KPI Partners wins two AI awards at Cypher 2026

KPI Partners was recognized at Cypher 2026 in Bengaluru with the Minsky Award for Excellence in AI Strategy Consulting and Best Firm for FDE Talent. The wins highlight the company’s push to connect AI strategy with hands-on engineering that moves enterprise projects from pilot to production.

Why it matters: - KPI Partners’ double win signals demand for AI partners that can both design a strategy and deliver production systems. - The awards underscore a broader enterprise problem: many AI pilots stall before deployment. - For clients, the recognition points to a model built around one accountable team from planning through execution.

What happened: - KPI Partners won two awards at Cypher 2026, held Oct. 7-9 at KTPO in Bengaluru. - AIM presented the Minsky Award for Excellence in AI Strategy Consulting. - KPI Partners was also named Best Firm for FDE Talent. - Cypher 2026 is described as India’s largest AI conference.

The details: - KPI Partners is a cloud, data and enterprise AI company. - The company’s Enterprise AI Advisory practice focuses on where AI can create value, the data foundations needed, governance and the business case. - The company’s FDE practice embeds domain-native experts with client teams to build and run Agentic AI, GenAI and data solutions. - KPI Partners says the two practices are designed to own outcomes end to end and avoid handoff losses. - Kusal Swarnakar, KPI Partners’ CEO, said enterprises need AI that works inside the business and pays for itself. - Rajesh Ramachandran, KPI Partners’ COO, said the awards recognize the company’s strategy and engineering as one team. - Prashanth Ashwathram, VP of Technology and head of the FDE practice, said forward-deployed engineers stay with client teams until systems are running in production. - At Cypher 2026, KPI Partners engaged more than 200 data and AI professionals at its booth. - Sumar Loomba, VP of Delivery & Growth, spoke on “No Context, No Capability: How India’s GCCs Turn Data into an AI Advantage.”

Between the lines: - The awards validate KPI Partners’ bet on combining advisory and engineering rather than separating them into different delivery layers. - The company is using the recognition to strengthen recruiting for specialist AI, data and engineering talent. - The timing adds momentum after September recognition at the 25th Asia Pacific HRM Congress & Awards and the AIM AI in Marketing Summit. - The positioning also reflects a competitive market where enterprises are increasingly evaluating who can both set direction and execute reliably.

What’s next: - KPI Partners plans to expand its FDE practice and place more domain-native experts inside client teams. - The company expects more AI programs to move from roadmap to production with a single accountable partner. - KPI Partners will continue using the awards to support its talent acquisition and client growth.

The bottom line: - KPI Partners wants to be known not just for AI advice, but for building and running AI systems that stay in production.