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UK IT Industry Awards
The IT Industry Awards set the performance benchmark in IT, recognising exceptional people, projects and technology innovation.
About the Awards
Established in 1973 the UK IT Industry Awards are the largest technology awards of their kind.
This year, in order to recognise the significant impact of the global pandemic on the IT sector, we've introduced two special awards:
Winning one of these prestigious awards can be a major boost for your profile and your business opportunities.
2021 categories
This year we will present 35 awards across four categories to be judged. The categories are reviewed each year to ensure they reflect our fast moving environment.
Organisational Excellence
This category recognises organisations who have contributed to the development and deployment of innovative IT systems that improve business operations or enhance public services.
Personal Excellence
These awards recognise individuals at all levels of an organisation who have contributed to the development and deployment of innovative IT systems that improve business operations or enhance public services.
Project Excellence
In this category we're looking for end-user projects that highlight the importance of new technology initiatives and demonstrate the benefits of well-managed IT implementations for changing and improving business and public life.
Technology Excellence
These awards are presented for innovative new hardware or software products, or generally available IT services, which make a significant contribution to business technology or to IT in general.
Vendor of the Year
This award recognises the vendor that demonstrates workplace diversity as well as IT excellence.
Dates for your diary - 2021
March: Monday 15 March - Awards open for entries
May: Friday 28 May - Early bird closing
July: Friday 2 July - Entries close
August: Friday 27 August - Finalists announced
September: 13-16 September - Remote judging week (through Microsoft teams)
- Monday 13 September - Personal Excellence
- Tuesday 14 September - Organisational Excellence
- Wednesday 15 September - Project Excellence
- Thursday 16 September - Technology Excellence
November: Wednesday 10 November - Awards dinner
Any questions?
You can reach us at ukindustryawards@bcs.uk
Meet our past winners
Take a look at our finalists, winners and highly commended for the last three years or meet all past winners.
2020 success stories
Find out more about the 2020 UK IT Industry Awards winners and runners-up. You can also view these success stories in the 2020 commemorative magazine (PDF)
"Being sponsored by BCS and the Computing journal, the UK IT Industry Awards are the highest profile awards in our industry… the IT Oscars… and the Awards event in November was truly spectacular."