Innovation
AT&T continuously keeps its finger on the pulse of the future, and we've been recognized for our innovative spirit.
International Business Awards: Sorabh Saxena won Silver for IT Executive of the Year. (August 2016)
International Business Awards: ECOMP won the Gold Stevie award for Best New Product or Service of the Year - Software - Cloud Platform. (August 2016)
USHCC Million Dollar Club Million Dollar Club: AT&T has been accepted into the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for their commitment to minority and women owned enterprises through their work with Hispanic suppliers. (August 2016)
MBN USA Magazine – Most Admired Companies: AT&T has been named by MBN USA Magazine as one of the 2016 top corporations for leading supplier diversity in the country. The company is being named in their 2016 Corporate 101 top corporations list. (August 2016)
Minority Business News 2016 Champions of Supplier Diversity: Oliver Turman and Susan Johnson were named 2016 Champions of Supplier Diversity by Minority Business News. Both were honored for driving growth and inclusion in the AT&T Supply Chain. (June 2016)
Wireless Hall of Fame: The selection committee chose Bell Labs researchers, Dr. Joel Engel, Richard Frenkiel and Philip Porter (posthumously) to join the Hall of Fame in the Technology Division. (June 2016)
IFI Claims: AT&T ranks #40 on the 2015 Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees list as one of the top companies assigned the most U.S. utility patents, showcasing AT&T’s technology innovation. (January 2016)
American Business Awards, Most Innovative Company of the Year: AT&T won the Bronze award for the American Business Awards Most Innovative Company of the Year. (May 2016)
College of Engineering Hall of Achievement: Krish Prabhu is the only 2016 Hall of Achievement inductee at The University of Texas at Arlington’s Engineering Hall of Achievement. (March 2016)
American Business Awards, IT Department of the Year: AT&T’s IT Department won the Gold award for the American Business Awards Information Technology Department of the Year. (May 2016)
American Business Awards, Tech Innovator of the Year: John Donovan won the Bronze award for the American Business Awards Tech Innovator of the Year. (May 2016)
2015 IoT Evolution Smart Machines Award: AT&T’s Connected Wheelchair is a winner of TMCnet’s Smart Machines Award. (January 2016)
IOPN Award: On Tuesday, AT&T won the Best Proof of Concept Combining Intelligence with Open Networking for our work on CORD. (February 2016)
IFI Claims: AT&T ranked #25 on the list of the 2014 Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees for being one of the top companies assigned the most U.S. utility patents, showcasing AT&T’s technology innovation (2015)
Mobile Excellence Awards: AT&T’s Service Quality Management was named the 2014 Industry Star. (2015)
RAN World: AT&T’s Small Cells and HARP technology was awarded the Ranny’s Best New Technology Adoption and Integration. (2015)
Div50 Awards: AT&T ranked #4 in Diversitybusiness.com’s Top 50 Organizations for Multicultural Business Opportunities. (2015)
America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises: AT&T was awarded the 2014 America's Top Corporations’ Platinum Corp Award by WBENC. (2015)
Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council Awards: AT&T was named the 2014 Northwest Mountain Minority SDC Regional Corporation of the Year. (2015)
IFI Claims: AT&T ranked #27 on the list of the 2013 Top 50 U.S. Patent Assignees for being one of the top companies assigned the most U.S. utility patents, showcasing AT&T’s technology innovation (2014)
Cisco Partner Summit: AT&T was named Service Provider Partner of the Year at the Cisco Partner Summit 2014. (2014)
CIO Magazine: AT&T was named a 2014 CIO 100 winner. (2014)
Pipeline Innovation Awards: AT&T was named the Most Innovative Service Provider. (2014)
TM Forum: AT& won the TM Forum Operational Excellence Award, recognizing the service provider demonstrating the most innovative and effective use of TM Forum Frameworx to deliver tangible cost reduction, efficiency improvement and operational agility. (2014)
Intellectual Property Owner’s Association (IPO): AT&T ranked #17 on IPO’s annual list of the “Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2013.” (2014)
Computerworld: For the third consecutive year, AT&T was one of Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT. (2014)
International Business Awards: AT&T received a Gold Stevie as the Most Innovative Company of the Year in Canada and the U.S. and a Bronze Stevie as the IT Department of the Year. (2014)
American Business Awards: AT&T received a Gold Stevie as the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year. AT&T also received a Grand Stevie, presented to the organizations that submitted the best body of entries. (2014)
Connected World: AT&T ranked 6th in the publication’s 2015 CW100 companies. (2014)
Thomson Reuters: AT&T was included on the publication’s 2014 Top 100 Global Innovators list. (2014)
Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index: AT&T was a 2014-2015 constituent of the patent index.
