Today we’re delighted to announce the Finalists of the British Data Awards 2025, with headline partner Data Literacy Academy.

But first, we must say a huge thank you to everyone who shared their data success stories with us.

With a record 448 entries received, competition to be named a British Data Awards 2025 Finalist has been tough, but as always, it remains an enormous privilege to showcase the individuals and organisations that are truly passionate about data.

Now in our fifth year, the British Data Awards is an annual quest that sets-out to discover and celebrate the UK’s data success stories. This year entries were received from start-ups, not-for-profits, public sector organisations, SMEs, tech unicorns and FTSE 100 giants among many others, and we’re particularly proud that our Finalists reflect the diversity, vibrancy and sheer ingenuity of the UK’s data ecosystem.

Jason Johnson, Co-Founder of Predatech and British Data Awards 2025 judge said, “The judges had a mighty hard task on their hands this year! With more data success stories shared with us than ever before, just being named a Finalist really is a massive achievement, so all our Finalists should feel immensely proud. I can’t wait to celebrate your data success stories in May.”

We’d also like to thank the British Data Awards 2025 all-star judging panel for helping to select our Finalists:

Abel Aboh: Advisor – AI Governance, Bank of England | Helen Blaikie: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Aston University | Neil Carden: President EMEA, Blend | Dr Sophie Carr: Founder, Bays Consulting | Caroline Carruthers: CEO, Carruthers and Jackson | Rob Holtom: Executive Director, Digital, Data & Tech, Information Commissioner’s Office | Jason Johnson: Co-Founder, Predatech | Kinnari Ladha: Chief Data Officer, Merlin Entertainments | Di Mayze: Chief Data & AI Officer, Marks & Spencer | George McCrea: Director Data Science, Analytics & Visualisation, The Crown Estate | Adrian Pinder: Head, Digital & Data, DS Smith | Niresh Rajah: Chief Data & AI Officer, DLA Piper | Professor Ed Rochead: Chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals | Adam Ryan: Chief Data Officer, Calligo | Miryem Salah: Chief Data Officer & Director of Vodafone Business IT Hubs, Vodafone | Nick Sawyer: Director of Data & Analytics, Bupa Dental Care | Lucy Vickers: Chief Data Officer & Chief Statistician, Department of Health & Social Care

Campaign Partners

This year we’re delighted to be joined by Data Literacy Academy as our headline partner. They’ll also be presenting three categories on the night: ‘Data Transformation of the Year’, ‘Data for Good Initiative of the Year’ and ‘Innovation of the Year’.

Our category partners are Calligo (‘Rising Star of the Year’), DinMo (‘Data Team of the Year’), Experian (‘AI Company of the Year’), Exponentia.ai (‘Data Leader of the Year – Brand’) and NixInfinity-AI (‘Healthcare Organisation of the Year’).

And so, without any further ado, your British Data Awards 2025 Finalists are:

Overall Awards

Data Transformation of the Year (presented by Data Literacy Academy): Carlsberg Britvic | Co-op | Dogs Trust I Education Authority – NI | Grunenthal | Haleon | HSBC UK | KBR | Schneider Electric | TUBR

Innovation of the Year (presented by Data Literacy Academy): Calligo | Dexory | Featurespace | Geolytix | Inizio Medical and Blend | Merkle | Quin AI | Sage | Smith Institute and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks | Wilson James

Data for Good Initiative of the Year (presented by Data Literacy Academy): Corndel | Meningitis Research Foundation | Mindstep | NHS Business Services Authority | Nuffield Health | Octopus Energy | Rail Data Marketplace | Research Data Scotland | Residently | RNLI | West Yorkshire Police

Data for Good Consulting Initiative of the Year: 67 Bricks | Advanced Infrastructure Technology | CorEvitas | DG Cities | Environment Agency | FOIL | Frazer-Nash Consultancy and Citizen’s Advice | FTI Consulting | Smith Institute and Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks

