Digital City Festival will bring the sector together for a week of events including Digital City Expo at Manchester Central, where thousands will congregate to grow their network, meet new partners, and hear from industry leaders at a wide range of talks.
Registration for the expo and all its talks is open now. Click here to secure a place.
Finalists for this year’s Digital City Awards have been selected after a rigorous judging process by the event’s leading panel – including Ruby Motabhoy of Plexel, Melissa Hermitt of Dept, Stuart Higgins of Cisco, and Amy Wild of Northcoders.
One category – Digital Leader of the Year – will be decided by a combination of their scoring and a public vote. You can select your chosen industry figure over at the Digital City Festival website.
Digital City Awards 2022: The Shortlist
Innovation of the Year
- AND Digital/NBrown – Progressive replatforming for retail
- Atlas – The Headless WordPress Platform
- Autocab & Uber – Local Cab partnership with Uber
- The Beacon click fraud protection platform
- Fantom Factory – Clever Cloud
- Fast – Headless Checkout
- ROAR Digital Marketing – The SEO Bomb®
- The Moscow Department of Information Technologies – The “Snow” Project
Digital Transformation Award
- AND Digital/Lookers – Click and Drive
- Ardent Atlas Database
- City of Georgetown, USA – Laserfiche
- Digital Urban Place – Wirral Geospatial Planning
- Lloyds Banking Group – Diary Manager
Best Use of Emerging Technology
- iomart
- Segmentify & Ebuyer – Omni-Channel AI Personalisation
Best Use of Technology
- Fantom Factory – SkySpark Engineer eLearning
- Flex Legal – SQE Journal
- ilumoni
- Latus Health – Yodha
- Malinko
- Outcider – Stakeholder Mapping
- Silverchip – Suits Me
- The Creative Media Team at The Manchester College – Virtual Work Experience
Best Use of Technology – Not-for-profit
Sponsored by AND Digital
- Blue Sapphire Media & St Columba Rugby
- Few and Far & St. George’s Crypt – “Then & Now…”
- I4YPC – ‘RapYourTown’ and ‘SnapYourTown’
- Armchair Adventures
- Prodo and Housing Solutions – AI Assist
- The University of Manchester – AI targeting ‘zombie’ batteries
- RNCM & The University of Manchester – ‘Unsupervised’
- GM Cyber Foundry
App of the Year
WebDev Project of the Year
- Connect Internet Solutions – North West Air Ambulance Charity website
- Fantom Factory
- Intersoft
- Revize Government Websites – City of Olympia, WA
- Velstar & Avon – avon.uk.com using Shopify Plus
Digital Marketing Campaign of the Year
- Checkd Group – The Group Chat
- connective3 & Canine Cottages – Doggy Devotion
- Spike Digital & Bargain Max – Brand Ranking Campaign
- The Think Tank & Asendia – Asendia Vertical Industries Campaign
Tech for Good Award
Sponsored by Hyper Island
- ilumoni
- Prodo and Housing Solutions – AI Assist
- Silverchip – Donate A Laptop and School Meal Finder
- Slalom – OnSide
Best Small Digital Company
- Circus PPC
- Cloud Galacticos
- Digiryte
- Fantom Factory
- Gazooky Studios
- XR Games
Best Medium Digital Company
Best Large Digital Company
Sponsored by Fast
Best Startup
Best Ecommerce Agency
- AYKO
- Supercharged Commerce
Best SaaS Company
- Commonplace Digital
- Intersoft
- Total Processing
Best Workplace
Digital Leader of the Year
The winner for this award will be decided by a combination of judges’ scores and a public vote. Please vote here.
