Today is the day! The Finalists of the sixth edition of the British Data Awards 2026, with headline partner Atombit, have been announced!
With a record 462 nominations received, competition to be named a Finalist has been rather tough, and the organisations and individuals behind these entries have showcased some of the most impactful data work being carried out across the United Kingdom. From start-ups through to tech unicorns, government departments, FTSE 100 titans and everything in between, we’re proud that such a wide range of organisations are represented among the Finalists.
Jason Johnson, Managing Director of Predatech and British Data Awards 2026 judge said, “Thank you to everybody who shared their data success stories with us. It’s a huge privilege to dive into your nominations, and once again the judging panel has been impressed with the sheer ingenuity, ambition and impact demonstrated. I’d like to congratulate all our Finalists. I can’t wait to showcase more about these data success stories at the best night in data in May.”
We’d also like to thank the British Data Awards 2026 all-star judging panel for helping to select our Finalists:
Helen Blaikie: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Aston University | Neil Carden: President, EMEA, Blend | Caroline Carruthers: CEO, Carruthers and Jackson | Chasey Davies-Wrigley: Head of Data and AI, Made Tech | Rob Holtom: Executive Director, Digital, Data & Tech, Information Commissioner’s Office | Asheeka Hyde: Technology Director – Data, Analytics & AI, SSP Group | Jason Johnson: Managing Director, Predatech | Matt Lovell: Group Director of Data & AI, JD Sports Fashion | Di Mayze: Chief Data & AI Officer, Marks & Spencer | Roisin McCarthy: CEO, Women in Data | Catarina Runa Miranda: Global AI Director, Pandora | Jonathan Moxham: Director of Data & Insight, British Red Cross | Sami Rahman: Head of AI Strategy & Solutions, DataArt | Professor Ed Rochead: Chair, Alliance for Data Science Professionals | Romit Sen: Chief Data & AI Officer, Allwyn UK | Sandra Stanley: Chief Data Science Officer, dunnhumby | Niresh Rajah: Chief Data & AI Officer, DLA Piper | Hannah Tipney: Senior Director, Precision Medicine Data & Analytics, GSK | Lucy Vickers: Chief Data Officer and Chief Statistician, Department of Health & Social Care | James Wright: Senior Director, Bioscript Group
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We’re delighted to be joined by Atombit as our headline partner. They’ll also be presenting the following categories on the night: ‘Agentic AI Solution of the Year’, ‘Financial Services Company of the Year’ and ‘Data Transformation of the Year’.
Our category partners are Ekco (‘Innovation of the Year’), iO-Sphere (‘Rising Star of the Year’), Made Tech (‘Data Leader of the Year’), NixInfinity-AI (‘Healthcare Organisation of the Year’) and North Peak (‘Best Place to Work in Data’).
And so, without any further ado, your British Data Awards 2026 Finalists are:
Overall Awards
Innovation of the Year: Aviva | FOIL | Fundpath | Infinity | Intent HQ | ITV | NatWest Group | Safe Software | The AI of The Beholder – Choose your own adventure book | UK Power Networks
Data for Good Initiative of the Year: British Heart Foundation | Dogs Trust | Five Talents UK | National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) | NHS England | Octopus Energy | Research Data Scotland | Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) | The Crown Estate | West Yorkshire Police | Wilson James
Data for Good Consulting Initiative of the Year: Aker Systems | Data Orchard | Differentis | Economist Impact | Hypatia Analytics & Age UK Wandsworth | Ignite AI Partners | Made Tech | PwC UK | Register Dynamics | Thermo Fisher Scientific
