From global giants (Google, Lenovo) to household names (Match Group, Williams-Sonoma) to cheekily named upstarts (Kiss My Apps), these 20 companies impressed Fast Company judges with their efforts to empower employees through innovative uses of new technologies, and earned top recognition in the AI, automation, and machine learning excellence category. Allstream Energy Partners, Houston
Architech, Toronto
causaLens, London
CodeSignal, San Francisco
Devoted Health, Waltham, MA
Dexterity, Redwood City, CA
Google, Mountain View, CA
Kiss My Apps, Kyiv, Ukraine
Lenovo, Beijing and Morrisville, NC
Match Group, Dallas
Minitab, State College, PA
Nuvo, San Francisco
The RealReal, San Francisco
RHEI, Vancouver
Syscon Information Systems, Cave Creek, AZ
Techjays, Menlo Park, CA
Traversal, New York
Veho, Claymont, DE
Waystar, Louisville, KY
Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco