The winners in the 2021 Digital Revolution Awards all showed some of the creativity, innovation and force for good that cloud technology can offer the world.
With its new integrated cloud and infrastructure operations management platform, Trianz provides enterprises with a unified, holistic view of their IT operations. Concierto.cloud is revolutionising infrastructure management and responding to the growing need for unified oversight in an age where businesses are operating a multitude of next-gen ISV solutions.
Hannah Wolfe is CTO and co-founder at Ghost, an open-source, non-profit publishing platform. Hannah has shown outstanding leadership and innovation in her role, and has made a significant impact not only on Ghost, but on the lives of those independent creators who are empowered by the use of this platform. Launched in 2013, Ghost remains inherently open source, and everything Hannah and Ghost does is in the sole interest of building the best product, supporting sustainable journalism, publishing and more open web.
American Express values and embraces the diversity of thought, backgrounds and experiences of all employees. Through its Employee Networks scheme, Amex is helping employees broaden their associations with other employees while expanding their knowledge of the business. Some of these networks include Asian Network at Amex, Women in Technology, Black Engagement Network, Disability Awareness Network, Millennial Network and the Veterans Network, to name just a few.
ThreatModeler is an automated threat modelling solution that secures and scales the enterprise software and cloud development life cycle. In 2020, the company launched its AWS Security EPICS Automated offering, developed to automate and accelerate the design of secure AWS cloud environments—a critical tool at a time when more business are making the move to the cloud.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Ontario, EdTech organisation Ink Smith launched The Canadian Shield to address the shortage of PPE. The company quickly grew to meet demand, developing a face shield that could be produced and manufactured at scale, using existing resources and capabilities. The company now employs over 300 people and produces 200,000 shields a day, not only helping to solve the PPE shortage problem, but reinvigorating the local manufacturing sector with full-time, living wage jobs.
An education leader, speaker, and event organiser, Vicky Seno is paving the way for women in the cloud space by helping others upskill and learn more about subjects like containers, serverless, networking, and security. Dedicated to creating more learning opportunities for those looking to learn more about AWS, Vicky has developed an AWS Cloud Computing college degree, has trained staff from countless colleges, and leads coding courses for those looking to break into the industry.
An author, speaker, and change leader, Chaitra Vedullapalli is the President and Co-founder of Women in Cloud, a community-led economic development initiative that is driving global conversations with the United Nations and tech corporations to ensure an inclusive technology industry and economy.
Gertrude’s outstanding recent work includes overseeing two huge and impactful implementation projects at NCH Corporation; rolling out Oracle across 36 countries, and launching Salesforce on Force.com using NCH’s own proprietary software. Delivering these projects has enabled the company to focus on processes that have empowered the entire business. Despite her expertise as a tech leader, Gertrude’s focus is always people, and fostering a true team atmosphere where trust is paramount.
Founded by Meg Quinn and Bryan Dobson, Bower House Digital is home to a team of almost forty Salesforce Marketing Cloud professionals. Through their core values of inclusiveness and a focus on developing a great cultural understanding of what makes a great team member, Bower House Digital has built a cloud tech consultancy with a near 50/50 gender split, zero gender pay gap, and zero turnover.
eCloudvalley launched in 2014 and obtained AWS Managed Service Partner status in its first two years. Since its inception, eCloudvalley has attained more than 500 AWS certifications and served more than 1,000 customers. In 2019, eCloudvalley’s cloud services revenue reached $85m USD, accounting for nearly 40% of its consolidated revenue. The company’s recent success earned it a place on the Financial Times’ Top 10 High Growth Companies; the only Asia Pacific Company to do so in early 2020.
Verizon’s commitment to D&I is evident in its US workforce—59.3% of employees and half of its board members are women or people of colour. Alongside a diverse workforce, Verizon are also committed to creating a diverse supply chain, spending $5.8 billion in goods and services with diverse suppliers, including minority, women, veteran, service-disabled veterans, LGBT, and disability-owned businesses in 2019 alone.
In the midst of last year’s economic turmoil, Salesforce MVP Gemma decided to share with others what she already knew: that Salesforce could help people develop rewarding new careers. And so Gemma created a series of YouTube tutorials, every week for 28 weeks, aiming to teach people all about Salesforce, and offering people who had been furloughed or lost jobs access to expert-led Salesforce training for free. Participants in the course have gone on to be named Salesforce Champions, gained certifications, and started on new career paths in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Will co-founded Unily in 2006, and has led the company to become a globally recognised brand in the SharePoint marketplace. Last year, Will not only designed, produced, and distributed 3D printed visors to the NHS and other organisations, but he also supplied his employees with 3D printers so they could scale up production. At the same time, Will and his team were steering the business through the ongoing pandemic and a spike in demand. In 2020, Unily saw sales rise by 30%, and the team still found the time to make and supply over 3,000 masks to hospitals, hospices, and ambulance services across the UK.
