Sources and method

Which awards

Awards in data, AI and tech that a practitioner would want to know, in ten kinds so the list can be sliced the way the industry talks about it: vendor partner awards (Microsoft, AWS by region, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, NVIDIA, SAP, Oracle and many more), vendor customer awards, analyst recognitions (Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice by market, Forrester Wave and IDC MarketScape leaders), industry lists (Forbes, CNBC, TIME, Fast Company, CB Insights, Deloitte, Fortune, CRN), science and computing prizes (Turing, Gödel, Knuth, ACM and IEEE medals, the Queen Elizabeth, Japan and Kyoto prizes, the Nobel prizes in the years they went to AI), paper awards (best paper and test of time at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, KDD, SIGMOD, VLDB and more), product and design awards, open source awards, startup competitions and regional tech awards (UK, Europe, India, APAC, Africa). The catalog is not fixed: it grows as the weekly discovery finds awards (see below).

How new awards and sources are found

Every run also looks for what it does not have yet. It keeps a table of sources: each award's page, organizer feeds, winners pages, awards pages and newsrooms. It probes a few companies.fru.dev registry companies a run for partner awards, customer awards, awards pages, newsrooms and feeds, reads a few known pages for new links that say award, winners or "of the year", and reads organizer feeds for award announcements. A partner or customer awards program it finds from an organizer not tracked yet is added as a new award marked Unverified, with the page it came from and the run that found it. So far: 463 sources (+77 in the last 30 days), and 88 of 2,788 registry companies probed (3% of the registry). The "+N in the last 30 days" counts on these pages include only awards, winners and sources the runs found after the launch seed of September 25, 2026; the seed and later hand-researched loads are the starting point, not growth.

Where winners come from

From each organizer's own announcement, with a link on every row: the vendor's blog post or winners page, Forbes' list data, CNBC's list, ACM, IEEE, the International Mathematical Union, the Nobel Prize, and the conference blogs and award pages. Awards whose winners are not loaded yet say so on their page; they are added list by list, never guessed.

Categories, regions and joint winners

Categories are kept as the organizer wrote them. Partner awards are often given per region (Americas, EMEA, APJ, Japan) or per country; each winner carries that region, and award pages filter by it. A joint award (Accenture and Avanade, for example) is one row per company, so each company's page shows it. Individual champions named in partner awards are listed as people with their company.

Companies and people

Companies carry their companies.fru.dev registry slug and domain: the registry's own record where it has the company, otherwise the website the organizer published, otherwise a domain checked by hand, and none when unsure (the logo then falls back to initials). People are shown with their public professional role at the time of the award. Their photo comes from Wikimedia Commons (matched through Wikidata by name and the affiliation the organizer published, never by name alone, openly licensed files only) or from their organization's own leadership or press page, credited with its license on the person's page; otherwise initials. Nothing is copied from LinkedIn, X or image search. Company and person pages list every win across awards and years.

Next dates

Most awards announce in the same month or two each year. The next date is the next of those months after the latest edition read, shown dashed as an estimate; once the organizer announces a date (Oracle, 25 October 2026; the Nobel prizes, 5 to 12 October 2026) it shows in ink. An estimate whose month has passed without a new edition turns amber. The Fields Medal is every four years. Rolling awards (Gartner Peer Insights, for example) have no single next date.

The weekly scan

Every day at 12:15 UTC a run reads the awards whose window is open or near. Forbes lists are read from Forbes' own data and publish directly. For the other awards the scan reads the organizer's feed (AWS, Databricks, SAP, Salesforce, Confluent, CNBC, the Nobel Prize, the ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS blogs) or watches its winners page (Microsoft, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle), and after events it reads keynotes.fru.dev for awards announced on stage. Each announcement it spots is listed under New this week and on the Changes page. With a language model available (at most three calls a day) it reads the winners from the announcement and publishes them as Unverified, every name checked against the page, until they are checked by hand; without one, the announcement waits for review. No paid search is used.

History

Nothing that changes is overwritten silently. Every edition read, winner added, announcement spotted, rank that moved, next date that moved and review decision writes a row with the old value, the new one, when and the source. The Changes page lists them and /api/changes serves them. /api/companies lists every company with its registry slug, domain and dated awards for companies.fru.dev.

Disclaimer

Winners from each organizer’s own announcement, found by a weekly scan of organizers’ feeds and winners pages; unverified ones are marked until checked by hand. A list is the organizer’s judgment, not ours. The list grows as new winners are announced. People show only their public professional role at the time of the award, and a photo only from Wikimedia Commons or an official company page, with credit. Logos via /api/logo; trademarks belong to their owners. Anonymous usage stats via Google Analytics. Use Suggest a correction on any page.