We’re proud to share that Panopto has been named Digital Learning Platform of the Year in the 2026 EdTech Breakthrough Awards, an annual program recognizing the companies and solutions shaping the future of education technology.
The award recognizes Panopto’s work helping institutions transform knowledge into accessible, engaging learning experiences that extend far beyond a single moment in time.
Every day, educational institutions create extraordinary amounts of knowledge through teaching, research, collaboration, events, and training. Yet too often, that knowledge becomes difficult to discover when it’s needed most. As learner expectations evolve and digital content volumes continue to grow, institutions face a new challenge: ensuring the knowledge they create remains accessible, discoverable, and useful over time.
Panopto helps institutions meet that challenge by capturing, connecting, and activating knowledge so learners can find, engage with, and apply it when and where they need it most. By bringing together content capture, knowledge management, accessibility, search, analytics, and deep integrations with leading learning systems, Panopto helps create more connected and effective learning ecosystems.
Today, more than 2,000 organizations worldwide—including 22 of the world’s top 25 universities—rely on Panopto to support teaching, learning, collaboration, training, and knowledge sharing at scale.
“Great teaching, and valuable institutional knowledge, shouldn’t disappear the moment class ends,” said Stephen Laster, CEO of Panopto. “When a student can revisit a lesson, a new hire can learn from the best person who ever did the job, or a researcher’s work reaches someone across the world, its impact extends far beyond a single class, conversation, or moment in time. We’re honored by this recognition and even more proud of what our customers create with Panopto every day.”
The recognition also reflects Panopto’s continued investment in responsible, human-centered AI that enhances the work of educators and learners. Features such as automated captioning, intelligent search, speech-to-text indexing, and AI-powered content discovery help transform growing libraries of recorded content into knowledge that can actually be found and used. Rather than replacing educators, Panopto’s AI helps learners spend less time searching and more time learning.
As education continues to evolve, Panopto remains focused on a simple goal: helping organizations ensure that knowledge travels further. From classroom instruction and faculty collaboration to employee onboarding, compliance training, and long-term knowledge preservation, Panopto helps turn recorded experiences into enduring knowledge resources that support learning, collaboration, and innovation.
We’re grateful to our customers, partners, and community for helping us reach this milestone and for continuing to show what’s possible when knowledge becomes easier to find, share, and apply.
The award adds to a year of strong momentum for the company, following CEO Stephen Laster’s recognition as Best EdTech CEO in EdTech Chronicle’s 2025 Best in Education Awards.
