Our 2022 awards ceremony saw us meet with judges, nominees and winners in-person for the first time. It was a truly special occasion and a celebration that will live long in the memory. Maxine Nwaneri returned once more to host.
While it can feel like a cliché to suggest that the judges had a difficult job, 2022 saw the bar raised even higher as nominees all demonstrated a truly outstanding combined contribution to the cloud community.
As well as creating a life-saving product that supports greener futures, VRAI Simulation has embraced equal opportunities and the triple bottom line (people, profit, planet), by committing to providing a percentage of payroll to impactful community projects and creating gender-balanced shortlists for all new hires.
Cognizant is a self-organized task force of more than 400 volunteers in Nairn, Scotland, whose goal was to find a way to mobilize volunteer support and relief during the Covid-19 pandemic. The app saw more than 2,500 volunteers register to support a community of 260,000 people, with a wider roll-out now planned.
Sponsored by Salesforce
During his Salesforce journey Gaspar founded RefugeeForce in the Netherlands, to support asylum seekers by helping to equip them with the skills needed to gain meaningful employment—a vital part of helping them regain a sense of belonging. The program is free of charge and has seen 87 participants fully trained in Salesforce since 2019.
A new AWS Hero, Anurag has been a passionate cloud advocate from the moment his career brought him into the AWS ecosystem. He regularly speaks at community events and meetups around the world, and continues to be a cloud evangelist through initiatives such as The Apprentice Project, that help students from low-income backgrounds improve their knowledge in technology.
Sponsored by Revolent
Merkle’s seven employee-led pillars make up their Diversity, Equality and Inclusion council, who have refocused their objectives following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Now, the group has moved towards radical change and progress in order to become a truly anti-racist organization, and engages with third party specialists in order to continue learning and becoming an inclusive place of work.
Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group
In February 2021, Victoria and partners completed the management buyout of Bam Boom Cloud, and supported a relatively young workforce across two continents in the process. She’s an advocate of people being their authentic selves at work, placing an emphasis on a culture that values empathy, trust, clarity and kindness.
Sponsored by Tiskki
When the pandemic restricted international travel, Singapore’s tech community faced a critical skills shortage despite major job losses in the country. Generation Singapore helped tackle the issue head-on and provide trained local talent, culminating in Government funding that will help teach and place 1000 Singaporeans with Microsoft partners and customers.
This integrated cloud platform uses advanced data science, historical data processing and real-time monitoring to solve patient management and coordinate inefficiencies in healthcare. As well as recovering 10-20% of lost patient time, DOCPACE adopted a virtual waiting room during the pandemic, giving users the safer option of queuing outdoors instead of crowded indoor spaces.
Sponsored by Rebura
With the help of a Power Platform solution, Intelogy has provided London’s Air Ambulance team with a level of auditing not previously possible, helping them embrace digital ways of working in the process. Using the Power App, paramedics have an efficient, easy-to-use interface that means London’s medical teams are able to spend more time where it matters—with patients.
Sponsored by AWS
Working in collaboration with AWS and La Trobe University, Didasko has created the world’s first online degree, the world’s first Bachelor’s online degree in Applied Cloud Technology. The course allows students to take charge of the way they learn and fill the most critical skills gaps in their cloud knowledge, with a centralized hub where individuals can track, manage and plan their entire experience.
Generation Italy was launched in 2015 by McKinsey and Company, to arm unemployed young people with the skills they need to succeed. This has seen over 900 trained in digital careers, with an employment rate at the end of the courses of 83%. It’s been a vital and life-changing resource for those in a country that suffered a loss of 1.2m jobs during the pandemic.
Founder of Deaf in the Cloud, Rob has created a virtual user group for deaf and signers that work in tech, providing a space for support and networking, as well as evangelising about the power of the cloud and sharing best practice. On top of that Rob is a frequent blogger on AWS, as well as a regular speaker at events that help make STEM a better place to work for everyone.
Rackspace Technology has acknowledged that innovation is sparked by diversity, which is why they’ve created several ways that staff can be their authentic selves at work. They have initiated a number of employee resource groups that support those from different backgrounds, helping to make cloud technology a better and more inclusive place to work for all.
As well as creating a life-saving product that supports greener futures, VRAI Simulation has embraced equal opportunities and the triple bottom line (people, profit, planet), by committing to providing a percentage of payroll to impactful community projects and creating gender-balanced shortlists for all new hires.
