2026 O’Reilly Awards
Meet the 2026 O’Reilly Award winners
Great work deserves recognition. This year’s winners used the O’Reilly learning platform to build skills, strengthen teams, and make meaningful progress across their organizations.
Our judges reviewed entries spanning onboarding, reskilling and upskilling, applied AI, engineering, and company-wide achievement. The winners stood out for the clarity of their approach, the results they delivered, and the impact of their work.
Congratulations to the 2026 O’Reilly Award winners, and thank you to every organization that shared its story with us.
Most Effective User Onboarding Program
Strong onboarding gets people from invitation to active use quickly. This award recognizes creative approaches to internal communications, early adoption, and engagement that helped make O’Reilly part of an organization’s day-to-day work from the start.
Gold
TUI Group
What made TUI Group stand out to the judges:
Since launch, TUI Group has demonstrated strong commitment to enhancing its learning culture. The transition from its previous provider to O’Reilly represented a significant strategic decision, executed collaboratively across stakeholder groups. This cross-functional engagement, both pre- and postlaunch, enabled a smooth onboarding experience for learners and stakeholders.
By working in partnership to assess existing strengths, identify gaps, and align content through early SME review, the team was able to develop targeted playlists and a customized learning experience. The results reflect this collaborative approach: Adoption of identified teams has exceeded 100% since launch, with consistently positive user feedback on the platform. This partnership model has established O’Reilly as an integrated component of the organization’s learning ecosystem, and we look forward to expanding the impact in the coming year.
Silver
Valcon
What made Valcon stand out to the judges:
Valcon proved that successful onboarding is a continuous process, not a one-time event. Aligning with its strategic vision to become a European data and AI powerhouse, the company embedded O’Reilly into daily operations and new-hire workflows, driving rapid, lasting adoption. It fostered a culture in which employees voluntarily pursued learning and celebrated achievements. Delivering practical business impact by directly connecting learning to project readiness and applied upskilling, Valcon turned O’Reilly learning adoption into genuine business transformation.
Best in Reskilling & Upskilling Transformation
Skills transformation takes more than access to learning. This category recognizes organizations that brought their people along, used O’Reilly to build new capabilities at scale, and delivered measurable progress against their goals.
Gold
Thoughtworks
What made Thoughtworks stand out to the judges:
Facing the urgent demand for AI adoption, Thoughtworks leveraged the O’Reilly partnership to execute a model skills transformation. To engage its workforce, it embedded O’Reilly into every stage of strategy: using verifiable skills to baseline Python readiness, curating cutting-edge learning on agentic AI and RAG, and providing delivery teams with just-in-time resources for live client projects.
The results showcase true transformation at scale. Beyond graduating practitioners from its AI engineering program, Thoughtworks achieved a fantastic platform activation rate of 97.5%, translated engagement into sustainable learning, and deepened core data and software development skills. By seamlessly connecting structured training with real-world delivery, the company has built a scalable approach to AI engineering capability development.
Silver
Synopsys
What made Synopsys stand out to the judges:
Synopsys earned recognition for turning a learning pilot into an enterprise workforce transformation. With sponsorship from leadership anchoring the effort, the company paired a structured curriculum with measurable goals and O’Reilly’s content ecosystem to build a scalable model for continuous learning. Learning consumption and engagement surpassed quarterly targets, and teams across the organization are now building future-ready skills in AI, engineering, and technology leadership.
Applied AI Excellence
Putting AI to work is where the real opportunity begins. This award celebrates organizations that used O’Reilly to turn advances in artificial intelligence into practical applications and meaningful outcomes for their teams or business.
Gold
Interswitch Group
What made Interswitch Group stand out to the judges:
Interswitch exemplified applied AI excellence by transforming artificial intelligence from a niche skill into an enterprise-wide capability. Partnering with O’Reilly as its learning engine, Interswitch has driven a mass proficiency movement across its workforce while embedding robust AI governance. By leveraging this learning foundation to deploy agentic AI across core functions including payments, finance, HR, and software engineering, Interswitch achieved tangible business impact: drastically accelerating support ticket resolution, significantly reducing engineering development cycles, and streamlining QA workflows for end-to-end testing.
Silver
Medidata Solutions
What made Medidata Solutions stand out to the judges:
In 2026, Medidata set out to accelerate practical AI adoption across every department by combining role-tailored instruction and global upskilling through direct integration with O’Reilly’s learning ecosystem. Maintaining a competitive edge is critical to Medidata, and the company committed to shifting its AI capability from experimental to operational. Through the use of thoughtfully planned and excuted programming like its AI Change Agent program, its annual regional technology summits, and department technical training guides, the team at Medidata has successfully trained 3,500 employees on AI with 100% reporting improvement to their work.
Engineering Excellence
Engineering teams need to keep learning as technologies, tools, and expectations change. This category recognizes organizations that used O’Reilly to strengthen engineering capabilities, improve productivity, retrain teams, or build a lasting culture of continuous learning.
Gold
8x8
What made 8x8 stand out to the judges:
8x8 received the Engineering Excellence Award for fostering a lasting learning culture that connects remote engineering teams to organizational goals. By pairing O’Reilly’s platform content with APIs, the Search MCP, and internal tooling, the team successfully managed learning programs that resulted in a 22% boost in user engagement and contributed to the engineering team exceeding its team development goal.
8x8 shows how a small team can leverage technology and innovation to build a thriving learning environment that drives business outcomes. It’s a privilege to partner with 8x8, and this recognition is richly deserved.
O’Reilly’s Outstanding Achievement
Some accomplishments deserve recognition beyond a single area of focus. This award celebrates an organization’s standout achievement powered by O’Reilly, whether it came from an impactful idea, an influential project, strong leadership, or sustained work that advanced knowledge, innovation, or professional practice.
Gold
LexisNexis
What made LexisNexis stand out to the judges:
We are pleased to present LexisNexis with the Gold O’Reilly’s Outstanding Achievement Award—the program’s highest honor—for its exceptional organizational commitment to continuous learning and technical enablement. LexisNexis has fundamentally transformed its learning culture by aligning L&D strategy directly with executive and technology leaders, embedding continuous learning into performance expectations, and prioritizing team skill development to advance its overarching AI readiness agenda.
By bridging technical L&D expertise with high-level business goals, the organization successfully aligned learning initiatives with engineering priorities. From facilitating seamless SSO and API integrations during summer 2026 to equipping technical teams with high-impact live events, LexisNexis has set a benchmark for enterprise L&D, delivering extraordinary results that include a 250% year-over-year surge in engaged users and significant long-term return on platform value.
Silver
Cimpress India
What made Cimpress India stand out to the judges:
Cimpress India stands out for embedding O’Reilly’s books, courses, hands-on resources, and expert-led learning directly into engineers’ daily workflows. Teams used the O’Reilly platform to find targeted guidance on architecture, cloud, automation, and AI, then applied it immediately to live business challenges. This learning-in-the-flow-of-work approach has helped reduce peak API response times by 90%, automate people-intensive quality checks, and modernize legacy systems. It has also established scalable AI-enabled engineering practices while strengthening knowledge-sharing and technical standards across teams.