Today, JFrog is proud to introduce the Software Supply Chain Excellence Awards, the first-ever customer awards program created to spotlight the teams and individuals who are doing the hard work of securing and scaling modern software delivery.

Why We Built This

At JFrog, one of our core values is WIN and the belief in achieving greatness. We have the privilege of working with some of the most sophisticated engineering and security organizations in the world. We see firsthand what it takes to manage and govern a software supply chain at enterprise scale, to embed security into every stage of a pipeline, and to build the kind of trusted AI infrastructure that lets development teams move fast without keeping their CISO up at night.

In all of this, we’ve noticed something: the teams doing that work rarely get the public recognition they deserve.

The software supply chain sits at the foundation of how modern organizations build and ship software. It touches every team, every release, and increasingly every AI model and agent that reaches production. Getting it right requires a level of cross-functional collaboration, technical rigor, and long-term thinking that most organizations are still working toward.

The ones who have figured it out deserve a stage.

We’re celebrating the people behind the software pipelines – the builders, problem-solvers, and yes, those getting a little help from AI along the way.

Six Award Categories

The Software Supply Chain Excellence Awards recognize excellence across six distinct areas, each representing a different dimension of what it means to build a world-class software supply chain:

1. The Convergence Award: One Team, One Platform

For the team that unified fragmented tooling, aligned development and security around a single workflow, and proved that speed and trust don’t have to be a tradeoff. These are the organizations that looked at the silos and decided to tear them down.

2. The Guardian Award: Software Supply Chain Security

For the team that built a supply chain smart enough to block, detect, and remediate before threats ever reached production. Not because they got lucky, but because they built the systems to make luck irrelevant.

3. The Trusted Intelligence Award: Trusted AI Adoption

For the teams navigating the complexity of AI in the software supply chain, governing models the way the best engineers govern code, and enabling agentic development without losing visibility or control.

4. The Control Plane Award: DevGovOps at Scale

For the architects of control who turned thousands of developers and hundreds of repositories into a governed, auditable ecosystem. These teams proved that scale and governance aren’t opposing forces.

5. The Elevation Award: Continuous Growth and Mastery

For the organization that made continuous learning a cultural foundation. Every new hire ramps faster, every team operates smarter, and knowledge compounds over time rather than walking out the door.

6. The Legacy Award: Society Impact and Greater Good

For the team that used the scale of their software delivery capability to make a difference beyond their own organization, whether through open source contribution, securing critical infrastructure, or supporting a mission that matters.

Entries are reviewed by a panel of industry leaders and evaluated on two dimensions: the strength and clarity of the story, and the quality and specificity of the results. The strongest stories won’t just tell us what was achieved; they’ll take us through the journey of how it happened.

What You Win

Recognition at a JFrog’s swampUP gala is just the beginning. Winners will receive an engraved Golden Frog trophy, joint press announcements, dedicated blog features, a podcast spotlight opportunity, JFrog Ambassador status, and first-in-line access to executive roundtables and early beta programs.

Beyond the recognition, winners receive a public record of what their team built, told well and shared with an industry that needs more stories like theirs.

In a field where the best work is often invisible to everyone outside the team that did it, that record carries real weight. It puts names to outcomes and it signals to the industry, to talent, and to leadership that this organization is defining the standard for modern software delivery, not just keeping up with it.

Nominate Your Team

If your team has driven real, measurable outcomes with the JFrog Platform, we want to hear from you.

Nominations are open now. The deadline is July 17, 2026.

The best stories in software supply chain management are waiting to be told. We’re ready to listen.

Learn more and submit at jfrog.com/awards | Questions? Contact minala@jfrog.com