2023 North America Shortlist

After a record-breaking year for nominations in the Digital Revolution Awards, the following have been recognized by our judges for using cloud technology to make the world a better place to live and work, and will be celebrated and a winner declared at our virtual awards ceremony and fundraiser in May.

Tech for Good

Tiki

Food Rescue

Deaf Kids Code

Oceanworks

Polaris Project

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve

Charity Water

John O’Hare

Catalyst Consulting Group

Per Scholas

CareMessage

Quit Genius

Excellence in Learning and Development

Black Girls Code

Per Scholas

Black Boys Code

The Hidden Genius Project

Chick Tech

TechBridge

Atomic Object

Dynatrace

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth

Tech Star of the Year

Lani Yune
Salesforce Consultant Associate at IBM

JN Hernández
DevOps Engineer at Azavea

Sharda Kumari
Salesforce Architect at Airbnb

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve 

Jessica Singh
Associate Engineer at Cloudforia 

Stanley See
Salesforce Developer at Gerent

Ivana Tilca
Microsoft Azure and AI MVP, Innovation Evangelist at 3XM Group 

Jake Batchelor
Principal Software Engineer at Itron

Azure McFarlane
Microsoft Business Applications MVP and Senior Consultant at Hitachi Solutions America

Zohar Zimmerman
Salesforce Administrator at Autodesk Construction Solutions

Diversity Ally of the Year

Shireen Hafeez
Founder and President at Deaf Kids Code

Eric Dreshfield
Salesforce MVP and Founder and Event Co-Chair at Midwest Dreamin’

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community

Adnan Masood
Chief Architect – AI & Machine Learning at UST and Regional Director at Microsoft 

Julie Yack
Chief Operations Officer at Colorado Technology Consultants, Inc 

Diana Carolina Torres
Microsoft MVP and Business Development Manager at Withum

Bradley Wyatt
Microsoft MVP and Cloud Solutions Architect at PSM Partners

Noelle Silver Russell
Microsoft MVP and Global AI Solutions Lead at Accenture 

Sandy Ussia
Microsoft MVP and Co-Founder at NLightning LLC

Steve Mordue
Microsoft MVP and CEO at Forceworks

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community

Jennifer Bland
Google Developers Expert and Senior Software Engineer at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Annyce Davis
Vice President Of Engineering at Meetup 

Justin Schwartzenberger
Google Developer Expert and Product Manager and Educator at Narwhal Technologies Inc

Aaron Frost
CEO, Founder, Architect at HeroDevs

Ingram Micro Cloud

Pearl Latteier 
Engineering Manager at Vercel

Outstanding Leader of the Year

Ursula Burns
Senior advisor, Teneo

Laura Ipsen
President & CEO at Ellucian

Elizabeth Tobey
Head of Marketing Digital Solutions at NICE’s Digital Solutions Group

Derrick Reyes
CEO & Co-Founder at Queerly Health 

Kathryn Finney
Author and Managing General Partner at Genius Guild

Aly Murray
Founder and Executive Director at UPchieve

Mitra Best
Partner and Technology Impact Leader at PwC 

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community

Tiffany Spencer
Salesforce MVP and Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Tech Forward Solutions

Ashley Allen and ITequality
Founder & Salesforce Architect at ITequality

Charise Van Liew
Salesforce MVP and Principal Associate, External Affairs at The Pew Charitable Trusts 

Jocelyn Fennewald
Salesforce MVP and Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder at OpMentors

Marisa Hambleton
Salesforce MVP and Founder and CEO at MH2X

Cassie Supilowski
Salesforce MVP and Senior Director of Data Solutions at OneGoal 

Krithika Dharmarajan
Salesforce MVP and Principal at Slalom

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community

Hiroko Nishimura
AWS Community Hero, Author “AWS for Non-Engineers” and Learning Instructor at LinkedIn.
 
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
 
Kesha Williams
AWS Machine Learning Hero and Program Director, AWS Cloud Residency at Slalom
 
Chris Williams
AWS Community Hero and Enterprise Architect at World Wide Technology
 
Guillermo Fisher
AWS Data Hero and Head of Engineering at Untapped

Namrata Shah
AWS Community Hero and Managing Director at PwC

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year

Beyond

Expensify

Rockset (US)

Afresh

American Express

CrowdStrike

KnowBe4

Noom

The Lifetime Value Co

Wells Fargo

Digital Transformation Project of the Year

Catalyst Consulting Group

American Airlines

NICE

UCM Digital Health

SeaWorld

The American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX)

Endiem

Best ServiceNow Partner to Work For

Bravium

GlideFast Consulting

InSource

Pathways Consulting Group

Evora IT Solutions

Stefanini

Best AWS Partner to Work For

Mission Cloud

NetApp Inc

Prime TSR

Innovative Solutions

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For

Zensar Technologies

Softserve

Searce

PA Consulting Group

66degrees

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For

3Cloud

Enavate

Flexware Innovations

Forvis

McKinsey and Co

Unify Consulting

Ingram Micro Cloud

GraVoc Associates, Inc

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For

Slalom

Catalyst Consulting Group

Skedulo

West Monroe Partners

Endiem

Innovate

Bolt Data

Spaulding Ridge

Best NetSuite Partner to Work For

Crowe

Bridgepoint

Bryant Park Consulting

Connor Group

Beyond Cloud

Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year

Meroxa

Deloitte

Booz Allen

Everbridge

Cariloop

Red Hat

Brand XR

Workit Health

Blink

Branch

Zoom

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year

Beyond

Expensify

Rockset (US)

Afresh

American Express

CrowdStrike

KnowBe4

Noom

The Lifetime Value Co

Wells Fargo

Digital Transformation Project of the Year

Catalyst Consulting Group

American Airlines

NICE

UCM Digital Health

SeaWorld

The American National Bank of Texas (ANBTX)

Endiem

Want to know more?

Nominations for the 2023 Digital Revolution Awards are now closed. If you’d like to get involved as a sponsor or are interested in becoming part of the judging panel, our friendly team are here to help you.