Informativ provides fraud prevention, compliance, and credit solutions for the automotive and consumer finance industries across the United States. The company’s software is designed to help auto dealers and lenders streamline finance qualification processes, maintain regulatory compliance, and reduce risk through automation and integrated technology solutions.


Unifying Compliance, Credit, and Fraud Prevention
Since 2023, Informativ has undergone a significant transformation to simplify and modernize compliance and risk management for automotive retailers. Following a strategic rebrand, the company unified several existing platforms under the Informativ name, bringing together tools focused on identity verification, credit management, and fraud prevention into a more cohesive ecosystem.

A major milestone came in February 2024 with the launch of Total Solution, a platform integrating identity verification, credit controls, and FTC Safeguards Rule compliance into a single workflow. The launch addressed growing pressure on dealers to strengthen data security and compliance processes while maintaining operational efficiency and customer experience.

By consolidating multiple compliance and risk-management functions into a single platform, Informativ sought to address a longstanding challenge in the automotive technology sector, where dealers often rely on disconnected systems for fraud prevention, compliance oversight, and financing workflows.

Supporting Evolving Industry Demands
The company has expanded its capabilities through acquisitions and integrations, increasing both technical functionality and customer reach. These efforts contributed to broader market penetration and accelerated product development while supporting partnerships with lenders, credit bureaus, and dealer technology providers.

Operational growth has accompanied these initiatives. Informativ earned a place on the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies and was recognized as a Great Place to Work-certified employer based on employee feedback.

As regulatory requirements continue to evolve across automotive retail and consumer finance, Informativ has focused on building tools that allow dealers to proactively manage compliance obligations while reducing friction within the financing process. The company’s emphasis on integrated workflows and automation reflects broader industry demand for more scalable and efficient technology solutions.

Informativ earned a Bronze Stevie® Award for Company of the Year – Financial Technologies in the 2025 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.

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Bongo was created to address a practical challenge in higher education. A professor at Colorado State University needed a more effective way to assess communication skills in entrepreneurship and business communications courses. After finding that existing tools did not adequately measure how students communicated and applied knowledge, he developed a new solution focused on video-based assessment and feedback.

That solution became Bongo, a platform designed to evaluate not only what learners know, but how effectively they can communicate and demonstrate skills in real-world scenarios.

Initially adopted by colleges and universities, Bongo helped educators assess soft skills through video assignments and structured feedback. As demand for scalable coaching and performance evaluation grew beyond academia, the platform expanded into corporate learning and enterprise training.

Scaling Coaching and Skill Verification
Today, Bongo supports enterprise organizations across sales, partner enablement, and customer success functions by helping teams reinforce learning and verify skills at scale. Learners record video responses that demonstrate their understanding and application of key concepts, enabling organizations to assess practical performance rather than relying solely on traditional testing methods.

The platform combines AI-powered analysis with human-reviewed feedback to help organizations identify strengths, reinforce learning objectives, and support ongoing professional development. A key advancement within the platform is Bongo’s AI Score technology, which automates the evaluation of learner-recorded videos while generating detailed feedback aligned with organization-specific requirements.

Advancing AI-Driven Performance Evaluation
Bongo’s AI Score operates through a multi-step process designed to produce tailored, scalable assessments. Organizations first upload training materials and learning content into the platform, allowing Bongo to generate customized questions and success criteria based on specific business objectives and skill requirements.

Learners then record video responses demonstrating their understanding and application of those concepts in practical scenarios. Using a combination of predefined evaluation criteria, publicly available large-language models, and Bongo’s proprietary algorithms, the platform automatically scores learner performance and provides detailed explanations for each evaluation.

The system is designed to provide actionable feedback with minimal human intervention, helping organizations scale coaching and assessment programs more efficiently.

Addressing Security and AI Bias Concerns
One of the primary challenges facing organizations adopting AI-driven evaluation systems is how to securely use sensitive company information without exposing proprietary data to public AI models.

