This one-time category, which we are running to celebrate 10 years of the Digital Technology Leaders Awards, recognises a transformation initiative that has fundamentally reshaped an organisation or sector over the past ten years, delivering sustained, measurable impact rather than short-term gains.

Businesses need to attract, train and retain the brightest and the best digital talent by creating an environment where talent can grow and thrive. This award celebrates the organisations doing this with aplomb.

There is increasing demand from organisations for help with their digital operations, increasing the scope for digital service companies to showcase their talents and capabilities. This award recognises those companies specialising in providing digital services to organisations.

This award will go to the company that has best modernised or simplified their systems to provably increase efficiency. Judges will be looking for a detailed description of the start and end points of the project, as well as how the company achieved its goals.

This one-time award celebrates both 10 years of the Digital Technology Leaders Awards, and the professionals who have been shaping the industry for a decade or more.

This award recognises an individual who plays a decisive role in shaping how their organisation adopts, governs and benefits from artificial intelligence. It celebrates leaders who balance innovation with responsibility - ensuring AI delivers meaningful business and user outcomes while remaining safe, ethical and transparent.

The winner will be someone who has moved AI from experimentation to real operational value, influencing culture, capability and long-term strategy.

In a world of constant disruptive digital change the role of chief digital officer and the leadership it provides is critical to organisational success and survival. This award recognises outstanding leadership that is having a clear impact on performance and delivering the organisation's digital vision.

Although often conflated with the CDO, the Chief Technology Officer takes on a distinct role dealing with all aspects of information technology, including both soft- and hardware, rather than purely digital aspects. Although they have deep technical knowledge, they are often concerned with the long-term strategic issues facing their organisation. This award recognises leading individuals that are driving change, while ensuring that the day-to-day IT remains on-task.

Great design is only as good as the code that lives underneath it - no matter how good your offering. This award recognises the teams bring digital ideas and innovations to life..

With digital transformation in full swing across the industry, many companies have begun to make their own moves into the digital space. The winner of this award will be the individual, not necessarily in a technical role, who has worked to promote digital practices and ways of working, both inside and outside the organisation. Case studies and examples are particularly welcome.

Every modern company needs skilled digital employees who can not only solve problems and innovate, but explain the importance of technology to the wider business. This award celebrates those technical people who are doing great work in their daily role, and lionising tech outside the IT department.

Digital teams are at the heart of modern, digital organisations. This award recognises the best of the best and the contributions they are making to their organisation's operations, from new features and functions on websites, to entire new capabilities and services.

This award recognises the immense impact of the engineers behind outstanding technological innovations, be it in cloud, DevOps, AI or any other space. By spearheading complex projects, skilfully resolving entrenched obstacles, demonstrating leadership and delivering creative solutions that push boundaries, the Engineer of the Year exemplifies versatile technical talent and ingenuity driving their company forward.

With a major shortage of trained digital experts many organisations succeed by hiring young people for aptitude and attitude, regardless of academic success, and training them on the job in the workplace - an approach that is both socially valuable and economically desirable. This award recognises young people who are making a name for themselves in the digital world.

This award recognises a project that has significantly improved an organisation’s ability to withstand, respond to and recover from disruption. It celebrates initiatives that elevate resilience beyond traditional security, embedding reliability, continuity and adaptability into the fabric of digital operations.

Honouring projects that have used data in innovative ways to solve complex problems, improve decision-making, or provide actionable insights that drive business impact.

For projects that focus on making digital products, services or resources more accessible and inclusive for all users, including marginalised or underserved communities. Your submission should include the nature of project and problem/opportunity it addressed. Detail on the execution and implementation as well as proof of innovation and effectiveness.

Companies are adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning at a rapidly-increasing rate, and automation is one of the most common areas for this. Our judges want to know what has been automated and why, the scale of the project and its successful outcomes.

For not-for-profits every penny counts. This awards celebrates those using digital technology for everything from fund-raising to driving operational efficiencies that mean they have more time, energy and budget to focus on the causes they serve.

Citizens expect a first-class digital experience when engaging with public sector organisations. This award celebrates the public sector organisations providing just that with slick, innovative offerings that are easy to use and get the job done.

Large or small, firms using innovative digital tools and technologies can realise huge benefits. This award recognises those using digital to achieve real competitive advantage.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence systems are rapidly becoming part of many organisations’ everyday operations, from voice recognition and translation tools, to chat bots and medical image processing. This award recognises those on the frontline of this trend and that are deriving real benefits as a result.

With mobile by a distance the fastest growing way in which end users interact with digital services providing an outstanding mobile experience is a must for organisations of all types. This award celebrates those that have created a truly exceptional mobile experience.

The issue of sustainability is becoming ever more important, with customers increasingly choosing suppliers based at least in part on their ESG credentials. With this - and the accelerating pace of climate change - in mind, no company can afford to ignore the environmental impact of new projects. Entrants in this category must demonstrate the project's success from both an environmental and business perspective, explain why and how climate concerns were considered, and describe how the outcomes/results met the original climate-focused brief.