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
