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17 September 2026
Roundhouse, London

17 September 2026
Roundhouse, London

DataIQ Awards white logo
DataIQ Awards white logo

17 September 2026, Roundhouse, London

2026 DataIQ Awards Shortlist

Transformation Stream

Who is it for?

This category recognises large-scale organisational transformations powered by data or AI, driving significant change, delivering measurable business outcomes, and reshaping ways of working or decision-making. 

Shortlist:

  • Allwyn UK The National Lottery 4th Licence Transformation (Tech, Channels, Data & AI)
  • Barclays UK From Analytics Centre of Excellence to Decision Intelligence: Transforming how Barclays makes decisions
  • Cynozure & The British Red Cross Turning data into a strategic enabler of humanitarian action
  • EDF UK Infusing GenAI into the Sunday Saver experience
  • Lloyds Banking Group From Manual Resolution to Trusted Decisions: Transforming Claims Through Responsible AI at Scale
  • NatWest Enterprise Data Transformation (NatWest)
  • NatWest Group Complaints Reimagined 
  • Nectar360 Pollen: AI-Powered Unified Platform for Retail Media
  • Royal London Asset Management Data & AI Strategy: Bringing data to colleagues and colleagues to data
  • Superdrug In-House Promotional Forecasting Model

Who is it for?

This category recognises large-scale transformations within international organisations, powered by data or AI, that drive significant change, deliver measurable business outcomes, and reshape ways of working or decision-making.

Shortlist:

  • Bank of Georgia – AI Adoption Breadth and depth: How AI became the way a bank works
  • BDO Growth Hub: transforming Business Development through insights, data quality and collaboration 
  • Benefact Group Data or AI- driven transformation of the year
  • STEM & Blend360 Transforming Pharma Field Team Performance with STEM AI 
  • Carwow From Manual to Multimodal: Automating Car Document Verification with GenAI
  • dbt Labs How dbt Labs transformed its own analytics engine to improve costs, performance and decision-making 
  • Evalueserve Scales Spend Intelligence for Leading Advisory Firm Through Agentic Operating Model
  • Merkle Making AutoSergei real with Meer-tech
  • SMBC Bank International Plc Advancing Organisational Value and Growth Through the Data Domain Maturity Matrix 
  • Truist Bank Wholesale Data Hub
  • Veolia AI for GreenUp: Scaling Industrial Intelligence for Ecological Security

Who is it for?

This category celebrates innovative approaches that enable solution provider organisations to access, share, and collaborate around data in new ways through innovative operating models.

Shortlist:

  • Anmut Consulting Planning telemetry for outcome: A sector-first data valuation in Water
  • Cynozure & Tokio Marine HCC International (TMHCCI) Embedding a Product-Led Data Operating Model 
  • JCURV & Sainsbury’s Unlocking data value through new ways of working at Sainsbury’s
  • L&G in Partnership with Talan Data x AI Transforming Investment Payments Through Governed Data
  • Merkle Making AutoSergei real with Meer-tech
  • NatWest, in partnership with Version 1 Legacy Investment Review – Third Party Data Mart

Who is it for?

This category celebrates innovative approaches that enable brand-side organisations to access, share, and collaborate around data in new ways through innovative operating models.

Shortlist:

  • BAE Systems – Submarines Speak with Data, Not Emotion: Process Intelligence for Submarines
  • British Heart Foundation BHF Research Intelligence Hub
  • Centrica Unlocking confidence through trustworthy data: automating assurance for faster decisions and powerful insights in customer services
  • Coventry Building Society From the Wild West to Modern Metropolis
  • EDF UK Re‑powering Data‑Driven CRM Through Community, Culture and Modern Engineering
  • Lloyds Banking Group Atlas: Reinventing How Thousands Build, Deploy and Trust AI at Enterprise Scale
  • Nationwide Building Society Every Customer, Every Journey: A Data‑Driven Control Transformation at Nationwide 
  • NESTLÉ Trust Engine: From Data Domains to Enterprise Value
  • Scottish Widows Breaking silos, building trust: A new way of working with Data
  • Skyscanner From Bottleneck to Backbone: Reinventing Analytics at Skyscanner
  • Superdrug Transformation with Trends: Velocity by Superdrug
  • Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) Embedding Data and AI as a Strategic, Shared Enterprise Capability

Category Partner:

Data and AI Literacy Academy

How to win it?

