DataIQ Awards Shortlist

NatWest Gordon Jackson, Head of Data and Analytics Customer Data Products

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Samer Madfouni, Data and AI Go-To-Market Leader - EMEA Public Sector

Accenture Richard Mauer, UK Data Science Practice Lead

Allwyn Nader Hosni, Head of Business Intelligence and Marketing Technology

Chaucer Group Marion Shaw, Head of Data and Analytics

DLA Piper Niresh Rajah, Chief Data and AI Officer

Direct Line Group Jonathan Saunders, Chief Data Officer and Data Enabling Tribe Lead

GKN Aerospace Engines Jon Eklöf, Chief Data and Analytics Officer

John Lewis Partnership Barry Panayi, Chief Data and Insight Officer 

Oliver Ross Hawkes, Head of Data

Openreach Rich Hunt, Data and Insight Director

Zurich Insurance Alex Sidgreaves, Chief Data Officer

Blend Aidan Maloney, Senior BI Consultant

Data Booster Danique Hekkema, Data Literacy Consultant

Freemavens Daniel Santos, Data Scientist

Wood for Trees part of Salocin Group Jessamyn Parker, Consultant Analyst

Seriös Group Jake Wedge, Data Engineer

British Airways Michael Churchill, Senior Data Visualisation Consultant

Burberry Ben Spinks, Data Scientist

Direct Line Group Rachel Tate, Tableau and BI Developer

EDF Clementine Whitcomb, Data Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group Becky Cowen, Data Apprentice

Royal London Daisy Power, Degree Apprentice (Technology and Data)

Digitas Prioritising Inclusion to Become a Better, Happier, and More Profitable Team: Digitas’ Data Science and Analytics Team

Go Inspire Group Putting Data and Analytics in the Driving Seat for Better Performance Outcomes

Alchemmy Consulting & Heathrow Alchemmy’s Development and Implementation of Heathrow’s First Enterprise Data Strategy

Smith Institute Smith Institute Energy Team

Seriös Group Amplifying Client Impact Through Effective Collaboration

Allwyn The Data and BI Team Completes a Remarkable Change Program During Acquisition, Replatforming, and Restructure

Aviva Transforming Data into Impact: Aviva’s secret sauce

Direct Line Group Motability: Best Data and Analytics Team

EDF UK EDF UK: The data and AI breakout year

Financial Times Team FT Datalytics

Levi Strauss & Co. Revolutionising Retail: How Levi’s FEOPS team blends AI innovation with global diversity to drive unprecedented business success

MOD Best Data and Analytics Team: UK Ministry of Defence Data Office

NatWest Data Products Enabling Good Customer Outcome Monitoring Under the Consumer Duty Regulation

Superdrug Best Data and Analytics Team: We are Superdrug Insights!

The LEGO Group Brick by Brick: Advancing demand forecasting at The LEGO Group

EXL Driving Transformation: Sky’s data and AI journey with EXL

Jungle Creations How Jungle Creations Transformed its Business by Integrating Data and AI

RAPP AI Data Driven Transformation that has Brought Back the Priority Magic, for Everyone, Through Every Communication

Sagacity & British Sugar Adaptable Campaign Plan for British Sugar

ASOS AI at the Core: Transforming ASOS’s inventory forecasting

Barilla Group Global Marketing Transformation through Data and AI: The MMROI Project

Brambles Brambles Digital

Burberry Revolutionising Burberry CRM: Powering one-to-one customer engagement with data

EDF UK ICE: Melting down data and AI barriers

Heathrow Airport Airport Departure Lounge Modelling

ITV How ITV Attracted 2 Million Users to ITVX

JLR Slotting Optimiser

LifeSearch Transforming Culture and Achieving Growth with Data and AI

The Very Group Creating an AI Culture at The Very Group

Virgin Money A Purposefully Personal Welcome to Virgin Money

Ascot Group Building a data driven culture through effective stakeholder engagement

Burberry Improving Product Insights and Forecasting Through Stakeholder-Centric Innovation

Cinch cinch’s Vehicle Price Optimisation Project is THE BEST Example of Stakeholder Engagement

Direct Line Group Customer, Sales, Service and Claims (CSSC), Most Effective Stakeholder Engagement

Financial Times The Financial Times: Metrics that matter

Kennedys Law Legal Excellence Empowered: Recognising data-driven performance

Phoenix Group Using Data to Help Improve Customer Journeys

Superdrug Cultivating Collaborative Insight: Superdrug’s journey in stakeholder engagement

The Very Group VeryCon - AI In Action

Virgin Money Embedding Data at the Heart of Decision Making to Ensure Stakeholders are Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet

