Honors & Awards- Dr. Rizwan Ahmed
Dr Rizwan is the recipient of multiple global awards and honors for his professional and social contributions. Some of the prominent awards 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.