To address this concern, Bongo developed a patent-pending process that allows learner performance to be evaluated against confidential organizational data while preventing that data from being exposed to public large-language models. This approach enables organizations to use advanced AI capabilities while maintaining control over sensitive information.

The company also developed consensus algorithms to reduce bias and response inconsistencies in AI-generated evaluations. By structuring interactions with large-language models as multi-part conversations and combining them with proprietary evaluation methods, Bongo aims to improve the fairness, consistency, and reliability of assessment outcomes.

As organizations continue to search for scalable ways to measure communication, performance, and applied skills, Bongo’s technology reflects a growing interest in AI-supported learning systems that balance automation, personalization, and data security.

Bongo earned a Gold Stevie® Award for Technical Innovation of the Year – Educational Technology in the 2025 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.

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The Stevie^® Awards, organizers of the world’s premier business awards, have announced a final deadline extension in the newest Stevie Awards program, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence.

The original final entry deadline was June 11, but entries will now be accepted through July 8. Entries through the extended final entry deadline will not be penalized in any way. Entry details are available at Tech.StevieAwards.com.

This new Stevie Awards program celebrates the remarkable accomplishments of individuals, teams, and organizations shaping the future of technology across all industry sectors.

Individuals and organizations worldwide are eligible to enter - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The program will recognize the world’s best technology professionals, organizations, achievements, products, and services since the beginning of 2024.

Michael Gallagher, founder and Executive Chairman of the Stevie Awards, shared his enthusiasm for the latest Stevie Awards competition and the extended entry timeline:

"Due to popular demand, we've extended the final entry deadline to July 8, giving individuals and organizations additional time to craft their nominations. We look forward to honoring the remarkable accomplishments of technology innovators from around the world in the 2026 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence."

The program features more than 250 categories across 23 technology-industry groupings, with a broader set of categories for Information Technology. Category groupings include:

• Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Technology Categories
• Aerospace Technology Categories
• Agricultural Technology Categories
• Architectural Technology Categories
• Artificial Intelligence Categories
• Assistive Technology Categories
• Biotechnology Categories
• Business Technology Categories
• Communication Technology Categories
• Construction & Civil Engineering Technology Categories (New for 2026)
• Educational Technology Categories
• Energy Technology Categories
• Entertainment Technology Categories
• Financial Technology Categories
• Government Technology Categories
• Green & Clean Technology Categories
• Healthcare Technology Categories
• Information Technology Categories
• Manufacturing Technology Categories
• Marine Technology Categories
• Retail & E-Commerce Technology Categories (New for 2026)
• Sports, Fitness & Recreation Technology Categories (New for 2026)
• Transportation & Mobility Technology Categories

Each year, Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations from organizations of all types and sizes in more than 70 nations and territories. Past Stevie Award winners include Cisco Systems, Inc., DP DHL, EY Global Services Limited, HCLTech, Google, IBM Corporation, LLYC, Meta, Procter & Gamble, Samsung, Toyota, Verizon, Viettel Group, and many others.

Juries featuring more than 100 executives worldwide will determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners. Winners will be publicly announced on July 23 and celebrated at a joint awards gala on October 28 in Paris, France, with winners of the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, The International Business Awards®, and the German Stevie Awards.

The Stevie® Awards, organizer of the Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, announced today that the final entry deadline for the eleventh annual competition has been extended to Wednesday, July 1. The Stevie Awards for Great Employers honor the world's best companies to work for and the HR teams and professionals, HR achievements, new products and services, and suppliers that help to create and drive great workplaces.

"Each year, we hear from organizations that are doing remarkable work but need a little more time to prepare their nominations," said Stevie Awards President Maggie Miller. "By extending the deadline, we're ensuring that more organizations have the opportunity to share their achievements. Entries submitted during the extension period will not incur late fees and will be judged alongside all other nominations under the same criteria."

