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Cisco Customer Achievement Awards 2025

Join us as we celebrate excellence in customer technology innovation through Cisco solutions.

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About the Awards

In today's evolving IT landscape, organizations embracing cutting-edge technologies set the standard. The Cisco Customer Achievement Awards honor those leading in AI-readiness, future-proof workplaces, digital resilience, and sustainability. The awards also celebrate companies using Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) offerings and recognize individuals from the Cisco Insiders community.

Cisco customers are transforming the world through remarkable innovation and resilience. The Cisco Customer Achievement Awards shine a light on extraordinary industry contributions and unwavering commitment to driving positive change.

2025 Award Categories & Winners

AI-Readiness

The AI Readiness Awards celebrate customers transforming their organizations to power AI workloads seamlessly across clouds, on-premises, and edge, using Cisco's advanced solutions.

Winners:

TaxSlayer – Infrastructure Innovator Award Winner

SmartCap – Operations Pioneer Award Winner

Future-Proofed Workplaces

The Future-proofed Workplaces Award honors customers modernizing work environments, ensuring secure access, immersive collaboration, hybrid work, and innovations in smart building tech and secure networking.

Winners:

Missile Defense Agency – CX-Powered Workplace Warrior Award Winner

Fairlife – Modernized Infrastructure Maestro Award Winner

Northern Kentucky University – Workplace Wizard Award Winner

Digital Resilience

The Digital Resilience Award honors customers excelling in security, reliability, and performance with advanced threat prevention, connectivity, and observability for optimized services and user experience.

Winners:

Itaú Unibanco – Assurance Avenger Award Winner

Steve Madden – Cybersecurity Defender Award Winner

REPAY – Observability Visionary Award Winner

Grupo Xcaret – CX Resilience Ranger Award Winner

Sustainability Changemaker

The Sustainability Changemaker Award honors organizations using Cisco’s solutions to reduce environmental impact, drive sustainability, and lead in energy management and clean energy.

Winners:

Eletrobras – Sustainability Changemaker Award Winner

CX Customer Hero of the Year

The CX Customer Hero of the Year award honors the customer with the strongest outcomes from Cisco Customer Experience, including those in AI-Ready Data Centers, Future-Proofed Workplaces, and Digital Resilience.

Winners:

Joe Gleeson, Intel – CX Customer Hero of the Year Award Winner

Cisco Insider of the Year

The Cisco Insider of the Year celebrates the customer with the greatest impact on the Cisco Insider community, recognized for mentorship, advocacy, and supporting others through events and case studies.

Winners:

Marcelo Morais, 4XPERT – Cisco Insider of the Year Award Winner


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