Each year, Computer Weekly launches a search for the most influential people in UK IT.
BCS members are well-represented amongst Computer Weekly’s long list of nominations for this recognition – with Andrea Palmer, Chair – BCS Women, Charlene Hunter, CEO and Founder of Coding Black Females, Freddie Quek, CTO, Times Higher Education and Sonia Patel – System CIO, NHS England amongst some of the names included.
Now in its 12th year, the UKtech50 list continues to recognise the technology leaders driving the digital economy. Congratulations to everyone who has made it onto the longlist. It is a great achievement and shows the depth of capability across the UK tech industry.
Over 20 BCS members are included on this year’s long list including:
| Andrea Palmer | Chair, BCS Women |
| Anne Marie Neatham | COO, Kindred System, Ocado |
| Bella Abrams | Director of IT, University of Sheffield |
| Charlene Hunter | CEO and founder, Coding Black Females |
| Charles Ewen | Director of technology and CIO, Met Office |
| Chris Howes | Group CDIO, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Daljit Rehal | CDIO, HMRC |
| Dame Wendy Hall | Professor of Computer Science at University of Southampton; UK’s AI skills champion |
| David Henderson | Chief technology and product officer, Global |
| Eben Upton | Founder, Raspberry Pi Foundation |
| Freddie Quek | CTO, Times Higher Education |
| Jack Stockdale | CTO, Darktrace |
| Martha Lane-Fox | Entrepreneur, founder of Dot Everyone |
| Paul Fletcher | CEO, Nominet |
| Sarah Armstrong-Smith | Chief security advisor, EMEA, Microsoft |
| Sarah Burnett | Founding partner at Emergence Partners; chief technology evangelist, KYP.ai |
| Sharon Moore | CTO for public sector, IBM UK |
| Sonia Patel | System CIO, NHS England |
| Sue Black | Professor of Computer Science and technology evangelist, Durham University |
| Suresh Viswanathan | COO, TSB |
| Tim Berners-Lee | World Wide Web inventor; director, Open Data Institute |
| Tristi Tanaka | BCS Women committee member; fellow, ForHumanity; technology change programme leader, currently at NHS |
