Shortlist announced for the UK IT Awards
After much deliberation, the shortlist for the UK's biggest IT awards has been announced - are you in with a chance?
After going through many excellent entries, we have now announced the shortlist for the 35th annual UK IT Awards.
Celebrating the best of the industry, the Awards focus on the contribution of individuals, projects, organisations and technologies that have excelled in the use, development and deployment of IT in the past 12 months.
Judging will be held on the 22nd September, with the ceremony taking place at the Battersea Park Events Arena in London, on the 15th November.
Click here or see below to view the shortlist, or click here to book a table.
Good luck to all of our entrants!
Personal Excellence
Business Analyst of the Year
- Drew Dadds, Financial Conduct Authority
- Ross Fyfe, Nationwide
- Mayuri Gupta, Centrica
- Charles Jenkins, QBE European Operations
- Rohan Kapoor , National Grid
- Christina O'Reilly, Vodafone UK
- Stefan Witkowski, The Financial Services Compensation Scheme
CIO of the Year
- Andrew de Bray, Factum
- Peter Josse, Barclays UK Technology
- Tom Meade, Registers of Scotland
- Chris Price, IICSA
- Dave Roberts, Radius Payment Solutions
IT Apprentice of the Year
- Olivia Beech, AXA Insurance
- James Dermody, RAF Cosford Museum
- Jamie Edge, Barclays UK Technology
- Callum Herbert, National Grid
- Haydn Johnston, Kainos
- Mike Murray, HMRC
- Steven O'Connor, Centrica
- Sam Perry, Vodafone UK
IT Manager of the Year
- Melanie Calver, Prosperity Technology
- Joanna Connew, HMRC
- Andy Garrett, Lookers Group
- Mhairi Graham, Vodafone UK
- Karen Mace, University of Derby
- Lucie Ryan, Vodafone UK
- Avi Sengupta, Centrica
- Tim Steele, National Grid
- Jason Weir, Science Museum Group
- Phil Winfield, XL Catlin
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
- Kieran Brown, Lloyds Banking Group
- David Bucke, Mirus
- Gareth Davies, Lloyds Banking Group
- Sarah Ford, Barclays UK Technology
- Alex Pelsis, Lloyds Banking Group
- Anand Rajasekhar, Centrica
- Jonathan Ridyard, National Grid
- Harmony Sabum, Performanta
- Natalie Trindle, Wipro
- Luke Williams, University of Derby
Young IT Professional of the Year
- Abdul Al-Tayib, Travis Perkins
- Giulio Bontadini, Procter and Gamble
- Alex Browne, HMRC
- Lauren James, Content Guru
- Katerina Kostopoulou, National Grid
- Luke McNeice, Kainos
- Barnaby Morton-Woodruff, XMA
- Damon Neale, Mediate Solutions
- Andrew Starkey, BT
- Danny Warren, Lloyds Banking Group
Organisational Excellence
Best place to work in IT 2017
- Air-IT
- AO
- Barclays UK Technology
- Company85
- Ensono
- Equal Experts
- FDM Group
- Kainos
- Lloyds Banking Group
- RockIT
IT Project Team of the Year
- Barclays UK Technology
- Centrica
- Deutsche Bank
- Dwr Cymru Welsh Water
- Greenlight Commerce
- HMRC - Automation Delivery Centre (ADC)
- HMRC- SAP estate
- MooD International Software & HPE (Alcatel-Lucent)
- SGN
- Superfast Essex - Essex County Council
IT Team of the Year
- AO
- Centrica
- Deutsche Bank
- Heathrow Airport
- ITV Studios
- Lloyds Banking Group, The Colleague, Capability and Culture team
- Lloyds Banking Group, Colleague IT Service Desk (CITSD)
- PPL UK
- Travis Perkins
- University of Derby
Services Company of the Year
- Ancoris
- Claranet
- Company85
- FDM Group
- Littlefish
- Mirus
- NetSupport
- Retail Assist
- Shift F7
- Zen Internet
Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
- Cisilion
- Factum
- Maximise IT Solutions
- Nalytics
- Panintelligence
- the pure technology group
- XMA
Project Excellence
Best IoT Project of the Year
- British Gas: Enabling IoT offering via Subscription Proposition - HIVE Subscription
- BT: IoT-Enhanced Building Management System
- BT: BT Sense
- IMS Evolve: Dell EMC / IMS Evolve cold chain IoT solution
Best Not for Profit IT project
- Ayrshire College: VDI and thin client technology
- Digital Transformation Service: PSNI and DTS, Firearms Licensing Online
- Edinburgh Napier University: Research Management System
- HMRC: HMRC Columbus Programme
- Lifetime Learning Charity: Developing Software to Transform Progress Analysis to Support Special Schools
- NHS Digital: Project SOAP (Service Optimisation Agile Project)
- Royal Borough of Greenwich Council: Family Intelligence Hub
- Royal National Institute of Blind People: RNIB and Semafone: curing the PCI DSS compliance headache of using contact centre homeworkers
