The partnership ecosystem is evolving faster than ever, with 2025 set to bring game-changing opportunities in AI, cloud marketplaces, partner incentive models, and operational efficiency. The question isn’t whether to adapt to this transformation—but how to take the lead in shaping the future of the industry.
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President and Co-founder, WorkSpan
Across twenty years at SAP and WorkSpan, Amit has designed and launched some of the largest partnership programs running today.
As the president of WorkSpan, he works across cloud providers, GSIs, ISVs, and genAI companies to understand their partner programs, the latest trends, and the direction of the industry. WorkSpan provides the software that drives repeatable, revenue-generating processes for thousands of partnerships.
WorkSpan powers the world’s most valuable co-selling partnerships,
helping Cloud, GSI, ISV, and GenAI partners close more deals together.
VP for Google, Palo Alto Networks
Munish is responsible for Cloud Engagement, driving the GTM, and building joint solutions that securely accelerate customer adoption of multi-cloud infrastructure. He has worked with Cisco as the Chief Growth Officer and CTO for Cisco’s Global Public Sector business. He has also run solution specialist teams and managed the P&L for IoT Data platforms and solutions targeting Smart Cities, Critical Infrastructure, and Operations technology. He holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business in Chicago.
Vice President, AWS Marketplace & Partner Services, AWS
With over 20 years of experience in cloud computing, software engineering, and digital media, Matt leads the AWS Marketplace and Partner Services team, enabling customers to discover, buy, and deploy software, data, and services. Passionate about empowering diverse teams, Matt drives innovation and customer success globally.
We’re thrilled to announce the Co-Star Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in the world of partnerships. These prestigious awards honor individuals who exemplify the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and leadership in their partner ecosystems.
DataStax, a database company offering Apache Cassandra-based data management solutions for real-time applications, has been nominated for their power usage of WorkSpan's platform and collaborative approach to product improvement, particularly in advancing AI-focused partnership initiatives.
MongoDB, a database platform company offering a developer-focused document database for modern applications, has been nominated for their comprehensive adoption of WorkSpan's platform, consolidating all co-sell motions, and actively contributing to platform improvements through regular feedback and speaking engagements.
DataBricks, a data and AI company providing a lakehouse platform for unifying data, analytics, and AI workloads, has been nominated for their enterprise-scale usage of WorkSpan in managing thousands of AWS referrals, leading to multiple 2024 AWS Partner of the Year awards.
Genesys, a customer experience orchestration company providing cloud contact center and communication solutions, has been nominated for demonstrating consistent AWS business growth through their early adoption and sustained use of WorkSpan's co-sell automation capabilities.
Siemens, a global technology company focused on industrial automation, infrastructure, transportation, and healthcare technology, has been nominated for their successful scaling of AWS partnerships through WorkSpan automation and their commitment to expanding their partnership ecosystem.
The Architect Award recognizes outstanding leadership in designing and executing groundbreaking partner strategies. These nominees have set the bar for innovation and excellence in co-sell success.
The Accelerator Award celebrates partners who have driven exceptional growth and execution, fueling co-sell success and building stronger ecosystems.
Abnormal Security, a cloud-native email security platform that uses AI to protect against sophisticated email attacks and business fraud, has been nominated for outstanding application of WorkSpan’s automation tools, resulting in a 15x increase in co-sell referral volume per month.
Nasuni, a file services platform that provides cloud-native file storage, enabling global file sharing and data protection, has been nominated for exemplifying strategic hyperscaler expansion with WorkSpan, successfully growing their cloud partnerships from AWS and Microsoft to include Google Cloud Platform.
DoIT International, a cloud consulting and management platform helping businesses optimize their cloud infrastructure spending, has been nominated for their exemplary use of WorkSpan's automation flows for AWS referrals, culminating in their recognition as a 2024 AWS Partner of the Year.
Qualtrics, an experience management software company helping organizations gather and analyze customer and employee feedback, has been nominated for leveraging WorkSpan automation to achieve exceptional AWS partnership results, earning the Global AWS Healthcare Partner of the Year award and finalist positions in multiple categories.
Mission Cloud, an AWS partner providing cloud managed services, consulting, and digital transformation solutions, has been nominated for exceptional partnership management scalability and automation, consistently maintaining one of the highest volumes of AWS referrals shared through WorkSpan's platform.