This category recognises programmes that have successfully developed data and AI skills, capability, and confidence across an organisation, improving data literacy, decision-making, and the responsible use of data and AI at scale.

Shortlist:

  • Aston University Powering an AI-Ready University: Aston’s Data & AI Academy Evolution
  • EDF UK Driving diversity and skills development via early careers
  • Entain Data & AI Academy: Built for 14,000. Personalised for Each One
  • IAG Cargo DataBoost – IAG Cargo’s Enablement Programme
  • Ofgem Copilot 365 Rollout Programme
  • SEGRO Data Skills and Awareness Programme
  • Starbucks EMEA Data Academy – succeeding in a data driven world
  • University Health Network UHN Data Academy
  • Vodafone Creating DataRockstars: Vodafone’s World Class Learning Ecosystem Accelerating Transformation at Scale

Category Partner:

Data and AI Literacy Academy

Who is it for?

This category recognises programmes that have successfully developed data and AI skills, capability, and confidence across financial organisations, improving data literacy, decision-making, and the responsible use of data and AI at scale.

Shortlist:

  • Admiral Insurance UK Data & AI Academy – Data Skills for All
  • Allianz Trade GenAI Ready!
  • Aviva AI Centre of Enablement – AI Academy 
  • Bank of Georgia – AI Adoption Decentralise, democratise, distil: Building GenAI capability across 9,000 employees
  • Bank of Georgia – Data Literacy From reporting queues to self-service: A data literacy programme that bridged Business and IT
  • Barclays Compliance How Barclays Compliance Embedded Data and AI Literacy Across an Entire Function
  • Cambridge Spark / Lloyds Banking Group Turning Leaders into AI Architects: Embedding Executive‑Level Literacy to Unlock Responsible Scale
  • Lloyds Banking Group Building Data & AI Capability at Scale: A Joined Up Learning Ecosystem for Everyone
  • Royal London Strategic approach to building data and AI literacy at Royal London

Who is it for?

This category recognises initiatives that embed ethical principles, transparency, and accountability into the design, deployment, and governance of AI, operationalising responsible AI practices to build trust, ensure compliance, and enable sustainable innovation. 

Shortlist:

  • Aviva PLC Group Data
  • Blend360 AI for Good: Responsible AI as the Foundation for Community Impact
  • Chevron Scaling AI Responsibly at Chevron
  • E.ON Next Voice Analytics LLM – protecting vulnerable energy customers through PSR compliance
  • Lloyds Banking Group Embedding Trust by Design: Lloyds Banking Group’s Enterprise Responsible AI Programme at Scale
  • NatWest Group Building a Culture of Responsible AI: From Principles to Practice
  • Ofgem Operationalising Responsible AI at Scale: Ofgem’s Copilot Technical Assurance and Agentic AI Governance Framework
  • Pendle The Responsible AI Digital Twin: Identify, Assess and Enable AI Across People, Profit and Planet
  • Royal London Governing AI at Scale: Ensuring Responsible and Ethical Use of AI at Royal London

Who is it for?

This category recognises a standout achievement where data or AI enabled a significant breakthrough, delivering step-change value, insight, or impact through innovative thinking and advanced analytics.

Shortlist:

  • Aston University Uncovering Hidden Attainment Gaps: A Breakthrough in Statistically Driven Student Insight
  • Aviva PLC Medical Underwriting AI
  • Centrica Empowering customer service leaders with trustworthy, automated data – protecting time, improving performance, and increasing control
  • Dominos Pizza Group UK & Ireland Domi Vision: The Unfunded Idea Behind Domino’s Biggest Quality Shift in 40 Years
  • Heathrow Trusted at Scale: Heathrow’s AI-Powered Finance Transformation
  • Lloyds Banking Group Life AI: Rebuilding Insurance Underwriting for Instant, Trusted Decisions at National Scale
  • Love Business JARVIS: Human-Led, AI-Powered
  • NatWest Group Transforming how we engage with our Customers with Agentic AI

Who is it for?

This category recognises a standout achievement within international organisations where data or AI enabled a significant breakthrough, delivering step-change value, insight, or impact through innovative thinking and advanced analytics.

