Palo Alto, CA, February 24, 2026 – Uniphore today announced that Umesh Sachdev, CEO and Co-Founder of Uniphore, has been named AI Innovator of the Year in SiliconANGLE Media’s 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards. TheCUBEd Awards is an annual program honoring the most innovative companies, technologies and leaders shaping the future of B2B and B2B2C technology.
Umesh Sachdev was recognized as AI Innovator of the Year for helping the world’s largest businesses move AI from experimentation to real business outcomes. A visible voice in Business AI transformation on the global stage, including the World Economic Forum, Sachdev has helped align an ecosystem of strategic partners and investors across the modern AI stack, including NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, Databricks, KPMG, and Cognizant. He also led the advancement of Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud, a sovereign, composable and secure platform that operationalizes AI across the enterprise and simplifies deployment through the tech stack.
The Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards are judged by a panel of respected industry analysts and influencers, practitioners and technologists who evaluate entries based on innovation, differentiation, real-world impact and execution. Winners represent the solutions and leaders setting new benchmarks across cloud, data, AI, security and enterprise infrastructure.
“The 2026 CUBEd Award winners reflect where real innovation is happening. We’re proud to celebrate bold ideas, breakthrough technologies and elite teams delivering measurable outcomes in complex enterprise environments,” said Dave Vellante, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “These winners are solving hard problems at scale and moving the industry forward in practical, durable ways.”
“What stood out this year was the combination of technical excellence and business impact,” said John Furrier, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “The 2026 winners are companies, teams and individuals who look beyond hype and focus on building the platforms, products and leadership models that customers rely on.”
The 2026 Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards span three primary award tracks — Company, Technology and People — recognizing excellence across the full spectrum of B2B and B2B2C innovation. Winners were announced on February 24, 2026, following a competitive review process by top tier industry analysts and experts.
For more information about the Tech Innovation CUBEd Awards and the full list of 2026 winners, visit https://www.thecube.net/awards.
About Uniphore
Uniphore is the Business AI Company that unlocks the agentic enterprise with a complete, composable AI platform spanning agents, models, knowledge, and data. Its platform, the Business AI Cloud, bridges the AI divide between consumer AI and enterprise AI—combining the simplicity of consumer AI with the rigor, security and scalability required for the enterprise. Uniphore allows business users to effortlessly harness AI and deliver results immediately, while providing CIOs the foundation to deliver powerful AI applications that are embedded into workflows, trained on enterprise data.
Trusted by more than 2,000 businesses globally, recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and listed on the Deloitte Fast 500, Uniphore delivers on the promise of AI as a transformative force for business. Learn more at www.uniphore.com.
About SiliconANGLE Media
SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, bringing together cutting-edge technology, influential content, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios — such as those established in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — SiliconANGLE Media transforms the way technology companies connect with their target markets. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a powerful ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands, with a reach of 15+ million elite tech professionals, 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni, 4+ million SiliconANGLE readers and 250,000+ social media subscribers. The company’s new, proprietary theCUBE AI LLM is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging CUBE365’s neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.