2023 UK 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 in-person awards ceremony and fundraiser in London in April.

Tech Star of the Year

Akshata Sawant
Developer Advocate at Salesforce

Amanda Beard-Neilson
Salesforce MVP, London Admins Trailblazer Community Group Leader and London’s Calling co-organiser

Cédric Assaouloff
Lead Digital and Innovation at Roche

Charlie Phipps
Power Platform Architect and Developer at Akari Solutions Limited

Chris Huntingford
Low Code Lead & Platform Evangelist at ANS Group

Christine Marshall
Courses and Community Director at Salesforce Ben

Hugo Barona
Cloud Solutions Architect at Ergo

Simon Whiteley
Director of Engineering at Advancing Analytics

Outstanding Leader of the Year

Ali King
Senior Data Engineer at Inspera

Amanda Sleight
Commercial Director, UK at AWS

Anna Brailsford
CEO of Code First Girls

Babita Kumar
Digital Innovation & SAFe Transformation at Roche Diagnostics Europe

Carolyn Brown
Chief Information Officer at British Medical Association

Charlene Hunter MBE
CEO & Founder of Coding Black Females

David Okeyode
EMEA CTO Azure Cloud at Palo Alto Networks

Elaine Forth
CEO of Hyphen8

Gatonga Theuri
Senior Program Manager at Diageo

Jonas Templestein
Co-founder and CTO at Monzo Bank

Lianne Potter
Head of SecOps at ASDA

Mark Young
Programme Director at Channel 4

Nadine Thomson
Chief Technology Officer, Media (GroupM)

Pooja Bagga
Technology Director/ Divisional CIO at Royal Mail

Sarah Rench
Director of Data, AI and Industry Solutions, Global Data & AI Centre Excellence at Avanade

Tanya Powell
Co-CTO at Coding Black Females

Excellence in Learning and Development

 Code First Girls

 Cloudreach

 Deliveroo

 Bam Boom Cloud

 BlueSky Citadel

 Globant

 Capgemini

Outstanding Contribution to the AWS Community

Dan Pudwell
Principal Cloud Architect at Cloudsoft Corporation

Westminster City Council

Phil Horn
Director at Steamhaus & Organiser of AWS ComSum

Daniel Irvine
Freelance software developer

Yan Cui
Principal Consultant at The Burning Monk, AWS Serverless Hero and Author 

Gillian McCann
Co-Founder and CTO at Workgrid Software

Natalie Gray
Partner Engagement at Codurance

Outstanding Contribution to the Microsoft Community

Gregor Suttie
Microsoft MVP and Azure Architect at Intercept

NHS

OceanMind

Chris Taylor
Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft 

Pragati Jain
Manager at Avanade

Women in Dynamics

Dr Victoria Holt
Founder at Data Toboggan

Sharon Sumner
CEO at Casper365

Sray Agarwal
Principle Consultant at Fractal 

Outstanding Contribution to the Google Cloud Community

Laura Morinigo
Developer Advocate / Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics UK

Joe Birch
Senior Engineer at Buffer

Vinita Silaparasetty
Data Science Trainer at Just IT 

Jason Berryman
Google Developers Expert & Event speaker at 418.dev

Susanna Wong
Senior Consultant, Front End Engineering at QuantumBlack

Outstanding Contribution to the Salesforce Community

Francis Pindar
Salesforce Architect & Coach at AdminToArchitect.com

Akshata Sawant
Salesforce Developer Advocate at Salesforce 

Keir Bowden
CTO at BrightGen

Adam Foyston
Director at Cloudforce Consultancy 

Gemma Blezard
Founder at The Architech Club & Ladies Be Architects

Louise Lockie
Salesforce Consultant and Trainer at Tangara Consulting

Outstanding Contribution to the Earth

Magway

Satellite Vu

Too Good To Go 

Circulor

Carbon Clean

Greyparrot

Capgemini

Digital Transformation Project of the Year

Cognizant – Amref Health Africa

Cognizant – Network Rail

Gymshark

Ancoris

IBM Consulting

E-Sign

Clausematch

ClearBank

Domino’s

IBM

Exceptional Cloud Employer of the Year

AND Digital

Opencast

Smart Pension

Insight Direct

Phoenix Software

Version 1

xDesign

AWS

Diversity and Inclusion Employer of the Year

IBM 

Opencast 

Capgemini 

Ancoris 

Experian

M&G 

SAP UK 

Sage 

Ernst & Young

Diversity Ally of the Year

Kim Warren
Managing Consultant at Credera 

Laura Addison
Senior Program Manager EMEA, AWS re/Start

Sarah Tok
Talent Acquisition Partner at Capgemini Invent

Richard Regan
Head of Cloud Partner Engineering, UK + IE at Google 

Neetu Kumar
Senior Manager Talent Acquisition – Technology at Centrica

Tech for Good

Bankuet

Beam

C The Signs

Elvie

Cognizant

Glean

Tred

IntoFilm

Infinity Group

OLIO

Best AWS Partner to Work For

Credera

IBM 

Forensic Analytics

Tech Mahindra

Softcat

Databricks 

Infinity Works

Green Custard Ltd.

EPAM Solutions

Best Google Cloud Partner to Work For

Best Microsoft Partner to Work For

Hitachi Solutions

HSO Enterprise Solutions

IBM

Coeo

Kocho

Incremental Group

Proventeq Limited

Six Degrees

The NAV People 

Best Salesforce Partner to Work For

Capgemini

Nebula Consulting

Dentsu – Merkle

Hyphen8

IBM

Globant

Prodapt

CGI

Atos 

Slalom

Best NetSuite Partner to Work For

Eureka Solutions

Head in The Cloud

Next Technik

NoBlue

MacroFin

Brightbridge 

Nolan Business

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.