- The British Heart Foundation: The British Heart Foundation and Semafone: achieving PCI DSS compliance and securing payment card data
- The Financial Services Compensation Scheme: Operational Priorities Project
Best Use of Cloud Services
- Ancoris: SYNLAB Laboratory Services and Ancoris: Safeguard
- Content Guru: storm CONTACT - Passenger Assist
- Greenlight Commerce & The British Home Store: Bringing BHS back online in just seven weeks
- Home Office: Immigration Technology Cloud Transformation Project
- Kaseya: Kaseya VSA has transformed the way Vue Cinemas manages its infrastructure
- Methods & FinancialForce: Project Spring
- National Grid: Salesforce National Grid Initiative
- Navisite: Mortgage Brain gain flexibility and scalability to meet existing and future client needs with Navisite cloud migration
- risual: helping UKEF transform into a cloud first organisation
- SGN: Totally cloud, totally transformed
Big Data/Analytics Project of the Year
- Allstate: Allstate Encompass Pricing Engine
- BT: Proactively Improving Customer Experience through Machine Learning
- BT: MattPack - The Google Maps of Fibre
- Financial Conduct Authority: FCA Order-Book project
- Project EU Using business analytics to deliver Executive Management visibility to the infrastructure portfolio
- The Improvement Service: Data Hub
- UK Power Networks: Geospatial Analytics
Cybersecurity Project of the Year
- Allstate: Allstate Cybersecurity - Cybersecurity is everyones responsibility
- CNS Group: SSE Enterprise Telecoms CAS(T) & CyberEssentials: Plus Project
- DWP and Capgemini: DWP Cybersecurity Programme - Technology and Human Excellence
- Heathrow Airport: Heathrow's Cyber Security Change Programme
- One Identity: One Identity creates "Centralised Identity Service" for Sky
- SGN: How cyber security is future proofing our business
- University of Derby: Project HORUS
- Xoserve: Cyber Security Campaign
Digital Project of the Year
- British Gas: British Gas Contract and Sales Management Project
- Equal Experts: Informa & Equal Experts
- Fat Media: YOTEL Website Development by Fat Media
- Financial Conduct Authority: FCA Website
- HMRC: HMRC API Platform
- Instart Logic and Office Depot: Instart Logic AppSpeed deployment for Office Depot and Viking web sites
- News UK: The Sun - Enabling a Digital Future through technology and change
Workplace Transformation Project of the Year
- Ancoris, SYNLAB Laboratory Services and Ancoris: Safeguard - bespoke mobile worker automation solution to deliver a full scale workplace transformation
- Co-op Funeralcare/Equal Experts: Co-op Funeralcare/Equal Experts
- Deutsche Bank: dbPalace
- Heathrow Airport: Heathrow's Digital Workplace Programme
- Hovis Bakery and UpClear: Hovis Bakery Business Transformation Project, enabled by UpClear's BluePlanner Solution.
- Radius Payment Solution: Cisco Contact Centre Telephony Solution & Managed Wide Area Network
- Shift F7: Shift F7 Workplace Transformation Project
- University of Derby: Desktop Transformation
- Vodafone UK: FixIT Programme
- Yodel Delivery Network: Workplace Transformation Project
Technology Excellence
Business IT Innovation of the Year
- AT&T
- Dixons Carphone
- Gatwick Airport
- LoopUp
- Maximise IT
- StrategyBlocks
- Trellisworks
- Vodafone UK
- YUDU
- Zoho
Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year
- Ascertia
- BlackLine
- BT
- Crimson
- FinancialForce
- iCloudHosting
- Natterbox
- Pirean
- UKCloud
- Zadara Storage
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
- BT
- Capgemini
- Cradlepoint
- DWP Digital & IBM
- Geeks
- Hyperoptic
- Romonet
- Silver Peak
- Sudlows
- Tegile Systems
Mobile App of the Year
- Ancoris
- Belfast Metropolitan College
- BT
- DOGFI.SH Mobile
- Gatwick Airport
- Hargreaves Lansdown
- Heathrow Airport
- Karedo
- Marston group
- risual
Security Innovation of the Year
- Arbor Networks
- Darktrace
- Egress Software Technologies
- Foregenix
- Glasswall Solutions
- Mimecast
- MobileIron
- Veracode
- Wavex Technology
- Xanadata
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- BigHand
- BT Research & Innovation
- Ieso Digital Health
- iStorage
- Loughborough University
- Parallel AI
- Tech Essence
- Undo
- UX Forms/Equal Experts
- Zizo
Vendor of the Year 2017
- Advanced
- Amazon Web Services
- Avecto
- Egress Software Technologies
- iStorage
- Kainos