Introducing the annual IBM TechXchange Awards

This award recognizes teams who have demonstrated exceptional innovation and impact in applying AI-powered solutions, such as those from IBM watsonx to transform the way traditional work gets done. How are you using AI technology in the workplace to improve productivity, streamline processes, and facilitate better decision-making? This can encompass a wide range of applications like analyzing data for insights, generating personalized responses to customer inquiries, or enhancing collaboration among team members. The recipient of this award will have shown a deep understanding of their business processes, identified specific use cases where AI can add value, and successfully deployed generative AI or traditional AI/ML solutions to achieve real business outcomes. Tell us how you use IBM watsonx technology to enhance your business applications.

By 2028, it is predicted that gen AI will create one billion cloud-native applications. This evolving market landscape is characterized by a focus on capitalizing AI-driven insights to optimize cost and value management, enhance operational efficiency, and enable intelligent decision-making through automation. This award recognizes transformational organizations that exemplify the journey towards becoming future enterprises by being more proactive and predictive. These organizations innovate more and maintain less, optimize more and firefight less, and lead rather than follow.

Applications and integration are evolving rapidly as our business needs change, bringing the explosion of new applications and endpoints. To manage the complexity of these environments and achieve scale through innovation is no easy feat. This award recognizes organizations that have demonstrated excellence in a hybrid integration, delivery of ground-breaking applications, and/or modernization of their application estate. Tell us your unique IBM story today!

Gen AI is just the latest innovation that places new demands on IT environments. For many, their cloud-first strategy has become a cloud-smart strategy where they design an architecture to connect and manage their applications and data across public clouds, private clouds, and on prem. This award recognizes organizations that have implemented an intentional hybrid infrastructure that enables them to optimize workloads for performance, efficiency, and data sovereignty. The recipient of this award will have built a hybrid cloud solution that gives them the agility, speed, and integration they need to achieve business outcomes today and be ready for the innovations of tomorrow.

This award recognizes organizations that have demonstrated exceptional creativity and forward-thinking in leveraging IBM mainframe technology to drive innovation and growth. The recipient of this award has successfully implemented groundbreaking solutions that have significantly advanced the capabilities and efficiency of mainframe systems, creating a path for future innovations.

Open means choice. Open means more eyes on the code, more minds on the problems, and more hands on the solutions. A great way for an open source based technology to gain velocity and become ubiquitous is by welcoming new contributors, providing open governance and ensuring it is painless to both consume and contribute to the open source project. This award celebrates all aspects of activities that support and foster a project’s open source ecosystem. Nominate an example of your open source project contributions, implementation of open source code, or participation and leadership in the open source community.

In today’s dynamic economy, organizations are constantly challenged to do more with less and to meet external and internal stakeholders’ expectation. Forward-thinking organizations are finding new, better ways to use data and advanced technologies like AI, IoT, and analytics to achieve and exceed their operational goals. This award honors teams that have built solutions to enable more resilient and efficient business processes in the realms of physical asset management and supply chain operations.

The race to incorporate AI is moving faster than many organizations can manage. With pressure to innovate quickly, what’s the price of overlooking security? 81% of executives stated secure and trustworthy AI is essential to the success of their businesses, yet only 24% of current generative AI projects have a security component. We want to celebrate clients who prioritized secure AI from day one. Tell us how you use IBM technology to secure your AI—from data to models to users to access management.