Awards 2026

Embracing Data.
Transforming Industries.

The Data Forward Awards recognize outstanding consultancies and industries embracing data to deliver profound, measurable impact.

The 2026 Award Winners

Select a category below to explore details of the winning firm, their outstanding client case study, and the judges' final verdict.

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Best Warehouse Consultancy UK

Trym Consulting

Recognized for deploying strategic inventory modeling that eliminated off-site overflow storage for a leading food manufacturer while preserving prioritised service levels.

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Engineering Consultancy UK

Walsh

Honoured for building automated parametric geotechnical solvers that optimize deep pile layouts and concrete volumes across complex urban London sites.

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Management Consultancy UK

Elixirr

Honoured for building predictive dynamic workforce planning systems that optimize complex resource allocations across global corporate service networks.

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Marketing Consultancy UK

Brainlabs

Honoured for deploying cookieless user attribution models and real-time media spend simulators that optimize marketing budgets.

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Strategy Consultancy UK

Plural Strategy

Lauded for building bespoke transaction stress-testing platforms and strategic Monte Carlo market simulation tools.

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Retail Consultancy UK

Dunnhumby

Celebrated for pioneering machine learning customer affinity maps and dynamic price-elasticity optimization engines.

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IT Consultancy UK

BJSS

Awarded for engineering robust self-healing cloud observability systems and resilient agile hybrid software infrastructures.

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Finance Consultancy UK

Quantile

Honoured for engineering algorithmic multi-asset derivatives compression and margin-optimization systems.

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Best Supply Chain Consultancy UK

Trym Consulting

Honoured for their transformative forecasting and replenishment (F&R) project that delivered a £12m inventory reduction for a leading grocery retailer.

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