OpenUK’s New Year’s Honours Lists
The 2026 OpenUK Honours List will be shared at midnight on the 31st of December. This is the 6th annual OpenUK New Year Honours list, celebrating some of the individuals supporting the UK’s leadership in Open Technology.
| Abby Bangsor | Founding Principal Engineer | Syntasso |
| Alex Chircop | Chief Architect | Akami |
| Andrew Duddfield | Head of AI | Full Fact |
| Andrew Josey | VP Standards and Certification | The Open Group |
| Andrew Pugh | Ford Motor Company | Development Engineer |
| Andrey Breslav | Founder | Codespeak |
| Anil Madhavapeddy | Professor of Planetary Computing | University of Cambridge |
| Anton Lokhmotov | Founding Member | ML Commons |
| Antony Hallam | IT Systems | Flexitricity |
| Benjamin Nicolls | Strategic Director | Open Source Collective |
| Benjie Gillam | Director | Graphile |
| Bethany Griggs | Senior Software Engineer | RedHat |
| Brian Bishop | President | Open Connectivity Foundation |
| Bryan Boreham | Distinguished Engineer | Grafana Labs |
| Cheuk Ting Ho | Developer Advocate | JetBrains |
| Chris Ashton | Senior Developer | GDS |
| Chris Lloyd-Jones | VP AI Consulting | Kyndryl |
| Chris Plank | Lead Enterprise Architect | Natwest |
| Craig Wylie | Lab Product Owner | Lloyds |
| Daniele Procida | Director of Engineering | Canonical |
| David Clubb | Head of Climate Action | Cardiff University |
| David Hewitt | Staff Software Engineer | Pydantic |
| David Soria Parra | Member of Technical Staff | Anthropic |
| David Chisnall | Director of Systems Architecture | SCI Semiconductor |
| DeanSummers | Founder, Director of Engineering | Lampata |
| Denise McKenzie | Managing Partner | PLACE Trust |
| Dimitra Simeondieou OBE | Director, Smart Internet Lab | University of Bristol |
| Don Syme | Principal Researcher and Visiting Professor | GitHub and Kings |
| Dr Laura Gilbert CBE | Head of AI | Tony Blair Institute for Global Change |
| Edith Puclla | Technology Evangilist | Pecona |
| EgorTolstoy | VP Product | JetBrains |
| Fintan Ryan | Director, Competitive Insights | GitHub |
| GarethKinghorn | Network Engineer | NScale |
| Gary Ewan Park | Principal Software Engineer | Chocolatey Software |
| Gavin Henry | Founder | Ant Networks Ltd |
| GodfreyInyama | Research and Teaching Assistant | Herriot Watt University |
| Graham Campbell | Founder | Graham Campbell Technology Ltd |
| Grant Likely | CTO | Linaro |
| GuillaumeLebedel | Founder and CTO | StackOne |
| Guy Podjarny | Founder and CEO | Tessl |
| Hannah Wolfe | CTO and Co-Founder | Ghost Foundation |
| IainSmart | Principal Consultant | Amberwolf |
| Iain G Mitchell KC | King’s Council | Tanfield Chambers |
| Jakub Karolczyk | Senior Software Engineer | SignalWire |
| James Hirst | COO and Co-Founder | Tyk |
| JamesSmith | Creator and Maintainer | Manyfold |
| Jan Frackick | Lead Software Engineer | Kainos |
| JavierOrensanz Martinez | CEO | lowRISC |
| JennyBrooker | Head of Data Architecture | GDS |
| Jim Halfpenny | Managin Director | Stackable |
| Joe Salisbury | VP Engineering | Giant Swarm |
| Joe Birr-Pixton | Director | Synecdoche Consultin |
| Jonny Williams | Chief Digital Adviser, UK Public Sector | RedHat |
| Joseph Seddon | Engineering Manager | Wikimedia Foundation |
| Josh Mesout | Chief Innovation Officer | Civo |
| Justin Spahr-Summers | Director | Fern Games |
| Konstantin Vinogradov | General Partner | Runa Capital |
| Kris Chaplin | Open Source software lead | AMD |
| Luke Marsden | Founder and CEO | HelixML |
| Maria Lema | CEO | Weaverlabs |
| Maria Skampoura | Founder and CEO | Developable |
| MarkoBevc | Principal Consultant | The Scale Factory |
| Martin Costello | Staff Engineer | Grafana Labs |
| Martin Yargi | Intellectual Property manager | First light Fusion |
| Matt Jukes | Interim Head of Product | Ministry of Housing |
| Mike Bursell | Executive Director | Confidential Computing Consortium |
| Monica Sasso | Global Financial Serivces | RedHat |
| Neil Lawrence | Google Deep Mind Professor of ML, Universtity of Cambridge | University of Cambridge |
| Nick Lockwood | Software Engineer | Bloomberg |
| Nicki Watt | CTO | Trifork UK |
| Nicolas Vibert | Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer | Isovalent |
| Nicolas Hourcard | Co-Founder | QuestDB |
| Nikita Koselev | Lead Software Development Engineer | Mastercard |
| Oliver Cronk | Technology Director | Scott Logic |
| Rafah El-Khatib | Nvidia | AI DevRel |
| Rahul Krishnan RA | Barclays Bank UK PLC | AVP, Platform Engineering |
| Rebecca Flack | Data Sharing Manager | UK Power Networks |
| Rebecca Franks | Senior Android Developer Relations Manager | |
| Richard Evans | Country Manager | WS02 |
| Rohit Ghumare | Head of DevRel | motia.dev |
| Ross Burton | Principal Software Engineer | Arm |
| Ryan Dawnson | Principal Data Consultant | Thoughtworks |
| Sal Kimmich | Technical Director | Gadfly.ai |
| Simon Maple | Head of DevRel | Tessl |
| Thomas Sadler | Senior Principal Sofware Engineer | BBC |
| Tim Telford | CEO | DevTank |
| Tom Longhurst | Senior Software Engineer | JustEat |
| Tom Wilkinson | Chief Data Officer | Scottish Government |
| Yiu-Shing Pang | Data Sharing Manager | UK Power Networks |
