Redondo Beach – November 03, 2026 -- AT&T's Chad Townes was named Channel Executive of the Year at the 2026 Sandler Partners National Summit in San Diego, which drew more than 1,100 members of the technology distributor's partner community.

Summit pairs 65+ providers with 1,100 attendees across three tracks

The event combined educational panels, a keynote and sessions across Technology, Sales and Growth tracks. Attendees met more than 65 technology providers in the Exhibit Hall. Sandler Partners says its portfolio spans 220+ providers.

ALLENTOWN – November 03, 2026 -- JULABO USA Chief Financial Officer Sam Wolf has been selected as a 2026 Leaders in Business & Finance honoree by Lehigh Valley Business in the Chief Financial Officer/VP of Finance category, months after the company reported its highest-performing quarter to date.

CUPERTINO – – October 29, 2026 -- Constellation Research named seven winners of its 16th annual SuperNova Awards, with ABB Ltd, Lumen Technologies and Picarro, Inc. among the honorees for technology-led business results.

Winners span seven enterprise technology categories

The awards were revealed at Connected Enterprise, Constellation Research's flagship executive conference. The winners by category:

FORT LAUDERDALE – October 21, 2026 -- Crisis communications firm Red Banyan® has been named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner for the third consecutive year, extending a run of industry recognition it has collected over the past months.

Houston – October 19, 2026 -- Lummus Technology received a record five Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards, including Technology Licensor of the Year for the third consecutive year.

Lummus takes three technology awards across licensing, petrochemicals and refining

Beyond the licensor title, Lummus won Best Petrochemical Technology for its Novolen® PP technology and Advanced VRC®. It also won Best Refining Technology for NovaHPTM naphtha-to-olefins technology.

Houston – October 16, 2026 -- The 2026 Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards drew a record 560 nominations, the most in the program's history, and presented 44 awards across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors at a black-tie gala at The Post Oak Hotel.

Alexandria, Va. – October 16, 2026 -- A wallet-sized CPR guidance patch from the University of Washington and a radiation-scatter device from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine took the $10,000 first prizes at the 2026 Collegiate Inventors Competition, which drew 25 students from nine U.S. colleges and universities.

Boulder – October 12, 2026 -- The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Board of Directors has named six recipients of its inaugural host-city recognition awards, honoring clean energy leadership in Austin and Travis County, Texas.

Torrance – October 12, 2026 -- Twelve architecture and engineering firms have won BQE Software's 2026 Operational Excellence Awards, and 24 more earned honorable mentions. Rankings come from actual performance data in the BQE CORE platform, not from nominations, subjective judging or a popular vote.

Milan – October 07, 2026 -- Bar Leone in Hong Kong has been crowned The World's Best Bar, sponsored by Perrier, retaining the title for a second consecutive year as the 50 Best Bars 2026 list was unveiled in Milan.