All organizations now have two more weeks to prepare and submit their entries. All individuals and organizations worldwide - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - may submit nominations to the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The 2026 awards will honor achievements since the beginning of 2024. Entry details are available at http://HR.StevieAwards.com.

The 2026 competition introduces a variety of new categories, including a new group of 12 AI categories designed to honor individuals, teams, organizations, and solutions advancing artificial intelligence.

New HR Team categories include Leadership Development Team of the Year and Workplace Health and Wellbeing Team of the Year.

New Solutions and Implementations categories include Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health Solution Implementation - Implementation, Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health Solution Implementation - New or New-Version.

AI and People Analytics Provider of the Year is a new Solution Provider category.

AI Training for HR Professionals is a new Training Program or Media category.

20 of the 24 HR Individual categories do not require payment of entry fees, including Human Resources Executive of the Year, HR Rising Star of the Year, Employee Relations Professional of the Year, Onboarding Professional of the Year, Recruiting or Talent Acquisition Professional of the Year, and others.

Winners in the 42 industry-specific Employer of the Year categories will be determined by a unique blending of public votes and professional ratings. Public voting will take place from June 11 to July 9.

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize achievement in many facets of the workplace. Categories include:

• AI Achievement Categories (New for 2026)
• Curated Training Platform of the Year Categories
• Employer of the Year Categories
• HR Achievement Categories
• HR Individual Categories
• HR Team Categories
• Solutions & Implementations Categories
• Solution Provider Categories
• Training Programs or Media Categories
• Thought Leadership Categories

More than 100 professionals worldwide, working on several juries, will determine the Stevie Award winners. Winners in the 2026 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards will be announced on July 16 and celebrated during a gala banquet in conjunction with the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, The International Business Awards®, and the German Stevie Awards ceremony on October 28 in Paris, France.

About the Stevie® Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in nine programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the newest Stevie Awards program, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence. Stevie Awards competitions receive over 12,000 entries annually from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performance in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

More than 550 representatives of Stevie® Award-winning organizations, competition jurors, sponsors and other VIPs will gather in the Broadway Ballroom of New York's Marriott Marquis Hotel on Tuesday, June 9 for the 24th edition of The American Business Awards®, the USA's top honors for achievement in the workplace.

All individuals and organizations operating in the United States are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs - large and small, public and private, for profit and non profit.  The 2026 ABAs recognize achievements since the beginning of 2024 in a wide variety of categories representing most aspects of work life, including management, marketing, customer service, product management. innovation, and much more.

Grand, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and People's Choice Stevie Award winners were announced in April and May.  Winners who attend Tuesday's event will be celebrated on stage and deliver short acceptance speeches.

The American Business Awards are the oldest and one of nine Stevie Awards programs, which also include The International Business Awards®, the German Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, all of which have entry deadlines in the next two weeks.

Tuesday's presentations will feature the presentation of the AI Waymakers Awards, by sponsor Persistent, and a special presentation about the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Costello School of Business at George Mason University.

Here is the list of organizations that will be represented at Tuesday's American Business Awards:

