
The 2025 AI TechAwards celebrate technical innovation, adoption and reception in the AI & Machine Learning industry and by the developer community.
The 2025 AI TechAwards are given out for 20 categories, and the Advisory Board for AI DevWorld, made up of industry veterans, will select category winners after the public nomination process concludes.
The 2025 AI TechAwards nominations are open NOW through Tuesday, December 31, 2024, and winners will be announced online Thursday, January 9, 2025. Winners will be presented at the 2025 AI TechAwards ceremony on February 11th at 6:30 PT at AI DevWorld 2025. Recipients receive (2) VIP Passes to AI DevWorld 2025, a commemorative award, and media promotion and industry recognition.
Nominations are public, and any technology, product or service whose main innovation / value is its artificial intelligence / machine learning technology will be eligible for nomination.
Why Apply?
The 2025 AI TechAwards, now in their 6th year, celebrate technical innovation, reception, and solutions in the global AI industry. Winners in 2025 will enjoy the following benefits:
Recognition: The 2025 AI TechAwards are the definitive awards for the AI community, held in conjunction with AI DevWorld 2025, the world’s largest artificial intelligence dev conference (Feb 11-13, Santa Clara, CA, & Feb 18-20, Live Online).
Visibility: Winners receive two (2) VIP Passes to AI DevWorld 2025 and a commemorative physical award, presented at the AI DevAwards Ceremony & VIP Reception on Feb 11, 2025, in Santa Clara, CA.
Exposure: Be featured in local & national media promotion and get a dedicated company profile on the AI DevAwards website, where winners will remain posted year after year.
Timeline
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Nominations close: Judging begins
January 2-7, 2025
Judging
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Winners Announced
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
2025 AI TechAwards Ceremony & VIP Reception
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Santa Clara Convention Center
Categories
Innovator of the Year
AI-as-a-Service
Big Data AI
Bots/Chatbots
Consumer AI Technology
Data Science Technology
Deep Learning Technology
Emotion & Behavioral AI
Enterprise AI
Gaming AI
Healthcare AI
Industry Vertical Applications
Internet of Things (IoT) AI
Machine Learning Platforms
Natural Language Processing (NLP) Technology
Neural Network Technology
Open Source AI Technology
TensorFlow Technology
Transfer Learning Technology
Visual/Image Machine Learning
2025 Advisory Board

Krishna Aerabati
Director of Software Engineering
Relativity

Shashank Agarwal
Senior Decision Scientist
CVS Health

Alexander Alten
CEO and co-founder
databloom.ai

Ahmad Awais
VP of Developer Relations (DevRel & DX)
RapidAPI

Gaurav Baid
Co-Founder & CPO
Avataar

Monica Bajaj
VP of Engineering
Okta

Rodrigo Beceiro
CTO
Marvik

Adam Blum
CTO
Empath

Jeff Bodzewski
Founder | CEO
agenci3

Vasudev BV Bogguram
Quality Leader
Marsh McLennan

Michelle Bonat
CTO
AI Squared

AI Brown
CTO
Veritone

Aaron Burciaga
Senior Practice Manager
Amazon

Angel Camacho
Director of Product Marketing
Redis

Felipe Castro Quiles
CEO
Emerging Rule

Amreth Chandrasehar
Director of ML Engineering, Observability and SRE
Informatica

Soudip Chowdhury
Founder and CEO
Eugenie.ai

Amol Dewhare
Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer
Conektto Inc

