Last week, Workgrid had the exciting opportunity to get on stage at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo and showcase to a panelist of analysts how Liberty Mutual built an employee digital assistant and launched it externally to other enterprises as Workgrid Software.
We're excited to announce that the Workgrid Assistant case study won Liberty Mutual the Gartner Eye on Innovation Award!

The Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is a premier technology leadership conference, where thousands of IT leaders gathered together to learn the biggest emerging trends shaping IT and business. The event was filled with inspiring content from industry experts and analysts diving into the upcoming challenges for CIOs and C-level leaders alike that will reshape today's business models.

The most exciting part of the event for the Workgrid team was participating and competing for the Gartner 2018 Eye on Innovation Award. The award recognizes the innovative use of digital technology-enabled capabilities, products or services to highlight "best-in-class" financial industry initiatives launched within the past 12 months and to offer insight about developments in digital innovation.

Our Head of Product, Troy Campano, presented on behalf of the digital assistant team at Liberty Mutual Insurance where Troy was given three minutes to showcase to a panelist of Gartner analysts how Liberty Mutual built an intelligent employee digital assistant and launched it externally to other enterprises as Workgrid Software.

Next through a live vote, the attendees were asked to choose the case study they liked most. We were thrilled to see that 85% of the audience choose the Workgrid case study awarding Liberty Mutual as a winner of the Eye on Innovation Award in the following category "innovative business models that allow financial services providers to develop new strategic value-creation or profit models".

The audience then participated in a final live vote to choose a winning finalist among each category to earn the "Digital Champion of Americas" title. The vote was between Liberty Mutual, BMO Bank of Montreal, and Allstate with BMO taking the lead as the regional winner by just 2%, congrats to both BMO and Allstate!

We are thrilled to receive this recognition from Gartner and the vote from our peers! We are proud of how far the team has been able to take the digital assistant initiative and this award will certainly help further inspire our team to develop new, innovative ideas for other enterprises around the globe.

Overall the Gartner Symposium ITxpo was a fantastic event! The Workgrid team enjoyed meeting with IT leaders in diverse fields learning how they plan to leverage technologies like AI in the workplace and their strategic approach to keeping up with today's rapidly changing digital environment. Looking forward to next year!