NVIDIA Exec: These Top Partners Are Aiding Enterprises 'Still Struggling' With AI
by Dylan Martin, CRN
NVIDIA's Americas channel chief said this year's award-winning channel partners stand out for embracing the company's AI infrastructure technologies to help the many enterprises that are still trying to figure out how to best use AI.
These top channel partners were announced Tuesday as the winners of the 2026 Americas NVIDIA Partner Network Awards at the AI infrastructure giant's GTC event in San Jose, Calif.
"It is focused on partners who are aligning with us in our industry go-to-market and are investing deeply across not only NVIDIAs platform but across the way we go to market with our ecosystem," said Craig Weinstein, vice president of NVIDIA's Americas partner organization, in an exclusive interview with CRN.
Among this year's winners is St. Louis-based solution provider powerhouse World Wide Technology, which took three awards after years of recognition by NVIDIA.
One of the partners, WWT, ranked No. 9 on CRN's 2025 Solution Provider 500, won awards this year for AI Excellence, AI Enterprise Software Partner of the Year and Federal Partner of the Year—which Weinstein attributed to its "CEO-led culture that is driving innovation across the entire company globally." WWT is led by Jim Kavanaugh.
"They're focused on some really important areas [like] agentic AI. We believe it's going to be the most important opportunity in the enterprise. Their capability there is a standout," he said.
Mike Trojecki, area vice president of WWT's AI practice, agreed with Weinstein.
Another way many of these partners stand out is their staging capabilities, according to Weinstein, which has become important as a growing number of NVIDIA-based data center products require liquid cooling to prevent the underlying chips from overheating.
"We have many partners now in their advanced technology centers that have the ability to deploy liquid-cooled racks in advance of deployment into the enterprise," he said. "Most customers don't have the ability to stage that type of infrastructure on their own site or even potentially in a co-location."