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Hexaware receives five 2026 Brandon Hall Group(TM) HCM Excellence Awards(R). The five wins span certification, learning strategy, blended learning, talent development, and AI in recruitment Hexaware Technologies [NSE: HEXT], an AI-first digital and IT services company, has received five honors at the 2026 Brandon Hall Group(TM) HCM Excellence Awards(R), with four gold awards and one bronze. The HCM Excellence Awards(R) recognize HR and learning programs for their design, innovation, adoption, and business results. Hexaware was recognized across five categories: * Best Certification Program (Gold): SONIC, Hexaware's enterprise certification program, helps employees build skills aligned to their roles. It maps 1,000+ certifications to 800 roles; employees completed 44,742 in 2025, including 9,393 advanced AI certifications. * Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program (Gold): SONIC also gives employees different ways to develop beyond certification, through AI-guided learning, instructor-led programs, hackathons, and peer learning. In 2025, 81% of Hexaware's technology workforce completed digital training. * Best Learning Strategy (Gold): Mavericks, Hexaware's campus talent development strategy, helps graduates move from college to project work through structured and hands-on learning. It cut time-to-deploy 30%, certified 432 engineers and reached 10,000+ students in over 30 colleges. * Best Use of Blended Learning (Gold): Segue, Hexaware's blended learning program for campus hires, combines self-paced and instructor-led learning with projects, peer learning, gamification, and AI personalization. It grew from 200 to 3,200+ learners, raised offer acceptance 30%, cut time-to-productivity 25%, and improved retention 15%. * Best Use of AI for Talent Acquisition (Bronze): Hexaware uses AI across sourcing, screening, and interview coordination, with human oversight and bias controls built in. The approach cut time-to-hire 25-40%, recruitment costs up to 35%, external portal reliance 30-50% and delivered 2-3x first-year ROI. Satyendu Mohanty, EVP & Global Head - Talent Management, Hexaware, said, "The advantage comes from seeing talent development as a continuum, from how people enter the organization to how they build depth, move across roles, and stay relevant as the work changes." Vinod Chandran, Chief Operating Officer, Hexaware, added, "Workforce readiness has to move at the pace of technology and client demand. These programs give us a more systematic way to build capability ahead of need and deploy it faster." "Every year, the HCM Excellence Awards(R) remind us that innovation is ultimately about impact. The organizations recognized this year have demonstrated that great HR and learning strategies don't just improve programs, they strengthen organizations, empower people, and deliver measurable business results. We are honored to celebrate their achievements," said Rachel Cooke, COO of Brandon Hall Group(TM) and HCM Excellence Awards(R) Program Leader. About Hexaware Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Every day, Hexawarians wake up with a singular purpose: to create smiles through great people and technology. With offices across the world, Hexaware Technologies Limited empower enterprises worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, transform, run, and optimize their technology and business processes. Learn more about Hexaware at https://hexaware.com. Safe Harbor Statement Certain statements in this press release concerning its future growth prospects are forward-looking, which involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, its ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect its cost advantage, wage increases globally, its ability to attract and retain highly-skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, its ability to manage its international operations, reduced demand for technology in its key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, its ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on its service contracts, the success of the companies in which Hexaware has made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of its intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting its industry. For details, please contact:

Hexaware collaborates on Project NANDA Fellowship to build the future of AI Agents. 15 Sep, 2026, 10:40 IST Three-month, fully remote program invites developers worldwide to help build the open-source infrastructure powering the Internet of AI Agents MUMBAI, India, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Hexaware Technologies (NSE: HEXT), a global provider of IT solutions and services, today announced its collaboration with Project NANDA Fellowship, a three-month, fully remote AI fellowship program that gives developers direct, hands-on experience building open-source infrastructure for the emerging Internet of AI Agents. The fellowship is hosted by FAN, the umbrella program behind Project NANDA, and is supported by Hexaware as part of the company's participation in the open agentic web ecosystem. The program is built around one of the defining technical challenges of the coming decade: how autonomous AI agents discover, verify, and coordinate with one another at scale within agentic AI workflows. Fellows contribute directly to Project NANDA, an initiative that originated at the MIT Media Lab and is building the foundational infrastructure, standards, and reference implementations for an open, decentralized