Who Won the 2026 Innovator Awards

Fundamentals, curiosity, and the ability to work with humans and not only agents. Here’s the night, minus the filler.

The night itself, cut down to what people said between the awards. Customers argue that assessments have to move away from textbook questions towards something closer to real work, one describes the effort it took to fold Gen AI into high volume hiring, and another makes the case that the same shift helps students. For talent and business leaders who would rather hear what their peers changed this year than watch a highlight reel.