2026 SHORTLIST
Organisational Excellence
Development Team of the Year
Aker Systems – supporting UK police & law enforcement with next gen National Strategic
ANPR Platform
Aviva
Home Office - LEDS / NTT DATA External Interfaces Development Team
JPMorganChase - Internal Fintech Accelerator
Lloyds Banking Group – The SmartContract Team
Lloyds Banking Group – The Scottish Widows Games and Gamification Development Team
Nationwide Building Society
SEGRO Plc
Aviva - SCMDM
Triad Group Plc and The Office for Product Safety and Standards
Learning Provider or Initiative of the Year
Aviva AI Academy
Cambridge Spark
Code First Girls
DataCamp
Kaplan Financial
Nationwide Building Society & SAP Fioneer
NeuroInclusion Works.
npower Business Solutions
SEGRO Plc - Digital Academy
UST – AccelerateUS®
Best Place to Work
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HM Land Registry
Ridge & Partners
Sharp
The Access Group
TXP Technology x People
Web Alliance
Vendor of the Year
ControlUp
Dext
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inforcer
Mark43
Yubico
Project Team of the Year – (Enterprise)
Bank of England
Driver & Vehicle Agency (DVA)
Heathrow Airport Limited
IBM Consulting with Nationwide Building Society and Virgin Money
JPMorganChase - Internal Fintech Accelerator
Nationwide Building Society - Integration Enablement Squad
NHS England - Navigation and Onboarding team in partnership with IBM Consulting
npower Business Solutions
Probation Digital, Ministry of Justice
TalkTalk U project team, TalkTalk
Nationwide Building Society - Unisys Heritage Simplification (UHS) Team
Virgin Media O2 & Accenture
Project Team of the Year – (SME)
Aptia
Merit Data and Technology - Project Team
Sharp
Zenitech
Services Company of the Year – (Enterprise)
2i
A-LIGN
Advania UK
ANS – Making technology accessible to all
Intercity
Merit Data and Technology Limited
Namos Solutions
OneAdvanced IT Services
Restore Technology
Sharp
Services Company of the Year – (SME)
A&A Digital Tech Limited
Onefile
Darwin Technology Solutions
Logixal Document Solutions
Shivom Consultancy Limited
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
HSBC UK
Met Office
The Access Group
Team of the Year
Bridewell - Cyber Security Team
Buro Happold
EIT Business Applications
ITV
McLaren Construction Limited
Nationwide in Partnership with IBM
The Core Banking CIO Team, Nationwide Building Society
Virgin Media O2 and Accenture
Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Content Guru Ltd
Defra
UBDS Digital
Technology Excellence
AI Innovation of the Year - (Large Organisations)
Agentic Business Intelligence
Google Cloud and THG Conversational AI Shopping Assistant on Gemini Enterprise
HM Land Registry
HMRC - GenAI Landing Zone: Advancing AI Innovation at Scale
Lloyds Banking Group + IBM Consulting
Oasis Platform & AI Gateway
Sopra Steria - Reimagining Recruitment - AIsha, Your Assessment Buddy
The Access Group
Vodafone’s AI Orchestration Transformation with Workato
AI Innovation of the Year - (Small to Medium Organisations)
2i
Content Guru Ltd
Darktrace
Dext
Exponentia.ai
Merit Data and Technology Limited - Know It All Agent (KIAA)
OrBro Ltd
VisualSpec AI by Geeks Ltd
Xiatech
Security Innovation of the Year
BTIIC - British Telecom Ireland Innovation Centre
Darktrace
inforcer
OPSWAT
Outbreach
TrustLayer
UST and Boots Partnership for IT Security Operations
Cloud Technology of the Year
Cloud Hosting Team - Nationwide Building Society
Data Communications Company (DCC) & Capgemini
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HM Land Registry
Hyve Managed Hosting
IRIS Elements - IRIS Software Group
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Lloyds OS Hub - AOV Modernisation
Nationwide Building Society
Special Award: Sustainable Innovation of the Year
Winner to be announced on the night
Project Excellence
Charity (Third Sector) Project of the Year
East of England Tech Community
GS1 UK
Moat
Digital Transformation Project of the Year – (Large End User Group)
Fire and Rescue Data Platform - FaRDaP
HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
ITVX - Journey-Led Reorganisation and the Pioneering 2% Experimentation Framework
Nationwide in Partnership with IBM
NatWest & NetOrca - Self-Service Infrastructure Automation at Scale
Ministry of Justice - Network Operations Centre (NOC), Digital Infrastructure & Security Operations
Openreach - H2O (Horizontal Hub and Orchestration)
Nationwide Building Society - Mortgages Completions Manager Multi-Cloud Resiliency Project
Defra - The Border Trade Matching Service
The Perfume Shop
