2025 SHORTLIST
Personal Excellence
Apprentice of the Year
Amanpreet Oppal - QBE
Anas Shiham - IBM
Elise Bridle - Lockheed Martin
Harvey Whyte - Lockheed Martin
James Porter - SGN
Kalina Nikolova - QBE
Lucas Osborne - Lockheed Martin
Raphael Rosin - Bank of England
Tiarnan Crosbie - Hamilton Robson
William Price - Lockheed Martin
Business Analyst of the Year
Ali Jan Laghari - Bank of England
Andrew Sinclair - Financial Conduct Authority
Anuradha Suryavanshi - PremFina
David Bannister - Superdrug
Eleanor Horner-Wilson - Aviva
Katja Fischer - UBDS Digital
Martin McBride - KPMG
Mohit Jain - Cognizant
Sarah Emery - Lanes Group
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion of the Year
Adenike Akin-Dada - Financial Conduct Authority
Daniel Wood - National Gas
Isabella Andreadis Rocha - IBM
Engineer of the Year
Ben O'Neill - Nationwide
Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder – BT Group
Frank Aboki - Morgan Stanley
Garvin Kerins - Bank of England
Martha Taylor - PremFina
Neil Fowler - Rocket Software
Robert Clarke - Aviva
Sophie Daffern - PremFina
Sridharan Govindarajan - National Gas
Inspirational Individual of the Year
Aladdin Kashout - Morgan Stanley
Alina Timofeeva - Unique.Bold.You.
Amita Anderson - QBE
Arvinder Thandi – Nationwide Building Society
Cameron Clarke - Aviva IT Support
Denise Payne - Trusted Tech Team
Manohar Reddy - London Luton Airport
Menaka Sriskandarajah - Morgan Stanley
Vicky North - Aviva
Rising Star of the Year
Aday Nur – Insight
Jake Young - Hamilton Robson
James Skinner - IBM UK Ltd
Jared Parker QBE
Joey Deng - Morgan Stanley
Kenan Rexhepi, Bank of England
Nene Yamasaki - UK Power Networks
Nour Elhuda Zuraiki - IBM UK Ltd
Su Jiat Ong - Morgan Stanley
Tom Lutkins - Aviva
Security Professional of the Year
Alex Kent - QBE
Ikenna Umeh - BT
James Batten - National Gas
Jay Pandit - National Gas
John Sotiropoulos – Kainos
Justyna Larkowska - Everywhen
Kirsty Dalby - Unit4
Prof Victor Chang – Aston University
IT Leader of the Year
Ben Dove - Livingstone
James Snowdon - Indurent
Kate Platonova - Shell
Kiran Mahil - Nationwide Building Society
Martin Knoebel – UK Power Networks
Mo Dawood - Lanes Group
Peter Brown - Lloyds Banking Group
Richard Corbridge - Segro
Richard Murphy - National Gas
Russ Fry - PA Consulting
Organisation Excellence
Best Place to Work
Audacia
Aviva
BT - Openreach IT
Dunelm Technology
Fulcrum GT
Intercity Technology
KnowBe4
Mirus IT Solutions
Royal Air Force
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
EDF Energy
Insight
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Personalized Experiences and Communications(PEC)
Vodafone Business
Development Team of the Year
Aviva - Motor Modernisation
Catapult CX
Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - Control and Integration Lab – API
Nationwide Building Society - The Unisys Engineering Team
OASIS
OR NIA – Openreach Network Intelligence and Assurance
Rulebook
Tiny Digital Things
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
Bank of England - Assistive Technology Team
BT - Openreach
Fulcrum GT
Insight
Project Team of the Year
Aviva - Project Country
Bank of England - Digital Assurance and Productivity
Catapult CX Ltd
QBE - DORA Programme
Financial Conduct Authority
Lloyds Banking Group - Devices and Digital Experience Lab
Nationwide - The Passbook Modernisation Team
Superdrug
The Technology Transformation Group
UK Power Networks - Copilot Task Force
Services Company of the Year < 100 employees
Absoft
Akita
Audacia
Axiologik
NormCyber
Select Technology
Sereno IT Support
Texaport
Services Company of the Year > 100 employees
Air IT
ANS
Answer Digital
Apadmi
Arc
Block
Bridewell: Securing Critical National Infrastructure Through Service Excellence
Mirus IT Solutions
OneAdvanced - Managed IT Services
Zenitech
Team of the Year
Avanti West Coast
Aviva - Making it Click
Axiologik, BJSS (recently acquired by CGI), NHS England
Bank of England
Emerging Technology
Everywhen
Lanes Group
Nomical Ltd
Perform Partners – Racing Against Time to Achieve the Impossible in Global IT Transformation
WhiteSpider
Project Excellence
Best Applied AI Project of the Year
AtkinsRealis - AACC
Deutsche Bank - DB Lumina
Financial Conduct Authority - SHINE project
HMRC - Customs Declaration Service
Lebara - From Menu to Agentic
Marston Holdings - FREYA
Mitie plc - Autonomous AI Email Agent
SSE - Conversational Agents
Superdrug
UK Power Networks - Intelligent Connections Triage System
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year
Academy Achievers
BlueSkyCitadel and Jobrator