Baringa Partners LLP Baringa DAIS-E Team: Synergistic and thriving

Cynozure The Cynozure Crew

Ekimetrics UK Ltd Ekimetrics: A great place to work, grow, and innovate

PwC Implementing a vibrant and caring culture

Smith Institute Smith Institute

Aviva A Great Place to Work: Aviva’s data-driven formula

Brambles Brambles Digital

Cinch Cars Limited cinch Decision Intelligence is STILL the Best Place to Work in Data

Costa Coffee Costa Coffee’s Data Team Serves Up a Winning Blend Thanks to Core Ingredients of Personal Development and Collaboration

Coventry Building Society Coventry Building Society Data Office

Financial Times Team FT, the Best Place to Be!

IAG Cargo IAG Cargo DIOR Team

Oxylabs Building an Innovation-Driven Workplace

Specsavers Optical Stores Data Careers with a Purpose

Virgin Money Living a Life More Virgin

Brambles Brambles Digital

Chaucer Group Diversity and Inclusion Key to Data Driven Sucess

Dentsu Championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Empowering parents and carers in the workplace

IIRIS Informa Cultivating Tomorrow’s Inclusive Tech Landscape

Kubrick Group Diversifying Data and Next-gen tech

Rockborne Rockborne: Fostering an intrinsic culture of diversity

Sigma Labs Social Mobility in Data: From free school meals to FTSE Board

Times Higher Education (THE) Times Higher Education - Double DEI: How our diverse team helps improve DEI in universities around the world

British Airways British Airways: Value creation = Optimised programme + Graduate talent

EDF UK Energetic Futures: Powering Innovation through our Data and Tech Graduate Scheme

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group: Data graduate scheme

Kubrick Group Unlocking potential and accelerating careers in next-gen tech

MOD Best Data Graduate Employer: Defence Digital, UK Ministry of Defence

Rockborne Pioneering the Future: Rockborne’s exemplary framework for data graduate employment

Sigma Labs Sigma Labs: World class data graduate experience

British Gas – Services and Solution Reimagining Analytics and Insight at British Gas Services and Solutions

Direct Line Group Chris Mendes: Transforming a vision into action

EDF UK People-Powered Progress: EDF Retail’s data revolution

Lebara Lebara - Digital Transformation

Marsh & McLennan Innovation Centre Increased Business Impact with Data Solutions Team New Ways of Working With Data

NatWest How an Evidence-Based Approach to Resourcing Helped to Protect Jobs and Cut Costs at NatWest

NatWest Streamlining Success: Revolutionising real-time data integration with Kafka SRE

Notting Hill Genesis Elevating Efficiency and Insight with Service Charge Reporting Suite

Oliver/U-Studio Innovative Data Practices Supercharging New Brand Talkability in Social

Superdrug The Cultural Shift to Data Democratisation

TFG Africa Elevating excellence: Enabling data-driven customer strategies at the heart of TFG

Baringa Partners LLP Paul Jones, Director (Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering) 

British Council Inigo Antolin, Head of Data Management 

Cynozure James Lupton, Chief Technology Officer 

Direct Line Group James Noon, Digital Analyst

esynergy Sunny Jaisinghani, Head of Data 

Nuffield Health Ben Kelly, Data Director

Oliver Ross Hawkes, Head of Data

Openreach John Sutherland, Senior Manager, Data Strategy 

Phoenix Ke Analytics Susan Gatura, Founder

Edinburgh Futures Institute Putting the "Responsible" in "Responsible Innovation"

International Workplace One Learner, One Record: Putting learners in control of their data

London Borough of Camden Camden Data Charter

Times Higher Education (THE) The Times Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings: Supporting the growth of higher education in Africa 

Trilateral Research Ethics-by-design: Revolutionising responsible AI

Zurich Insurance Pioneering Responsible AI: Penny’s ethical data journey

Blend From Insight to Impact: Empowering Scottish athletes with data

Ekimetrics UK Ltd Ekimetrics Transformation Infographic: Bridging the communication barrier between marketing and data insight teams

E.ON Next Democratising data at E.ON Next

EXL MIA: The art of storytelling in operational MI

HM Revenue & Customs HM Revenue & Customs: DPS Operational Dashboard

Leeds Building Society Transforming Customer Value through Data Exploitation

Journey MedAire Maritime Security Portal

NatWest Group Managing Deposits in a Modern World

Nbrown Group PLC Navigating Complexity: The power of data storytelling in multi-brand retail

Howden Group and WNS Global Services Feeling the Strain: Reducing risks for football injury underwriting

Admiral UK Insurance Levelling Up: Data and AI academy builds skills for all

Aviva Aviva’s Quantum Campus: Pursuing a path to technical mastery

Corndel Corndel x Hallmark: Connecting the dots

Coventry Building Society Coventry Building Society Data Academy 

Direct Line Group Direct Line Group Data Academy: Best Data Academy Award 

E.ON Next E.ON Next’s Data Literacy Enablement Programme

Grunenthal Empowering Excellence: Harnessing a data mesh approach to revolutionise our data-driven culture resulting in adoption targets being met halfway through the year!