Shortlist:

  • Bank of Georgia – DS Agent Humans lead, agents execute: How DS-Agent reshaped analytical delivery
  • Bank of Georgia – Voice Models Voice AI for 3.7 million speakers: Building Georgian ASR and TTS from scratch
  • Boubyan Bank From Intuition to Experimentation: Transforming Digital Banking Decisions with Behavioral Data Science
  • British Council Signalist: AI Superforecasting for Government
  • Cotality Cross-Functional AI Powerhouse
  • Gorilla From Margin Iceberg to Margin Intelligence: A Data Breakthrough for Energy Retail
  • Haleon The Innovation Incrementality Engine: De-Risking Consumer Healthcare Innovation with Data Science 
  • NESTLÉ Reimagining End to End Execution Through Enterprise DATA & AI
  • P&O Cruises x Eclipse The Search for Answers: How Eclipse and P&O Cruises Turned a Blind Spot into a Customer Intent Engine
  • Reward Transforming Data into Actionable Intelligence with AI-Powered Merchant Attribution
  • Vodafone Cashflow Breakthrough: One Trusted View Turning Working Capital Into a Performance Lever
  • WNS, Part of Capgemini Transforming cyber insurance underwriting operation through a human–AI partnership for Canopius Group

Organisation Stream

Who is it for?

This category celebrates excellence in communicating data through compelling storytelling or visualisation, using clear and engaging narratives or visuals to improve understanding, inform decision-making, and influence action. 

Shortlist:

  • BAE Systems A picture tells a thousand data points – making sense of a complex warship build
  • Cynozure The New Horizon: Data, AI & Impact
  • Guardian News and Media How rightwing rhetoric has risen sharply in the UK parliament – an exclusive visual analysis
  • Haleon Data Story Telling for Impact
  • KPMG Dash Turning complex location data into confident, smarter business decisions
  • Nationwide Building Society From Insight to Impact: The Data Story Behind Nationwide’s Passbooks Modernisation 
  • Veolia The Global Circular Economy Unified at Scale: The PlastiLoop Experience
  • Wipro Connected Services UK Limited Visualizing Trust at Scale: The Data Foundation Behind a Global Gen‑AI Agent at Atlas Copco

Who is it for?

This category recognises solution providers whose data and AI initiatives have delivered positive social, environmental, or societal impact, demonstrating the responsible use of data and AI to address real-world challenges and create measurable benefits beyond commercial outcomes.

Shortlist:

  • Aker Systems Data for Good Initiative
  • CI&T and Valleys to Coast Beyond Systems: Bridging Data Gaps to Deliver Homes and Support for 18,000 Residents
  • NTT DATA, Inc. SOLO – Self Optimised Loss-less Prompts
  • Oxylabs Project 4β: Turning Public Web Data Into Public Good
  • Sigma Labs Closing the social mobility gap whilst future-proofing the next generation of AI talent
  • Simpson Associates Delivering Data and AI for Good Across Policing, Public Health and Social Care
  • Youth Sport Trust & Blend Levelling the Playing Field: Building an AI-Assisted Intelligence Platform to Address Youth Sport and Health Inequality in England

Who is it for?

This category recognises brand-side organisations whose data and AI initiatives have delivered positive social, environmental, or societal impact, demonstrating the responsible use of data and AI to address real-world challenges and create measurable benefits beyond commercial outcomes.

Shortlist:

  • Aston University Applied AI for Social Good: Healthcare, Financial Risk, and Cybersecurity Across Borders
  • CCEP GHG Automated Data & Business Transformation Program: Enabling Scalable, Data-Driven Sustainability at CCEP
  • Cera Revolutionising Healthcare Through Technology & AI – Building a More Sustainable Model for an Ageing Population
  • E.ON Next Next Care: Using data to protect vulnerable customers in debt decisioning
  • Greene King AI‑Driven Hospitality Transformation: Greene Genie and Predictive Supply Chain Model for Enterprise Efficiency
  • Lloyds Banking Group 2025 Consumer Digital Index: The Generative AI Edition
  • NatWest Group Sustainability Planner
  • TD Bank TD Mindpower: Analytics for Social Good
  • The Crown Estate Marine Delivery Routemap (MDR): Creating a Climate for Change – An Act of Balance
  • The Crown Estate Natural Data: Data‑Driven Stewardship for Nature Recovery at Scale

Who is it for?

This category recognises data governance programmes that strengthen trust, accountability, and data quality while enabling effective and compliant use of data across the organisation.

