About the Award

Ankor Rai, CEO and President of Straive, was recognized as Visionary Data & AI Leader of the Year at the BW Chief Data and AI Officers Awards 2026.

Presented by BW Businessworld, the awards recognize leaders shaping India’s data and AI landscape. The Visionary Data & AI Leader of the Year category celebrates leaders driving a long-term, transformative Data & AI vision.

Award: BW Chief Data and AI Officers Awards
Recognition: Visionary Data & AI Leader of the Year
Recipient: Ankor Rai, CEO and President, Straive
Year: 2026
Presented by: BW Businessworld

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Why We Won

The Visionary Data & AI Leader of the Year recognition reflects Ankor Rai’s leadership in shaping a long-term vision for data and AI.

As CEO and President of Straive, Ankor leads the organization with a focus on helping enterprises move from the potential of data and AI toward practical business applications. This direction aligns closely with Straive’s broader approach to bringing data, analytics, and AI together to address real enterprise needs.

Key Highlights

Long-term vision for the role of Data & AI in the enterprise

Focus on applying AI to practical business needs

Bringing data analytics and AI together in a connected approach

Emphasis on creating meaningful enterprise outcomes from AI

Insights

Recognition like this reflects how quickly expectations around Data & AI leadership are evolving.

As enterprises move beyond experimentation, the focus is increasingly on how AI can be applied meaningfully, integrated into business environments, and used to create sustained value.

For Straive, this recognition is an important milestone in that journey, while the larger opportunity remains ahead: continuing to help enterprises make data and AI work more effectively across their businesses.

FAQs

The BW Chief Data and AI Officers Awards are presented by BW Businessworld. The 2026 edition recognizes leaders in the data and AI space and is described by the awards as “Honoring the Visionaries Driving India’s AI & Data Revolution.”
The award certificate carries the BW Businessworld branding and identifies the event as the BW Chief Data and AI Officers Awards 2026.
The BW Chief Data and AI Officers Awards 2026 were held on September 1, 2026, in Bengaluru.
Ankor Rai was recognized with the title Visionary Data & AI Leader of the Year. The currently available material does not provide the jury’s detailed rationale or selection criteria, so we should not attribute specific reasons for the award without an additional official source.
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