AI Innovation Awards Category Winners
Listed here are the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie® Award winners in these categories in the 2026 Middle East & North Africa Stevie® Awards. Those winners in attendance were celebrated on stage during the 7th annual awards gala on Friday, 11 September in İstanbul, Türkiye. Learn more about the event here (opens in new tab).
AI Innovator of the YearGOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Ministry of Investment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Latifa AlShehhi Title: Chief AI Officer, Ministry of Investment
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
PIF, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Digital Design Hub Innovation
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: AI Innovation Categories-AI Leader of the Year
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Mohamed Alhammadi
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Ministry of Investment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Latifa AlShehhi Title: Chief AI Officer, Ministry of Investment
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
TURKISH DO & CO, Istanbul, Türkiye: READY AI - Intelligent Quality & Experience Assurance Platform for World-Class Airline Catering
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Philip Morris Türkiye, İstanbul, Üsküdar, Türkiye: ATOM Maestro - AI Powered Personalization Engine Orchestrating Intelligent Retail Engagement
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
NEOVA KATILIM SİGORTA, İstanbul, Türkiye: SOBE: AI/LLM-Driven Cyber Anomaly Detection Disqualified
SESTEK, Istanbul, MASLAK, Türkiye: Fibabanka Transforms Collection Operations with AI-Powered Knovvu Virtual Agent
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
MEXC, Victoria, Seychelles: MEXC Intelligent Investment Framework: The “AI Co-Pilot” for the Next Generation
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
NEOVA KATILIM SİGORTA, İstanbul, Türkiye: On-Prem LLM Reporting Assistant Disqualified
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Customs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Dubai Customs Innovative & AI Product - Al Munasiq
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Ministry of Municipalities & Housing (MOMAH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Sanad AI: Transforming Public Sector Legal Operations with Generative Intelligence
National e-learning center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Smart Digital Learning Newsletter
The General Administration of Customs - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Excellence in Innovation in AI Products & Services
Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: E-Invoice Product Classification Audit System
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: AI for Antiquities Discovery
King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia: Fateen platform
King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia: SANAD: Proactive Student Success Navigation
Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: AI-Powered Education Advisory Products Transforming Parent and Student Services
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar: BOTAINA: Qatar foundation’s Omni channel Culturally-Intelligent AI Ambassador with Authentic Qatari Voice
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
pladis, Istanbul, Uskudar, Türkiye: Digitalization - Future of Manufacturing
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Commercial Bank International, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Leading AI Innovator in Financial Services - CBI
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
The General Administration of Customs - Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Excellence in Innovation in AI Strategy & Implementation
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Digital Transformation Powered by AI
Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Federal Roads Control Center
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar: BOTAINA: A Strategic AI Transformation from Pilot to Enterprise-Wide Cultural Intelligence Platform
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
King Fahd Military Medical Complex, Dhahran, eastern province, Saudi Arabia: Excellence in AI Innovation: The VigiPharm Smart ADR Trigger System
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Turkcell, İstanbul, Türkiye: Architecting the Future of Procurement: The AI-First Approach to Data Standardization
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Güzel Enerji A.Ş, Istanbul, Türkiye: The World’s First AI-Governed Hygiene Infrastructure
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
King Fahd Military Medical Complex, Dhahran, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia: Transforming Diabetes Care Through AI-Driven Virtual Clinic
SESTEK, Istanbul, MASLAK, Türkiye: TUR Assist Transforms Quality Management with AI-Powered Conversational Analytics
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
pladis, Istanbul, Uskudar, Türkiye: Digitalization - Future of Manufacturing
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Türkiye Sigorta, İstanbul, Besiktas, Türkiye: AI-Enabled End-to-End Recruitment Transformation
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: FAHR-AI Innovation Categories-Award for Excellence in Innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Government
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: AI for Optimizing Cybersecurity
General Directorate of identity and foregners affairs, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Red Carpet
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
Ajman Tourism, Culture and Media Department, Ajman, United Arab Emirates: Tourism Future Insight By AI
National e-learning center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Data-Driven eLearning Quality Index (D-eLQx)
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar: BOTAINA: Qatar foundation’s Omni channel Culturally-Intelligent AI Ambassador with Authentic Qatari Voice
GOLD STEVIE® WINNER
Ministry of Investment, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Latifa AlShehhi Chief AI Officer, Ministry of Investment
SILVER STEVIE® WINNER
Ooredoo Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait: Changing the Code: Women Innovators in AI Leadership
BRONZE STEVIE® WINNER
3i Info Tech, Edison, New Jersey, United States: A Visionary Leader Bringing Generative AI Into Enterprise Delivery | Seema Rajaram