Shortlist:

  • Airbus Data Product 2.0: From Gatekeeping to Industrial Asset Management – Engineering the Foundations of Data Trust
  • AS Watson Group Enabling Trusted and Scalable Data & AI Through Enterprise Governance
  • Aston University From Control to Enablement: Governing Aston’s Trusted Data Ecosystem
  • Boots UK & ROI Transforming Data Governance from Side of Desk to Front of Mind
  • Coca Cola EuroPacific Partners (CCEP) CCEP Data Governance
  • Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment (MBRHE) Citizen Housing Demand Simulator: Fair, Predictive, Data-Driven Decisioning

Who is it for?

This category recognises data governance programmes that strengthen trust, accountability, and data quality while enabling effective and compliant use of data across financial organisations.

Shortlist:

  • Aviva PLC Turning Governance into a Product: Delivering Trust, Accountability and Speed Across Data and AI
  • Benefact Group Best Data Governance Programme
  • Coventry Building Society Data Governance – The Business Bites Back
  • London Stock Exchange Group Building a transparent, resilient and product driven data foundation at London Stock Exchange Group
  • Mastercard Enabling Trusted, Scalable Data & AI Through Governance by Design
  • Nationwide Building Society Nationwide’s Data Governance Revolution: Strong Foundations, Trusted Data and Real‑World Impact
  • NFU Mutual Implementing practical, Domain-Led Data Ownership
  • Royal London Making data ownership real through our business partnership model 
  • Talan Data x AI in Partnership with NatWest Governing Consent at Scale: Building Trust Across 19 Million Customers
  • Tokio Marine HCC International TMHCCI’s trusted data intelligence programme, in collaboration with Quest

Who is it for?

This category recognises initiatives that successfully engaged diverse stakeholder groups to drive adoption, alignment, and impact, using insight, communication, and collaboration to meet differing stakeholder needs.

Shortlist:

  • British Heart Foundation BHF Research Intelligence Hub
  • Intact Insurance UK Data Driving a New Age of Pricing
  • Mind and Euler How Mind United Stakeholders and Turned Insight into Action
  • Nationwide Building Society From Fragmentation to Alignment: Delivering Trusted Workforce Insight Through Outstanding Stakeholder Engagement
  • Sainsbury’s Transforming Value Delivery for Sainsbury’s Data & Analytics
  • TfL Central Data Hub Pilot 

Who is it for?

This category recognises initiatives that successfully engaged diverse stakeholder groups across international organisations to drive adoption, alignment, and impact, using insight, communication, and collaboration to meet differing stakeholder needs.

Shortlist:

  • Axpo Data & Analytics Community: Driving Adoption Through Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange
  • BAE Systems Engaging Stakeholders through Data Quality
  • Bank of Georgia – AI Adoption Engaging 9,000 employees in AI adoption
  • Bank of Georgia – Recommender Three definitions of success, one recommender: How alignment was engineered
  • Domino’s Pizza Group DataSauce: The Secret Ingredient Was Our People
  • Grant Thornton How Grant Thornton Engaged 4,500 Stakeholders in a Data & AI Transformation
  • Informa Data Onboarding, Stakeholder Management and Business Alignment Deliver Commercial Marketing Success
  • Lowe’s Mylow Companion
  • Mars End-to-end innovation analytics transformation – Insights.AI example (synthetic consumer panel)
  • Schneider Electric How Schneider Electric Scaled Data Maturity Through Adoption, Not Mandate

Who is it for?

This category recognises solution providers that creatively and impactfully apply AI to solve business problems or unlock new opportunities.

Shortlist:

  • HRGO Recruitment Ltd BettyAI: Fixing Feedback in Recruitment, One Conversation at a Time
  • Nexdata Embodied AI Data Solution
  • Notify AI Clarins X Notify: CRM & AI DECISIONING / Orchestrating reduced marketing pressure and increased performance
  • NTT DATA, Inc. DICE [Digital Crew Engine]
  • SCIKIQ Data Private Limited SCIKIQ Conversational Analytics & KPI Deep Dive 
  • VodafoneThree & MSQ Data AI-Powered Customer Feedback Classification: VodafoneThree and MSQ Data in Partnership

Who is it for?

This category recognises brand-side organisations that creatively and impactfully apply AI to solve business problems or unlock new opportunities.