(as of June 4)
1871 & BMO Financial Group, Chicago, IL
8x8, Campbell, CA
AB Studios and Passion Struck, St Petersburg, FL
Accenture, New York, NY
Actionstep, Denver, CO
ADI Global Distribution, Melville, NY
Adler Public Relations, Scottsdale, AZ
Affortech LLC, Orlando, FL
AmeriTech Contracting, Berlin, CT
Aptia, Boston, MA
Arch Street Communications, New York, NY
Asheria Marketing, New York, NY
Automation Anywhere, San Jose, CA 
Better Parenting Plan, San Francisco, CA
Beyond Finance, Chicago, IL
Bimbo Bakeries USA, Irving, TX
Black Men's Health Clinic, Austin, TX
BrightSpring Health Services, Louisville, KY
BW Events Tech, Gilbert, AZ
CardWorks, Woodbury, NY
Carestream NDT, Rochester, NY
Catalight, Walnut Creek, CA
Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, Newtown, CT
CCS Fundraising, New York, NY
CenterLight Health System, Flushing, NY
Channel Partners, Tampa, FL
Chargebacks911, Clearwater, FL 
Chef Works, Poway, CA
Ciber Digita Inc., Flanders, NJ
Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Cisco, Jersey City, NJ
Cisco Network Engineering & Operations, Rolesville, NC 
Collaborative Co-Parent, Sydney, Australia
Concept Construction Services Inc., New York, NY
Corn Refiners Association, Washington, DC
Critical Mass, New York, NY 
CVS Health, Phoenix, AZ
Dassault Systemes, Waltham, MA 
Design-Build Institute Of America, Washington, DC
DirectEmployers Association, Indianapolis, IN
DocuWare Corporation, Beacon, NY
Drc Ventures, Franklin, TN 
Emota, Philadelphia, PA
ESI Flow, San Francisco, CA
Ever.Ag, Lewisville, TX
EX.CO, New York, NY
Experis - ManpowerGroup, Milwaukee, MI
Eye Conic Spot LLC, Coral Springs, FL
First Advantage, Atlanta, GA
First Interstate Bank, Billings, MT
Ford Pro, Dearborn, MI
FrankCrum, Clearwater, FL
Fulcrum Solutions, New Rochelle, NY
Fusion5, Odessa, FL
Gema’s Childcare, West Babylon, NY 
Genzeon, Exton, PA
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Givelify, Indianapolis, IN
Glassesusa.com, College Park, GA
GTE Financial, Tampa, FL
Heraeus Incorporated, Yardley, PA
Hexaware Technologies, Iselin, NJ
History Factory, Washington, DC
Hive Group LLC, McLean, VA
IBM, Armonk, NY
Innovative Life Sciences, McKinney, TX
Iowa Department Of Human Services And Vimo, Change And Innovation Agency (C!A), Mountain View, CA
Jasmine Norris Photography, Lafayette, IN
Jelvix, Tallinn, Estonia
JFK International Air Terminal, LLC, Jamaica, NY
Khanect The Dots, Kansas City, MO
KNAPP, Kennesaw, GA
Kodak, Rochester, NY
Krupp Agency, New York, NY
Lawyer.com, Basking Ridge, NJ
Lee Andrews Group, Los Angeles, CA
LifeVantage, Lehi, UT
LifeWave, Draper, UT
LPL Financial, Princeton, NJ
LQ™ Listening Intelligence, Rancho Cordova, CA
LTG Re-Teck Renewable Energy Solutions, San Francisco, CA
Machinify Inc, Palo Alto, CA
Manulife John Hancock Retirement, Boston, MA
Marketplace PHL, Philadelphia, PA 
Merrick Bank, South Jordan, UT
MicroHealth, LLC, Vienna, VA
Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA
Mountain View Group, Atlanta, GA
Musclesport, Ronkonkoma, NY
N-able, Burlington, MA
Naish Partners, Santa Barbara, CA
NextGen Healthcare, Fredericksburg, VA
NMFTA, Alexandria, VA
NorthGate, Flint, MI
NTT Data, Plano, TX
Ohio River South, Atlanta, GA 
OKANA Resort & Indoor Waterpark, Oklahoma City, OK
One Step GPS, San Fernando, CA
Paysafe, Jacksonville, FL
Persistent Systems, Santa Clara, CA
Picore International, Calabasas, CA
Praxis AI, Pleasanton, CA
Precision Point Partners, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Publicis Sapient, New York, NY
Q2i, Boston, MA
Remarkably Resilient, Inc., Shawnee, KS
Revolve Solutions LLC, Alexandria, VA
Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee, WI 
Ruder Finn, New York, NY
Runway 7 Fashion, New York, NY
Selerix Systems, Plano, TX
Shaker Recruitment Marketing, Oak Park, IL
Siemens Energy Inc., Orlando, FL 
Sodexo, Dilworth, MN
Sofidel, Horsham, PA
Speakcore, Pennington, NJ
SPECTRAFORCE, Raleigh, NC
SportsMed Physical Therapy, Glen Rock, NJ
SPS North America, New York, NY
Steno, Los Angeles, CA
STORE Capital, Scottsdale, AZ
Synoptek LLC., Costa Mesa, CA
Tahgis Imports Inc, Cleveland, OH
Takeda, Cambridge, MA
Tata Consultancy Services, Edison, NJ
TeamUp Remote Talent Staffing, Cincinnati, OH
TermScout, Denver, CO
The Dr Z Functional Medicine Academy LLC, Sheridan, WY
The Flora May Foundation, San Clemente, CA
The Shelf, Inc., Atlanta, GA
The Stories And Wisdom Company®, Seattle, WA
The Surplus Line Association Of California, San Ramon, CA
TIAA, New York, NY
Tribeca Softech, New York, NY
Tricentis, Austin, TX
Vensure Employer Solutions, Chandler, AZ
VEON Ltd., New York, NY
Vereigen Media, Austin, TX
Verge Therapy, Milton, MA
West Monroe, Chicago, IL
Yapp Sailing Course, Seattle, WA
YELO Software, Boston, MA