Carrier Network Virtualization Summit: AT&T won the Carrier of the Year award, recognizing a carrier that demonstrates significant development of SDN and NFV. (2014)
Telecoms.com: AT&T Speech API won the Telecoms.com Award for Best Consumer Cloud Offering and Project VIP placed as a finalist for Pushing the Limits in Mobile. (2014)
GSMA Mobile Global Awards: AT&T’s U-verse Easy Remote App was shortlisted within Best Mobile Product, Service or App for Accessibility or Ease-of-Use. (2014)
Loyalty360 Awards: AT&T and SundaySky’s video bill won Loyalty360’s Best Customer Experience & Engagement Award, along with Raley’s Family of Fine Stores. (2014)
Ovum: AT&T's Sponsored Data was selected as Ovum’s Most Innovative Service of the Month. (2014)
GTB Innovation Awards: AT&T’s Federation (Business Service Innovation) and Recovers (Consumer Service Innovation) were finalists for the 2014 GTB Innovation Awards. (2014)
Edison Awards: Nanocubes (Applied Technologies) and Marian Croak’s Text-to-Donate technology (Innovation Services) won Gold at the 2014 Edison Awards. (2014)
American Technology Awards: Small Cells and HARP was the winner of this year’s awards in Telecommunications. (2014)
TMCnet: Small Cells and HARP was a winner of the 2014 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award. (2014)
TMCnet: Project VIP was a winner of the 2014 Mobility Tech Zone LTE Visionary Award. (2014)
International Business Awards: Nanocubes received a Gold Stevie for the Best New Product or Service of the Year – Telecommunications. (2014)
American Business Awards: Nanocubes received a Gold Stevie for the Tech Innovation of the Year and Small Cells received a Gold Stevie for the New Product or Service of the Year – Telecommunications. (2014)
CSI: Nanocubes was shortlisted in the Best Data and Analytics Innovation category by the CSI Awards. (2014)
InfoWorld: RCloud was named one of the Best Open Source Big Data Tools in the InfoWorld’s Bossie Awards 2014. (2014)
Broadband Infovision Awards: Service Quality Management (SQM) was selected as the 2014 Broadband Infovision Awards’ Best Network Intelligence Innovation. (2014)
Capacity Magazine: AT&T’s stadium deployment was a finalist for the Best North American Project for the publication’s 2014 Global Carrier Awards. (2014)
Total Telecom: AT&T’s Stadium Deployment was a finalist in the Best Network Operation Initiative in the World Communication Awards. (2014)
Telecoms.com: AT&T’s Service Quality Management (SQM) was a finalist in the Network Management Excellence category for the 2014 awards. (2014)
National Veteran-Owned Business Association (NaVOBA): AT&T was listed as one of the 2014 Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses. (2014)
DiversityBusiness.com: AT&T ranked #1 for the 2014 Top 50 Corporations for Multicultural Business Opportunities. (2014)
Hispanic Business.com: AT&T ranked #1 for the 2014 Top 25 Companies for Supplier Diversity. (2014)
Abbott Laboratories: AT&T was recognized as one of seven companies for the 2013 Supplier Excellence Award. (2014)
Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC): AT&T was listed as one of the 2013 Top Corporations for Women Business Enterprises. (2014)
DiversityInc: AT&T ranked #1 in the 2014 Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity. (2014)
Greater Women’s Business Council (GWBC): AT&T ranked as one of eight GWBC Top Corporations of the Year. (May 2014)
U.S. Veterans Magazine and Hispanic Network Magazine: AT&T listed as one of the 2014 Best of the Best for Top Supplier Diversity Programs in these sister publications. (August 2014)
Professional Women’s Magazine: AT&T ranked as one of the publication’s Top Supplier Diversity Programs for Women. (September 2014)
Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC) Spirit of Alliance Awards: AT&T received the Crystal Award as an outstanding corporate member that publicly demonstrates commitment to minority business development though their programs, corporate spend and aggressive procurement opportunities.
Pipeline: 2014 Pipeline Innovation Service Provider of the Year
Cisco Partner Summit: Service Provider Partner of the Year
Telecoms.com: Best Consumer Cloud Offering – AT&T Speech API
Edison Awards: Gold in Applied Technologies Category – Nanocubes
Edison Awards: Gold in Innovation Services Category – Text-to-Donate Technology
American Technology Awards: Telecommunications Category – Small Cells and HARP
The AT&T Whitacre Award recognizes service heroes within the organization.
Get an inside look at AT&T's Whitacre award winners, including Kevin Mills, a power technician who took on Winter Storm Goliath in 50 mile-per-hour winds, as well as two California managers, Shane Edmonston and Chris Pankonin, who took on the Erskine Fire at Lake Isabella in California.