Data Transformation of the Year (organisations with 4,000+ employees): BDO | Carlsberg Britvic | Economist Intelligence / The Economist Group | Grünenthal | Haleon | Home Office (LEDS), NPCC & PA Consulting | PwC UK | Sainsbury’s | Superdrug | Virgin Media O2
Data Transformation of the Year (organisations with <4,000 employees): 5Y Technology | Allwyn UK | Bioscript Group | CloserStill Media | Catch22 | Cynozure & British Red Cross | E.ON Next | SMBC Bank International | Solus | Urenco
Education Initiative of the Year: Accord Mortgages | Admiral Group | Arqiva | DataCamp | Education Authority Northern Ireland | Royal London | Sky UK | UK Ministry of Defence | Urenco | West Yorkshire Police (Pol-Ed) | Yusen Logistics
Climate Change Initiative of the Year: ImpactLoop | NatWest Group (NatWest Sustainability Planner) | NatWest Group (Improving the Quality and Credibility of Climate Emissions Data) | Octopus Energy | RenewableUK EnergyPulse | The Data Lab | UK Power Networks
Generative AI Initiative of the Year: Agilexe | Aston University | Atombit | Aviva | carwow | Data Cubed | FOIL | GlobalData | ICS.AI | Royal London
Data Protection/Privacy Initiative of the Year: Admiral Group | Aviva | Hope and May | iStandUK (Tameside Council) | MyData-TRUST | ProvePrivacy | Royal London | Sonata One | Talan & NatWest
Best Place to Work in Data: Aviva | E.ON Next | ElectraLink | Hastings Direct | Intact Insurance UK&I | University of Leeds | Met Office | Ontic | SMBC Bank International | Superdrug
Best Place to Work in Data (Partner): Billigence | Bioscript Group | Capco | Cynozure | Envitia | MyData-TRUST | Optima Connect | Register Dynamics | Talan | ThoughtSpot
Data Partnership of the Year: IE Hub & 4most | Ipsos Data Labs & Microsoft | JCURV & Sainsbury’s | London Borough of Camden & Valcon | Met Office & Microsoft | NatWest Group (Data Fusion Public-Private Financial Intelligence Capability) | Provenance & Faith in Nature | The Crown Estate (Marine Data Exchange) | The Data Lab (Tide Breaker AI Accelerator Programme) | UK Data Service | Yorkshire Building Society & North Peak
Start-Up of the Year: ComplyCube | Coronado Research | ImpactLoop | Point | TG0 | The Data City | Torus | WareBee
SME of the Year: A&A Digital Tech | Agilexe | Anmut Consulting | Black Sheep Coffee | DVJ Insights | Insight Narrator | Serve Legal | SciChart | Shivom Consultancy | TruRating
Large Company of the Year: Carlsberg Britvic | Economist Intelligence / The Economist Group | Fivetran | Infinity | Lloyds Banking Group | Solus | ThoughtSpot | Urenco | Wilson James
Sector Specific Awards
AI Company of the Year: Atombit | Audacia | ConnexAI | DataCamp | dunnhumby | ICS.AI | Intent HQ | Lloyds Banking Group | Provenance | OpenCorporates
Consultancy of the Year: Advancing Analytics | Baringa | Capco | Cynozure | JCURV | Oakland | Ortecha | QuantSpark | Snoop | Talan
Financial Services Company of the Year: Admiral Group | Fundpath | Lloyds Banking Group | Snoop | Succession Wealth
Healthcare Organisation of the Year: Bioscript Group | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | National Disease Registration Service (NDRS) | National Joint Registry | Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN)
Not-For-Profit of the Year: British Heart Foundation | Catch22 | Dogs Trust | Five Talents UK | Research Data Scotland | Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) | UK Data Service
Public Sector Organisation of the Year: Education Authority Northern Ireland | iNetwork (Tameside Council) | Met Office | The Pensions Regulator | West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership
Solution Awards
Agentic AI Solution of the Year: Auquan | Blackdot Solutions | Exponentia.ai | FOIL | Intent HQ | Lloyds Banking Group | Sigmoid | ThoughtSpot | Xiatech | YourParkingSpace
