Celebrating the Data Visionaries powering trusted AI
Ataccama brings together the world’s leading data professionals to advance one idea: trust in data is the foundation of modern AI. Each year, the community gathers at FWRD, our flagship virtual event attracting more than 1,500 data leaders, to explore how trusted, high-quality data is driving responsible, scalable innovation.
The Data Visionary Awards, now in their second year, recognize the customers and partners leading that transformation. They are the organizations and individuals turning disciplined data management into a strategic advantage, and making automation reliable and AI outcomes explainable.
This year marks an evolution. Alongside our customer awards, we introduced the first-ever Partner Awards to celebrate the ecosystem of technology and delivery partners who extend Ataccama’s agentic data trust platform and accelerate customer success worldwide. Collectively, they show how trusted data isn’t just good practice, it’s good business. Each winner demonstrates how quality and governance translate directly into efficiency, growth, and competitive advantage.
Recognizing our Data Visionaries
Our customer award winners exemplify how data trust moves from principle to practice, where quality, governance, and automation come together to deliver measurable impact.
AI Innovation Award: Lennar
For Lennar, one of the largest homebuilders in the United States, artificial intelligence is not an experiment but a capability built on trusted data. Their strategy connects quality, governance, and observability to ensure every AI initiative starts from a foundation of accuracy and transparency. Lennar demonstrates what it means to prepare responsibly for an AI future.
Data Program of the Year: DMK Group
Germany’s largest dairy cooperative, DMK Group, has unified data operations across its businesses to turn information into a shared asset. Their enterprise-wide program drives collaboration and efficiency at scale, showing how a clear data vision can transform a traditional industry.
Data Quality Champion: Guardian Industries
Guardian Industries is setting the standard for data reliability. Through comprehensive profiling, matching, validation, and automation, they have built a trusted foundation that supports smarter decision-making, stronger compliance, and global operational consistency.
Data Trust Excellence Award: T-Mobile
For T-Mobile, data trust is a culture. The company has operationalized data quality as the backbone of its governance strategy, ensuring transparency, ownership, and control across its landscape. The result is safe, governed, and scalable innovation that strengthens both agility and accountability.
Data People Community Champion: Bupa
Bupa’s Andrew Hinds and the Governance Engineering team exemplify the collaboration that defines the Data People Community. By sharing expertise, best practices, and lessons learned, they help peers worldwide advance data quality, trust, and innovation together.
Celebrating the Power of Partnership
Data trust is not achieved in isolation. It’s built through collaboration, across platforms, industries, and regions. That’s why this year’s new Partner Awards recognize the organizations amplifying Ataccama’s mission to deliver trusted data at scale.
Global Technology Partner of the Year: Snowflake
The Snowflake AI Data Cloud and Ataccama One share a common goal of making it easier to bring your data and AI strategies to life with trusted data. Together, we’re enabling enterprise organizations to eliminate data silos and increase governance to unlock the full potential of AI-ready data.
Innovation Partner of the Year: Adastra
Adastra continues to redefine what’s possible with Ataccama ONE. Their creative implementations and technical expertise are transforming complex data challenges into measurable business advantages, helping clients harness automation and intelligence at scale.
Transformation Partner of the Year: Capgemini
Capgemini’s work with Ataccama shows how transformation happens when technology meets vision. Their data trust initiatives are modernizing enterprise data foundations, unlocking new opportunities, and delivering lasting business outcomes.
Emerging Partner of the Year: QMetrix
From Australia to Asia, QMetrix is helping organizations elevate their data maturity and governance practices. Their growth and commitment are shaping the next generation of data management in the region.
Emerging Partner of the Year: Deloitte CE
In Europe, Deloitte CE has rapidly become a trusted collaborator, integrating Ataccama solutions into large-scale AI and data programs. Their focus on partnership and performance is accelerating shared success across industries.
Driving data trust forward
The 2025 Data Visionary Award winners, customers and partners alike, share a commitment to one principle: trusted data delivers better business outcomes.
As Ataccama’s Chief Customer Officer Scott Lewis remarks, “The organizations leading in AI are the ones that first mastered trust, in their data, their systems, and their teams. These awards celebrate the people making that trust real.”
The Data Visionary Awards reflect a larger shift happening across our ecosystem. Data trust is no longer a project or initiative; it’s an operating model that defines how modern enterprises compete and grow.
Congratulations to our 2025 winners, and thank you to the entire Ataccama community for continuing to move data and the business outcomes it enables forward.
