2025 WINNERS
Organisation Excellence
Best Place to Work
Winner: Audacia
Highly commended: Royal Air Force
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Winner: EDF Energy
Development Team of the Year
Winner: Nationwide Building Society - The Unisys Engineering Team
Highly commended: OASIS
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
Winner: Insight
Highly commended: Bank of England - Assistive Technology Team
Project Team of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group – App Redesign Programme by Devices and Digital Experience Lab
Highly commended: Aviva - Project Country
Services Company of the Year < 100 employees
Winner: Axiologik
Highly commended: Audacia
Services Company of the Year > 100 employees
Winner: Bridewell: Securing Critical National Infrastructure Through Service Excellence
Highly commended: Answer Digital
Team of the Year
Winner: WhiteSpider
Highly commended: Bank of England
Vendor of the Year
Winner: Content Guru
Highly commended: Fulcrum GT
Project Excellence
Best Applied AI Project of the Year
Winner: Superdrug
Highly commended: Marston Holdings - FREYA
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year
Winner: Waythrough - IT & Digital Team - ourWaythrough: IT Unified
Highly commended: RSPCA - Digital Education Project
Data Science Project of the Year
Winner: West Midlands Police – Reducing knife crime with Esri UK geospatial insight
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis – ARROW
Digital Transformation Project of the Year
Winner: Digital Service & CMC Partnership Consultancy - gov.uk adoption
Highly commended: AtkinsRealis: Digital Safety Case
Financial Services Project of the Year
Winner: First Response Finance Ltd - Athena Decision Engine Development and Implementation
Highly commended: Stanhope Insurance (part of Everywhen) in partnership with Brillio & Mendix
Public Sector Project of the Year
Winner: Financial Conduct Authority - Digital Unified Intelligence Environment
Highly commended: Scottish Government Social Security Programme in partnership with IBM Consulting
Technology Refresh Project of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Business & Commercial Banking - Digital Servicing
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group
Technology Excellence
AI Innovation of the Year
Winner: Darktrace
Highly commended: Spherica Business Solution
Cloud Technology of the Year
Winner: BlakYaks
Highly commended: National Gas
Mobile Innovation of the Year
Winner: Lloyds Banking Group and Publicis Sapient - Digital Customer Waterfront
Highly commended: Story Engine - Mobile Innovation for Visitor Attractions
Security Innovation of the Year
Winner: Intigriti
Highly commended: Immersive
Sustainable Innovation of the Year
Winner: GoCodeGreen
Highly commended: The Technology Transformation Group
Technology Innovation of the Year
Winner: Bridgeworks Ltd
Highly commended: ManagementStudio
Personal Excellence
Apprentice of the Year
Winner: Tiarnan Crosbie - Hamilton Robson
Highly commended: Anas Shiham - IBM
Business Analyst of the Year
Winner: Mohit Jain - Cognizant
Highly commended: Andrew Sinclair - Financial Conduct Authority
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion of the Year
Adenike Akin-Dada - Financial Conduct Authority
Engineer of the Year
Winner: Martha Taylor - PremFina
Highly commended: Garvin Kerins, Bank of England
Inspirational Individual of the Year
Winner: Cameron Clarke - Aviva IT Support
Highly commended: Aladdin Kashout - Morgan Stanley
Rising Star of the Year
Winner: James Skinner - IBM UK Ltd
Highly commended: Nene Yamasaki - UK Power Networks
Security Professional of the Year
Winner: Ikenna Umeh - BT
Highly commended: John Sotiropoulos - Kainos
IT Leader of the Year
Winner: Peter Brown - Lloyds Banking Group
Highly commended: Martin Knoebel – UK Power Networks