Alpesh Doshi
Director
Fintricity

Brian Drake
Federal CTO
Accrete.AI

Gloria Felicia
CEO
Insightcircle.ai

Anton Gochev
VP of Engineering
Luko

Taeil Goh
Sr Software Engineering Manager
Capital One

Maheedhar Gunturu
Founder, CEO
Ittican.org

Ahmet Gyger
Director Product Management
Domino Data Lab

Bernard Harguindeguy
Managing Partner
Optus partners

Arthur Hicken
Evangelist
Parasoft

Divya Jain
Director, ML Platform
Adobe

Vini Jaiswal
Data and AI Advisor and Advocate
Stealth Mode, X-Databricks

Grishma Jena
Data Scientist
IBM

Shankar Kalyana
SVP & CTO
Stantec

Ari Kamlani
Senior AI Strategist and Technology Architect
Beyond Limits

Sudheer Kandula
Senior Software Engineer
NVIDIA

Sugandha Kapoor
Co-founder, CEO
Shaztra

Vivek Kaushal
Senior Software Engineer
Netflix

Ayse Kaya
VP, Strategic Insights & Analytics
Slim.AI

Diana Kelley
CSO
SecurityCurve

Simba Khadder
Founder & CEO
Featureform

Chandra Khatri
Cofounder, CTO
Got It Ai

Rajeev Koolath
CTO, Senior Partner
DXC Technology

Chaitrali Kshirsagar
Machine Learning Engineer
SYNTHETAIC INC.

Deepak Kumar
CEO
Doc-E.ai

Mark Lambert
VP of Strategic Initiatives
Parasoft

Larry Lancaster
Founder and CTO
Zebrium

Manav Leslie
CTO
Adarga AI

Tal Lev-Ami
CTO
Cloudinary Ltd.

Nava Levy
Tech Evangelist
AIML

Shannon Lietz
VP, Vulnerability Labs
Adobe

Iveta Lohovska
Principal Data Scientist
HPE

Mario Lopez
CIO
Bravent

Ivo Lukas
CEO/Founder
24Notion

Ohad Manor
CTO
4Cast

Maya Mikhailov
CEO
SAVVI AI

Navinjai Mittal
Director of Product
A10 Networks

Manish Modh
Founder & CEO
Andromeda 360, Inc.

Daniel Myers
Developer Relations
Snowflake

Simon Müller
CTO
wattx

Chinmay Abhay Nerurkar
Principal Engineer
Microsoft Inc.

Stephen Oladele
Machine Learning Developer Advocate
Neptune.ai

Azmath Pasha
CDO
Metawave Digital

Ashish Patel
CEO
Blueshift Innovations

Kiran Peddireddy
Sr. System Engineer
Cox Automotive

Roy Penn
CTO
Tymely AI

Victor Pereboom
CTO/Founder
UbiOps

Natalie Pistunovich
Head of Developer Relations
Entor

Raul Popa
CEO
TypingDNA

Vaijanath Rao
Head of Data Science
Quicken Inc

Surbhi Rathore
CEO, Co-founder
Symbl.ai

Deexith Reddy
Senior Data Engineer
Fidelity Investments

Harpreet Sahota
DevRel Manager
Deci AI

Mohamed Sayed
CEO
Heuro Labs GmbH

Joshua Scotton
CTO
Personify XP

Zafar Shahid
Technical Lead
Meta

Akshay Sharma
Partner
Multiversal Ventures

Akram Sheriff
IOT Software Architect
Cisco Systems

Suhas Shetty
Senior Engineering Manager
SoFi

Bhawna Singh
SVP of Engineering
Auth0

Vivek Singhal
CEO & Chief Data Scientist
Cellstrat Inc.

Marisa Smith
Developer Advocate
Shipyard

Gihad Sohsah
CTO
Capoom

Ben Sprott
Founder CEO and Architect
Cavenwell Industrial AI

John Stafford
COO
Parallel Communications

Robert Statsinger
CEO
RDM Inc

Andrei Tara
CEO
Openfabric

Rob Teel
CTO
State of Oklahoma

Kerem Tomak
CEO
MindspaceAI B.V.

Mike Tung
CEO
Diffbot

Ketaki Vaidya
AI Product Manager
Oracle

Bob van Luijt
CEO & co-founder
SeMI Technologies

Jagadish Venkatraman
Senior Engineering Manager
LinkedIn

Vaclav Vincalek
CTO
555vCTO

Jim Walker
Evangelist and Public Sector CTO, AMER
UiPath

Jurgen Weichenberger
Head of AI – New Value Streams
Schneider Electric

Richard Whitehead
Chief Evangelist
Moogsoft Inc.

Tobias Zwingmann
Managing Director / Co-Founder
RAPYD.AI