XtremeLabs took home three more Stevie Awards in the 2026 International Business Awards, its strongest year yet. With these three wins, XtremeLabs now holds 15 total Stevie Awards since its first entry in 2019 with seven Gold, seven Silver, and one People’s Choice.
A Record-Setting Year
With wins spanning three separate category families: product, culture, and community, 2026 is the strongest year on the record.
Gold Stevie Award, Upskilling and Workforce Learning Solution
XtremeLabs received a Gold Stevie Award for the Helix Labs platform as an Upskilling and Workforce Learning Solution. Judges pointed to 58 percent growth in lab launches, 75 percent customer retention, G2 recognition, and ISO certification as independent validation of the platform’s claims. One judge called the browser-based, no-install architecture “the right architecture,” praising the nomination’s “solid evidence portfolio.”
Silver Stevie Award, AI-Driven Culture of Innovation
The Silver Stevie Award XtremeLabs received is for The AI Multiplier: Accelerating Innovation Across XtremeLabs and having an AI-Driven Culture of Innovation. Judges singled out the Interactivity Maturity Model, the Decision Simulation Engine, and an eleven-piece department-by-department evidence pack. As one judge put it, this is “a genuinely strong culture entry because it proves the claim rather than asserting it.”
Silver Stevie Award, Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility
XtremeLabs received a Silver Stevie Award on Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility, for Serving Communities Through Sport: The XtremeLabs Impact Story. The entry was recognized for youth development, gender inclusion, and measured reach across multiple countries, with judges calling it “an outstanding CSR program with a clear strategy, measurable outcomes, and exceptionally strong supporting evidence.”
Both Silver categories publish their full winner fields, and XtremeLabs sits wtih some notable companies on the lists this year. In the category of AI-Driven Culture of Innovation, XtremeLabs shares the Silver tier with Allianz, AS Watson, and Lionbridge, and is ranked above Bronze winners IBM, AstraZeneca, and Planet Labs. In Corporate Social Responsibility, XtremeLabs’ Silver puts it among nineteen organizations recognized worldwide alongside Cisco, IBM, Şişecam, and St. James’s Place.
Seven years of momentum
The 2026 wins extend a record that goes back to XtremeLabs’ first entry in the International Business Awards:
- 2019 – Four wins in the company’s first year of entry, including a Gold for a new product and a People’s Choice Stevie Award for Favorite Companies.
- 2021 – Three wins, with recognition moving beyond the product itself to the support, product, and content teams behind it.
- 2022 – Three wins, with the lab platform, the company, and its thought leadership all recognized in a single year.
- 2023 – A third consecutive Gold in the education technology product category.
- 2024 – A fourth consecutive Gold for the hands-on lab platform, now branded Helix Labs.
- 2026 – Three wins across product, culture, and community, the strongest year yet.
There were no entries in 2020 or 2025.
Stevie judging is independent and what separates a win here from a claim in a press release is entries are scored against a published field rather than a fixed threshold.
What’s behind the Gold
The platform at the center of this year’s top honor is Helix Labs, XtremeLabs’ browser-based, hands-on learning environment. There’s nothing to install, and it works in the learner’s own environment, which is exactly the point judges called out when they praised the platform’s architecture and evidence of real growth and retention.
If you want to see what a hands-on lab looks like for your own learners, request a demo.
For the complete record, including judge’s comments and the full published winner fields for each 2026 category, see XtremeLabs Awards: 15 Stevie Wins, 2019 to 2026.
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