Celestial Systems Achieves
ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Certification

Enabling enterprises to operationalize AI with trust, governance, and measurable business impact

Bangalore, India / Vancouver, Canada — June 3, 2026

Celestial Systems Inc., an applied enterprise AI and digital engineering company, today announced that it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). This milestone reinforces Celestial’s commitment to building AI systems that are governed, transparent, and enterprise ready.
ISO/IEC 42001 is the first international standard for AI management systems, establishing a framework for managing AI-related risks, ensuring accountability, and promoting responsible deployment at scale.

Enabling Trust in Enterprise AI Adoption

With this certification, Celestial strengthens its role as a trusted partner for enterprises navigating AI at scale, helping clients:

  • Start with use-case risk classification, not universal policies
  • Automate compliance checks within CI/CD pipelines
  • Make governance documentation self-service and searchable
  • Create cross-functional AI review boards with clear SLAs
  • Track model lineage, data provenance, and decision audit trails
  • Iterate governance policies based on real incident learnings
 
Leadership Perspective
“ISO/IEC 42001 certification validates our belief that responsible AI is not optional—it is a business imperative. As AI reshapes industries and accelerates digital transformation, trust becomes the defining factor for adoption. By aligning our AI governance framework with internationally recognized standards, we are ensuring that innovation is accompanied by security, accountability, and human oversight. This achievement reinforces our commitment to developing AI systems that are reliable, ethical, and worthy of the confidence placed in them by our customers and partners“

Shyam Hirurkar, CISO at Celestial Systems

“ISO/IEC 42001 provides a structured approach to managing AI risk while still enabling innovation. At Celestial, we integrate governance across the entire AI lifecycle — from design through deployment and monitoring — ensuring every solution delivers both business value and operational integrity.“

Eduard Maievskyi, Head of AI Committee

A Company-Wide Effort Toward AI Governance Excellence

This certification reflects a coordinated, organization-wide effort to strengthen AI governance. The initiative was led by Celestial’s Information Security and AI Governance teams, with contributions across functions to align processes, controls, and documentation with the standard.
Celestial continues to evolve its governance capabilities through:

Adoption of AI governance tools and frameworks guided by the CISO office

Ongoing monitoring and KPI tracking for AI systems

Regular oversight by the AI Committee

Continuous alignment with regulatory and ethical standards

Supporting regulated industries in production-grade AI adoption

A Company-Wide Effort Toward AI Governance Excellence

This milestone further reinforces Celestial’s position in applied enterprise AI, with a focus on:

  • Delivering business-aligned AI solutions with measurable outcomes
  • Building scalable and secure architectures for enterprise environments
  • Operationalizing AI with embedded governance and compliance readiness
  • Supporting regulated industries in production-grade AI adoption

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About Celestial

At Celestial Systems, we’ve enabled enterprises to unlock their digital transformation potential for over 20 years. Based in Vancouver, Canada with worldwide offices and a fully in-house engineering team, we combine industry leadership in enterprise cloud applications with deep expertise in a wide array of cloud solutions, including application, data and analytics, cloud AI, cloud security, and infrastructure modernization. Across all the industries we touch, from healthcare and finance to green energy, we work in close partnership with our clients, grounding our solutions in a deep understanding of each organization’s unique business needs and challenges. Most of all, we’re driven by our passion for empowering enterprises to take advantage of new opportunities, minimize risk, and sharpen their competitive edge.

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