These awards honour those powering inclusive pathways into tech.
Our goal is to recognise and celebrate the tech bootcamps, coding academies, online training providers and skills-based organisations around the world, that are creating genuine and inclusive pathways into technology careers.
After receiving an overwhelming number of nominations, each submission was carefully reviewed to create a shortlist of outstanding candidates across various categories. The final decision will be a combination of public votes and the expertise of our judges.
Here are the shortlisted nominees for 2026:
- Ada, National College for Digital Skills
- Away from the Keyboard Inc.
- Bishop Burton College
- Black Girls Code
- CODDY
- CodeOp
- Data For Her
- Django Girls
- Enchanted Digital Academy
- Flatiron School
- Founders and Coders
- Generation UK
- Girl Develop It
- Just IT
- Kal Academy
- La Fosse Academy
- Laboratoria
- myDataClique
- Otermans Institute
- PlayStation Career Pathways
- Resilient Coders
- School of Code
- TechSwitch
- The Coders Guild
- TripleTen
Now it’s your turn to get involved! Public voting* is now open and will count towards the final scores, alongside the judges’ decisions. Your vote is crucial in helping us select the most deserving winners in each category.
*Please note: To vote, you’ll be asked to join our free community. This helps us verify real people and helps to keep voting fair. Voting closes on 6th November.


