- Fastrack to Information Technology CEO named person of the year for contribution to learning at Tech Excellence awards
- Peter Davitt has been responsible for taking thousands off the live register through training programmes in Emerging Technology
- Trilogy Technologies takes Company of the Year and Professional Development Awards
24 May 2019 – Fastrack to Information Technology (FIT) CEO Peter Davitt was recognised with the person of the year award at the 2019 Tech Excellence Awards held last night at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin.
Since taking up his current appointment of the industry-led body Davitt has worked with ICT Industry leaders in Ireland and internationally and with government to establish a new portfolio of ICT vocational training opportunities. This has resulted in the introduction of more than 50 in-demand technology programmes, most recently in Blockchain, cyber security, smart buildings and advanced manufacturing skills.
Davitt pioneered a series of ground-breaking skills research reports and these ICT Skills Audits have been highlighted in leading publications and by policy makers as giving direction in addressing the tech skills challenge.
To date, more than 18,000 job seekers have completed FIT skills development programmes of which in excess of 13,500 progressed into employment. FIT is now supported by a range of industry partners plus partners in education and training provision such as SOLAS and Education and Training Boards.
Also recognised on the night were Brendan O’Malley, who received the career recognition award; Tim Hynes of AIB for CIO of the year; and Expleo’s Rebecca Keenan in 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.
The Tech Excellence Awards were adjudicated by industry experts Eoin O’Driscoll (Tyndall National Institute), Dr Seán Baker (Lero), Louise Nicholls (Brown Bag Films), Tom O’Sullivan (Irish Computer Society) and Ashling Cunningham (Ervia), Dr Jim Mountjoy (Science Foundation Ireland), and Peter McManamon (Atlantic Bridge Ventures).
Speaking of Hynes’ win in the CIO of the year category, Billy Huggard, operations director with organiser Mediateam, said: “Tim has lead the way in delivering IT in a totally integrated fashion utilising the enormous benefits a business can gain from joined up thinking and a fresh approach, IT will play an even more important role in Irish business and the survivors will be those led by people like Tim Hynes.”
Full list of winners:
CIO of the year (sponsored by Viatel) – Tim Hynes, AIB
Hibernia Award – Bill Kearney, IBM
Company of the year (sponsored by TechPro) – Trilogy Technologies
Person of the year (sponsored by Keppel Data Services) – Peter Davitt, FIT
career recognition award (sponsored by Intellicom) – Brendan O’Malley, former CEO, Lero
IT Project of the year (private
sector) (sponsored by Fujitsu, Total Import Solutions & Square
One Distribution)
– Enterprise Defence, a Fastcom company
IT
project of the year (public sector) (sponsored by Teamwork) –
Triangle with ESB
IT project of the year (SME) (sponsored by
Draytek) – Electricity Exchange
Digital Edge award (sponsored by
TechCentral.ie) – Three Ireland
Digital strategy partner of the
year (sponsored by Softcat) – Strata3
Startup award (sponsored
by The Sunday Times) – Joulica
Professional development award
(sponsored by AIB) – Trilogy Technologies
Data centres
innovation award (sponsored by TechCentral.ie) – Irish Defence
Forces
Rising Star (sponsored by
DataSolutions) – Rebecca Keenan, Expleo
IT architect of the year
(sponsored by the Irish Computer Society) – Cognizant Technology
Solutions
IT professional team of the year (sponsored by FIT ICT
Professional) – ICON Clinical Research
Vertical market specialist of the
year (sponsored by TechPro) – AMI
Managed service company of the
year (sponsored by Citrix) – Novosco
Managed security service
provider of the year (sponsored by TechTrade) – Edgescan
Enterprise
partner of the year (sponsored by CMS Distribution) –
Asystec
Internet of Things innovation of the year (sponsored by
Damovo) – Evros
Communications excellence (sponsored by Olive
Safety) – DataSolutions
Cloud partner of the year (sponsored by
Microwarehouse) – Viatel
Distributor of the year
(sponsored by Grenke) – CMS Distribution
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.
For more information visit www.techawards.techcentral.ie
