BCS IT Industry Awards

The BCS held its annual IT Industry Awards on Thursday, at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane in London.  Everyone in the hotel was in black tie: there were are number of events taking place that evening but we were in the largest and grandest room, aptly titled The Great Room.

After the obligatory welcomes by various BCS dignitaries and a tasty dinner, Gyles Brandreth took the podium as Master of Ceremonies for the awards. Brandreth has made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest ever after dinner speech:  12.5 hours.  Luckily, we didn’t have to suffer that long, although he was very entertaining and kept the audience awake during the presentation of the 24 awards.

Project Manager of the Year went to Tina Sands from National Grid, and she received her glass award from David Reynolds, chair of the Project Management Specialist Group.  Keith Bentham from System C Healthcare plc and David Burnet from Network Rail were the medalists in that category.

Goldman Sachs picked up the Women in IT award, for “the most comprehensive range of initiatives to encourage women into IT.”  Unfortunately this great achievement was undermined by the choice of Ernie K. Doe’s Here Come The Girls playing as the Goldman Sachs rep made her way to the stage.

BT had 6 projects in the Research and Development Project award and still failed to win, with the award going to Simul Software for their weather simulation project.

You can see a full list of the winners and medalists on the BCS website.

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