The 25th Annual American Business Awards will begin accepting nominations this coming October.  Learn more and get the entry kit at https://ABA.StevieAwards.com. 

Grand Stevie winners Eastern Health Cluster “EHC” of Saudi Arabia and the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources “FAHR” of the United Arab Emirates will be celebrated at an awards gala on 11 September

The Stevie® Awards have announced two Grand Stevie Award winners in the seventh annual Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards. These are the top prizes in the competition. Grand Stevie winners will be presented their awards at a gala banquet at the InterContinental Istanbul, Türkiye, on Friday, 11 September.

The Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, sponsored by the Ras Al Khaimah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is an international business awards competition open to all organizations in 18 nations in the Middle East and North Africa. The focus of the awards is recognizing workplace innovation in all its forms.

This year, more than 1,400 nominations were considered in the judging process by more than 155 professionals, whose average ratings determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners announced earlier in January. For a complete list of the 2026 Stevie Award winners, visit https://MENA.StevieAwards.com.

In addition to the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards, the organizations with the most award points (total number of points conferred by total Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie wins) and the highest-scoring nomination are awarded the Grand Stevie Awards, which cannot be applied for directly. These are the top prizes in the competition.

Organization of the Year: With 84.5 award points, earned through nine Gold, 19 Silver, and 14 Bronze Stevie Award wins across various categories, Eastern Health Cluster (EHC), Saudi Arabia, is the most honored organization in this year’s competition.

Eastern Health Cluster is one of the largest integrated healthcare network operators in Saudi Arabia. It serves over two million beneficiaries, making it a key pillar of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 healthcare transformation. The cluster’s extensive medical service network spans the entire Eastern Province, operating 22 general and specialized hospitals, one medical city, and more than 120 primary healthcare centers. With specialized centers of excellence in cardiology, oncology, neurosurgery, and organ transplantation, EHC’s network has an overall capacity exceeding 3,450 medical beds and a team of more than 4,500 doctors. EHC won Gold Stevie Awards in categories recognizing innovation in Academic Institution Events, Finance, Human Resources Management, Planning & Practice, Management in Health Care Industries, Thought Leadership, and more.

Highest Rated Nomination of the Year: With an average score from the judges of 9.66 out of a possible 10, the nomination submitted by the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, “FAHR,” Dubai, United Arab Emirates, received the highest average score in the 2026 competition. The nomination, about their development of their HR AI Agent, also won a Gold Stevie Award in the Award for Excellence in Innovation in Artificial Intelligence category.

FAHR is an independent federal entity responsible for managing and developing human capital within the United Arab Emirates federal government sector. Acting under the supervision of the UAE Council of Ministers, FAHR designs, reviews, and implements modern workforce policies, performance management programs, and civil service legislation across all federal ministries.

