OpenUK Awards 2026, 7th Edition
OpenUK’s Awards and Honours Lists are part of a UK-focused, world leading recognition programme for open tech. It spans software, hardware, data, and AI and spans the intersection of technology and business. In their 7th year, they have become the “Oscars of open source”.
For 2026, our Judges are Laura Czsjkowski, Kunal Kushwaha, and May Cheung.
It’ll be on 5th November 2026, hosted by Chi Onwurah MP at the House of Commons.
Award Winners 2025
Software • Jan Faracik
Hardware • lowRISC
Data • Ministry of Justice Splink Team
AI • Flox
Governance • Dr Margaret Hartnett
Security • LVFS/fwupd
Young Person • Opemipo Disu
Community • Daniel Gale
Individual • Richard Purdie
Award Winners 2024
Software • Cilium Project
Hardware • ChipFlow
Data • Stream
Security • Linux Vendor Firmware Service
Sustainability • Centre for Net Zero
Startup • Syntasso
Finance • GitProxy
Law and Policy • Chris Eastham
Belonging • Nicholas Vibert
Young Person • Avye Couloute
Individual • Ernest Kissiedu
AI • StabilityAI
Award Winners 2023
Software • SeaQL
Hardware • ChipFlow
Data • 360Giving
Security • Sigstore
Sustainability • OpenSmartMonitor
Startup • QuestDB
Finance • NatWest
Law and Policy • Andrew Katz
Belonging • Open Data Scotland
Young Person • Kunal Kushwaha
Individual • Dawn Foster
AI • AutoGPT by Significant Gravitas
Award Winners 2022
Belonging • The Turing Way
Software • BBC Research & Development
Data • Libraries Hacked
Sustainability • Szymon Duchniewicz
Hardware • LowRISC
Individual • Anais Urlichs
Finance • Waltz
Young person • Jack Gilmore
Security • Liz Rice
Award Winners 2021
Belonging • Endless Compute, Robert McQueen
Software • The Herald Proximity Project
Data • Open Knowledge Foundation
Sustainability • Icebreaker One
Hardware • DevTank HILTOP
Individual • Kevin Mayfield
Finance • Wise
Young person (under 25) • Samuel Van Stroud
Award Winners 2020
Young Person • Josh Lowe
Individual • Liz Rice
Financial Services and Fintech in Open Source • Parity
Open Data • National Library of Wales
Open Hardware • LowRISK
Open Source Software • HospitalRun