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President's Awards 2025

The techUK President's Awards 2025  

The techUK President’s Award was launched in 2023 to recognise the significant contribution techUK members are making through their work with technology. Every day, individuals in our tech community are effecting real change, whether that is helping small communities, enabling large-scale projects across the country, or protecting the planet.

Our aim is to celebrate the people within techUK member companies who are going above and beyond in their work to make a difference to the world around them. Through celebrating their achievements, we'll also showcase the projects and companies making a difference in the UK tech sector.

There are four awards:  

1. People Award

Someone who, through technology, has helped support mental well-being, protected people online, driven inclusion or diversity initiatives, supported vulnerable or underrepresented groups, promoted cultural representation, or implemented online safety protocols for vulnerable audiences.

 

2. Society Award

Someone who, through technology, has supported digital transformation in the public sector for improved citizen experiences, led digital skills or inclusion initiatives, created technology that enhances personal control over identity, improved outcomes or efficiencies in health and care, enabled community connectivity and cohesion, advanced education for all ages and groups, or developed tech that simplifies life for vulnerable or underrepresented communities.

 

3. Economy Award

Someone who, through technology, has improved productivity or efficiency in the public sector, supported procurement or innovation within the public sector, created tech or processes to aid the growth of UK SMEs, led initiatives that position the UK as a leader in a specific technology, developed technology to improve financial control or planning, or helped individuals, businesses, councils, or Government anticipate and mitigate risks, including enhancing cyber resilience.

 

4. Planet Award

Someone who, through technology, has led initiatives to support the climate agenda, developed tech or led projects that support the circular economy, nature, or biodiversity, created tech solutions to facilitate recycling and reuse, championed their company's efforts towards achieving net zero, led initiatives to help businesses and communities transition to net zero or renewable energy sources, monitored, responded to, or mitigated extreme weather events, or raised awareness of the impact of climate-friendly solutions.

 

Our shortlisted nominees 2025  

 People Award nominees

Evren Emre

Evren Emre

Founder and CEO, SANLAB

Randall Mason

Randall Mason

Senior Manager, Systems Engineering - Public Sector; Defence & National Security, Fortinet UK&I

Lynette Ousby

Lynette Ousby

CEO, ReStart

 Society Award nominees

Elizabeth Barr

Elizabeth Barr

Head of the Cisco Networking Academy UK, Ireland, and Nordics, Cisco

Dr Doug Guthrie

Dr Doug Guthrie

CTO, Digital Modus

Razi Hassan

Razi Hassan

Director of Partnerships & Communication, Domestic Abuse Alliance

 Economy Award nominees

Fayola-Maria Jack

Fayola-Maria Jack

CEO, Resolutiion

Cindy van Niekerk

Cindy van Niekerk

CEO, Umazi

Adam Turner

Adam Turner

Head of External Funding, The Data Lab Innovation Centre

 Planet Award nominees

Anthony Levy

Anthony Levy

Founder & Chairman, Circularity First

Iain MacDougall

Iain MacDougall

Head of Sustainability, RED Engineering Design Ltd

Shailaja Natarajan

Shailaja Natarajan

Lead Data Scientist, Accenture

 

How we'll reward the winners  

  • Winners will be announced on stage at the techUK Annual Dinner (Tuesday 1 July) in front of 650+ leading tech companies and government stakeholders.
  • Winners will receive a physical ‘award’, and a digital ‘badge’ that they can add to their email signatures and social accounts.
  • Winners will be profiled and celebrated on the techUK website.
  • Our media partner, ComputerWeekly, will publish an article on the winners.
  • We will post a blog about each individual winner, project and company they work for on our website and on our social media accounts (60k followers on LinkedIn) in the weeks following the Award.
  • We will create a video about each winner, project and company they work for and post on our website and on our social media accounts in the weeks following the Award.
  • We will profile the winners in the first techUK newsletter post the Award ceremony.
  • We will profile the winners in relevant techUK Programme newsletters post the Award ceremony (e.g. our climate newsletter, policy newsletter, SME newsletter, skills newsletter etc.)

Plus:

  • Event speaking opportunities: Winners will be invited to speak at a relevant techUK event. 
  • LinkedIn Newsletter: Winners will be profiled in the techUK LinkedIn Newsletter post the Award.
  • Tech for Good: Winners will be interviewed for the techUK ‘Tech for Good’ series
  • Webinar and blog: Winning companies will be invited to host a webinar and write a blog on a topic related to the project or work they were nominated for.

