AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

The AI industry was out in full force at the first ever AI and Machine Learning Awards last night, held at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in Knightsbridge.

The quality of entries, especially for a first-year event, was extremely high, with all of the judges commenting on how difficult it was to choose winners in their categories.

Data scientist-turned-comedian Nigel Ng joked about Hadoop, self-driving cars and AI buzzwords, keeping everyone laughing throughout the night.

Guests arrived to a champagne reception.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

As guests sat down, Computing's Tom Allen gave an opening speech covering the great strides that AI has enabled, as well as the need for transparency and ethics in both industrial and social approaches to the technology.

Then it was time for dinner!

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Nigel Ng kept everyone entertained before beginning the serious part of the evening, kicking off by saying that the earliest self-driving cars will be about as helpful as Microsoft's Clippy: "'I'm having a heart attack - take me to the hospital!' - car drives to a funeral parlour - 'Sorry mate, roadworks, I've calculated you're not going to make it.'"

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Finally, it was time for the awards to begin, kicking off with Best Use of Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics, which went to Jaywing for its Archetype AI modelling software.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Automation Anywhere was a double winner, taking home Best RPA Project for GSK's RPA Journey with Automation Anywhere, and Best Robotic Process Automation Solution for The Automation Anywhere Platform.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Senseon was another double winner, securing awards for Outstanding Automation Security and Best Emerging Technology in AI.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Ultima took Best Use of Automation.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

The Outstanding Data Analytics Solution Award went to Apptio.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Our last double-winner of the night was the combined force of EBTIC and BT, whose Intuitu (intelligent warehouse deployment) platform secured a win in Outstanding AI/ML Project and Most Innovative Use of AI/ML.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Next we moved on to EVE by TechSee, which won Most Innovative AI Solution.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

JDA and Blue Yonder's 'Helping Retailers Predict What's Next' tool won Most Innovative ML Solution.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

In the individual awards, Ryan Jessop of Clicksco Group won Data Scientist of the Year...

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

... And Vidhyalakshmi Karthikeyan of BT, highly commended in the previous category, secured her place as the AI Professional of the Year.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Synectics Solutions was proud to have won AI/ML Team of the Year.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Best AI Startup went to University of Oxford spin-out Mind Foundry.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

UiPath won Automation Technology Provider of the Year.

AI & Machine Learning Awards 2019 - in pictures

All the best photos of a great night for the industry - including our gallery of winners

Our final award of the night, AI Technology Provider of the Year - Products, went to Pure Storage.

A huge congratulations again to all of our winners, and we hope to see the progress you have made in your work next year for the AI & Machine Learning Awards 2020!