Education Initiative of the Year: AXA UK&I | Code First Girls | Direct Line Group | Education Authority – NI | Jaguar Land Rover | Just Eat Takeaway & Data Booster | Lloyds Banking Group (Data Summer School) | PwC | The Bayes Centre at the University of Edinburgh | Women in Data

Climate Change Initiative of the Year: Advanced Infrastructure Technology | Aviva | Co-op | Education Authority – NI | FOIL | NatWest (Farm Emissions) | NatWest & D-CAT (Leveraging Remote Sensing Data for Sustainable Banking) | Nesta | Schneider Electric

Generative AI Initiative of the Year: 67 Bricks | Amplify Analytix | Aviva | Bloomreach | Education Authority – NI | Featurespace | Inizio Medical and Blend | The Financial Times | TurinTech AI | XRAI

Data Protection/Privacy Initiative of the Year: Admiral Group | GSMA | INTENT HQ | JD Sports Fashion | NFU | pixevety | ProvePrivacy

Start-Up of the Year: ComplyCube | DeepMiner | DinMo | FOIL | Fundpath | Future Learning Group | HelpFirst | LetPlant | Quench.ai | XRAI

SME of the Year: Alton Valley | Anmut | Beer52 | Data Literacy Academy | Moveout Data | Nosto | ScoreApp | The Data Escape Room | The Insights Family

Large Company of the Year: British Airways | Carlsberg Britvic | Cera | GlobalData | Lloyds Banking Group | Quantexa | Utility Warehouse | Wilson James

Data Vendor of the Year: Embeddable | Fivetran | Fundpath | OpenCorporates | Preqin | StorMagic | ThoughtSpot

Data Partnership of the Year: Airfinity | Amplify Analytix | Dufrain | ElectraLink | Greater London Authority | Kent and Medway Data Warehouse, Kent and Medway ICB, Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance | Mindstep | Offshore Energy Digital Strategy Group | Synectics Solutions | The Crown Estate

Best Place to Work in Data: Aviva | Bella+Duke | Cynozure | Eden Smith Group | ElectraLink | Lebara | Ministry of Defence | North Sea Transition Authority | Oakland | Wilson James

Sector Specific Awards

AI Company of the Year (presented by Experian): Amplify Analytix | Attensi | Audacia | Dexory | Featurespace | Geolytix | INTENT HQ | Skin Analytics | Smartbox.ai | Quin AI

Analytics Company of the Year: British Airways | Featurespace | GlobalData | INTENT HQ | KPMG Dash | Mediahawk | Sigmoid | Solomonic | ThoughtSpot | TwentyCi

Consultancy of the Year: 67 Bricks | Artefact | Baringa | Billigence Europe | Cynozure | Envitia | JCURV | Methods Analytics | Smith Institute

Financial Services Company of the Year: Canopy | Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) | First Derivative | Lloyds Banking Group (The Consumer Digital Index) | NatWest (CDD Customer Dormancy Model) | Preqin | Snoop

Healthcare Organisation of the Year (presented by NixInfinity-AI): Bioscript Group | Cera | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Nuffield Health | Proximie | Suvera

Not-For-Profit of the Year: Dogs Trust | Leeds Beckett University | Lhasa | Podium Analytics | RNLI | Royal Mencap Society | Scope | UK Data Service

Public Sector Organisation of the Year: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Education Authority – NI | Environment Agency | Homes England | NHS Business Services Authority | North Sea Transition Authority

Technology Company of the Year: Alton Valley | Attensi | Audacia | Dexory | ElectraLink | Geolytix | Nosto | Proximie | Smartbox.ai | Syrenis

Solution Awards

BI Solution of the Year: 5Y Technology | Blend and INEOS FPS | City Football Group | Co-op | CorEvitas | Fundpath | KBR | Sky | SMBC

