2025 CIO 100 Awards: Event Partners
Our CIO 100 event partners feature some of the tech industry’s most innovative and influential companies. These leaders are here to offer valuable insights, answer your questions, and provide solutions to your most pressing challenges. From advancements in AI and automation to strengthening your cybersecurity risk management and IT strategy, our partners are ready to help you navigate these critical areas with expert guidance and cutting-edge solutions.
Premier
Moveworks is revolutionizing how companies support their employees — with the first AI platform that makes getting help effortless.
The modern workday is full of disruptions, from IT issues to HR updates to policy changes. Moveworks understands exactly what employees need and provides the right solution in seconds, using conversational AI built for the enterprise. Our platform allows customers like DocuSign, Broadcom, and Western Digital to move forward on what matters.
The modern workday is full of disruptions, from IT issues to HR updates to policy changes. Moveworks understands exactly what employees need and provides the right solution in seconds, using conversational AI built for the enterprise. Our platform allows customers like DocuSign, Broadcom, and Western Digital to move forward on what matters.
As a human-led, tech-powered community of solvers, technology is at the heart of everything we do. Our products and services are built on over 170 years of experience. Whether you are reinventing your business model or going through a technology transformation, we deliver problems solved. Find out more visiting us at https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology.html.
Rocket Software is a global technology leader in modernization and a partner of choice that empowers the world's leading businesses on their modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. Trusted by over 12,500 customers and 750 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software enables customers to maximize their data, applications, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world. Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity. Follow Rocket Software on LinkedIn and Twitter or visit www.RocketSoftware.com.
Platinum
Zoho is a leader in integrated technology products, offering a broad range of proven solutions that compete with top vendors. With a highly customizable platform, businesses can find simple solutions to complex needs. We help businesses with:
- Customer Experience - Boost revenue and serve customers with products championed by top analyst firms.
- Business Intelligence - Drive context-aware decision-making with our core analytics engine that brings all of your data points into an AI-powered platform.
- Custom Solutions - Amplify your competitiveness by developing applications that sustain growth and innovation while minimizing technical debt.
Gold
EXL is a leading data analytics, artificial intelligence and digital operations and solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. By bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning, we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Visit EXLService.com.
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software-as-a-service that’s affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end-user. Unlike legacy software, Freshworks builds tech that works for everyone, making it easy for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR to do their job and delight their customers. More than 50,000 companies use Freshworks’ SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).
Executive
As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience.
Platform9 is a leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Its comprehensive private cloud platform offers built-in automation and ease of use with the flexibility to bring your own compute, storage, and network—delivering a public cloud like experience. Founded by a team of cloud pioneers from VMware, Platform9’s private cloud platform has powered over 20,000 nodes in production across some of the world’s largest enterprises like Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace. With a comprehensive SaaS-based control plane, Always-On Assurance™, and decades of experience, Platform9 helps businesses embrace the future of private cloud with ease and confidence.
Silver
Apptio is the leading software to fuel digital transformation. We help technology and finance leaders make smart decisions as they plan, analyze, and optimize technology investments in pursuit of digital transformation. Apptio’s software uses machine learning to translate technology costs and utilization across on-premises systems, vendors, projects, agile and cloud systems into a holistic, business-centric view. With Apptio, IT leaders make smarter digital transformation investments. Companies of all sizes and geographies trust Apptio to fuel their digital transformation, including 50% of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.Apptio.com.
Bronze
HGS is a Digital CX leader that provides the experts and technologies to make every customer interaction prompt, personal, and positive.
With over 22,000 employees across 35 delivery centers in 8 countries, HGS provides CX, BPO, IT systems integration, staffing, and professional services. Across multiple industries, HGS continually transforms, optimizes, and grows businesses to exceed ever-rising customer expectations.
With over 22,000 employees across 35 delivery centers in 8 countries, HGS provides CX, BPO, IT systems integration, staffing, and professional services. Across multiple industries, HGS continually transforms, optimizes, and grows businesses to exceed ever-rising customer expectations.
At Juniper Networks, we are dedicated to dramatically simplifying network operations and driving superior experiences for end users. Our solutions deliver industry-leading insight, automation, security, and AI to drive real business results. We believe that powering connections will bring us closer together while empowering us all to solve the world’s greatest challenges of well-being, sustainability, and equality.
Netskope, a global SASE leader, helps organizations apply zero trust principles and AI/ML innovations to protect data and defend against cyber threats. Fast and easy to use, the Netskope platform provides optimized access and real-time security for people, devices, and data anywhere they go. Netskope helps customers reduce risk, accelerate performance, and get unrivaled visibility into any cloud, web, and private application activity. Thousands of customers trust Netskope and its powerful NewEdge network to address evolving threats, new risks, technology shifts, organizational and network changes, and new regulatory requirements. Learn how Netskope helps customers be ready for anything on their SASE journey, visit netskope.com.
Enterprises around the world choose Perforce Delphix to automate compliant data for DevOps.
Businesses need to innovate quickly but struggle to balance speed with quality and compliance. The Delphix DevOps Data Platform provides integrated data masking and virtualization to rapidly deploy compliant data into non-production environments.
With Delphix, customers automate test data management and CI/CD, swiftly recover from downtime events such as ransomware, and ensure data privacy for DevOps, AI/ML, and analytics.
Leading companies, including BNP Paribas, Choice Hotels International, Worldpay, Michelin, Molina Healthcare, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate innovation speed without compromising safety. Learn more at www.delphix.com.
Businesses need to innovate quickly but struggle to balance speed with quality and compliance. The Delphix DevOps Data Platform provides integrated data masking and virtualization to rapidly deploy compliant data into non-production environments.
With Delphix, customers automate test data management and CI/CD, swiftly recover from downtime events such as ransomware, and ensure data privacy for DevOps, AI/ML, and analytics.
Leading companies, including BNP Paribas, Choice Hotels International, Worldpay, Michelin, Molina Healthcare, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate innovation speed without compromising safety. Learn more at www.delphix.com.
Quiq is the leader in enterprise agentic AI for CX. We help brands deliver personalized, proactive support at every touch point along the customer journey. Our AI Agents and AI Contact Center enable brands to deliver multimodal, omnichannel experiences across voice, email, and digital channels, including seamless escalations from AI to human agents. Our AI Studio is a model-agnostic, rapid agentic AI builder with pre-built real-time observability, integrations, and guardrails, as well as a complete ecosystem of tools that support the full development life cycle. The world’s leading consumer brands, including Volvo, Brinks Home, and IHG Hotels & Resorts, trust Quiq.
Starburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. Organizations—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises in 60+ countries—rely on Starburst for fast, scalable data access, seamless collaboration, and enterprise-grade governance on an open hybrid data lakehouse. Starburst empowers the most data-intensive and security-conscious organizations, including Comcast, Citigroup, Vectra AI, EMIS Health, and 4 of the top 5 global banks, to democratize data access, enhance analytics performance, and future-proof their architecture. Wherever data lives, Starburst unlocks its full potential, powering AI and analytics from development to deployment while ensuring cost efficiency and compliance. Learn more at starburst.ai.
Partner
IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. For 60 years, IDC has provided strategic insights to enable clients to achieve their key business objectives. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology media, research, and events company.