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At the 24th Annual American Business Awards® (Stevie® Awards) in New York, we unveiled the inaugural AI Waymakers Awards! A category Persistent created and sponsored to recognize the leaders who are turning enterprise AI from a meeting room conversation into a business reality.    AI has moved past the demo stage, into the operating layer of how businesses think, build and grow and the leaders in this room are the ones deciding what that layer actually looks like.     Something we've come to believe this year: the real progress in AI is happening inside teams where someone chose judgment over hype, backed an unfinished idea and stayed with it long enough to make it useful.    To our winners – your work is setting the pace for an entire industry. Thank you for showing what's possible. To the teams, customers and advisors who helped bring this evening to life – this one's yours too.    Here's to the Waymakers!👏 #StevieAwards #ABA2026 #ReAImaginingTheWorld Anand Deshpande, Sandeep Kalra, Vinit Teredesai, Anand Krishnan, Barath Narayanan S S, Chitra Byregowda, Debashis Singh, Dr. Rajesh Gharpure, Ganesh Nathella, Hari Abhyankar, Jaideep Vijay Dhok, Kuljesh Puri, Mukesh Agarwal, Nitha Puthran, Nitish Shrivastava, Padmanabhan V, Rahul Shrivastava, Rajiv Naithani, Ruchi Kulhari, Shimona Chadha, Saurabh Dwivedi, Tom Klein

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