UK IT Industry Awards 2018: Shortlist announced
The UK's most distinguished IT event returns for its 36th edition - did you make the list?
Computing, in association with BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, has announced the shortlist for this year's UK IT Industry Awards: the biggest and most prestigious event of the IT calendar.
Covering a whole spectrum of IT achievements from personal, organisational, project and technology standpoints, the Awards recognise the very best that the industry has to offer - simply being shortlisted is something to be proud of.
Next to come is the judging day in mid-September, when our expert judges will choose the winners. They will be announced at a glittering ceremony in Battersea Park Events Arena on the 14th of November, with a host of other entertainment for good measure.
Remember to book your table so that you can be there on the night to enjoy unmatched opportunities for dining, networking, entertainment and - if you truly are exceptional - collect your prize.
Good luck!
Personal Excellence
Business Analyst of the Year
- Margaret Battensby, HMRC
- Danielle Harley, Allianz Insurance
- Charles Jenkins, QBE
- Nicola Joy, QBE
- Arjun Kondisetti, Cognizant Technology Solutions
- Kamini Kumaran,BP
- Ranvir Rai, Deloitte MCS
- Su Taylor, University of Derby
- Jason Wood, Nationwide Building Society
CIO of the Year
- Dr Jacob Abboud, Allianz Insurance
- Steven Capper, Royal BAM Group
- Richard Corbridge, NHS Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
- Adam Gerrard, Yodel Delivery Network
- Ian Penny, Hiscox
- Chris Reynolds, Pennine Care NHS FT
- Duncan Stott Kier
- John Sullivan, Virgin Trains
IT Apprentice of the Year
- Chris Bubloz,Orbis IT & Digital, Brighton & Hove City Council
- Michael Griffin, Lloyds Banking Group
- George Hudson, Mirus IT
- Charlie Lennon, risual
- Blake Meyrick, HMRC
- Gus Parkhouse, IBM
- Alex Pedersen, Allianz
- Robin Proudfoot, National Grid
- Thomas Sherlock, IBM UK
- Hannah Surry, Lloyds Banking Group
IT Manager of the Year
- Gaurav Bhardwaj, BP
- Paul Calvert, NHS North of England Commissioning Support
- Mark Castro, Daisy Group
- Chrissie Felthouse, University of Derby
- Laura Firth, Allianz Insurance
- Adam Hett, Picsolve International
- Tim Piper, QBE
- Andrew Sheppard, HMRC
IT Service & Support Professional of the Year
- Sam Dart, Sovereign Housing Assocation
- John Fenlon,QBE
- Nick Gee, risual
- Vivek Godyani , Mastek
- Rhys Harris, Content Guru
- Melanie Holley, Radius Payment Solutions
- Olly Hosken, HMRC
- Dumitru Reaboi, Plan-Net
Young IT Professional of the Year
- Richard Baines, HMRC
- Sebastian Gallego Jimenez, QBE
- Piotr Grzeskowiak, Automation Logic
- Anna Hackett Boyle, Automation Logic
- George Hill, HMRC
- Harry McLaren, ECS Security
- Rachel Rajkumar, Content Guru
- Alin Rohnean, Atkins
- Ekaterini Tasiopoulou, IBM
- Alex Young, ECS Security
Organisational Excellence
Best Place to Work in IT 2018
- Automation Logic
- Box UK
- Company85
- Datto, Inc.
- Ensono
- HMRC
- Mirus IT Solutions
- RockIT
- Royal College of Nursing
- Softcat Plc
Development Team of the Year
- EA Games and CloudBees
- Mayden
- Picsolve International
- Royal London
- Speechmatics
- The Accenture London Liquid Studio and CloudBees
- TrakCel
- Yodel Delivery Network
IT Project Team of the Year
- Anglian Water
- BP
- Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland)
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Kainos
- Lloyds Banking Group
- Lookers Plc
- Parcelforce
- Post Office
- Sky
IT Team of the Year
- Centrica
- Deutsche Bank
- Heathrow / Capgemini
- HMRC - The Platform Group
- HMRC - DRM Team
- Picsolve International
- Royal London
- Surrey County Coucil
- Virgin Trains
- Vodafone UK
Services Company of the Year
- Company85
- DCSL Software
- Derive Logic
- MANAGED 24/7 Ltd
- Mirus IT Soultions
- NetSupport
- Performanta
- Retail Assist Limited
- RFA
- Sopra Steria
Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
- Accedia
- DCSL Software
- GuideSmiths
- REPL Group
- Satchel
- Vivantio
Project Excellence
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) Project of the Year
- Barclays - GTIS Enterprise Data Analytics and Reporting team
- MMT Digital - Vodafone TOBi Sales Chatbot
- Kainos - Intelligent Risk Ratings that Improve Road Safety
- Luminance Technologies - Luminance - the AI platform for the legal profession.
