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AI in Service Providers/Consulting Firms
- —Leading AI Service Provider
- —Excellence in AI Strategy Consulting
- —Best AI Implementation by a Service Provider
- —Most Innovative Use of AI in Service Delivery
- —AI-Enhanced Data Analytics Excellence
01Awards · Est. 2025
Minsky Awards
for Excellence
in AI.
India's AI awards for excellence in AI — 36 categories across seven pillars, judged on innovation, impact and quality, and presented at Cypher 2027 in Bengaluru.
Nominations closed
Deadline
Sep 15, 2026
Categories
36
Pillars
07
02The Awards
India's most
prestigious recognition
for AI excellence.
We celebrate the innovations and achievements that rethink how organisations leverage AI to drive transformative impact across industries — from frontier research to enterprise deployment.
Minsky · 2026
Hall of Honor
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Innovation
How original the approach is — novel model architectures, agentic workflows, data strategies or applications of AI that had no established playbook in India before this work.
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Impact
Measurable outcomes for end users and the business — adoption, efficiency gains, revenue or cost impact, and social benefit demonstrated with evidence rather than intent.
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Quality
Rigour of the methodology: how the system was built, evaluated and governed, how claims are substantiated, and how responsibly risk, privacy and bias were handled.
04Process
How the awards
work.
From nomination to the stage at Cypher — four stages, one independent jury, and no entry fee to be considered.
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Nominate
Enterprises, startups, GCCs, service providers and individuals self-nominated or were nominated across all 36 categories. Nominations closed Sep 09, 2026.
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Shortlist
Every entry is screened for eligibility and completeness, then scored against Innovation, Impact and Quality to produce a category shortlist.
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Jury round
An independent jury of AI leaders, practitioners and academics reviews shortlisted entries and may request clarifications or supporting data.
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Honoured at Cypher
Winners across the seven pillars are announced and felicitated on stage at Cypher 2027 in Bengaluru, September 2027 / dates to be announced.
05Categories
All 36 categories
across seven pillars.
Distinguished categories celebrating diverse and pioneering achievements in AI across sectors.
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AI in GCC/Captives
- —Leading GCC/Captive for AI Innovation
- —Best AI Implementation in a GCC/Captive Environment
- —Excellence in AI Talent Development within GCC/Captives
- —Outstanding AI-Powered Business Transformation in GCC/Captives
- —GCC AI Visionary Award
03 / 07
AI Startups
- —AI Startup of the Year
- —Most Promising Early-Stage AI Startup
- —Best Growth-Stage AI Startup
- —Fastest-Growing AI Startup
- —Most Innovative AI Startup Collaboration
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AI in Domestic Indian Firm
- —Leading Domestic Indian Firm in AI Innovation
- —Excellence in AI Research by an Indian Firm
- —Outstanding AI Product by a Domestic Indian Firm
- —Best AI-Enabled Business Strategy in an Indian Firm
- —Excellence in AI Talent Development by an Indian Firm
05 / 07
Special Categories
- —Cypher Cool AI Company Award
- —Cypher Top Data Center Award
- —Cypher Top Database built for AI Award
- —Breakthrough AI Technology Award
- —AI for Social Impact
06 / 07
Special Categories — by ADaSci
- —Excellence in AI Architecture Capability Development
- —Best Forward Deployed AI Engineer Enablement Program
- —Excellence in Agentic AI Capability Development
- —Excellence in AI for Business Impact Enablement
- —Most Innovative AI Simulation & Gamified Learning Program
- —Best AI Hackathon or Ideathon-Led Learning Program
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Individual Awards
- —CEO of the Year
- —CTO of the Year
- —Chief AI Officer of the Year
- —Data Evangelist of the Year
- —AI Innovator of the Year
GalleryMoments from the stage
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06Hall of Honor
Celebrating
past honorees.
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