Award & Recognition

WASHINGTON – November 02, 2026 -- Kirk M. Goehring, chief executive officer of Decatur County Bank in West Tennessee, is one of 11 recipients of the American Bankers Association's 2026 Emerging Leader Awards, which honor leadership, professional achievement and community service in banking.

ABA selects 11 winners through a competitive multi-round review

Banking industry professionals evaluated nominations submitted from across the country in a multi-round process. Goehring and the other members of the Class of 2026 were recognized during the ABA Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, in October.

Selection criteria include dedication to the profession, innovative thinking, leadership skills, mentoring ability, personal integrity and sustained career growth. The committee also weighs each nominee's commitment to a long-term banking career, professional experience and academic training.

Dallas and Fort Worth – November 03, 2026 -- The oneworld alliance's branded lounge at Seoul Incheon International Airport has been named "Asia's Leading Airline Lounge - Business Class" at the World Travel Awards for a second consecutive year. The lounge receives 150,000 guests annually.

World Travel Awards select winners through a vote of professionals and travellers

Established in 1993, the World Travel Awards cover the travel and hospitality sectors. Winners are chosen in a voting process that includes both travel professionals and travellers.

Gerhard Girkinger, oneworld's vice president of Customer Experience & Airports, attributed the result to consistent service quality for the lounge's annual visitors.

SALT LAKE CITY – November 03, 2026 -- The Inner Circle has named Andrea P. Davis, founder and CEO of Elev8d Solutions, a Pinnacle Professional of the Year for her work in leadership development and executive coaching.

Davis runs Elev8d Solutions and holds a second role at Andersen Global Consulting

Elev8d Solutions offers executive coaching, team coaching, leadership development and management consulting. Davis also serves as Director of People and Organizational Performance and as Executive Coach at Andersen Global Consulting. In that role she works on organizational performance, leadership capabilities and strategic alignment.

New York – November 01, 2026 -- Nicely Network, a Reddit marketing and AI-SEO agency, reports more than $150M in tracked sales revenue as it is named Best Reddit Marketing Agency for Enterprise Brands for November 2026 by Better Business Advice. The portfolio figures are agency-reported and come from the company's own media kit and pitch deck.

Agency reports 15,000+ AI citations and 160M+ discussion views

Beyond sales, Nicely Network cites 15,000+ AI citations, 8,000+ Reddit discussions and 160M+ discussion views. It says it works with 300+ brands, including Fortune 500 companies, in technology, retail, finance, travel, beauty and wellness.

Furniture campaign credited with $150K in tracked sales

The materials give three category examples, each with a different success metric:

CHICAGO – November 02, 2026 -- Keeper Security won seven honors in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovators Awards. They cover government security, AI agent identity, privileged access management (PAM) and quantum-resilient encryption, and three go to its top executives.

Three executives and four product categories take awards

The product awards are Next-Gen Cybersecurity for the Government, Most Innovative Identity Management for AI Agents, Hot Company Privileged Access Management and Pioneering Quantum Resilient Encryption. CEO and co-founder Darren Guccione won Pioneering Cybersecurity Visionary. CTO and co-founder Craig Lurey won Trailblazing Chief Technology Officer. CISO Shane Barney won Trailblazing Chief Information Security Officer.

Sunnyvale – November 02, 2026 -- Sedin Technologies, developer of the EAM360 mobile platform for IBM Maximo, won the 'Excellence in Maintenance Management' award at MaximoWorld 2026 after migrating five resorts onto a single IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) instance with zero downtime to live operations.

Five siloed resort sites moved to one global MAS SaaS instance

The award follows a MAS migration and full EAM360 rollout for a billion-dollar hospitality brand headquartered in Las Vegas, with sites across Asia-Pacific. The program covered five integrated resorts operating 24/7 and consolidated them onto one global IBM MAS SaaS instance.

Go-live ran in phased waves with a six-hour cutover. EAM360 reached a frontline workforce of more than 3,000 multilingual users.

SAN ANTONIO – November 02, 2026 -- Mobileum Inc. has earned Frost & Sullivan's 2026 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Recognition for its roaming services platform, citing technology innovation, strategic execution and customer-centric solutions.

Mobileum links commercial, network and security data in one roaming platform

The platform connects commercial intelligence, customer analytics, testing, steering, security and operational workflows. AI-assisted analytics and automated decision-making are meant to help operators refine roaming strategies, strengthen fraud management and network security, and improve quality of service while keeping costs in check.

Its technology-agnostic architecture lets operators adopt AI-driven capabilities at their own pace, according to the company. Mobileum draws on more than 25 years of roaming experience to address regulatory complexity and shifting customer expectations.

Cleveland – November 02, 2026 -- DistrictWON's uReport platform has been awarded the ISTE Seal, a validation program for high-quality educational technology, as more than 100 Portland DMA schools take part in a KOIN-led effort to cover every high school activity.

uReport is a digital platform that helps schools create and share stories about their students, teams, activities and communities. The KOIN-led initiative runs through KOIN's partnership with DistrictWON.

Expert panel assessed uReport against three ISTE principles

A panel of education and technology experts evaluated the platform. The review covered three principles:

EMEA – October 31, 2026 -- Sword has won the 2026 Splunk EMEA Services Partner of the Year award, Splunk's regional recognition for a services partner that combines technical delivery with AI-focused customer outcomes.

Splunk executives and partner leaders selected Sword for the EMEA award

All recipients of the Splunk Regional Partner Awards were chosen by Splunk executives, theater leaders and the global partner organization. Splunk, a Cisco company, said the EMEA award goes to a partner that has shown innovation and resilience with Splunk technologies. Criteria include consultative guidance on complex customer challenges and a proven ability to penetrate new markets with a joint value proposition.

TOKYO – October 31, 2026 -- NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. has been named Runner-Up in the Asia-Pacific Communications Service Providers (CSPs) category of the Gartner Eye on Innovation Awards 2026 for its AI-native, SaaS-based communication service docomo business ANCAR, finishing directly behind the Winner.

The result extends the company's run at the awards to two consecutive years. In 2025, it became the first Japan-based company to win the APAC category, for docomo business RINK, a network-as-a-service (NaaS) offering that combines network and security functions.

ANCAR embeds AI in the carrier network to serve contact centers, branches and stores

ANCAR combines carrier-grade voice infrastructure with AI to optimize customer touchpoints, including contact centers, branch offices and retail stores. NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS says it can be added to existing voice services without new on-premises hardware or large-scale systems integration.