Select from the awards categories below!
Deadline for Entry: Dec. 31, 2025
Early Bird Entry Fee: $500 per entry.
AI is steadily advancing, with countless new solutions coming to market and organizations moving from pilots to full deployments. Much of this progress is driven by channel partners, who work behind the scenes to educate customers and guide implementations.
In light of this, ChannelVision is proud to announce the annual CVAI Awards – a program established to recognize the critical role the channel plays in expanding AI and driving business transformation. The new program spans several high-demand demand areas including AI leadership, AI enablement, customer experience, cybersecurity, channel management, AIoT and unified communications.
2026 CVAI winners will receive an official media introduction and recognition in the 2026 ChannelVision TSD Directory, as well as:
- Visibility on the ChannelVision website and 65,000+ email database
- A press release template for announcing the award
- An official 2026 CVAI winner’s logo which can be displayed on any marketing collateral
- The opportunity to participate in CVTV interviews
For more information, please contact Berge Kaprelian at berge@bekabusinessmedia.com or call (480) 503-0770.
2026 CVAI Award Categories
Editors from Beka Business Media will award nominations based on a set of evaluation criteria including overall innovation, impact of the nominated product or service and feature set differentiation.
AI Leadership
- Core Technologies (LLMs, ML, GenAI, etc.)
- AI Innovation
- AI Automation
- AI Agents
- AI Business Transformation
- Best AI Implementation
AI Enablement
- Data Readiness
- Network Readiness
- Cloud AI Infrastructure
- AI-ready Data Center
- Data Governance
- Data Strategy
- Resiliency and Performance
- Real-time Network Monitoring
- Scalability and Futureproofing
- AIOps
Contact Center/ CX
- AI-Powered Helpdesk
- AI-Powered Journey Mapping
- AI Social Media Moderation
- AI Outbound Sales
- AI Real-time Agent Assist
- AI Agentic Conversational Self-Service
- AI Training and Onboarding
- AI Translation and Noise Cancelation
- Knowledge Base Interaction/Management
- Data Analytics
- Marketing and Messaging Campaign Management
- Quality Monitoring
Cybersecurity
- AI-Powered SOC
- Insider Threat Detection
- Automated Incident Response/ SOAR
- Cloud Security
- Threat Detection/Prevention
- Phishing and email Security
- AI-Powered Vulnerability Management
- Alert Prioritization
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Fraud Detection
- Analytics and Forecasting
- AI-Enhanced Network Security
Channel management
- Partner Marketing Automation (PMA)
- Next-Gen Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
- Partner Recruitment and Onboarding
- AI-Powered Sales Enablement
- AI-Powered Quoting
AIoT
- AI for Cost Reduction
- AI-Powered Resource Optimization
- AI-Driven Route Optimization
- Autonomous Operations
- Risk Management
- Predictive Maintenance
- Smart Infrastructure
- Edge AI
Unified Communications
- AI-Powered Scheduling and Workflow Automation
- AI-Powered Language and Translation Services
- Security and Compliance
- Voice Optimization
- QoS
- User Experience Optimization
- Meeting and Collaboration Intelligence
