September 1, 2026 · Bengaluru, India
NexTurn Wins Two Awards at the BW Chief Data & AI Officers Awards 2026
NexTurn has won two awards at the 2nd Edition of the BW Chief Data & AI Officers Conclave & Awards 2026, held at Taj MG Road, Bengaluru.
Rahul Verma, Delivery Head – Data & AI at NexTurn, was recognized as Data Rising Star of the Year, while NexTurn’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) 2.0 led by Shruthi G M, Engineering Manager – Data & AI Solutions at NexTurn was named – AI/ML-Driven Data Solution of the Year.
The recognitions celebrate two important dimensions of NexTurn’s Data & AI journey – the leadership and capability required to drive enterprise transformation, and the engineering depth required to turn AI innovation into measurable production outcomes.
AI/ML-Driven Data Solution of the Year
IDP 2.0: NexTurn’s GenAI-powered intelligent document processing solutionData Rising Star of the Year
Rahul Verma — Delivery Head, Data & AI, NexTurn

Rahul Verma, Data & AI Practice Lead at NexTurn, (third from left) receiving the Data Rising Star of the Year recognition at the BW Chief Data & AI Officers Awards 2026.
Rahul’s recognition reflects his role in building and scaling NexTurn’s Data & AI capabilities and helping enterprises translate rapidly evolving AI technologies into practical, production-grade outcomes.
At NexTurn, Rahul has helped shape the company’s AI-first delivery philosophy, build reusable frameworks and accelerators, strengthen strategic technology partnerships, and develop a growing team of Data & AI practitioners.
His work spans enterprise data modernization, GenAI, intelligent document processing, AI agents, governed AI architectures, and emerging approaches designed to improve enterprise decision-making. At the heart of this journey is a consistent focus on moving AI beyond experimentation — toward systems that are scalable, governed, production-ready, and connected to measurable business value.
Rahul reflects on the recognition, NexTurn’s Data & AI journey, and what it takes to translate emerging technologies into meaningful enterprise outcomes.
AI/ML-Driven Data Solution of the Year
IDP 2.0: NexTurn’s GenAI-powered intelligent document processing solution

Shruthi GM, Engineering Manager – Data & AI Solutions at NexTurn, (third from left) and Siva Komperla, Chief Technology Officer at NexTurn (fourth from left) receiving the – AI/ML-Driven Data Solution of the Year award on behalf of the IDP Project Team.
NexTurn’s second recognition celebrates IDP 2.0: a GenAI-powered intelligent document processing solution built for complex enterprise environments where accuracy, compliance, scalability, and production reliability are critical.
IDP 2.0 moves beyond traditional template-dependent OCR approaches by using GenAI and multi-agent intelligence to understand variable document structures, handwriting, strikethroughs, and complex layouts without requiring repeated model retraining for every new format.
In a production enterprise deployment, IDP 2.0 has delivered measurable outcomes including:
The solution reflects NexTurn’s approach to enterprise AI: innovation is meaningful only when it can operate reliably in real business environments and deliver measurable outcomes at scale.
Shruthi shares the engineering journey behind IDP 2.0 and what it takes to move GenAI from experimentation into enterprise-scale production.
A Competitive, Multi-Stage Recognition
The BW Chief Data & AI Officers Conclave & Awards is a national platform recognizing leaders, teams, organizations, and solutions creating meaningful impact through Data, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning.
The 2026 awards program received nominations from many companies across different award categories, with only a few of them progressing to the shortlist.
Shortlisting was followed by a jury evaluation stage, where shortlisted nominees presented their case before an expert panel and participated in a focused Q&A covering innovation, measurable impact, execution, transformation, and future readiness.
Winning two awards after progressing through these stages makes the recognition particularly meaningful for NexTurn.
A Recognition of Collective Effort
The awards represent the contribution of a much broader group of engineers, architects, Data & AI practitioners, business leaders, client stakeholders, and technology partners who continue to strengthen NexTurn’s AI-first journey. The two wins validate two complementary capabilities:
Building the people, practices, frameworks, and thinking required to help enterprises navigate Data & AI transformation.
Converting emerging technologies into secure, scalable, production-grade solutions that address real enterprise challenges.
Together, these recognitions reinforce NexTurn’s commitment to helping enterprises move from AI ambition to measurable business outcomes.
What Comes Next
NexTurn continues to invest in Data & AI capabilities spanning intelligent document processing, agentic AI, enterprise data platforms, predictive intelligence, AI-first software engineering, responsible AI, and reusable enterprise accelerators.
The BW Chief Data & AI Officers Awards 2026 represent an important milestone in that journey — and an encouragement to keep building, learning, and solving more complex enterprise problems through Data and AI.
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