Top Tech Awards 2026 Las Vegas

Oumar Willane wins the Spectrum Innovation Award

The CineMetrics co-founder and CTO was honored by Southern Nevada’s tech community for rebuilding how the giant screen industry runs its numbers.

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Oumar Willane on stage at Allegiant Stadium receiving the 2026 Spectrum Innovation Award beside the Top Tech Awards ice sculpture.
Allegiant Stadium · October 20, 2026

On October 20, Vegas Inc and Spectrum Business named Oumar Willane the winner of the Spectrum Innovation Award at the 16th annual Top Tech Awards. He was one of thirteen honorees, chosen from more than 130 nominees.

For years, giant screen theaters and planetariums tracked attendance in spreadsheets, emailed reports to distributors, and worked out royalties by hand. Settling a single film could take days of back-and-forth.

Oumar designed and built CineMetrics to end that. Attendance, box office, lease terms, royalties, invoicing, and analytics now live in one secure system. Settlements reconcile in minutes, and every figure can be traced back to its source.

An AWS Certified Developer and cloud solutions architect with more than twenty years of experience, Oumar co-founded CineMetrics in 2025 with Tina Ratterman, a longtime giant screen distribution and marketing executive. He is the inventor or co-inventor of three patent-pending technologies for revenue settlement, lease calculation, and financial reconciliation. In March, the Giant Screen Cinema Association named CineMetrics an official partner.

Oumar Willane and Tina Ratterman holding the Spectrum Innovation Award together inside Allegiant Stadium.
Co-founders Oumar Willane and Tina Ratterman, Allegiant Stadium

“Oumar has turned complex operational and financial requirements into technology that is sophisticated yet practical and easy to use.”

Tina Ratterman Co-founder and CEO, CineMetrics
Page 13 of the 2026 Top Tech Awards program, featuring Oumar Willane’s Spectrum Innovation profile.

In print · Page 13

Profiled in the official Top Tech Awards program

Vegas Inc and Spectrum Business featured Oumar alongside this year’s twelve other honorees, telling the story of CineMetrics and its partnership with the Giant Screen Cinema Association.

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Portrait by Christopher DeVargas / Vegas Inc. Used with permission.

The platform behind the award

Sixty seconds on what CineMetrics does for theaters, distributors, and producers.

From the night

Roll 01 · Allegiant Stadium · 10.20.26

  1. 01 After the presentation

  2. 02 Co-founders Oumar Willane and Tina Ratterman

  3. 03 Before the ceremony

  4. 04 Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas

  5. 05 On stage at the 16th annual Top Tech Awards

  6. 06 Accepting the Spectrum Innovation Award · Video 0:17

“His technical brilliance, determination, and commitment to innovation inspire me every day.”
Tina Ratterman, on LinkedIn ↗
“None of this happens alone. Thank you to every venue that trusted us with its data.”
Oumar Willane, on LinkedIn ↗
“Using CineMetrics is saving my team hours of administrative time. We also have real-time net profit information, something we’ve never had at our fingertips.”
Amy Louise Liedel, The Henry Ford

Why theaters and distributors switch

  1. One system, no spreadsheets

    Attendance, box office, lease terms, royalties, and invoicing in one place. Settlements that took days reconcile in minutes.

  2. Insight while it still matters

    See how each title is performing and where programming is working, while there’s still time to act on it.

  3. Your data stays yours

    Industry benchmarks use only aggregated, anonymized figures. Your venue’s numbers are never shared.

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