Darshan Appayanna, CIO at Happiest Minds was honored as one of the Versatile 100 honorees at the 10th annual CIO100 award in Pune on 3-4 Sep, 2015. The CIO100 awards recognizes organizations that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. The awards identifies and honors organizations and their CIOs who are not only models of IT innovation and business value delivery but are also fast-responders to rapidly changing conditions in emerging markets, customer demands, and competitive threats.

Happiest Minds was also felicitated with the CIO100 Innovation Architect Special Awards 2015. This award identified organizations that have leveraged IT supremely to beat the competition and shaken up the way their industries operate. Winners must demonstrate that their innovative project breaks conventional ideas or processes; that it goes beyond marginal improvements on something that already exists; and that it has had a wide impact.