Judging panel  

techUK has convened a stellar panel of industry leaders to judge the 2025 award:

Sheila Flavell CBE

Sheila Flavell CBE

techUK President, Chief Operating Officer, FDM Group

Dr Nicola Hodson

Dr Nicola Hodson

techUK Deputy President, Chair, IBM UK&I

Jacqueline de Rojas CBE

Jacqueline de Rojas CBE

techUK President Emeritus, Chair, Bletchley Park Trust & Institute of Coding

Jonathan Cowan

Jonathan Cowan

Chief of Staff, Sage

Liz Ashall-Payne

Liz Ashall-Payne

Founding CEO, Orcha

Daniela Menzky

Daniela Menzky

Co-founder and Chair, Climate Essentials

Andy Hague

Andy Hague

CEO TechWM, Director 4TSec

Award timeline  

Awards open for nominations 10 March
Nominations close 25 April
'Meet the Judges' day 5 June
Winners announced at techUK Annual Dinner 1 July

Learn more about the President's Award from Sheila Flavell CBE  

What are we looking for in the techUK President's Awards? Join techUK President Sheila Flavell as she describes the nomination criteria for our four award categories, People, Society, Economy, and Planet.

 

Quotes from our previous Award winners   

Greg Jackson
"To be recognised as a company really making a difference in tech is wonderful. It’s incredible to have this room of experts at the cutting edge, really thinking about all of the implications of how tech can dramatically improve society.”

Greg Jackson

Founder and CEO, Octopus Energy Group (People Award winner)

 Joe Hoy
“I was nominated for the Society Award because of the software tools that Forensic Analytics provides to law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Done right, technology can absolutely have a fantastically beneficial effect for society. Being recognised by the tech industry for our work feels a little bit surreal!”

Joe Hoy

Chief Product Officer, Forensic Analytics (Society Award winner)

Andrew Roughan
“I’m most delighted on behalf of my company, Plexal, because we’re on a real journey and real mission, and to be at the head of that charge is so exciting for me. A moment like this is recognition that we’re heading in the right direction.”

Andrew Roughan

CEO, Plexal (Economy Award winner)

Martina Colman
“I feel humble and proud because I feel techUK has recognised all the work that we have been doing with Climate Essentials in the past three years, and I feel super happy. Winning is amazing for me.”

Martina Colman

Head of Climate Science and Engineering, Climate Essentials (Planet Award winner)

Chris Whitehouse
“Amazing to win. It’s so exciting to have the work of the team recognised for what we’ve done. Delighted.”

Chris Whitehouse

Customer Experience Director, Collaboraite (People Award winner)

Jennifer Neff
“It feels fantastic. Absolutely amazing. Great for Access Elemental, it’s great for social prescribing, it’s great for the Access Group and for the community voluntary sector and all the people that we support."

Jennifer Neff

Managing Director, Access Elemental (Society Award winner)

Toby Jones
“I think I was nominated because I’ve had the opportunity to represent the interest and power of an SME community and I think this is a celebration of the effect and power SMEs can have."

Toby Jones

CEO, TJC (Economy Award winner)

Eric Zie
“Absolutely amazing. Super pleased. Love the fact that this award is peer judged in a techUK community where we’re all trying to do good. Amazing.”

Eric Zie

CEO and Founder, GoCodeGreen (Planet Award winner)

 

 

Media partner

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For more information about techUK President's Award, please contact:  

Alex Smith

Alex Smith

Head of Brand and Campaigns, techUK

Alex joined techUK in September 2021 as our Head of Brand and Campaigns.

Alex supports the development of the techUK marketing strategy, identifying and driving key campaigns across the techUK community that build our credibility, increase our influence, and provide thought leadership on the future impact of tech innovation across society, the economy, and the planet.

Prior to joining techUK Alex was Head of Marketing at UK Finance, the trade association for the banking and finance industry, where he led a team focused on commercial marketing strategies. Before that he was Head of Marketing at Payments UK supporting the payments industry to deliver world leading innovation.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
07810 544 868
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-smith-21467394

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Sheila Flavell CBE
The techUK President’s Award is our opportunity to shine a spotlight on the amazing talent we have in the UK tech industry. We are always bowled over by the quality of nominations we receive each year, and we want to thank every techUK member who has put forward a colleague. Through each of the four awards: People, Society, Economy, and Planet, we recognise the positive difference individuals from techUK member companies are making through their work with technology. With over 1,100 members, techUK now represents over 1.1 million tech workers in the UK so our award winners truly are one in a million.

Sheila Flavell CBE

President of techUK