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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001441683-22-000054
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20220510
FILED AS OF DATE:		20220511
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20220511

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Zamudio-Ramirez Pavel
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001913014

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38098
		FILM NUMBER:		22913622

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7950 JONES BRANCH DRIVE
		CITY:			MCLEAN
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			22102

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			APPIAN CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001441683
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372]
		IRS NUMBER:				541956084
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7950 JONES BRANCH DRIVE
		CITY:			TYSONS
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			22102
		BUSINESS PHONE:		703-442-8844

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		7950 JONES BRANCH DRIVE
		CITY:			TYSONS
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			22102
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        <footnote id="F1">Includes the following shares acquired under the Appian Corporation Employee Stock Purchase Plan: 104 shares on 2/7/22, 108 shares on 3/4/22, 84 shares on 4/5/22 and 109 shares on 5/4/22.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Shares sold to cover taxes due upon vesting of RSUs.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $54.46 to $54.70, inclusive. The Reporting Person undertakes to provide to Appian Corporation, any security holder of Appian Corporation, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in this footnote.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Each Restricted Stock Unit (&quot;RSU&quot;) converts into Class A Common Stock on a one-for-one basis.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">The RSUs were granted on May 4, 2021 and vest in four equal annual installments commencing on May 5, 2022, provided that the Reporting Person has provided continuous service to the Issuer through the vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">The RSUs were granted on May 5, 2020.  6,446 vested on May 5, 2022, and 4,299 will vest on each of May 5, 2023, May 5, 2024 and May 5, 2025, provided that the Reporting Person has provided continuous service to the Issuer through the vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">The RSUs were granted on November 2, 2021 and vest in four equal annual installments commencing on November 5, 2022, provided that the Reporting Person has provided continuous service to the Issuer through the vesting date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of Issuer's Class A Common Stock (or its cash equivalent, at the discretion of the Issuer).</footnote>
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i89717c713ee54ef29e64e7b20e027f9d_1"></div><div style="min-height:72pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:109%">POWER OF ATTORNEY</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Christopher Winters, Angela Patterson, Nicole Brookshire, Mark Ballantyne and Jason Minio, signing individually, the undersigned&#8217;s true and lawful attorneys-in fact and agents to&#58; </font></div><div style="padding-left:40.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(1)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;padding-left:5.18pt">execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned&#8217;s capacity as an officer, director or beneficial owner of more than 10% of a registered class of securities of Appian Corporation, Forms 3, 4, and 5 (including any amendments thereto) in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Exchange Act</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#8221;) and the rules thereunder and a Form ID, Uniform Application for Access Codes to File on EDGAR&#59;</font></div><div style="padding-left:40.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(2)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;padding-left:5.18pt">do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to execute such Forms 3, 4, or 5, or Form ID (including any amendments thereto) and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority, including creating a new passphrase and generating new EDGAR access codes via the EDGAR filer manager website&#59; and</font></div><div style="padding-left:40.3pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(3)</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;padding-left:5.18pt">take any other action of any nature whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact&#8217;s discretion.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact&#8217;s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is Appian Corporation assuming, any of the undersigned&#8217;s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the earliest to occur of (a) the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned&#8217;s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by Appian Corporation, (b) revocation by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact or (c) as to any attorney-in-fact individually, until such attorney-in-fact is no longer employed by Appian Corporation or Cooley LLP.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">The undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of February 15, 2022.</font></div><div style="padding-left:216pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:216pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:216pt;text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:216pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%;text-decoration:underline">&#47;s&#47; Pavel Zamudio-Ramirez</font></div><div style="padding-left:180pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Pavel Zamudio-Ramirez</font></div><div style="padding-left:180pt;text-indent:36pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:180pt;text-indent:36pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%"><br></font></div><div style="padding-left:216pt"><font><br></font></div><div style="height:72pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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