"We are delighted to announce the 2026 Grand Stevie Award winners. EHC and FAHR exemplify the outstanding caliber of nominations received for the 2026 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards," said Maggie Miller, President of the Stevie Awards. "The judges were highly impressed by the Grand Stevie winners' creativity, resourcefulness, and expertise in driving their organizations forward over the past two years. We eagerly anticipate celebrating their achievements at the gala on 11 September."

Complete information about the awards banquet in Istanbul is available at https://mena.stevieawards.com/tickets/awards-banquet/

Press representatives interested in covering the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards ceremony on 11 September in Istanbul, Türkiye, may contact May@stevieawards.com.

The eighth edition of the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards will open for entries in late September 2026.

Winners have been announced in the 2026 People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite New Products, an annual feature of The American Business Awards®, the USA’s top business awards program, which is now in its 24th year.

The worldwide public vote was conducted in April and May, with the highest number of votes determining the winners in dozens of product and service categories. More than 22,000 votes were cast. To win, a category’s leading vote-getter had to have received at least 100 votes.

The winners of the crystal People’s Choice Stevie Awards will be recognized during the ABA’s awards ceremony on June 9 in New York City, along with the winners of the Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners announced in April and May.

All new products and services nominated in the new product awards categories of this year’s ABAs were eligible to be included in voting for the People’s Choice Stevie Awards.

The winners of the 2026 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products are:

Business-to-Business Products: Carestream NDT: Carestream NDT's INDUSTREX HPX-ARC Bendable Detectors

Business-to-Business Services: Golden Hour Veterinary Telemedicine: Golden Hour's SUPER STAT Teleradiology Service

Consumer Products & Services: 2500Divorce.com: 2500Divorce.com

Education - Emerging Technology Solution For Administrators: Luxor Workspaces: CellGuard™ Cell Phone Storage Cabinet

Education – Other: Savvas Learning Company: MyPerspectives English Language Arts With SavvyWriter By Savvas

Electronic Commerce Solution: Constructor: Constructor AI Product Insights Agent

Financial Services: Manulife John Hancock Retirement: FutureStep

FinTech Solution: EBizCharge: EBizCharge

Governance, Risk & Compliance Solution: TermScout: TermScout

Health & Pharmaceuticals: Golden Hour Veterinary Telemedicine: Golden Hour's 6-Channel Veterinary ECG Device

Healthcare Technology Solution: OnMed: OnMed CareStation™

Insurance Solution: Arch Insurance: Arch APEX

Legal Solution: Opus 2: Opus 2 Cases

Payments Solution: EBizCharge: EBizCharge

Supply Chain Management Solution: RapidRatings: ActionPath

Technology Solution – Other: Vereigen Media: Verified Content Engagement

Supporting sponsors of The 2026 American Business Awards include Golden Hour Veterinary Telemedicine, Melissa Sones Consulting, and SoftPro. Persistent Systems is the sponsor of the competition’s AI Waymakers Awards categories.

The Women|Future Webinars are back for 2026 with a new season of free virtual sessions designed to empower, educate, and connect women in business around the world.

Hosted by the Stevie® Awards, the world’s premier business awards, the Women|Future Webinars are designed for women entrepreneurs, executives, small business owners, and professionals interested in starting or growing a business. The webinar series continues the mission established by the Women|Future Conference in 2018: creating a space where ambitious women can learn from experts, share ideas, and build meaningful professional connections.

After seven successful years as a live conference, the program evolved into a webinar series to make these conversations and resources accessible to even more women globally. Registration is free, and attendees may register individually for each session.

This year’s webinar lineup features three sessions taking place in June, July, and August 2026—in line with the 23rd annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, which is now accepting nominations. The early-bird entry deadline, with discounted entry fees, is June 24.

