Congratulations to our 2025 Digital Technology Leaders Awards winners!

We're thrilled to celebrate the outstanding individuals and teams who have been recognized as winners of the 2025 Digital Tech Leaders Awards. This is an incredible achievement that highlights your innovation, leadership, and impact across the digital technology landscape.

Enquire about your winners packages here to showcase your win.

From driving digital transformation to pioneering cutting-edge solutions, your work is shaping the future, and inspiring the next generation of tech leaders.

Well done to all the winners! Your hard work, creativity, and dedication truly set the standard. We couldn’t be prouder to stand alongside you in championing excellence in digital technology.

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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

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

**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