Shortlist:

  • Aviva PLC Real Time Voice Processing
  • Bank of Georgia – AI Employee From copilot to colleague: Building AI Employee, an autonomous developer in production
  • Bank of Georgia – DS Agent Automating analytical thinking, not analytical tasks: DS-Agent in production
  • BNP Paribas Fortis From Assistant to Ecosystem: How BNPPF Is Industrialising AI at Scale
  • Boots UK Next Best Action: Transformer-based retail personalisation 
  • Guardian News and Media Storylines: Transforming flat tag pages into editorial journeys via LLM-driven curation
  • HMRC – Data Platform Services Generative AI‑Driven Transformation in HMRC’s Data Platform Services  
  • ITV CoMET – ITV’s Metadata Intelligence Platform
  • Lloyds Banking Group A Governed, Multi Agent Investment Guide Built for Trust in a Regulated App
  • Lowe’s Newton

Leadership Stream

Who is it for?

This category recognises an individual at an early or emerging stage of their leadership career who has demonstrated exceptional impact in data and AI. It celebrates leadership potential, innovation, the ability to influence change, and measurable contributions to business or organisational outcomes. 

Shortlist:

  • Ankit Jain, Senior AI Lead, MARS
  • Ankur Gupta, Director of Data & ML Products, Intact Insurance UK
  • David Parkhill, Head of Data Science, RBS International
  • Dr. Mukundan Appadurai Paramashivan, President of AI and Data Science, CGO & Board of Director, Champions Group Pte. Ltd.
  • Fatjon Sakiqi, Senior Manager Data Solutions, Vodafone
  • Fay Churchill, Head of Data Science, ITV
  • Hayely Doolan, Director of Data and Digital Innovation, National Grid
  • Jesse Fagan, PhD, Sr. Director of Data Science, Blend360
  • Orla Mulvenna, Data Analytics Engineering Manager, The Guardian
  • Sukhvinder Nagra, Senior Manager Process & Governance, Vodafone

Who is it for?

This category recognises a senior leader within a small or medium-sized organisation who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the use of data and AI. It celebrates individuals who have driven strategy, built capability, and delivered measurable impact, often within the constraints typical of an SME environment. 

Shortlist:

  • Ade Lingard, Founder & Director, North Peak
  • Jean Perez, Director of Data, Analytics and AI, Valuedynamx
  • Kelly H. Zou, CEO, AI4Purpose Inc. 
  • Robbie Burgess, Director of Data & AI, SEGRO
  • Sandeep Pandey, CEO & Co-Founder, Skewb Analytics Private limited

How to win it?

This category recognises a senior leader within a large solution provider organisation (more than 250 employees) who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in driving data and AI strategy at scale, delivering organisation-wide impact through culture, governance, and transformation. 

Shortlist:

  • Mike Mischel, SVP of AI Consulting, Blend360
  • Nicholas Metzgen, Partner – Transaction Analytics, EY LLP
  • Rob Goodwin, Chief Data Officer, MSQ Data
  • Satyajit Saha, Head of Technology & Digital, Evalueserve
  • Siraj Alimohamed, Global Head – Data and AI, Experion Technologies
  • Venkata Sai Sabareesh Kappagantu, Software Engineering Manager, Aveva

Who is it for?

This category recognises a senior leader within a large brand-side organisation (more than 250 employees) who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in driving data and AI strategy at scale, delivering organisation-wide impact through culture, governance, and transformation. 

Shortlist:

  • Cengiz Ucbenli, Group Data Analytics Officer, Centrica
  • Jo Page, Data Director, E.ON Next
  • Karen Dewar, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, NatWest
  • Karthik Birudavolu, Head of the Data Centre of Excellence, Scottish Widows
  • Kevin Smith, Chief Data Officer, Tokio Marine HCC International
  • Marco Hoppenbrouwer, Manager Data Office, Stedin
  • Mikheil Nadareishvili, Chief Analytics Officer, Bank of Georgia
  • Rich Bates, Director – AI & Analytics, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Richard Whitaker, Head of Data Management, Strategy & Culture, Scottish Widows
  • Sean Francis, Head of Transformation and Data Engineering, Vodafone

Teams Stream

Who is it for?

This category recognises an outstanding partnership between two or more organisations that has delivered significant value through effective collaboration, innovative use of data and AI, and measurable outcomes.

Shortlist:

  • Brown & Brown Workflow AI: Transforming MGA Submission Ingestion Through Partnership
  • Merkle Making AutoSergei real with Meer-tech
  • Nationwide Building Society Building modern data services through the Databricks and Precisely partnership 
  • NatWest Group Data Fusion
  • Seriös Group Building a Data‑Driven Football Club
  • Signal AI Signal AI and Memo: Revolutionizing Media Intelligence through Verified Readership and AI Citation Mapping
  • The Perfume Shop The Perfume Shop and Microsoft Partnership: Redefining Retail with AI Innovation

Who is it for?

