AI Innovators Week

AI Innovators Week spotlights CRN’s inaugural AI Innovators Awards, honoring some of the industry’s most visionary channel partners. We're also looking at AI startups that are making waves in the channel, the creative ways some solution providers are making AI a reality for customers, how some of the industry’s most innovative vendors are bringing AI features to market, and how solution providers are deploying AI agents across new areas of their customers’ and their own businesses.

How Solution Providers Are Putting AI Agents To Work
We are seeing rapid scale in implement and rapid scale and growth in this—we call it “managed service 2.0,” that next wave of agentic enabled managed services,’ says Patrick Pugh, PwC’s global and U.S. alliance and ecosystems leader.

How 28 Innovative Products Are Using AI To Meet Customer Needs
As CRN celebrates AI Innovators Week, we’re taking a closer look at how some award-winning products sold through the channel are using and supporting AI in the market today.

AI Outcomes Take Center Stage As Partners Push Beyond Experimentation
‘For a CIO to measure their success against the AI investment they’re making, the only language a company’s board understands is business outcome,’ says Intuitive.ai CEO Jay Modh.

10 AI Startups Catching The Channel's Eye
For this list of 10 AI startups that are catching the channel’s eye, CRN focused on startups founded after 2020 and gave additional weight to companies with partner programs and those that raised capital within the past year.

AI Innovators: How 15 Solution Providers Are Transforming Their Businesses
CRN’s inaugural AI Innovators project spotlights solution providers who are putting AI to work in their own operations—and turning that firsthand experience into smarter, faster and more secure solutions for customers.

AI Innovators 2026: The Full Database
This year, CRN launched the AI Innovators list, recognizing North American solution providers such as MSPs, VARs, systems integrators and consultants for overall excellence and technical acumen in delivering AI-focused solutions to end customers.