Data Management Solution of the Year: 101 Data Solutions | Allianz UK | Anmut | Exponentia.ai | GlobalData | Ministry of Defence | NixInfinity-AI | Precisely | Synvert TCM | Syrenis

People Awards

Data Leader of the Year – Brand (presented by Exponentia.ai): Andy Ruocco, Head of Climate Data & Analytics, NatWest | Bizzy Saunders, Head of Data Governance, Shawbrook Bank | Danny Chumbley, Director of Data, Sky | Emily Simons, Deputy Director DDT Incubator, Department for Education | Heather Thomson, CEO, The Data Lab | Jean Perez, Director of data and analytics, Valuedynamx – Collinson | Josh Cunningham, Head of Data Culture, Lloyds Banking Group | Niresh Rajah, Chief Data & AI Officer, DLA Piper | Prof Victor Chang, Professor of Business Analytics, Aston University | Romit Sen, Head of Data Science, AI and Advanced Analytics, British Airways | Sami Rahman, Director of Data, Hypebeast

Data Leader of the Year – Supplier: Charlotte Bailey, Chief Operating Officer, Panintelligence | Dr Janet Bastiman, Chief Data Scientist, Napier AI | Greg Freeman, Founder & CEO, Data Literacy Academy | Lee Fulmer, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company | Ben Gott, UK Data and Technology President, Merkle | Richard Griffith, Chief Technology Officer, Envitia | Louise Hutchins, Director – Data Culture and Literacy, Cynozure | Roisin McCarthy, Founder, Women in Data | James Smith, VP EMEA, ThoughtSpot | Rosanne Werner, CEO, XcelerateIQ | James Wolman, Head of Data Science, Braidr

Rising Star of the Year (presented by Calligo): Ben Cross, Client Delivery Manager, Blend | Sheetal Dash, Financial Crime Data Lead, Barclays | Taran Manku, Data Science Engineer, Direct Line Group | Peng Wang, Insight Analyst, Carlsberg Britvic | Eva Gilburt, Head of Practice (Analysis & Insights), The Dot Collective | Anosha Butt, Insight Manager, Superdrug | Vicky Raine, Data Strategy Manager, Openreach | Luca Piccolo, Data & AI Product Manager, DLA Piper | Jakub Jonczyk, Analytics Manager, Sage | Imy Younge, Senior Data Science Consulting, Capgemini Invent | Pavi Singh, Retail Solutions Architect, Databricks

Data Team of the Year < 20 people (presented by DinMo): Admiral Group (Data Protection and Privacy team) | Calvium | Datapharm | Fortescue Zero | Merlin Entertainments | Sage | Sovereign Network Group | Superdrug | The Defence Data Research Centre, University of Exeter | TT2 (Tyne Tunnel 2) | UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey

Data Team of the Year > 20 people (presented by DinMo): Aviva | Baringa | Co-op | Dogs Trust | GB Corp | Grunenthal | Lloyds Banking Group (Data & AI Culture) | Ministry of Defence (Defence Data Office) | NHS Business Services Authority | OSB Group and Publicis Sapient | The Data Lab / Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH)

British Data Awards 2025 Ceremony

Finalists will be celebrated, and Winners announced, at a special awards ceremony due to take place on the 14^th of May at The Brewery, a magnificent venue in the heart of London.

The evening will include a drinks reception, a three-course dinner with wine, comedy, performers, a live band, and of course a dazzling awards ceremony. Tickets are now available on a first-come, first-served basis and are reserved for Finalists until April. Our Finalist pricing is as follows:

Single tickets: £315+VAT | Half table: £1,450+VAT (5 or more tickets) | Table: £2,750+VAT (10 or more tickets)

Three VIP tables are also available which guarantee a first row table and drink upgrades.

Please email us for more information or to make a booking. Our booking policy can be found here.

As we build-up to the big night, we’ll be showcasing our Finalists further and sharing updates on LinkedIn.