BI Solution of the Year: British Heart Foundation | ElectraLink | Fundpath | Howden Insurance Group | KPMG Dash | Landsec | Superdrug | Thermo Fisher Scientific | UK Health Security Agency | Wilson James | YourParkingSpace
Data Management Solution of the Year: A&A Digital Tech | Bluestonex | dbt Labs | Exponentia.ai | Haleon | HSBC | London Borough of Camden | StorMagic | NatWest Group | Network Rail Wales & Western Region
People Awards
Data Leader of the Year: Dr Janet Bastiman, Chief Data Scientist, Napier AI | Satty Bilan, Group Data & AI Lead, Greene King | Ahmed Elahi, Senior Director of AI & Tech Transformation, SkyShowtime | Magid El-Amin, Director of Evidence & Insight, Catch22 | Naren Kaushik, Head of BI, Allwyn UK | Indhira Mani, Chief Data Officer, Intact Insurance UK&I | Jo Page, Data Director, E.ON Next | Corinne Richardson, Deputy Director, Department for Education | Joanne Riseborough, Group Director of Data Management & Culture, Lloyds Banking Group | Rich Whitaker, Head of Data Management, Scottish Widows
Data Leader of the Year (Partner): Ade Lingard, Founder, North Peak | Dr. Joyjit Chatterjee, Lead Data Scientist, EPAM Systems | James Wright, Senior Director, Bioscript Data Insights (BDI) | Jennifer Visser-Rogers, Chief Scientific Officer, Coronado Research | Megan Higgins, Data & AI Partner, PwC UK | Mick Rothwell, Director of Architecture and Data Transformation, NixInfinity-AI | Paul Jones, Data Leader, Baringa | Rosanne Werner, Founder & CEO, XcelerateIQ | Sameer Rahman, Founder, DataMonet | Siraj Alimohamed, Global Head – Data & AI, Experion Technologies UK
Rising Star of the Year: Anukansha Gagneja, Data Scientist, Lloyds Banking Group | Courteney Newton, Senior Data Engineer, London Borough of Camden | Em Beasley, Principal Data Scientist, Aviva | Gabby Walker, Head of Data & Analytics, Black Sheep Coffee | George Tipping, Lead Data Scientist, ITV | Jessica Dennison, Senior Data Skills and Culture Manager, UK Ministry of Defence | Juliana Smith, Founder, Smart Frames UI | Kim Hare, Data Privacy and Records Manager, Scottish Widows | Rhys Jones, Operational Response Analyst, Welsh Water | Shannon Grehan, Product Owner, ElectraLink
Rising Star of the Year (Partner): Abinaash Thirukkumar, Senior Technical Consultant, Ipsos | Aditya Mukherjee, Data Scientist, Blend | Jayeeta Bhattacharya, Principal Data & AI Governance Consultant, Billigence | Jessie Stuart, Head of Analytics, HyperFinity | Jyothi Kambhampati, Data Analyst, Verisk Maplecroft | Martha Casey, Data Consultant, Baringa | Matthew Pilkington, Junior Solution Architect, Cynozure | Pratyush Shandilya, Senior Data Scientist, Atombit | Rachana Patel, Lead Data Scientist, Bioscript Data Insights (BDI) | Wezi Mulenga, Junior Software Developer, CGI
Data Team of the Year (20+ people): Dogs Trust | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Greene King | HSBC | Intact Insurance UK&I | ITV | Lloyds Banking Group | Research Data Scotland | UK Ministry of Defence | Virgin Media O2
Data Team of the Year (<20 people): Aviva (Health Claims Analytics Team) | BDO | BYOMA | CloserStill Media | Cornerstone | Department for Education | Hippo | Landsec | Ordnance Survey | KBR (Estates Intelligence team) | Succession Wealth
Pictures from the British Data Awards 2025 ceremony
British Data Awards 2026 Ceremony
Finalists will be celebrated, and Winners announced, at the best night in data! This special awards ceremony will take place on the 20th 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:
Silver tables: Single ticket: £345+VAT | Half table: £1,525+VAT (five people) | Full table: £2,900+VAT (ten people)
Gold tables: Half table: £1,775+VAT (five people) | Full table: £3,400+VAT ten people)
Gold tables are positioned on the front row, include additional drinks during dinner, and an official team photograph.
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.
