Silicon Canal Tech Awards shortlist announced for 2019

The Silicon Canal Tech Awards shortlist has been revealed in the lead up to the awards night on 28th November.

The awards are a celebration of those people and companies in the Birmingham tech community that are helping make it world-class.

With a record number of nominations, the organisations say that the “standard of applications were better than ever, due to this we have decided in some categories to not just shortlist 3 individuals or companies but 4.”

Here is the full list of finalists:

Large Tech Company of the Year:

Edge Testing
Advanced
Six Degrees
The Economist

Rising Star in Tech 2019:

Pedro Santos De Mendonca (Kaidos)
Bukola Jimoh (The Economist)
Robert Curran (Click Travel)
Tom Goodman (UoB)

Developer of the Year:

Chris Lush (Codevate)
Javier Miranda (Studio Victoria)
Scott Nicholson (Amigo Technology)
Nikola ‘Koko’ Donchev (Huel)

Inspiring Individual of the Year:

Dr Sarah Jones (BCU)
Pauline Roche (Rnr Organisation)
Hannah Mitchell (Technical Team Solutions)

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Tech Startup of the Year:

Evezy
Nourished
HausBots
Small Tech Company of the Year:

Unique IQ Ltd
School of Code
Conigital Group
Wealth Wizards

Investor of the Year:

Midven
ADV
Mercia

Tech Meetup of the Year:

Microsoft Data platform group – Birmingham
Birmingham Digital & Dev ops
Brum AI

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The judges were:

• Keji Adedeji – Voxpopme
• Suzanne Edwards – Enlighten
• Hannah Quinton – GuyKat and CloudTeach
• Mark O’Sullivan – Multiple Business Owner
• Peet Denny – Move 37
• Andrew Squire – BJSS
• Adrian Dickson – Microsoft
• Chris Meah – School of Code