WTOP News Names Cvent a Greater Washington D.C. Area Top Workplaces 2026 Winner and CEO & Founder Reggie Aggarwal as First Recipient of Founder’s Honor
Recognition as a Top Workplace is driven exclusively by confidential employee feedback and reflects Cvent’s ongoing investment in cultivating a culture of trust, loyalty, and growth in the heart of one of the nation’s top technology corridors
TYSONS, Va. — June 19, 2026 — Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, has been named a winner of the WTOP News Top Workplaces 2026 award for the Greater Washington area. The honor is based solely on confidential employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. Winners are selected exclusively on the strength of those responses.
In its inaugural year as the Washington D.C. Top Workplaces media sponsor, WTOP News recognized Cvent CEO and Founder Reggie Aggarwal with its first-ever Founding DC Founder’s Honor. The award recognizes a founder of a Top Workplace who remains an active leader of their organization and whose company delivers significant impact.
Dan Simons — restaurateur, co-founder of Founding Farmers Restaurant Group, and host of WTOP News’ Founding DC podcast — announced the honor during the Top Workplaces Celebration at Capital One Hall on June 18.
“Cvent has been named to the Top Workplaces list 12 times, including this year. Reggie exemplifies how resilience and a deep belief in people can transform the way the world connects,” Simons said in recognizing Aggarwal as the award’s inaugural recipient.
The Energage survey measures the employee experience across proven cultural themes, including whether employees feel Respected & Supported, Enabled to Grow, and Empowered to Execute. For Cvent, this recognition adds to a growing body of independent evidence that the company is delivering on its commitment to its people — a particularly meaningful signal at a time when AI is reshaping workforces around the world, making workplace stability and employee experience more important than ever.
“At Cvent, we’ve always believed that being an industry leader means investing in the people who make you one,” said Reggie Aggarwal, Cvent CEO and Founder. “That means celebrating what makes each person different, giving them real room to grow, and continuously building on our success — together. When our employees affirm that's the reality, not just an aspiration, that’s something we’re deeply proud of.”
For those interested in joining an award-winning culture, explore current open positions at careers.cvent.com.
About the Award
The WTOP News Top Workplaces award is one of several regional programs administered nationally by Energage, a purpose-driven company whose methodology is built on more than 20 years of culture research and feedback from 30 million employees across more than 80,000 organizations. Employers do not apply or pay for consideration — they are nominated and evaluated purely on employee sentiment.
“Earning a Top Workplaces award is a badge of honor for companies, especially because it comes authentically from their employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “That’s something to be proud of. In today’s market, leaders must ensure they’re allowing employees to have a voice and be heard. That’s paramount. Top Workplaces do this, and it pays dividends.”
About Cvent
Cvent builds technology to power the highest performing events on the planet. With its purpose-built and AI-powered platform, data insights, unrivaled ecosystem, and deep expertise, Cvent helps its customers deliver real event outcomes.
Cvent gives event professionals the technology to run in-person, virtual, and hybrid events of any size, marketers the solutions to deliver event-led growth, and hotels, venues, and destinations a leading global marketplace to win and keep business. With intelligent tools across the event lifecycle, real-time analytics, personalized attendee experiences, and $20B+ in group business sourced through the ecosystem annually, Cvent delivers the AI-driven technology, insight, and scale customers need to power high-performing events and better outcomes.
445,000+ users across 34,000+ organizations rely on Cvent. With enterprise-grade security and compliance, hundreds of industry accolades, leading customer satisfaction, 8M+ events managed, and its third consecutive year as a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Event Marketing and Management Platforms, customers around the world trust Cvent to deliver when it matters most. Learn more at Cvent.com.