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Introducing the 2026 EMEA GitLab Partner Award winners (opens in new tab)

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GitLab announced its 2026 EMEA Partner Award winners, recognizing organizations that drove customer success, technical innovation, certification, business growth, and joint marketing. The awards highlight partners helping enterprises adopt DevSecOps, cloud-native platforms, managed services, and AI-enabled software development across the region.

Regional Partners of the Year

  • Central Europe: cc cloud GmbH — Combines infrastructure and DevOps expertise to manage cloud applications, platforms, and IT operations.
  • Northern Europe: Eficode — Supports more than 1,600 customers through consulting, managed services, toolchain implementation, and AI-augmented development.
  • Southern Europe: Kiratech — Helps enterprises modernize infrastructure using cloud-native, DevOps, and PlatformOps practices.
  • Eastern Europe and Israel: Bynet — An established systems integrator supporting enterprise IT, cloud, cybersecurity, modernization, DevSecOps, and AI adoption.

Technical and Enablement Awards

  • Best Technical Solution/Project: Capgemini | Sogeti — Recognized for impactful, complex technical solutions using AI-driven quality engineering, data, and cloud capabilities.
  • Most Certified and Enabled Partner: Devoteam — Awarded for having the largest number of GitLab-certified professionals.
  • Rookie of the Year: ITDOTCOM — A Uzbekistan-based technology distributor that achieved rapid success supporting software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business automation across Central Asia.

Growth and Collaboration Awards

  • First Order Master: Linux Polska — Recognized for winning new customers and business through open-source consulting, DevOps, automation, containerization, and data analytics.
  • Co-marketing Partner of the Year: Conoa, a PROACT Company — Honored for joint marketing efforts and expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, container platforms, and managed operations.

The awards demonstrate the breadth of GitLab’s EMEA partner ecosystem, from regional systems integrators and cloud specialists to technical consultants and Kubernetes providers. Together, these partners are helping customers modernize delivery practices and adopt DevSecOps and AI capabilities.