2025 WINNERS

Organisational Excellence

Best Place to Work in Digital

Winner: North Sea Transition Authority

Highly commended: DWP Digital


Digital Service Company of the Year

Winner: DVLA - Information Technology Service


Digital Transformation of the Year

Winner: Vodafone UK - Customer Experience Transformation

Highly commended: "Portsmouth: The Digital City" Project


Digital Transformation of the Year - Financial Services

Winner: Nationwide - Nationwide Digital Transformation

Personal Excellence

CDO of the Year

Winner: Richard Corbridge, SEGRO

Highly commended: Sarah Jensen - Barts Health NHS


CTO of the Year

Winner: Ross Heritage - Sedex Information Exchange Ltd

Highly commended: Paula Felstead - HBX


CTO of the Year – Financial Services

Winner: Stuart Walters - BDO LLP


Development Team of the Year

Winner: E.ON - Bunny Bunny, Product Development Team

Highly commended: Lloyds Banking Group - Automated Mobile Design Framework


Digital Ambassador of the Year

Winner: Lindsey Jackson - Everywhen

Highly commended: Kara Flook - E.ON


Digital Hero of the Year

Winner: Yamini Kumar - Network Rail

Highly commended: Lauren Dally - Everywhen


Digital Team of the Year

Winner: North Sea Transition Authority

Highly commended: Teddy AI Ltd


Engineer of the Year

Winner: Fawaz Hussain – HM Revenue & Customs

Highly commended: Paymon Khamooshi - London School of Innovation


Young Digital Professional of the Year

Winner: James Hillyard - Payara Services

Project Excellence

**NEW!** Breakthrough Data Project

Winner: British Heart Foundation - Stock Journey Innovation

Highly commended: The AA & Publicis Sapient - Colleague BI agent


**NEW!** Outstanding Digital Inclusion Project

Winner: DVLA - STEM Programme and Digital Inclusion scheme


Best Automation Project

Winner: Kainos – Kainos Studio

Highly commended: Luminance - Luminance’s Legal-Grade™ AI


Best Not-for-Profit Project

Winner: British Heart Foundation - Stock Journey Innovation


Best Public Sector Digital Project

Winner: Network Rail & Cognizant - Network Enterprise Structures and Tunnels System (NEST)

Highly commended: AND Digital - The “Find a Grant” Service


Digital Project of the Year

Winner: Exponentia.ai

Highly commended: WhisperClaims - Merged RDEC Scheme Product


Machine Learning / AI Project of the Year

Winner: Content Guru and Together - Real-Time Transcription and Summarisation

Highly commended: OIAI by Otermans Institute


Mobile Project of the Year

Winner: Vodafone UK - Express Mobile Shopping Experience


Most Successful Environmental Project

Winner: Aviva - Net Zero Sustainable Technology Team