CIO 100 Awards & Conference in the News 2026

CIO 100 Winner Spotlight: Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe Corporation earned a 2026 CIO 100 Award for an AI-assisted mainframe migration that moved a 50-plus-year-old system to the cloud in roughly 12 months.

The project shows CIO 100 innovation in action: modernization, business alignment, and measurable impact.

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CIO 100 Winner Spotlight: Cisco

Cisco earned a 2026 CIO 100 Award for its secure internal AI assistant, built to give employees a governed alternative to shadow AI.

With broad adoption across the company, the tool supports work from coding to HR while saving employees several hours each week.

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CIO 100 winners and Hall of Fame leaders in the spotlight

Inside TIAA’s award-winning transformation
2026 CIO 100 Winner TIAA is putting business outcomes at the center of a massive technology modernization. CIO takes a closer look at how its transformation has reduced tech debt, accelerated product launches, and enabled 87 business use cases across the organization.

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What will the CIO role look like in 2029?

2026 CIO Hall of Fame inductees Monica Caldas, Anthony Moisant, Kathy Kay, and Danielle Brown share their perspectives on how AI is reshaping the CIO role, and why tomorrow’s technology leaders will increasingly serve as enterprise strategists, transformation leaders, and architects of how the business operates.

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