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
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
E.ON UK Tiny Digital Things
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
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 - App Redesign Programme by 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
E.ON UK 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 & Publicis Sapient - 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 - MENAS LightDues App
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
The Technology Transformation Group: MENAS LightDues Digital Transformation Project
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient – Merchant Pricing Transformation with Data
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
Princess Alexandra Hospital - Visibility Project
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - Rio - Safer, Standardised, Simpler
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 Rail and Cognizant - 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 Solutions
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 – Core Banking
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