A Night for Northern Technology
The Prolific North Tech Awards recognise the organisations, teams and individuals driving growth across the North's technology sector, from early-stage startups to established industry leaders. Entries are scored by an independent panel of judges on effectiveness, implementation, innovation, growth and social impact.
This year's judging panel drew on senior figures from across the region's technology, investment and academic community, including representatives of Auto Trader, Microsoft, techUK, Bruntwood SciTech and the University of Manchester.
Northern Tech Powerhouse
The Northern Tech Powerhouse category recognises the heavyweights of the Northern ecosystem, looking for innovation at scale, significant regional employment and a reputation for excellence that extends far beyond the North.
From its global headquarters in Manchester, ConnexAI employs over 500 people across six international offices, serving enterprise clients worldwide.
The company's award-winning AI Research Lab is made up of development, data science and product teams who develop and deploy the technology powering ConnexAI's agentic AI platform.
Tech Innovation of the Year
Sponsored by The Growth Company, Tech Innovation of the Year celebrates products, platforms and services that can demonstrate considerable impact in any sector or discipline.
The award recognises ConnexAI's agentic AI platform, which brings the company's AI products together on a single system for enterprises to resolve customer conversations across voice and digital channels.
ConnexAI designs and owns every layer of the AI stack, from proprietary voice recognition and synthesis models to its own fine-tuned LLM, rather than licensing general-purpose models from elsewhere. AI Agent, AI Voice, AI Quality, AI Analytics and AI Knowledge all run on that single-vendor stack, allowing enterprises to train, configure and deploy teams of AI agents that reason, decide and act across voice and digital channels as a coordinated AI workforce.
About ConnexAI
ConnexAI is an award-winning Agentic AI platform founded in 2013 by Nick Mealey and Richard Mealey. Designed by a world-class engineering team, ConnexAI's technology enables organisations to maximise profitability, increase revenue, and take productivity to new levels.
