The North East’s annual tech awards were held late last week, with 450 attendees braving the snow and sleet to attend Dynamo’s Dynamites Awards 2025 at Newcastle Civic Centre’s Banqueting Hall.

The awards this year attracted 88 entries across 14 award categories.

Awards were handed out to a wide variety of winners, from major tech firms to emerging tech startups and organisations with IT departments who are blazing a trail in their respective industries.

The Dynamites Awards 2025 award winners were:

Best Use of Data & AI, sponsored by Neptune North

Winner – Transmission Startups

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, sponsored by UK Tech Cluster Group

Winner – Sunderland City Council

Growth Explosion, sponsored by LDC

Highly Commended – SafeCall

Winner – tombola

International Success, sponsored by Womble Bond Dickinson

Highly Commended – mkodo

Winner – SaleCycle

Tech Startup, sponsored by Sage

Winner – OnlyCat

Project Excellence, sponsored by Leighton

Winner – Scrumconnect Consulting and the Department for Education (DfE)

Remarkable Innovation, sponsored by Lenovo

Highly Commended – OnlyCat

Winner – XR Therapeutics

Outstanding Workplace, sponsored by Gateshead College

Winner – Leighton

*Rising Star, sponsored by Scott Logic *

Highly Commended – Yevheniia Hutorova, LM Global

Winner – Benjamin Stringer, Bulien

Skills Developer, sponsored by Sunderland Software City

Highly Commended – Layers Studio

Winner – Gateshead College

Marketing Impact, sponsored by Creo Communications

Winner – Seriös Group

Tech Champion, sponsored by Accenture UK

Winner – Paul Callaghan CBE

Tech for Good, sponsored by tombola

Winner – FloKi Health

People’s Choice

Winner, with 14 per cent of the overall vote – Ian Tweedie of Capgemini