Leobit
Lviv, Ukraine, November 2026 – Leobit, a .NET, AI, and web application development company, received five Gold Stevie® Awards and one Silver Stevie® Award during the 23rd Annual International Business Awards® (IBAs) ceremony held on October 28, 2026, in Paris, France.
The company was honored in the Technology Team of the Year, Best Business Technology Pivot, Computer Services – Medium-size, and Legal Solution categories. Oleksa Stelmakh, CEO and Founder of Leobit, received two individual honors: a Gold Stevie Award for Best Entrepreneur – Computer Services and a Silver Stevie Award as AI Leader of the Year. This is the third consecutive year Leobit has been recognized at the IBAs and the first time the company has received six awards in a single year.
Known as the “International Stevies,” the IBAs are the world’s only international, all-encompassing business awards program, with more than 200 categories that honor organizations, executives, teams, products and services, technology, and AI innovation.
This year, winners were selected from more than 3,400 nominations submitted by organizations in 82 nations and territories. Entries were evaluated by more than 200 business professionals serving as judges on 11 specialized committees.
The red-carpet awards event took place at the Pullman Paris Montparnasse and also recognized winners in the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence, and the German Stevie Awards. More than 700 executives from around the world attended the luncheon and evening ceremonies, which were broadcast live. Among roughly 250 organizations represented were Allianz, AstraZeneca, Cisco, DHL, IBM Institute for Business Value, Lenovo, Tripadvisor, and Turkish Airlines.
Oleksa Stelmakh, together with Diana Kemeniash, Lead Business Development Manager at Leobit, accepted the awards on behalf of the company. In his speech, Oleksa dedicated the recognition to the Leobit team:
