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

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 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 – 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