Polaris is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that works to fight and prevent modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Polaris analysed more than 32,000 cases of human trafficking documented between December 2007 and December 2016 through the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Through this data, Polaris was able to release The Typology of Modern Slavery, a report helping people identify instances of trafficking and modern slavery. The organisation continues to make its datasets available to other groups committed to combating trafficking.
Adobe acquired cloud work and project management software firm Workfront in early 2020. The move will enable marketers to create and deliver the best customer experiences through one central system, revolutionizing how they plan, collaborate on, and oversee their workflow.
Main Street Digital is helping local businesses access and exploit digital transformation through a single economic development platform using cloud and AI technologies. The solution is already helping businesses in Kirkland, Washington fast-track their economic recovery through Shop Local Kirkland, a hyper-local, digital marketplace housing more than 270 storefronts on a virtual high street and connecting businesses to customers. Meylah aims to replicate model to various cities in Washington State to ignite economic recovery.
Using the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft partner Barhead Solutions developed a solution to help automate YMCA Victoria’s application process for the Australian government’s JobKeeper program. Developed in just two days, the solution ensured over 5,000 staff were paid their wages that month.
Trailhead’s accessible, bite-sized, and gamified upskilling community has inspired a learning movement within the tech space. At a time when tech skills are in high demand, and the cloud space presents enormous career opportunities, Trailhead is democratising learning and empowering more budding technologists to break into the Salesforce space.
With its new integrated cloud and infrastructure operations management platform, Trianz provides enterprises with a unified, holistic view of their IT operations. Concierto.cloud is revolutionising infrastructure management and responding to the growing need for unified oversight in an age where businesses are operating a multitude of next-gen ISV solutions.
Hannah Wolfe is CTO and co-founder at Ghost, an open-source, non-profit publishing platform. Hannah has shown outstanding leadership and innovation in her role, and has made a significant impact not only on Ghost, but on the lives of those independent creators who are empowered by the use of this platform. Launched in 2013, Ghost remains inherently open source, and everything Hannah and Ghost does is in the sole interest of building the best product, supporting sustainable journalism, publishing and more open web.
American Express values and embraces the diversity of thought, backgrounds and experiences of all employees. Through its Employee Networks scheme, Amex is helping employees broaden their associations with other employees while expanding their knowledge of the business. Some of these networks include Asian Network at Amex, Women in Technology, Black Engagement Network, Disability Awareness Network, Millennial Network and the Veterans Network, to name just a few.
ThreatModeler is an automated threat modelling solution that secures and scales the enterprise software and cloud development life cycle. In 2020, the company launched its AWS Security EPICS Automated offering, developed to automate and accelerate the design of secure AWS cloud environments—a critical tool at a time when more business are making the move to the cloud.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Ontario, EdTech organisation Ink Smith launched The Canadian Shield to address the shortage of PPE. The company quickly grew to meet demand, developing a face shield that could be produced and manufactured at scale, using existing resources and capabilities. The company now employs over 300 people and produces 200,000 shields a day, not only helping to solve the PPE shortage problem, but reinvigorating the local manufacturing sector with full-time, living wage jobs.
An education leader, speaker, and event organiser, Vicky Seno is paving the way for women in the cloud space by helping others upskill and learn more about subjects like containers, serverless, networking, and security. Dedicated to creating more learning opportunities for those looking to learn more about AWS, Vicky has developed an AWS Cloud Computing college degree, has trained staff from countless colleges, and leads coding courses for those looking to break into the industry.
Will co-founded Unily in 2006, and has led the company to become a globally recognised brand in the SharePoint marketplace. Last year, Will not only designed, produced, and distributed 3D printed visors to the NHS and other organisations, but he also supplied his employees with 3D printers so they could scale up production. At the same time, Will and his team were steering the business through the ongoing pandemic and a spike in demand. In 2020, Unily saw sales rise by 30%, and the team still found the time to make and supply over 3,000 masks to hospitals, hospices, and ambulance services across the UK.
Adobe acquired cloud work and project management software firm Workfront in early 2020. The move will enable marketers to create and deliver the best customer experiences through one central system, revolutionizing how they plan, collaborate on, and oversee their workflow.
Using the Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft partner Barhead Solutions developed a solution to help automate YMCA Victoria’s application process for the Australian government’s JobKeeper program. Developed in just two days, the solution ensured over 5,000 staff were paid their wages that month.
An author, speaker, and change leader, Chaitra Vedullapalli is the President and Co-founder of Women in Cloud, a community-led economic development initiative that is driving global conversations with the United Nations and tech corporations to ensure an inclusive technology industry and economy.