Digital Transformation Project of the Year – (Small to Medium End User Group)
ANS - Becoming our own Customer Zero to drive responsible AI adoption
Bank of England - Project Vanilla
BTIIC – British Telecom Ireland Innovation Centre - RP6: Autonomous IoT Orchestration for Zero Touch Onboarding and Smart Port Digital Transformation
Cynergy Bank | AiMe - Transforming SME Lending Using AI
npower Business Solutions - Transition to Product Ways of Working
TalkTalk Business – Finalising a landmark demerger with a £15m operations transformation
Public Sector Project of the Year
Bank of England - Bank of England Automated Testing Solution (BEATS)
CymruSOC - Wales' National Security Operations Centre
DVLA - Transforming Drivers Medical & Drivers Casework Services
IBCA - Establishing a national compensation service
HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
Metropolitan Police Service - Introducing the DASO Passport - Supporting Victims of Domestic Abuse and Sexual Offences
Met Office
Small Island, Big Infrastructure
Social Security Scotland - The Programme
Wigan Council & Destin Solutions - Single View of Business
Best Applied AI Project of the Year
Aviva
BTIIC - BT Ireland Innovation Centre - AI-driven Contract Lifecycle Management
Evri
The Department for Work and Pensions with IBM Consulting
Eleclink – AMAI (Advanced Monitoring and Asset Intelligence): AI-Powered Cable Inspection for the Channel Tunnel Interconnector
Google Cloud and Rightmove - Conversational Property Search
Lifeways - AI Support Plan Quality Checker
Nationwide Building Society in Partnership with IBM – Applied AI Migration Factory
Openreach in partnership with Infosys - HUD (Heads Up Display) From Insights to Autonomous Action – Transforming CP Experience at Scale
Openreach - NexAgent: AI-Driven Field Allocation Intelligence
Technology Refresh Project of the Year
WD and Dropbox - Magic Pocket - achieving exabyte scale with high-density hard disk drive
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) & PA Consulting - Decommissioning and Legacy Risk Mitigation (DLRM) Programme
HM Land Registry - Network Optimisation Project
HMRC - VAT Mainframe Closure
Lloyds Banking Group & Publicis Sapient - Lloyds OS Hub - AOV Modernisation
Nationwide Building Society - Engineering-led transformation, turning legacy cost and key-person risk into scalable, resilient capability
Nationwide Building Society - Replatforming Nationwide’s SBS Mortgage and Savings Suite into Nationwide AWS Hosted Solution
UST and Boots Partnership - Project Ocean
UST and Experian Partnership - Data Office Business Unit
WorkNest Secure
Personal Excellence
Engineer of the Year
Ellie Robertson - E.ON UK
Emily Lopez Andrews - Bank of England
George Hewitt – WhiteSpider
Joseph Golding - Arup
Mac Bhakta - E.ON UK Limited
Milan Parikh - Oracle
Vijay Thiagarajan - Nationwide Building Society
Olga Vitkalova - Morgan Stanley
Sergio Solorzano - Bank of England
Inspirational Individual of the Year
Anastasiia Gorodetckaia - Lloyds Banking Group
Carolyn Caudwell - Bank of England
Dr. Jorge Fernando Alves Guedes - Founder of the Workshop Society, Academic and Executive Consultant
Hema Sood – Morgan Stanley
Ikenna Umeh - BT Group
Melissa Di Donato - Kyriba
Laura Coe - Nationwide Building Society
Tyron Raubenheimer – Sharp
Business Analyst of the Year
Emma Myers - Bank of England
Grace Wood – Bank of England
Imran Mirza - Bank of England
Ravi Sud – KPMG
Chartered Technology Professional of the Year
Charles Ewen - Met Office
Dinesh Chacko - Oldfield Builds Limited
Professor Victor Chang – Aston University
Steve Jenkins – Snap Surveys Ltd
Rising Star of the Year
Amber Johnson - Morgan Stanley
Antoine Rubeiz – IBM Consulting UK
Arron Ruecroft – Ministry of Justice
Aurelia Brzezowska - University of Staffordshire
Finn Mullen – IBM Consulting UK
Harriet Griffin – IBM Consulting UK
Michael McDonagh - Arup
Toby Davey - WhiteSpider
Xinyi Xu - Morgan Stanley
IT Leader of the Year
Jennifer Scott – NatWest Group
Joanne Gurton - Bank of England
Kate Platonova - Shell
Melissa Fogwill - Henderson Loggie
Paul Johnston - Logixal Document Solutions
Prithiviraj Kumar Chintadripet Nandagopal - Bank of England
Richard Corbridge – SEGRO Plc
Robert Wrench - McLaren Construction Group
Sangeeth Manoharan – Marstons Holdings
Apprentice of the Year
Adebusiola Ola-Adebomi - PA Consulting
Fabiana Rushforth - Lloyds Banking Group
Habiba Noor - Bank of England
Lili Berenyi - Made Tech
Luka Curtis - McLaren Construction Group
Olivia O'Sullivan - AtkinsRéalis
Samuel Goddard-Palmer – AtkinsRéalis
Tayab Khan - Bank of England