digiLab CEO and Co-Founder Tim Dodwell wins Tech Leadership Award at the Tech South West Awards 2024

digiLab CEO and Co-Founder Tim Dodwell was awarded the Tech Leadership Award at this year’s Tech South West Awards. Dodwell was accompanied on the finalists list alongside various game-changing innovators in the South West tech ecosystem, across sectors ranging from marinetech to aerospace, fintech and advanced engineering.

When it came to awarding the Tech Leadership Award, the judges were looking for inspirational and influential tech leaders who deliver positive impact, maximise the efforts of others and go the extra mile.

Dodwell’s vision has developed digiLab into a hub of 30+ passionate and talented individuals based in the heart of Exeter, building pioneering cutting-edge uncertainty quantification solutions tailored for the engineering sector.

His dedication to people has led to digiLab being the first tech company in the South West to adopt a 4-day work week, ensuring his team enjoy a healthy work-life balance, alongside developing world-changing AI software. He’s also dedicated to improving the gender balance across the tech industry, and has succeeded at building a deep tech workforce that is already 37% female - a huge achievement compared to the average UK statistics of 26%.

Tim Dodwell, CEO and Co-Founder at digiLab says: "I am honoured to receive the Tech Leadership Award. This award is a testament not only to my efforts but also digiLab’s efforts towards innovation, positive impact, and diversity and wellbeing. Together, we are dedicated to driving progress that will not only benefit our clients and partners but also contribute to the broader goal of advancing technological innovation globally and creating a better future.”

Tim is an advisor to the UKAEA, sits on the Fusion Skills Council and is an internationally recognised leader in data-centric engineering, uncertainty quantification and probabilistic machine learning. Alongside his work at digiLab, he remains a prominent member of the global machine learning research community at the University of Exeter, Alan Turing Institute, Turing AI Fellowship, and visiting professorships at Heidelberg and MIT.

Having grown from a small team of expert mathematicians and data scientists, digiLab is now a leading AI company that empowers organisations in highly regulated or safety-critical industries to solve their complex engineering, infrastructure or data challenges.

As world leaders in uncertainty quantification, based on years of cutting-edge academic research, our team of 30+ experts specialise in areas with uncertain or sparse data, teaching teams how to solve their grand challenges using digiLab’s platform.

digiLab’s platform is a no-code agentic AI platform that combines data, models and workflows to connect a trustworthy AI digital thread through an organisation. digiLab enables you and your teams to solve complex problems in a secure and auditable platform to build decision intelligence and shorten time to value.