Gertrude’s outstanding recent work includes overseeing two huge and impactful implementation projects at NCH Corporation; rolling out Oracle across 36 countries, and launching Salesforce on Force.com using NCH’s own proprietary software. Delivering these projects has enabled the company to focus on processes that have empowered the entire business. Despite her expertise as a tech leader, Gertrude’s focus is always people, and fostering a true team atmosphere where trust is paramount.
Founded by Meg Quinn and Bryan Dobson, Bower House Digital is home to a team of almost forty Salesforce Marketing Cloud professionals. Through their core values of inclusiveness and a focus on developing a great cultural understanding of what makes a great team member, Bower House Digital has built a cloud tech consultancy with a near 50/50 gender split, zero gender pay gap, and zero turnover.
eCloudvalley launched in 2014 and obtained AWS Managed Service Partner status in its first two years. Since its inception, eCloudvalley has attained more than 500 AWS certifications and served more than 1,000 customers. In 2019, eCloudvalley’s cloud services revenue reached $85m USD, accounting for nearly 40% of its consolidated revenue. The company’s recent success earned it a place on the Financial Times’ Top 10 High Growth Companies; the only Asia Pacific Company to do so in early 2020.
Verizon’s commitment to D&I is evident in its US workforce—59.3% of employees and half of its board members are women or people of colour. Alongside a diverse workforce, Verizon are also committed to creating a diverse supply chain, spending $5.8 billion in goods and services with diverse suppliers, including minority, women, veteran, service-disabled veterans, LGBT, and disability-owned businesses in 2019 alone.
In the midst of last year’s economic turmoil, Salesforce MVP Gemma decided to share with others what she already knew: that Salesforce could help people develop rewarding new careers. And so Gemma created a series of YouTube tutorials, every week for 28 weeks, aiming to teach people all about Salesforce, and offering people who had been furloughed or lost jobs access to expert-led Salesforce training for free. Participants in the course have gone on to be named Salesforce Champions, gained certifications, and started on new career paths in the Salesforce ecosystem.
Polaris is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that works to fight and prevent modern-day slavery and human trafficking. Polaris analysed more than 32,000 cases of human trafficking documented between December 2007 and December 2016 through the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Through this data, Polaris was able to release The Typology of Modern Slavery, a report helping people identify instances of trafficking and modern slavery. The organisation continues to make its datasets available to other groups committed to combating trafficking.
Main Street Digital is helping local businesses access and exploit digital transformation through a single economic development platform using cloud and AI technologies. The solution is already helping businesses in Kirkland, Washington fast-track their economic recovery through Shop Local Kirkland, a hyper-local, digital marketplace housing more than 270 storefronts on a virtual high street and connecting businesses to customers. Meylah aims to replicate model to various cities in Washington State to ignite economic recovery.
Trailhead’s accessible, bite-sized, and gamified upskilling community has inspired a learning movement within the tech space. At a time when tech skills are in high demand, and the cloud space presents enormous career opportunities, Trailhead is democratising learning and empowering more budding technologists to break into the Salesforce space.
Tiffany Spencer | Amanda Beard-Neilson | Chaitra Vedullapalli
Will Saville | Neha Sampat | Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE
TechMums | Polaris Project | Chaitra Vedullapalli – Women In Cloud
PwC | American Express | Palo Alto Networks | Amazon
Bower House Digital | Vertex | Deloitte | Mathematica Policy Research
Adobe acquires Workfront
IBM Watson AIOps | Meylah Corporation | ThreatModeler
GuidePoint Security | eCloudvalley
Countdown | Meylah Corporation
Ink Smith/Canadian Shield | RedBit | Microsoft
Slack | Stitch Fix | Verizon | Drift
Akari Solutions | Concurrency | Barhead
Cloud for Good | Gemma Blezard – The Architech Club | Enrico Murru
Microsoft Learn | Salesforce Trailhead | AWS Tech U
Capgemini
VRP Consulting
Ladorian
Trianz
Hannah Wolfe
Debra Danielson
Abby Kearns
PwC
American Express
Palo Alto Networks
Amazon
IBM Watson AIOps
Meylah Corporation
ThreatModeler
Ink Smith/Canadian Shield
RedBit
Microsoft
Lynn Langit
Corey Quinn
Vicky Seno
Tiffany Spencer
Amanda Beard-Neilson
Chaitra Vedullapalli
Gertrude Van Horn
Teena Piccione
Shaun Le Geyt
Bower House Digital
Vertex
Deloitte
Mathematica Policy Research
GuidePoint Security
eCloudvalley
Slack
Stitch Fix
Verizon
Drift
Cloud for Good
Gemma Blezard – The Architech Club
Enrico Murru
Will Saville
Neha Sampat
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, MBE
TechMums
Polaris Project
Chaitra Vedullapalli – Women In Cloud
Adobe acquires Workfront
Countdown
Meylah Corporation
Akari Solutions
Concurrency
Barhead
Microsoft Learn
Salesforce Trailhead
AWS Tech U