Cognizant is a self-organized task force of more than 400 volunteers in Nairn, Scotland, whose goal was to find a way to mobilize volunteer support and relief during the Covid-19 pandemic. The app saw more than 2,500 volunteers register to support a community of 260,000 people, with a wider roll-out now planned.
Sponsored by Salesforce
During his Salesforce journey Gaspar founded RefugeeForce in the Netherlands, to support asylum seekers by helping to equip them with the skills needed to gain meaningful employment—a vital part of helping them regain a sense of belonging. The program is free of charge and has seen 87 participants fully trained in Salesforce since 2019.
A new AWS Hero, Anurag has been a passionate cloud advocate from the moment his career brought him into the AWS ecosystem. He regularly speaks at community events and meetups around the world, and continues to be a cloud evangelist through initiatives such as The Apprentice Project, that help students from low-income backgrounds improve improve their knowledge in technology.
Founder of Deaf in the Cloud, Rob has created a virtual user group for deaf and signers that work in tech, providing a space for support and networking, as well as evangelising about the power of the cloud and sharing best practice. On top of that Rob is a frequent blogger on AWS, as well as a regular speaker at events that help make STEM a better place to work for everyone.
Sponsored by AWS
Working in collaboration with AWS and La Trobe University, Didasko has created the world’s first online degree, the world’s first Bachelor’s online degree in Applied Cloud Technology. The course allows students to take charge of the way they learn and fill the most critical skills gaps in their cloud knowledge, with a centralized hub where individuals can track, manage and plan their entire experience.
Generation Italy was launched in 2015 by McKinsey and Company, to arm unemployed young people with the skills they need to succeed. This has seen over 900 trained in digital careers, with an employment rate at the end of the courses of 83%. It’s been a vital and life-changing resource for those in a country that suffered a loss of 1.2m jobs during the pandemic.
Rackspace Technology has acknowledged that innovation is sparked by diversity, which is why they’ve created several ways that staff can be their authentic selves at work. They have initiated a number of employee resource groups that support those from different backgrounds, helping to make cloud technology a better and more inclusive place to work for all.
Sponsored by Frank Recruitment Group
In February 2021, Victoria and partners completed the management buyout of Bam Boom Cloud, and supported a relatively young workforce across two continents in the process. She’s an advocate of people being their authentic selves at work, placing an emphasis on a culture that values empathy, trust, clarity and kindness.
Sponsored by Tiskki
When the pandemic restricted international travel, Singapore’s tech community faced a critical skills shortage despite major job losses in the country. Generation Singapore helped tackle the issue head-on and provide trained local talent, culminating in Government funding that will help teach and place 1000 Singaporeans with Microsoft partners and customers.
This integrated cloud platform uses advanced data science, historical data processing and real-time monitoring to solve patient management and coordinate inefficiencies in healthcare. As well as recovering 10-20% of lost patient time, DOCPACE adopted a virtual waiting room during the pandemic, giving users the safer option of queuing outdoors instead of crowded indoor spaces.
Sponsored by Rebura
With the help of a Power Platform solution, Intelogy has provided London’s Air Ambulance team with a level of auditing not previously possible, helping them embrace digital ways of working in the process. Using the Power App, paramedics have an efficient, easy-to-use interface that means London’s medical teams are able to spend more time where it matters—with patients.
Sponsored by Revolent
Merkle’s seven employee-led pillars make up their Diversity, Equality and Inclusion council, who have refocused their objectives following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Now, the group has moved towards radical change and progress in order to become a truly anti-racist organization, and engages with third party specialists in order to continue learning and becoming an inclusive place of work.
Cognizant Assist
VRAI Simulation
Gaspar Rodriguez
LDN Apprenticeships
Heather Black – Supermums
Nicole Aebi-Moyo
Anurag Kale
Bhuvaneswari Subramani – Infor
Bhuvaneswari Subramani – Infor
Rob Koch
Carlos Cortez
Victoria Critchley
Sanjay Jupudi
Sam Gutmann
Razwan Choudry
Power Platform School
Jaap Brasser
Generation Singapore
Hood.ai
Shelby Sanderford – DOCPACE
Intelogy
Maxim’s Caterer Limited
Didasko
Generation Italy Foundation
Chaitra Vedullapalli – Women In Cloud
Grayce
Merkle
Applied
Rackspace Technology
EngageRocket
Canva