Internet of AI Agents. Their work feeds into Project NANDA's open-source community and advances components such as agent discovery, verifiable identity, and secure coordination across organizational boundaries. The inaugural cohort brings together more than 10 Fellows, drawn from a mix of Hexaware engineers and external developers selected from a global applicant pool. Participants receive a competitive stipend, direct mentorship, and the opportunity to ship code that becomes part of live, open-source agentic infrastructure rather than a classroom exercise. By keeping the cohort small, the program preserves close mentorship and meaningful contribution for every Fellow. For Hexaware, the association reflects a twofold objective: helping to train the next generation of AI infrastructure engineers and contributing to the open agentic web and the broader open-source community advancing it. The initiative complements Hexaware's own investments in agentic AI, including its AI delivery layer, Zerovity(TM). It also extends the company's engagement with the research and developer communities shaping how AI agents will operate in production. Applications and eligibility Applications for the Project NANDA Fellowship are now open to developers worldwide. Candidates can apply through the link shared below. The priority review deadline is September 19, 2026; applications received by that date are given priority consideration. About Hexaware Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Every day, Hexawarians wake up with a singular purpose: to create smiles through great people and technology. With offices across the world, we empower enterprises worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, transform, run, and optimize their technology and business processes. Learn more at hexaware.com. About Project NANDA Project NANDA originated at the MIT Media Lab and is architecting the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web. It focuses on how billions of AI agents can discover one another, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities. Learn more at projectnanda.org.

Hexaware collaborates on Project NANDA Fellowship to build the future of AI Agents. Three-month, fully remote program invites developers worldwide to help build the open-source infrastructure powering the Internet of AI Agents MUMBAI, India, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Hexaware Technologies (NSE: HEXT), a global provider of IT solutions and services, today announced its collaboration with Project NANDA Fellowship, a three-month, fully remote AI fellowship program that gives developers direct, hands-on experience building open-source infrastructure for the emerging Internet of AI Agents. The fellowship is hosted by FAN, the umbrella program behind Project NANDA, and is supported by Hexaware as part of the company's participation in the open agentic web ecosystem. The program is built around one of the defining technical challenges of the coming decade: how autonomous AI agents discover, verify, and coordinate with one another at scale within agentic AI workflows. Fellows contribute directly to Project NANDA, an initiative that originated at the MIT Media Lab and is building the foundational infrastructure, standards, and reference implementations for an open, decentralized Internet of AI Agents. Their work feeds into Project NANDA's open-source community and advances components such as agent discovery, verifiable identity, and secure coordination across organizational boundaries. The inaugural cohort brings together more than 10 Fellows, drawn from a mix of Hexaware engineers and external developers selected from a global applicant pool. Participants receive a competitive stipend, direct mentorship, and the opportunity to ship code that becomes part of live, open-source agentic infrastructure rather than a classroom exercise. By keeping the cohort small, the program preserves close mentorship and meaningful contribution for every Fellow. For Hexaware, the association reflects a twofold objective: helping to train the next generation of AI infrastructure engineers and contributing to the open agentic web and the broader open-source community advancing it. The initiative complements Hexaware's own investments in agentic AI, including its AI delivery layer, Zerovity(TM). It also extends the company's engagement with the research and developer communities shaping how AI agents will operate in production. Applications and eligibility Applications for the Project NANDA Fellowship are now open to developers worldwide. Candidates can apply through the link shared below. The priority review deadline is September 19, 2026; applications received by that date are given priority consideration. About Hexaware Hexaware is a global technology and business process services company. Every day, Hexawarians wake up with a singular purpose: to create smiles through great people and technology. With offices across the world, Smart Business News empower enterprises worldwide to realize digital transformation at scale and speed by partnering with them to build, transform, run, and optimize their technology and business processes. Learn more at hexaware.com. About Project NANDA Project NANDA originated at the MIT Media Lab and is architecting the foundational infrastructure for the Open Agentic Web. It focuses on how billions of AI agents can discover one another, verify capabilities, and coordinate tasks without creating bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities. Learn more at projectnanda.org.