John Lewis Partnership Data and Digital Apprenticeships at JLP - in partnership with Multiverse

L.E.K. Consulting Empowering Data-Driven Decisions: A democratised analytics approach

Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Banking Group: Data Quest

Rockborne Transformative Data Literacy: Unleashing potential through Rockborne’s innovative data academy

Syngenta Data4Food: The digital growth academy in Syngenta

Blend Accelerating Data Driven Decisioning with Insourced MMM Capabilities 

EXL Setting up digital data foundation for a European Retailer

Skyscanner Skyscanner: Flying higher with data booster

The British Red Cross & Cynozure Data Insights into Action: The British Red Cross and Cynozure

The Financial Times Data Democratisation: Power to the people

Three UK Data First: Transforming Three’s digital team into a best-in-class digital insights partner to delivering high business impact

Accenture & Vodafone VOXI Chatbot: The Telco markets first GenAI powered Chatbot

Baringa Partners LLP ENA Solution: Most innovative use of AI

Blend AI-Powered Analysis Solution: Transforming insights into action

Calligo Empowering AI Excellence: Revolutionising cloud-based machine learning solutions

C-Centric AI BOT for Consumer comparison sites

Dentsu AI-Neuro: Illuminating human responses to visual content - a revolutionary tool for marketing’s creative realm

Digitas Redefining the Marketing Measurement Paradigm: Digitas’ data team’s response to cookie deprecation using causal inference and geo-testing

RAPP AI led Innovation to Bring Back the Priority Magic, for Everyone, Through Every Communication

Smith Institute Ensuring Innovation Doesn’t Leave Anyone Behind: Identifying vulnerable energy customers

WNS Global Services Revolutionising Claims Processing Through AI-Driven Straight Through Claims Processing

WNS Global Services Revolutionising Marketing Campaigns with Gen AI

Barilla Group Innovative Application of AI in Marketing Mix ROI (MMROI) Project

Boots The First Customer Facing GenAI Chatbot in UK Retail

Boubyan Bank Social Media Analytics Using Kuwaiti Dialect

Direct Line Group Green Flag Agent Assist: Most innovative use of AI

Lebara From Warehouse to Lakehouse to AI

NatWest Optimising Fraud Detection with AI

Reach PLC Guten: Supporting journalists and getting great results with AI

Royal London Revolutionising Marketing: Gen AI avatars and people collaborating for scalable content creation

Sainsbury’s Your Nectar Prices: Personalised prices for 17 million customers at Sainsbury’s

TFG Africa Pinnacle of Progress: A trailblazing innovation in AI and machine learning by TFG Customer and Loyalty

Burberry Michael Schaefer, Senior Data Science Manager

Digitas Digitas AI Labs and Practice 

Grant Thornton UK LLP Jamie Crossman-Smith, Managing Director, UK Digital Hub

Jaywing Karen Snape, Data Science Director

Agile Lab Agile Lab: Witboost

British Telecommunications (BT) BT Active Intelligence: Real-time data

EXL EXL Code Harbour: GenAI based coding – up to 20x more efficient than Copilots

Fosfor, a unit of LTIMindtree The Fosfor Decision Cloud: Unifying the modern data ecosystem to enhance business outcomes

Gain Theory Data-Driven Growth: How Sensor is revolutionising marketing measurement

IIRIS & Informa Connect Lead Insights (Lead Intelligence and Reporting for Exhibitors and Sponsors)

IIRIS – Informa Market Exhibitors Marketing Qualified Leads at Scale

Jaywing A Multifaceted Data Approach to Driving Growth and Efficiency

Journey MedAire Maritime Security Portal

Smith Institute Ensuring Innovation Doesn’t Leave Anyone Behind: Identifying vulnerable energy customers 

Starcount Beyond Data Fragmentation: Transforming insights into impactful campaigns

Thoughtspot ThoughtSpot Data Enabling Solution of the year

Transform UK Learner Data Service

Trilateral Research STRIAD:AIR: From data to action in County Meath

British Airways British Airways: Customer centricity - make life easy!

