women in Data & AI
The award category will recognize the impactful contribution of women in AI & Data, the ones that have stood out and demonstrated eminent engagements and noteworthy work in Data,AI & Analytics within their organizations/own ventures.
Nominations can be made by organizations directly for the nominated individual by showcasing her significant contribution and their demonstrated expertise in AI and Analytics in driving the business value, innovation or research. Separately, self-nominations can also be made by individuals citing the key role that they are playing in AI & Analytics at their workplace to drive transformation, growth and business value. This award category is open to women working in GCCs, enterprises, startups, consulting, pure play AI firms, technology, platform, BPM & Cloud providers and startups.
Excellence in AI Innovation & Transformation in GCCs
This award recognises GCCs that are engaged in building the next in-class Data,AI & Analytics capabilities, solutions & offerings to derive significant impact for their parent organizations. Data,AI & Analytics has taken a robust foothold in GCCs and with the bespoke talent that is powering data-driven decisions for the end stakeholders; top GCCs are augmenting AI & Analytics leadership, teams, capabilities & solution offerings to provide AI & Analytics prowess to drive innovation & transformation for the enterprise stakeholders.
The award recognizes the exemplary performance of GCCs that have demonstrated sustained Data, AI & Analytics prowess through differentiated capabilities & offerings, building state of art AI/Analytics best practices, crafted novel AI & Analytics talent acquisition & retention strategies, executed continual & impact driven AI & Analytics engagements with demonstrated impact & value.
Inspiring Firms in Data & AI
The award recognizes the exemplary performance of firms : Indian & Global Enterprise, Consulting, Services, and Solution Providers that have demonstrated sustained Data & AI prowess through differentiated capabilities & offerings, building state of art AI/Analytics capabilities, crafted novel AI & Analytics talent acquisition & retention strategies, executed continual & impact driven AI & Analytics engagements with demonstrated impact & value.
The award will acknowledge the credible and noteworthy AI & Analytics firms ; recognizing their contribution & potential to augment AI & Analytics adoption for the internal usage or clients with their differentiated offerings & capabilities. This category will evaluate AI & Analytics firms for their novel AI solutions, GTM strategy, delivery & talent excellence, unique capabilities & offerings across the AI & Analytics suite.
Marketing & Branding Excellence in AI & Analytics
Marketing & Branding has become one of the differentiating factors for the success of AI & Analytics firms & GCCs; marketing & corporate communication function continues to be a major driver of business transformation in GCCs and Enterprises. Marketing & Branding Excellence in AI & Analytics awards aims to recognize impact driven marketing professionals & leaders in the Data, Al & Analytics portfolio working in GCCs, enterprises, startups, consulting, pure-play analytics firms, technology, platform, BPM & Cloud companies that have made outstanding contributions to their organizations, have delivered successful end to end marketing strategies, interventions and engagements for Al & Analytics practice and have curated novel approaches across the end to end marketing value chain.
The award also serves to showcase the contributions of marketing , branding & corporate communication leaders & professionals that have demonstrated eminent work and project engagements in Al & Analytics within the organizations and acted as role models in their organizations.
3AI is India’s largest platform and marketplace for AI & Analytics leaders & professionals with 1700+ by-invite, top-of-line AI & Analytics thought leaders representing 980+ organizations alongside 58000+ active & growing members from 32 countries. 3AI is a sought-after partner with corporates, GCCs, academic institutions, and startups for showcasing best-in-class thought leadership, accentuating branding & visibility, enhancing talent advocacy and professional development. Over the previous four years, 3AI have conceptualized and executed 850+ pathbreaking & pioneering events, summits, conferences, and speaking interventions with innovative formats, &session tracks to bring out the next-in-class themes & topics in AI & Analytics arena.
With deeply entrenched penetration of 430+ GCCs, 3AI have assiduously strived to fill up the much-needed void in bringing cutting-edge AI & Analytics capabilities and solutions work in GCCs at the forefront. 3AI also has a whopping outreach with 16000+ CXOs & decision makers and talent outreach with 125+ academic institutions covering 0.4 million students. 3AI events & programs have been attended by 4.3 million participants grossing 18.3 million impressions across social channels.
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