Best IoT Project of the Year
- BT - IoT Security Platform
- BT - SeeSense Smart Cycling Manchester
- Heat Genius - Genius Control saves taxpayer's money with automatic heating controls
- IMS Evolve - IMS Evolve IoT Energy Solution
Best Not for Profit IT Project of the Year
- Belfast Health & Care Trust - NISTAR eHealth Solution
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - Digital Ward - Therapeutic and physical Observations
- Edinburgh Napier University - LapSafe Self-Service Laptop Loans Project
- Egress Software Technologies - Operation SNAP
- HMRC - Portal Rehoming Project
- Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust - PPM+ - An Electronic Health Record
- NHS NECS - NHS Wi-Fi - Paving the way for Digital Patient Care
- Pennine Care Foundation Trust - Improving Community Clinical Recording and Information Exchange
- Post Office - Network Transition Programme
- Sovereign Housing Association - Sovereign Housing Customer Portal
Best Use of Cloud Services
- Content Guru - storm® Citizen Engagement Hub®
- CTIL - City of London Wireless Concessions
- Daisy Group - Costain
- HMRC - Portal Rehoming Project
- Royal Dutch Shell - Travel and Entertainment Next Generation Project at Shell
- Welsh Revenue Authority - Welsh Revenue Authority and Kainos
- Yodel Delivery Network - Project Nubilum
Cybersecurity Project of the Year
- ECS Security Ltd - Managed Security Service for a Luxury Goods' Retailer
- HMRC - SMiShing
- Radius Payment Solutions - Project Obsequio
- Royal London - User Behaviour Analytics (UBA)
Digital Project of the Year
- Anglian Water - Developer Services Digital Transformation Programme
- Box UK/RS Components - RS Components DesignSpark
- BP - BPMe - Fuel Payment
- Hermes UK - HERMES UK Digital advancement programme - Digital Futures.
- Mastek - Together
- University of Derby - Portal Replacement Project (UDo)
Enterprise Data / Analytics Project of the Year
- BT - BT Billing Analytics
- Gatwick Airport - Operational Performance Management (OPM) System Upgrade
- HMRC - Threat Hunting
- Orwell Group with Hortonworks
- SIG - SIG moves to hybrid cloud architecture with SnapLogic
- Tessella and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - NERC DATALABS - Virtual Research Environment for Environmental Science
- Travelport - Rich Content and Branding (RC&B) Data Analytics project.
- University of Derby - Learning Analytics and Machine Learning to improve Digital Teaching Practice
- Zurich Insurance UK - Data Transformation - The Strategic Data Asset
Workplace Transformation Project of the Year
- Driver and Vehicle Agency (Northern Ireland) - The Driving Examiners' Digital Solution (DEDS)
- Heathrow Airport Ltd - Digital Workplace Programme
- HMRC - HMRC Workplace Transformation
- Silver Peak, Mazars deploys hybrid WAN with Silver Peak SD-WAN solution
Technology Excellence
Business IT Innovation of the Year
- 360Globalnet - 360SiteView
- Centrica - Global Supply Chain planning implementation for Centrica HIVE
- Evo-soft - Evo-auction from Evo-soft Limited
- Thoughtonomy - The Virtual Workforce
- ServiceNow - Virgin Trains: Redefining the Rail Experience
- Speechmatics - Speechmatics' Automatic Speech Recogniton feature - Custom Dictionary
Cloud Innovation Provider of the Year
- Atmosera - Three-Tier Azure Management Suite
- Content Guru - Content Guru and Serco Citizen Engagement Hub
- CTERA Networks - CTERA 6.0 Enterprise File Services Platform
- Hedvig
- iland
- MuleSoft - Titan release of Anypoint Platform
- Natterbox Ltd - Natterbox Advanced Voice Services
- Sesui
- UKCloud - UKCloud's Multi-cloud platform
- Version 1 - Cloud Innovation & Customer Success - Migrating Oracle to Public Cloud
Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
- Agilitas IT Solutions - Agilitas' Inventory-as-a-Service
- Cohesity - Cohesity's webscale data platform redefines the secondary data landscape
- Delphix - Delphix Dynamic Data Platform
- Excelero - Excelero NVMesh
- Runecast - Runecast Analyzer
- Scality
- Silver Peak - Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN Solution
- Travelport - Next Generation Search
Mobile App of the Year
- Autocab - Autocab Passenger App & iGo network
- DMI - Ubamarket and DMI Reimagine the In-Store Shopping Experience
- HMRC - HMRC Mobile App
- NutraTech Limited - Nutracheck
- Totalmobile and Allianz
Security Innovation of the Year
- CensorNet - CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS)
- Cofense - Cofense human phishing defence solution
- CyNation - CyDesk
- Digital Shadows - Digital Shadows SearchLightTM
- Egress Software Technologies - Egress user centric data security platform
- Endace - Endace / EndaceProbe Analytics Platform
- OneTrust
- RepKnight - BreachAlert dark web monitoring platform
- Tessian (formerly CheckRecipient)
- XQ Cyber - CyberScoreTM
UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- Automation Logic - Automation Logic Cloud Platform Innovation.
- CloudApps- SuMo by CloudApps - Sales Improvement you can Measure
- Collision Management Systems - Collision Management Systems (CMS) risk management and crash detection
- Droplet Computing - Application Delivery Redefined
- Evident Proof -
- Primary Goal Ltd
- Ravelin
- ScopeMaster
- systemsync solutions ltd - pensionsync
- Thoughtonomy - The Virtual Workforce
Vendor of the Year 2018
- Content Guru
- Egress Software Technologies
- KnowBe4
- Mastek Limited
- Mendix
- Sopra Steria
- SysGroup