CogX Awards 2023 celebrate excellence in AI and technology

The highly anticipated CogX Awards took place on Tuesday 12 September 2023 on the opening day of the CogX Festival, honouring the finest in AI, technology and innovation from across the globe. With winners announced in over 30 categories, the ceremony celebrated the innovators and change-makers who are helping us to “get the next ten years right.”

CogX CEO Charlie Muirhead welcomed the attendees to the awards evening where he emphasised the role that each individual can play to make a positive impact: “We come together to celebrate not just technology and AI, but the human spirit behind every line of code, algorithm, and disruptive idea. While we are mesmerised by the breakneck speed of innovations, it’s vital to remember that at the heart of every breakthrough is a person. Someone with the passion and tenacity to change how things are done.”

Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, was also a special guest and delivered a message highlighting the role of AI in shaping the UK’s future, echoing her keynote address earlier in the day to attendees at the Global Leadership Summit.

A highlight of the night was the presentation of the new Rising Startup Star award to Zero Gravity, sponsored by AlbionVC. Zero Gravity, founded by Joe Seddon, is a digital platform that propels students from low-income backgrounds into university, work and life. As the winner of the Rising Startup Star award for the most promising startup from the CogX startup programme, Zero Gravity took home a cash prize of £25,000.

This year’s 7th annual CogX Awards assembled the most diverse judging panel ever with judges representing business, academia, entrepreneurs and investors from a wide variety of backgrounds, including Lopa Patel MBE who said, “the calibre of the shortlist for the CogX Awards was high and I was delighted to see the diversity of applicants and broad spectrum of AI innovations. Many congratulations to all the nominees and winners.”

The full list of CogX Awards 2023 winners is given below:

Recognising Leadership
CogX Global Leadership Award – Mustafa Suleyman
CogX Outstanding Knowledge Expert – Robb Wilson (OneReach.ai)
Enterprise CXO Leader of the Year Award – Poppy Gustafsson, CEO, Darktrace
Gender Equality Leader – Bridget Greenwood and Amber Ghaddar
Grand Jury Prize – The Millennium Project
Lifetime Achievement Award – Professor Ronjon Nag
Outstanding Diversity Leader in AI – Nayur Khan
Outstanding Investor in AI – Professor Ronjon Nag
Rising Star in Tech – DeepsearchLabs
Sustainable Cities and Communities Leadership Award – Live Love
Voice of Gen Z – Zero Gravity

Outstanding Achievements & Research Contributions
AI Accelerator/ Incubator – Frontier Development Lab
AI Ethics – Oxford Internet Institute
Best Course In AI – Cambridge Spark
Enterprise Adoption of AI – Infosys Topaz
PhD Thesis (individual) – Dr Ali Chaudhry
Social Good – CogStack Ltd
Tech Regulation – Lucy Cormick

Global Goals
Global Goals Impact Award: Enterprise – Red Dot Foundation
Global Goals Impact Award: Individual – Emma Wright/ Darren Jones – co-founders of the Interparliamentary Forum on Emerging Technologies
Global Goals Impact Award: Startup – Aloi Global
Good Health and Well-Being Award – Torchit Electronics
Peace and Justice Strong Institutions Award – Lucy McCormick

Best AI Product
Cybersecurity – Adversa AI
Education – Cambridge Spark
Entertainment – Ovomind
Fashion – Sociate AI
FS/Fintech – Filament AI
Gaming – Speech Graphics / Rapport
Government – Preligens
Health – Seyed-Mahdi Khaligh-Razavi & Singular Hearing (tie)
HR – OneReach.ai
Insurance – Eigen technologies
Legal – Luminance
Marketing & Adtech – Typeface
Next Generation Infrastructure – Synthesia
Retail – Miros
Robotics & Automation – Papercup
Telecom – Dubber
Transportation & Logistics – Iprova

Best Innovation
Algorithmic Bias Mitigation – Aligned AI
Computer Vision – Onfido
Consumer Chatbot – Boost.ai
Creative Arts – Collective Act & Chaos Incarnate (tie)
Data Protection and Privacy – Darktrace’s Cyber AI Loop
Deep Learning – DeepL
Diagnostics – NATROX Wound Care
Explainable AI – Recruitment Smart Technologies
General Intelligence – causalens
Genetics / Personalised Medicine – SleepCogni
Geospatial Applications – greehill
IoT & Sensors – measurable.energy
NLP – Graphcore and Pienso
Open Source Technology – The OpenSafely Collaborative
Pharma – Bitfount
Quantum Computing – PQShield
Robotics & Automation – Infosys
Space – Trillium Technologies/FDL.ai
VR/AR – VividQ

Best Climate Change Innovation
Carbon Emissions & Clean Energy – Relocalize & Standard Gas Technologies Ltd (tie)
Climate Justice – Ecomak Recyclers
Tech for Nature – Sylvera

Startup Programme
Health – TidalSense
Climate – finres
AI – Blueskeye AI
Fintech – WealthKernel
Web3 – Immersely Limited
SaaS – Vertice
Deeptech – Advanced Bacterial Sciences
Rising Star Startup Award (cash prize) – Zero Gravity

About CogX

The CogX Festival started in 2017 with a focus on “The Impact of AI on Industry, Government and Society”, over the past six years, CogX has expanded to cover 20 topics ranging from Health and Climate Tech to Ethics while always maintaining a strong programme on AI. In 2020 CogX introduced its Global Leadership Summit and the mission of addressing the question: “How do we get the next 10 years right?”. The event has welcomed over 3,500 expert speakers as wide ranging as Jensen Huang to John Kerry, and from Margarette Vestager to Werner Vogels, Robert Downey Jnr and Tony Blair. In 2023 CogX moved to The O2 and expanded to three Summits and a new Expo. https://www.cogxfestival.com/