The 19th annual Tech Excellence Awards event was held at Citywest Hotel in Dublin. More than 600 luminaries from the technology sector gathered to celebrate another year of innovation and commercial success at home and abroad.
Fastrack to Information Technology (FIT) CEO Peter Davitt was recognised with the person of the year award at the 2019 Tech Excellence Awards
Also recognised on the night were Brendan O’Malley of IBM, who received a career recognition award; Tim Hynes of AIB for CIO of the year; and Expleo’s Rebecca Keenan in the the rising star category.
Trilogy Technologies was named IT company of the year and took the award for professional development.
Finally, the Hibernia award for contribution to the Irish tech sector by a multinational went to Bill Kearney of IBM.
Full list of winners:
Person of the Year
Peter Davitt, FIT
Presented by Gary Watson, Keppel Data Centres
Company of the Year
Trilogy Technologies
Presented by Billy Huggard, Mediateam
CIO of the Year
Tim Hynes, AIB
Presented by Deirdre McCabe, Viatel
The Hibernia Award
Bill Kearney, IBM
Presented by Ashling Cunningham, Ervia
Career Recognition Award
Brendan O’Malley, Lero
Presented by Neil Wisdom, Intellicom
IT Project of the Year (Private Sector)
Enterprise Defence, a Fastcom Company
Presented by Andrew Cowling, Fujitsu
IT Project of the Year (Public Sector)
Triangle with ESB
Presented by Adrian Foley, Teamwork
IT Project of the Year (SME)
Electricity Exchange
Presented by Julian Hubble, Draytek
Data Centres Innovation Award
Irish Defence Forces
Presented by Tech Excellence Awards judge Louise Nicholls
Digital Strategy Partner of the Year
Strata3
Presented by Stephen Grant, Softcat
Professional Development Award
Trilogy Technologies
Presented by Declan Rundle, AIB
Startup Award 2019
Joulica
Presented by Sorcha Cunningham, The Sunday Times
Digital Edge Award
Three
Presented by Niall Kitson, TechCentral.ie
IT Professional of the Year (individual or team)
ICON Clinical Research
Presented by Edel Hesnan, FIT
IT Architect of the Year (individual or team)
Cognizant
Presented by John Rowley, ICS
Rising Star
Rebecca Keenan, Expleo
Presented by Michael O’Hara, DataSolutions
Managed Service Company of the Year
Presented by James Morgan, Citrix
Novosco
Managed Security Service Provider of the Year
Edgescan
Presented by Paul Hearns, TechTrade
Cloud Partner of the Year
Viatel
Presented by Rory Wilson, Microwarehouse
Vertical Market Specialist of the Year
AMI
Presented by Paul Hearns, TechPro
Enterprise Partner of the Year
Asystec
Presented by Brian Mc Tigue, CMS Distribution
IoT Innovation of the Year
Evros
Presented by Michelle Murray, Damovo
Communication Excellence
DataSolutions
Presented by Ben Kilcoyne, Olive Safety
Distributor of the Year
CMS Distribution
Presented by Orlagh O’Connor, Grenke