What to Expect

The 2026 Women|Future Webinars will feature practical insights and expert guidance centered around some of today’s most relevant business challenges and opportunities. Led by accomplished entrepreneurs, executives, and Stevie Award winners, each session is designed to help attendees grow as leaders and prepare for the future of business.

This year’s webinar topics include:

• Future-proofing your organization and developing strategies to adapt in a rapidly changing business environment
• Crafting an AI strategy to navigate risks, embrace innovation, and unlock new opportunities for growth
• How earning business awards can strengthen brand recognition, credibility, and visibility in a competitive marketplace
• Developing a founder mindset by overcoming fear, doubt, and failure in business and leadership

Attendees will gain practical tools, fresh perspectives, and real-world advice they can apply to their organizations, careers, and entrepreneurial journeys.

Who Should Attend?

The Women|Future Webinars are designed for women professionals at every stage of their careers and across all industries. Whether you are an entrepreneur, small-business owner, executive, manager, consultant, student, or someone exploring a new professional path, the sessions offer valuable insights and meaningful conversations for ambitious women seeking personal and professional growth. 

Our Mission and Tagline

Our mission is to inspire and accelerate women in business by fostering professional and personal development through live educational sessions. Cultivate Your Tomorrow is our tagline. We chose this phrase because The Women|Future webinars encourage you to not only embrace your tomorrow, but to walk away with inspiration and thought leadership to tackle your career, personal, and life aspirations!

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Sponsorship/Partnership Opportunities

Want to connect with a global community of ambitious women? Sponsoring the Women|Future Webinars is an opportunity to showcase your brand to a global network of business leaders and entrepreneurs. Sponsors receive visibility across our website, social media, email campaigns, and live webinar sessions. Email Lindsey@stevieawards.com for 2026 sponsorship opportunities.

The Stevie® Awards announced today the Grand Stevie Award winners in The 24^th Annual American Business Awards^® competition. Winners will be honored during an awards banquet on June 9, 2026, in New York City. Registration for the event is now open.

All organizations operating in the USA—large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit—are eligible to submit nominations to the ABAs in a wide range of categories, honoring achievement in every aspect of work life, from customer service and management to public relations and product development.

This year, more than 3,700 nominations were considered in the judging process by more than 230 professionals on nine juries. Their average ratings determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners announced earlier this month. For complete lists of those Stevie Award winners, visit ABA.StevieAwards.com.

The Grand Stevie Awards are best-of-competition prizes awarded to the organizations that submit the best body of work to the competition, in their own name or in the names of one or more clients. Grand Stevie Awards cannot be applied for directly.

Grand Stevie winners in the 2026 program are as follows:

Organization of the Year: Delta Dental of Kansas, Wichita, is the most honored organization in the 2026 competition, earning four Gold, six Silver, and seven Bronze Stevie Awards, collecting a total of 34.5 award points. Delta Dental also won this Grand Stevie Award in 2024.

Most Honored Public Relations Agency of the Year: MikeWorldWide, New York, New York, wins the honor this year with 30 award points earned on behalf of itself and clients American Dairy Queen, ICSC, and the Travelers Championship. MikeWorldWide is among the world's leading independent, integrated PR agencies with five offices across the United States, Latin America, and the United Kingdom. The agency won this top honor in 2025 as well, in addition to winning Grand Stevies in the ABAs in 2013-2016.

Most Honored Marketing Agency of the Year: Mountain View Group, Atlanta, Georgia, earned 12 award points with two Gold and four Bronze Stevie wins for videos produced for clients Amneal Pharmaceuticals, GE Healthcare, and RTX Corporation.

Highest-rated Nomination of the Year: With an average score from the judges of 9.88 out of a possible 10, the nomination entitled “From Vision to Legacy: AstraZeneca and Emota Driving Sustainable Innovation,” submitted by the Emota Experience Agency in London, United Kingdom, is this year’s highest-rated nomination. The entry, which won the Gold Stevie for Best Cause & Green - Sustainable Event, describes the agency’s work with AstraZeneca to create the pharmaceutical giant’s presence at the 2025 edition of The American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, the world’s largest oncology congress.