This category recognises solution providers that have created an outstanding environment for data and AI professionals to thrive. It celebrates workplaces where culture, leadership, and ways of working enable high performance, strong engagement, and the effective use of data and AI.

Shortlist:

  • Blend360 The Best Place to Work in AI and Data — 2026
  • Cynozure The Crew at Cynozure 
  • EXLService Holdings Inc. Scaling Data & AI Through People, Learning and Innovation
  • Research Data Scotland Redefining culture to thrive
  • Reward Building a High-Performing, Inclusive Data Culture Where People Truly Thrive
  • Talan Where Data & AI Professionals Build Careers, Not Contracts

Who is it for?

This category recognises brand-side organisations that have created an outstanding environment for data and AI professionals to thrive. It celebrates workplaces where culture, leadership, and ways of working enable high performance, strong engagement, and the effective use of data and AI.

Shortlist:

  • Aviva PLC Quantum. Aviva’s Vibrant Data Community
  • Bank of Georgia – Data Analytics Team Culture as a performance engine
  • E.ON Next A Next Level Data Team
  • Haleon Marketing Effectiveness Data Champions
  • Heathrow Extraordinary by Design: Heathrow’s Data & AI Team
  • Intact Insurance UK A workplace where people thrive, grow, and feel genuinely valued
  • Lloyds Banking Group Where Women Thrive in Data & AI: Building Inclusive, Impact Driven Careers at Lloyds Banking Group
  • NatWest Group Leading the Way in Data & AI Innovation and Culture
  • Skyscanner Nobody Left Behind: How Skyscanner Built an AI-Native Analytics Culture Together
  • SMBC Belonging, Growth & Purpose: SMBC EMEA’s Data Journey
  • The Pensions Regulator Purpose-led, inclusive, high-performing home for Data & AI professionals at TPR

Who is it for?

This category recognises high-performing data and AI teams within solution provider organisations that deliver at scale, work seamlessly across functions, and turn data and AI into meaningful, measurable impact.

Shortlist:

  • Anmut Consulting Anmut at National Highways: From Road Operator to Information Service Provider
  • BDO Empowering BDO with data
  • Evalueserve Data & Analytics Team
  • Experian Data Acquisition and Data Operations
  • Kennedys IQ Defeating the OIC Squeeze: How an AI Underdog Team Saved £504k and Rewrote Market Rules
  • Merkle Making AutoSergei real with Meer-tech
  • MSQ Data Driving AI and Data Impact Across Clients and an Entire Marketing Group
  • Seriös Group Transforming Business Through Scalable Data Innovation
  • Talan in Partnership with NatWest Turning Compliance into Customer Trust: A High‑Impact Integrated Data Team

Who is it for?

This category recognises high-performing data and AI teams within brand-side organisations that deliver at scale, work seamlessly across functions, and turn data and AI into meaningful, measurable impact.

Shortlist:

  • Admiral Insurance UK UK Data & Analytics
  • Aston University Transforming Aston University Through Data: A High-Performance, High-Trust Analytics Team
  • EDF UK Driving Data and AI value across an energy juggernaut
  • Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office FCDO & Ten10: Delivering End-to-End AI Solutions to Transform Modern Diplomacy and Public Sector Delivery
  • Lloyds Banking Group From Ambition to Impact: The AI Centre of Excellence Powering Trusted AI at Scale
  • NatWest Group Building AI solutions is easy. Transforming a bank is hard
  • Sainsbury’s Data & Analytics
  • Transport for London TfL’s Data and Analytics Team
  • UK Ministry of Defence Defence Data Office

Who is it for?

This category recognises high-performing data and AI teams within international, brand-side organisations that deliver at scale, work seamlessly across functions, and turn data and AI into meaningful, measurable impact.

Shortlist:

  • Bank of Georgia – Data Analytics Team Building a bank-wide AI capability
  • Cotality Cross-Functional AI Powerhouse
  • HSBC Global Internal Audit Digital/ Data, AI & Tech Teams From training to transformation: accelerating digital audit deployment with analytics and AI
  • ITV Insights Group – A Multidisciplinary Team driving Strategic Impact
  • Veolia Data Office and its Purple People Community