Honors & Awards- Dr. Rizwan Ahmed

Dr Rizwan is recipient of multiple global awards and honors for his professional and social contributions. Some of them include:

  • The World CIO 200 Awards

  • DC Champion Awards 2022

  • Cyber Sentinel Award 2022

  • Top 100 CIO Award 2022 (7th Innovative CIO Awards and Symposium)

  • DynamicCISO Visionary CISO Award 2022

  • CIO1000 Award 2021

  • Cloud Champion 2021

  • Defenders 100 Awards 2021

  • National Positivity Award 2021

  • Cyber Sentinel Award 2021

  • INSIGHTS CXO AWARDS 2021 (Data Doyens)

  • InfoSec Maestros Award 2021

  • Technology Leader's Award 2021 (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)

  • Cyber Sentinel Award 2020

  • Digital Transformation Leader Award 2020

  • Legendary Super CTO Award 2020

  • Super Hero Award 2020

  • Smart Innovator Award 2019

  • CTO of the Year 2019

  • Distinguished Speaker of the ACM

  • Most Innovative 100 CIOs/CTOs of India 2018

  • NEXT100 2017 Award (Future CIO of India)

  • Certificate of Achievement "ITNext The Pocket CIO Programme"

  • 24th Academic Excellence Award 2017

  • Microsoft "IT Technology Hero"​ Award 2008

Dr. Rizwan's work, achievements, articles and interviews have been featured and quoted in a multitude of newspapers, television, radio and online media in many languages. His work has been featured in: NDTV, Live India, All India Radio, Times of India, The Hindu, The Hitavada, Lokmat, Lokmat Times, Lokmat Samachar, ITNext Magazine, Enterprise, NagpurToday, ThePolicyTimes, Reacho, NationNext, TheLiveNagpur, NagpurInfo, etc.