Node4 & Drone To Home: Enhancing animal rescue services
RSPCA - Digital Education Project
The Technology Transformation Group with the International Foundation for Aids to Navigation (IFAN)
Waythrough - IT & Digital Team - ourWaythrough: IT Unified
Wellcome - Transforming a charitable foundation’s network infrastructure through software-defined solutions
Data Science Project of the Year
AtkinsRealis - ARROW
dbt Labs - How LendInvest transformed data delivery in finance with dbt
Financial Conduct Authority - Understanding Connections
Lloyds Banking Group - Outcome Testing
Superdrug – Promotional Forecasting
West Midlands Police – Reducing knife crime with Esri UK geospatial insight
Xalient - MARTINA
Digital Transformation Project of the Year
AtkinsRealis - Digital Safety Case
CMC Partnership Consultancy Ltd and GDS - PCDHS
Colt Technology Services - Network Inventory Transformation
Culina Group Limited - Program WIRE
IFAN - MENAS LightDues Digital Transformation Project
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - BCB - Data and Pricing
Lloyds Banking Group & Tata Consultancy services
National Gas - Technology Separation Project
Superdrug - Promotional Forecasting
UK Power Networks - Project Spotlight
Financial Services Project of the Year
First Response Finance Ltd - Athena Decision Engine Development and Implementation
Financial Conduct Authority - My FCA project
iPensions Group - Reshaping the Potential of Technology in the Retirement Landscape
Lloyds Banking Group - Devices and Digital Experience
Nationwide - The Big Nationwide Thank You
RGA - Project Unity
Stanhope Insurance (part of Everywhen) in partnership with Brillio & Mendix
Healthcare Project of the Year
NHS Business Services Authority + Kainos
Princess Alexandra Hospital - Visibility Project
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - Rio - Safer, Standardised, Simpler
Superdrug
Public Sector Project of the Year
ANS in partnership with Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Informatics Service
Financial Conduct Authority - Digital Unified Intelligence Environment
HM Revenue and Customs - Customs Declaration Service Exports migration
Met Office and Esri UK - Helping local authorities tackle climate change
Network Enterprise Structures and Tunnels System
RAF Digital Reserves
Scottish Government Social Security Programme in partnership with IBM Consulting
The Business Services Organisation (BSO) - CoreLIMS Project
Technology Refresh Project of the Year
Avanti West Coast - Interactive Digital Help Point Refresh incorporating IVY AI
Aviva - Policy Admin System migration to MS Azure
Colt Technology Services - Network Inventory Transformation
Financial Conduct Authority - End User Compute Retender
International Foundation for Aids to Navigation (IFAN)
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Business & Commercial Banking - Digital Servicing
Network Rail & Cognizant - MyRoster
OR NIA – Openreach Network Intelligence and Assurance
Perform Partners – Urgent Large-Scale Technology Refresh
UK Power Networks - Smart Voltage
Technology Excellence
AI Innovation of the Year
AISOC
Civo
ConnexAI
Content Guru
Darktrace
Digitate
DVSA & Kainos
MHRA & Audacia
SeeChange
Spherica Business Solution
Cloud Technology of the Year
Arc
BlakYaks
Content Guru
Hyve Managed Hosting
Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - Data,Database and Storage Lab - Data Engineering
Lloyds Banking Group in partnership with Publicis Sapient
National Gas
PEGA8
Prism by Trustmarque
Sitecore XM Cloud
Mobile Innovation of the Year
Appdome
Avanti West Coast
Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - Digital Customer Waterfront
Lloyds Banking Group - Mobile App Simulator
Story Engine - Mobile Innovation for Visitor attractions
Security Innovation of the Year
Appdome
Bridewell: Securing Critical National Infrastructure Through AI Innovation
BT Research
Darktrace
Dragnet - Web Phishing Net
Immersive
Intigriti
KnowBe4
NETSCOUT
Sonatype AI SCA - Securing the open source AI supply chain
Sustainable Innovation of the Year
GoCodeGreen
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Personalized Experiences and Communications(PEC)
Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - Container Lab (K8)
The Technology Transformation Group
Technology Innovation of the Year
Bridgeworks Ltd
Creative Canvas
Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - BCB - Merchant Onboarding
ManagementStudio
MITIE
Vendor of the Year
ABBYY
BigHand
Content Guru
Fulcrum GT
KnowBe4
The access Group
Trusted Tech Team
Xiatech Limited