2023’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Tech Awards Finalists Revealed

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The finalists for the 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Tech Awards have been revealed.

The inaugural cohort of shortlisted individuals, teams, initiatives, and businesses for the 2023 Awards, comprise over 90 finalists across 14 categories. The categories cover every diversity spectrum, including Role Model of the Year, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advocate of the Year, The LGBTQI+ Inclusion Champion Award, Race Equality Champion Award, The Gender Equality Champion Award, The Neurodiversity Champion Award, and many more.

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Tech Awards aim to provide a safe and supportive space for like-minded individuals to collaborate, support and champion the differences that make us unique, and ultimately help businesses to thrive.

Many of the UK’s leading diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) professionals and organizations, including myGwork’s co-founders Adrien and Pierre Gaubert have been shortlisted. Several of myGwork’s clients such as Colt Technology Services, NTT, BT, Cognizant, DAZN, Oracle, London Stock Exchange Group, Softcat, Skyscanner, Salesforce, HSBC, and many more, have also been shortlisted.

The finalists will now be reviewed by an esteemed panel of judges, who include Estelle Jackson of Ebay, Nina Goswami of Clifford Chance, Pips Bunce of Credit Suisse and revealed at the awards ceremony on April 27, 2023.

The finalists for these awards (by category), include:

The Cultural Diversity Champion Award

Suzanne Shields, Cognizant
Harry Wordsworth, Oracle
Akua Opong, London Stock Exchange Group
Athena-Maria Enderstein, Keywords Studios
Ada Tagoe, Google Cloud
Kerensa Jennings, BT
Lucy Shen, Softcat plc

The Neurodiversity Champion Award

Joe James, ISS UK
Auticon UK Team, auticon UK
Lee Corless, Rangam
Holly Foxcroft, Stott and May Consulting
Kasia Wojciechowska, Capita
Just Eat Takeaway.com Neurodiversity Community ERG, Just Eat
Leena Haque, BBC

The Gender Equality Champion Award

Erin Hill-Parks, Elsevier
Sam Watson, ISS UK
Myra Fulton, Skyscanner
El Reeve, Candyspace
Sarah Arana-Morton, OpenCorporates
Patricia Gestoso, Dassault Systèmes & Gestoso Consulting

The LGBTQI+ Inclusion Champion Award

Adrien & Pierre Gaubert, myGwork
Jake Potter, Colt Technology Services
Jemma Devenish, IFS
Antonio Vega, Google
Samantha Neath, SLR Consulting
Pragna Tevani, NTT Ltd
Jay Ersapah, Silicon Valley Bank
Christopher Howard, EPAM Systems Ltd
Rosie Hall, Hable
Pauric Havlin, Tata Consultancy Services

The Race Equality Champion Award

Fifi Ahmed, Publicis Sapient
Edwin Danso, Off The Agenda Podcast
Kelly Metcalf, Fujitsu
Zahra Bahrololoumi, Salesforce
Winnie Annan-Forson, Royal Mail
Priscilla Baffour, TikTok
Hannah Awonuga, Barclays
Mike Adebiyi, Google Cloud

The Disability Champion Award

Heike Jord Knip, The Good Consulting Company
Dajana Edwards, Gemserv Limited
Sarah McMullan, Auticon UK
Elaine Riley, NTT Ltd
Claire Maillet, Ziglu
Matthew Johnston, Thoughtworks

The Social Mobility Champion Award

David McIntosh, KPMG LLP
Carlotta Zorzi, Shopify
Padmasini Dayananda, Cognizant
Anna Burrows, SEE IT BE IT FILMS LTD

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advocate of the Year

Pamella Barotti, Microsoft UK
Sarah Francis, YouGov plc
Melissa Di Donato, SUSE
Athena-Maria Enderstein, Keywords Studios
Emily Pham, HSBC
Nivani Govinder, Code Nation
Ivy Kayima, Microsoft UK
Imogen Fletcher, Centrica Plc.
Tolu Oke, Amazon Web Services
Keira Jarvis, Code Nation

Rising Star Award

Azrael von Prochazka, KPMG
Katherine Relle, Management Leadership for Tomorrow
Ally Kouao, Red Hat
Bibi Kwakye, Atos
William Angwa, Clear Channel International Limited
Aisha Shofoluwe, Monzo Bank

Support Network of the Year

Women @ Microsoft UK Employee Resource Group
Cajigo
Women in Tech practice, Frank Recruitment Group
Defence Women’s Network
Diversity Initiative of the Year
Living the Ricoh Way, Ricoh UK Ltd.
Menopause Awareness, ISS UK
DAZN x DEI Learning Content, DAZN Limited
Microsoft TechHer, Microsoft
Skyscanner’s Accessibility Empathy Labs, Skyscanner
EPAM Systems, Inc.
Candyspace
Applied Systems
Gemserv Limited
Complete Anatomy 2023 from Elsevier

Diverse Team of the Year

Tata Consultancy Services
The Clear Company
Testhouse
Community Fibre Ltd
Maya CARE CIC

Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion of the Year

Sug Sahadevan, Testhouse
Kat Parsons, ISS UK
Roli Agrawal, NTT Limited
Caroline Fox, Tenth Revolution Group

Role Model of the Year

Amanda Whiteside, Amazon Web Services
Ben Ventham, Amazon Web Services
Melissa Di Donato, SUSE
Fiona Williams, SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations)
Deb Hetherington, Bruntwood
Darren Miles, Centrica
Flavilla Fongang, GTA Black Women In Tech
Georgina Owens, Portfolio CTO
Patricia Phillips, Panasonic

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