Shortlist announced for UK IT Industry Awards 2018

Every year, the IT industry gathers in Battersea Park to separate the wheat from the chaff - and have a cracking good time doing it.

V3's sister site 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

Further reading

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