2026 BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards
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2026

The annual BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards honor chief information officers (CIOs) demonstrating excellence in technology leadership. Winners in the Super Global, Global, Large Enterprise, Enterprise, Large Corporate & Corporate categories are announced October 2 at Santa Clara Marriott.

Thank you to the
BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards Partners

Table of Contents
Cynthia Stoddard

Leadership Award Recipient

Leadership means listening first

Cynthia Stoddard

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Intel Corporation
John Wrenn

64 Bay Area CIOs beat executive isolation

John Wrenn

Chair, BayAreaCIO
Velchamy Sankarlingam

Keynote

Meet the 2026 Keynote

Velchamy Sankarlingam

President, Product & Engineering, Zoom

 Super Global Finalists Over $10B annual revenue and multi-national operations Global Finalists Over $5B annual revenue and multi-national operations Large Enterprise Finalists Over $3B annual revenue Enterprise Finalists Over $1.5B annual revenue Large Corporate Finalists Over $700M annual revenue Corporate Finalists Up to $700M annual revenue Advisory Board The leaders guiding the BayAreaCIO ORBIE Awards Partners Thank you to our partners