Highest-rated New Product Nomination of the Year: Praxis AI, Pleasanton, California, wins this year’s top product-nomination honor for “The AI That Showed Up for the Students Nobody Else Scaled For,” a submission about their use of artificial intelligence in education, specifically “Human-First Digital Twins — AI powered by an expert’s real brain, personality, and wisdom, with constitutional governance and patent-pending IP protection.” Deployed across education, workforce development, and enterprise, their 1,000+ twins have driven 70% student engagement, 3× wage increases, and full letter-grade improvements. The nomination won the Gold Stevie for Best AI Solution in EdTech.

The 2027 edition of The American Business Awards will begin accepting nominations this October. Learn more and get the entry kit at ABA.StevieAwards.com.

Founded in 2024, Award Writing Services is an Australia-based agency specializing in award submissions and thought leadership strategy for businesses and entrepreneurs. Established by Annette Densham, the company is built on more than four decades of journalism and communications experience, with a focus on helping organizations strengthen their visibility, perception, credibility, and digital presence.

The agency was launched following a business transition, beginning with two clients and a lean operational model. Within 12 months, Award Writing Services expanded to support 21 clients across industries, including legal, wellness, education, nonprofit, and ecommerce.

Award Writing Services’ approach centers on simplifying how organizations manage visibility and perception across multiple channels. Rather than treating PR, awards, and SEO as separate activities, the company integrates them into a single strategy designed to build sustained recognition and measurable business outcomes.

Developing a Unified Visibility Framework
A defining feature of the company’s work is its proprietary “Breadcrumb Method,” a framework that connects awards, PR, SEO, and content into a coordinated system. The approach is designed to ensure that each piece of content contributes to a broader digital footprint, supporting search visibility, media opportunities, and brand credibility over time.

The method was developed in response to changes in the communications landscape, where traditional PR and marketing efforts often operate in isolation. By aligning these functions, Award Writing Services provides clients with a more consistent and strategic approach to building visibility across platforms.

This integrated model has supported clients in achieving more than 80 finalist or winning placements in national and industry awards programs. In parallel, the company has contributed to securing over 70 media placements across outlets, including News.com.au, ABC News, and SmartCompany.

Measurable Impact for Clients
The company’s work focuses on delivering outcomes that extend beyond visibility alone. Clients have reported measurable improvements in organic search performance, including traffic increases of up to 130% within three months of implementing award-driven PR strategies.

Additional outcomes include increased lead generation, improved brand positioning, and expanded business opportunities. In some cases, award recognition and media exposure have contributed to higher investor engagement and conversion rates, demonstrating the commercial impact of integrated communications strategies.

Operationally, Award Writing Services has combined traditional communications expertise with modern tools to enhance efficiency and scalability. These include AI-assisted data tracking, and workflow automation systems designed to streamline internal processes and client delivery.

Leadership and Industry Experience
Founder Annette Densham brings 45 years of experience across journalism, corporate communications, publishing, and business storytelling. She began her career in newspapers at age 15 and has since worked across editorial and corporate environments, developing expertise in media relations, executive communications, and brand strategy.

Prior to launching Award Writing Services, she founded Publicity Genie and co-founded The Audacious Agency, where her work earned multiple industry recognitions, including a Grand Stevie® Award. In addition to client work, Densham has contributed to industry education through workshops, keynote presentations, and mentorship initiatives focused on helping small business owners navigate PR, awards, and visibility strategy.

Award Writing Services and Annette Densham’s recent recognition reflect the growing importance of integrated communications approaches in supporting business growth and long-term visibility.

Award Writing Services won a Bronze Stevie Award for Company of the Year – Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations – Small, Grand Stevie for Most Honored Award Agency, and Annette Densham won a Silver Stevie Award for Communications Professional of the Year in The International Business Awards®.

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