Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
The Digital Technology Leaders Awards, dedicated to people and companies rather than platforms and tools, are now in their third year, and for 2019 moved to a new venue at the glamorous Hilton London Bankside.
With 25 categories and hundreds of entries, the event was a great success. The judges faced some incredibly difficult decisions, but whether they won or not, all attendees enjoyed the networking, comedy and - of course - refreshments.
Guests began arriving at 18:30 sharp, to a champagne reception and music provided by All Covered Up.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Everyone made the most of the opportunity to reconnect with their peers and form new contacts.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Then it was time for guests to take their seats for dinner. Computing's Tom Allen welcomed all attendees with a speech about the state of digital in the workplace and the challenges to watch for, as well as introducing our charity partner for the night: The Connection at St Martin's.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
After the three-course meal, giving everyone a chance to unwind and enjoy themselves, comedian Stephen Bailey took to the stage. A proud northerner, he described Blackpool as "Vegas meets Chernobyl" before admitting that he had emigrated to Oval (or "Oh-val").
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Finally, it was time for the awards. The audience waited with bated breath to hear Stephen Bailey announce the winner of the first prize: Digital Team of the Year. Good Energy walked away with the trophy, as well as - shortly afterwards - Best Place to Work in Digital - Large Organisations.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Godel Technologies Europe won Digital Service Company of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Digital Transformation of the Year - Large Organisations went to Worldline IT Services UK&I.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
HSBC won Project Team of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Senseon scored two wins: the first for Development Team of the Year and the second for Machine Learning / AI Project of the Year. The company also performed well at the following day's AI & Machine Learning Awards, taking two more gongs: one for Outstanding Automation Security and the other for Best Emerging Technology in AI.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
DWP Digital won the prize for Best Automation Project.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Security Project of the Year went to YUDU.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Homelync, appropriately, took home Big Data / IoT Project of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
The judges chose Staffordshire University as the winner of Best Not-for-Profit Project.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Another double winner was Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, winning Best Public Sector Digital Project and Best Large Enterprise Digital Project.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Highways England and CACI impressed the judges enough to be named the winner of Best Small to Medium Digital Project.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Health organisations turned out to be major innovators, with Mobile Project of the Year going to Barts Health NHS Trust and Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Moving on to the individual awards, history repeated itself with the first going to Good Energy: specifically, BI Developer Harry Knight, who was named Data Analyst of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Adrian James, from Worldline IT Services UK&I Ltd, became our DevOps Leader of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
The Digital Hero of the Year Award goes to young people who have made a difference in the workplace, and we were pleased to present the 2019 award to Oladapo Adedeji, Emerging Technologist at Barclays UK.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Antonio Tella of TotallyMoney was named Product Manager of the Year.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Our Scrum Master of the Year was Robin Lewis of Somo.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Our penultimate award of the night was Young Digital Professional of the Year, which deservedly went to Joe Peskett, Data Scientist at the Office for National Statistics.
Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2019 - the best photos from the big night
The awards celebrate people and projects - were you one of them?
Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, won two individual awards through the night: Digital Ambassador of the Year, as well as the prestigious CDO of the Year title - the last award of the evening.
As Dr Chaudry could not attend, both trophies were collected on his behalf.
And those are our winners! The Digital Technology Leaders Awards will return in 2020, bigger and better than ever.