Burberry Burberry’s Visual Product Platform

Direct Line Group Motability Operations: Peace of mind for customers through access to affordable, worry-free mobility

Metropolitan Police Service The Met Data Mart: A one-stop shop for policing data

NatWest Increasing Customers Financial Capability and Wellbeing Through a Data-driven Financial Wellbeing Hub

Omnicell Omnicell Pharmaself24

Three UK Customer Centric x Data-driven: A recipe to increase customer lifetime value by attracting high-quality leads and delivering exceptional customer experience using digital data and machine learning

Virgin Media O2 Virgin Media O2 and Baringa: Network expansion insight delivery

Nestle Nestle Global Marketing Media Data Foundation

Deloitte PairD for Deloitte

Informa Exhibitors Booths Dynamic Pricing

Jaywing Slashing Fraud Losses Using Cutting-Edge AI

Keepler Data Tech & Cepsa Química Improving Response Times and Accuracy in Product Stewardship Queries Through GenAI

N-iX LTD N-iX’s Pioneering ML Solution: Using machine learning to boost customer growth in finance

Smith Institute Ensuring Innovation Doesn’t Leave Anyone Behind: Identifying vulnerable energy customers

Aviva Kingmaker: The crown jewel of our AI/ML transformation

Barclays UK Corporate Bank AI Supercharges Corporate Banking Growth

Barilla Acceleration Limited Revolutionising Marketing Performance: A breakthrough with MMROI

Carwow ltd A Marketing Data and Measurement Overhaul that Doubled Revenue

EDF UK Occupational Health Data: From Zero to Hero

Lebara From Warehouse to Lakehouse to AI

Medscheme AI Driven Health Concierge: Optimisation of healthcare services for greater population impact

SMBC EMEA 千里の道も一歩から(Japanese proverb): A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

The Lego Group Scaling Success: The LEGO Group’s next-gen forecasting model

Zurich Insurance CATIA: Transcending claims management through AI innovation

Aviva Kingmaker: Innovative transformation in AI/ML

Barclays UK Corporate Bank Transforming Client Experience by Unlocking the Enormous Potential of Unstructured Data

Barilla Acceleration Limited Revolutionising Marketing Performance: An innovative journey with AI and data-driven processes

Blend AI-Powered Invoice Process Automation

British Gas – Services and Solutions Using AI to Transform Complaints Root Cause Analysis

Lakeland & Go Inspire Driving myLAKELAND Growth and Member Satisfaction with Data-Driven Processes

TurinTech GenAI-powered code optimisation for performance and sustainability

WNS Global Services Revolutionising Claims Recovery Operations Through AI-Driven Recovery-as-a-Service Offering

Bayezian Bayezian’s AI For Good Solutions

London Borough of Camden Camden Leading the Way in Ethical Data Use

Mind Mind’s Digital, Data, and Technology Team Fostering Data Driven Mindsets and Outcomes Focused Approaches

Sainsbury’s How Sainsbury’s is using AI to promote healthy diets across the nation

Travis Perkins Keeping People Safe: Uncovering hidden pressures in branch network through data

Trilateral Research Harnessing AI and data for good: Combatting complex social problems with ethical AI

British Airways British Airways: BA Better World - our Flightpath to Net Zero

National Grid Ventures Powering Responsible Offshore Wind Farm Development with Data Science

NatWest Leveraging Earth Observation Data for Sustainable Banking: NatWest and D-CAT 

Phoenix Group Leveraging the Power of Data to Better Support Vulnerable Customers

Times Higher Education (THE) The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings: Driving global universities towards sustainability and climate action 

Indiana University Sagar Varma Samanthapudi, ETL Data Specialist

Scottish AI Alliance Steph Wright, Head of Scottish AI Alliance & Co-founder of Diverse AI

Deloitte PairD for Scope 

Destination Canada Canadian Tourism Data Collective: Harnessing data and AI to power a transformative tourism future

Mars Mars’ State of Pet Homelessness Project: A global data initiative for understanding pet homelessness

Transform UK Using data to create a safe space for survivors

Trilateral Research Unlocking Insights: Supporting survivors of modern slavery

YouGov plc YouGov and GambleAware Treatment and Support Report

British Telecommunications BT Active Intelligence: Real-time data to manage emergencies

Calligo Trailblazing Data Trust Initiative: Revolutionising data stewardship with Calligo

Smith Institute Ensuring Innovation Doesn’t Leave Anyone Behind: Identifying vulnerable energy customers