Egen recognized on the 2026 AI Innovators list by CRN(R). Oct 19, 2026, 20:49 ET Recognition highlights Egen's technical expertise and ingenuity in helping organizations move AI into scaled production. NAPERVILLE, Ill., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Egen, a global AI-first technology services company, announced today that it has been named to the 2026 AI Innovators list by CRN(R), a brand of The Channel Company. CRN's inaugural AI Innovators list recognizes North American companies for overall excellence, technical acumen, and ingenuity in delivering AI-focused offerings to customers. Selected by a panel of CRN editors, the 2026 AI Innovators honorees represent trusted advisors that demonstrate technical expertise, strategic vision, and outstanding ability to help customers solve complex challenges through practical AI use. As a Google Cloud Premier Partner, Egen's team builds and runs the foundations that move AI from proof of concept into production: modern data platforms, AI agents, enterprise knowledge systems, governed workflows, and industry-specific applications. "Putting AI to work should leave our customers more capable than we found them," said Alim Somani, CEO of Egen. "We've spent years building and running the systems they depend on. That experience has shaped our view: Success with AI requires engineering the systems and redesigning the work together. We bring engineering and change enablement alongside our customers' teams to rethink workflows, establish trust, and put AI to work in daily operations. We measure success in better outcomes and in our customers' ability to keep improving. This recognition celebrates that work." Over the past year, Egen has advanced its AI-first strategy through new leadership and continued investment in how it builds and delivers. The company has developed accelerators that capture the knowledge, context, and delivery patterns accumulated through customer work, equipping its people and customers to accelerate time to value. Egen has also deepened its practice of embedding engineers alongside customer teams and launched its Agentic Change Enablement (ACE) Practice to help organizations reshape workflows, build adoption and trust, establish governance, and measure value. Egen drives outcomes with AI across industries, including: * Foundations for healthcare and scientific discovery: Building cloud, data, and AI platforms that support precision medicine, multimodal research, and drug discovery, providing the engineering foundations for organizations to develop and scale new capabilities. * Room revenue in hospitality: Helping a global hospitality leader turn travel discovery into room bookings through an AI-powered search experience, with associated room revenue equal to 165 times the application's token costs. * Underwriting productivity in financial services: Helping a wholesale lender increase underwriting productivity by 133% through governed AI workflows that process hundreds of thousands of documents per day. "Our 2026 AI Innovators honorees are helping shape the next generation of business transformation through the imaginative use of artificial intelligence," said Jennifer Follett, Vice President, U.S. Content and Executive Editor at CRN, The Channel Company. "By delivering forward-thinking solutions that create value for their customers and technology partners alike, they are pushing the industry forward and setting a high standard for innovation. We are honored to recognize their contributions." The full 2026 CRN AI Innovators list can be viewed online at crn.com/AIinnovators. About Egen Egen accelerates value with cloud, data, platforms, and AI. Our more than 700 technology specialists in Canada, Europe, India, and the United States have extensive knowledge and experience working across leading data and AI platforms, with a strategic focus on Google Cloud. Learn more at egen.ai. SOURCE Egen

Egen launches Agentic Change Enablement Practice to drive enterprise AI adoption. Egen, a leading cloud, data, and platform engineering firm, announced the launch of its dedicated Agentic Change Enablement Practice. The specialized service offering is engineered to bridge the execution gap between initial technology implementation and long-term business value, helping enterprises optimize employee workflows and organizational structures for autonomous AI integration. As multi-national corporations accelerate capital allocations toward generative and agentic artificial intelligence, an operational bottleneck has shifted to center stage. While modern engineering groups can deploy autonomous software engines relatively quickly, the ultimate yield on that investment hinges on human alignment. Without targeted operational restructuring, extensive workforce upskilling, clear performance metrics, and rigorous governance structures, complex AI investments can stall out in the pilot phase. "Agentic AI will not create value simply because it is deployed," said Alim Somani, CEO of Egen. "Value comes when agents are embedded into real workflows, people understand how their work is changing, and organizations have the governance, training, and measurement needed to scale adoption. Our Agentic Change Enablement Practice brings those pieces together so enterprises can move from experimentation to durable enterprise impact." Redesigning Workflow architecture via Google Cloud integration. Egen, operating as a Google Cloud Premier Partner, will leverage its expanded organizational footprint to guide companies through the entire lifecycle of agentic software transformation. The newly formed practice unifies technical agent engineering and underlying platform data modeling with specialized corporate change management. The strategic framework targets three distinct transformation phases to maximize technology ROI: * Workflow Orchestration and Mapping: Auditing core corporate business units to identify, isolate, and prioritize the exact processes best suited for autonomous agent execution. * Workforce Evolution and Training: Designing structured learning curricula, transition roadmaps, and alignment communication channels to prepare front-line personnel for collaborative human-to-AI operating environments. * Performance Measurement at Scale: Establishing real-time auditing dashboards and objective telemetry tracking matrices to continuously evaluate how active AI systems impact overall business velocity. The practice integrates natively with Google Cloud's modern technology landscape - including Gemini Enterprise toolsets - to construct automated agents grounded in verified corporate context. This system ensures that all automated workflows operate inside a secure, compliant ecosystem featuring enterprise-grade sovereignty controls. Appointing digital transformation veteran Christy Mayr to lead practice. To accelerate market penetration and build out the division's consulting methodologies, Egen has appointed digital transformation leader Christy Mayr as Head of Agentic Change Enablement. Mayr and her dedicated team of organizational design and technology implementation specialists will concentrate on accelerating the adoption velocity of newly deployed digital systems across multi-tier enterprise models. By structuring strategic learning tracks, enhancing cross-departmental decision matrices, and managing stakeholder alignment across complex operations, the practice enables corporate leadership to convert experimental AI ideas into predictable, compliant, and measurable financial outcomes. The service layer is active and available for onboarding immediately, providing a comprehensive operational framework for organizations seeking to scale their underlying digital capacities.

Egen has launched its Agentic Change Enablement Practice to help organisations move from AI pilots to scaled enterprise adoption. The consulting firm, a Google Cloud Premier Partner with over 700 technology specialists, will guide companies through workflow redesign, team adoption of AI-enabled processes, and impact measurement. The practice aims to address the gap between AI technology deployment and creating real business value. It focuses on embedding AI agents into workflows, workforce readiness, and governance frameworks using Google Cloud technologies including Gemini Enterprise. Egen appointed digital transformation veteran Christy Mayr to lead the new capability. The firm works across Canada, Europe, India, and the United States, specialising in cloud, data, platforms, and AI implementation.