Future Tech Events, organisers of the annual National AI Awards has today announced the winners of the prestigious National AI Awards 2024 which took place yesterday evening at Adastral Park, Ipswich.
The National AI Awards 2024 celebrates the remarkable achievements of AI innovators, teams, and organisations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in transforming industries, improving lives, and advancing the state of artificial intelligence.
The awards ceremony was a true success, showcasing the cutting-edge advancements in AI while celebrating the visionaries behind these innovations. Held at BT’s Adastral Park, Ipswich, the evening featured highlights of the BT’s ‘Secure Tomorrow’ festival held earlier in the day. Attendees were treated to a thought-provoking keynote address by Sir Dermot Turing who emphasised the transformative potential of AI in shaping the future of technology and business. Event host, Sonya Barlow shared the excitement of the honorees, “We have had hundreds of entries to this year’s awards and are happy to see such a diverse range of entries and guests at this year’s awards. Thank you to all of you for supporting the awards, and for taking the time to enter and show up tonight”, reflecting the spirit of innovation and progress that defined the entire event.
The winners were selected across several categories, each representing a unique area of AI application and research. Below are the categories and the respective awardees:
Category 1: AI in Business
The AI in Gaming Award
Winner: Player XP – This entry excelled in its innovative use of AI to enhance player experiences and engagement. The entry provides specific metrics demonstrating the impact of AI integration, such as the successful prioritisation of game issues in ‘For the King 2’ and improved player satisfaction metrics.Testimonials from major gaming companies like Paradox Interactive and Dovetail Games underscore the effectiveness of Player XP’s tools in enhancing game development and community management.
Award: The AI Business of the Year
Winner: Darktrace – Their innovative approach to proactive cyber resilience, combined with significant business growth and improved operational efficiency, made them a strong contender, and ultimately came out on top for the AI Business of the Year award.
Highly Commended: Intent HQ – This nomination had highly impressive success metrics. Intent HQ rates exceptionally well against similar companies in the AI and customer data analytics market. Its innovative technologies, strong market presence, robust privacy features, significant business impact, and commitment to ethical practices and diversity set it apart to be marked as a highly commended nomination within this category.
Award: The AI Award for Energy and Utilities
Winner: Centrica, Harnessing AI for a Sustainable Energy Future – Centrica’s strategic deployment of AI spans multiple facets of the energy sector, demonstrating a commitment to innovation, sustainability, and operational efficiency. By leveraging AI for hyper-personalised customer service, intelligent products, operational excellence, and energy security, Centrica sets new standards in energy management. Their AI-driven initiatives not only streamline processes and improve resource management but also contribute significantly to sustainability goals, making them a competitive player in the energy sector.
Award: The AI Award for Financial Services
Winner: Earthian AI – Earthian AI presents a compelling and innovative application of artificial intelligence in financial services, focusing on climate risk management and sustainable finance. Their use of high-resolution satellite monitoring, predictive climate models, and financial regulation data exemplifies how AI can transform risk management, enhance fraud detection, and personalise financial products. The detailed use cases and metrics provided underscore significant improvements in operational efficiency and risk mitigation.
Award: The AI Award for Healthcare
Winner: Anya, Doubling the national 6-8 week breastfeeding rate, in Lancashire – Anya demonstrates a solid implementation of AI in healthcare, specifically for breastfeeding and parenting support. The AI chatbot provides personalised, evidence-based information 24/7, integrating expert knowledge with user-specific needs. The system shows adaptability through continuous retraining and has demonstrated measurable impact on breastfeeding rates in specific regions.
Winner: VirtTuri AI Clinical Informatics Avatar – VirtTuri excels in patient engagement and inclusivity, making it a standout solution in the healthcare industry for its use of AI.
Award: The AI Award for High Tech and Telecom
Winner: University of Bristol, Project REASON – Project REASON demonstrates a highly advanced and forward-thinking implementation of AI in telecommunications. Their focus on developing AI-native architectures for 6G networks, including real-time end-to-end AI monitoring, trustworthy AI model lifecycle management, and dynamic spectrum allocation, shows a comprehensive and innovative approach.
Award: The AI Award for Retail
Winner: Movable Ink, Da Vinci – Movable Ink’s Da Vinci platform stands out for its ability to drive significant improvements in personalised customer experiences, marketing strategies, and operational efficiency. Its AI-driven approach to content optimisation and scalable personalisation provides a competitive edge in the retail sector.
Category 2: Education and Learning
Award: The AI University of the Year
Winner: University of Bristol – This is an education institution that is providing an outstanding, and impactful, programmes in AI. Their outreach activities and the tailored programmes that have a clear impact on up-skilling and employability in the field of AI. Collaboration with some key players in the field is impressive.
Award: The AI Award for Education
Winner: Developing Experts, Connecting Local Talent to Local Opportunity – This is a great example of an AI-enabled solution to support STEM education with a joined-up approach linking schools, industry and government. The tools seem to be having a significant impact on several fronts namely, increasing interest in STEM-related subjects, improving the quality of curriculum delivery as evidenced by the Ofsted report, supporting strategies for skills and workforce development.
Category 3: Innovation and Safety
Award: The AI Award for Cybersecurity
Winner: Nokia, NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome – Nokia’s NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome stands out with its unique generative AI integration and specific focus on the telecommunications industry, particularly 5G networks.
Award: The NPCC Commissioner’s Award for AI Safety
Winner: Riven DocDefender – unable to disclose feedback due to being a closed Award.
Award: The AI Innovation Award
Winner: InDePTH Project – This is a great use of real world AI Innovation. The InDePTH project represents a significant innovation in the field of infrastructure management. By integrating advanced AI technologies with autonomous drones, InDePTH enhances operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability in managing critical national infrastructure.
Award: The AI Sustainability Award
Winner: The BT Energy Digital Shadow – BT Group leads in comprehensive AI integration for environmental sustainability, with significant measurable impacts and high innovation.
Award: The AI Product of the Year
Winner: Developing Experts – Developing Experts stands out as a leader in AI-powered education and career guidance platforms. Its innovative use of AI, comprehensive features, and significant impact on users and stakeholders make it a top choice, especially for schools and industry partners.
Category 4: Public Service
Award: The AI Citizen of the Year
Winner: Sir Demis Hassabis OBE, DeepMind – unable to disclose feedback.
Award: The Alan Turing AI Award
Winner: Lord Holmes – unable to disclose feedback.
Award: The AI Award for Government and Public Sector
Winner: HM Land Registry: Using AI for Intelligent Document Comparison – unable to disclose feedback.
“Each of the winners demonstrated exceptional ingenuity, solving critical problems in sectors ranging from healthcare and finance to government and education. Their groundbreaking work exemplifies the future potential of AI to revolutionise industries and improve the human experience. We would like to thank our Judges who ensure that our nominations are thoroughly reviewed and shortlisted in an ethical way”
– Professor Richard Benham, Founder of the National AI Awards.
