by Craig Weinstein, NVIDIA
NVIDIA this week recognized 14 partners leading the way across the Americas for their work advancing agentic and physical AI across industries.
The 2025 Americas NVIDIA Partner Network awards — announced at the GTC 2025 global AI conference — represent key efforts by industry leaders to help customers become experts in using AI to solve many of today's greatest challenges. The awards honor the diverse contributions of NPN members fostering AI-driven innovation and growth.
This year, NPN introduced three new award categories that reflect how AI is driving economic growth and opportunities, including:
- Trailblazer, which honors a visionary partner spearheading AI adoption and setting new industry standards.
- Rising Star, which celebrates an emerging talent helping industries harness AI to drive transformation.
- Innovation, which recognizes a partner that's demonstrated exceptional creativity and forward thinking.
This year's NPN ecosystem winners have helped companies across industries use AI to adapt to new challenges and prioritize energy-efficient accelerated computing. NPN partners help customers implement a broad range of AI technologies, including NVIDIA-accelerated AI factories, as well as large language models and generative AI chatbots, to transform business operations.
The 2025 NPN award winners for the Americas include:
- Enterprise Partner of the Year — World Wide Technology (WWT) is recognized for its leadership in advancing AI adoption of customers across industry verticals worldwide. The company expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities by integrating NVIDIA Blueprints into its AI Proving Ground and has made a $500 million commitment to AI development over three years to help speed enterprise generative AI deployments.
- Financial Services Partner of the Year — WWT is recognized for driving the digital transformation of the world's largest banks and financial institutions. The company harnesses NVIDIA AI technologies to optimize data management, enhance cybersecurity and deliver transformative generative AI solutions, helping financial services clients navigate rapid technological changes and evolving customer expectations.
