iTnews Benchmark Awards: The Highlights

iTnews crowned the winners of this year’s Benchmark Awards at a gala dinner in Thursday night at KPMG’s Sydney office.

The view from the gala dinner at KPMG’s Barangaroo headquarters.

The team from the University of Newcastle, who won the Benchmark Award for best use of emerging technology with their virtual reality anaesthesia training tool for oral health students.

Rising Star award winner Eric Jiang and colleague Josh Teichman.

ServiceNow director of public service and higher education Alethea Murphy with KPMG partner, technology, management consulting, Dr Julian Edwards.

Education IT finalists Dr Lesley Sefcik and Michael Baird from Curtin University.

The pre-dinner networking session at KPMG's Barangaroo Sydney headquarters.

Steve Hodgkinson, CIO of Victoria DHHS, which won the award best state government IT project .

Ani Paul and Angelina Potapova from finance category finalists ING Bank.

Federal government category winners Airservices Australia and project partners.

City of Greater Bendigo collecting the prize for best local government IT project.

University of Canberra’s Rebecca Armstrong and Luke Smith with Dr Julian Edwards from KPMG.

Melbourne Water claiming the title of best industrial IT project, which ended up being the iTnews Benchmark Awards Project of the Year.

The team behind Commonwealth Bank of Australia's OneCloud project, which took out the award for best finance IT project.

Australia's professional IT community celebrates!

The team behind Liverpool Hospital's implementation of Project ECHO listening intently.

The Victorian Department of Health and Human Services collecting the award for best state governement project, with co-Rising Star award winner Fiona Sparks.

Liverpool Hospital claiming the prize for best healthcare IT project.

Newcastle University was named the winner of  iTnews Benchmark Awards inaugural emerging technologies category for its use of VR in oral health education.

They were too good to split! Fiona Sparks from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and Eric Jiang from Monash University accept their awards for iTnews Benchmark Awards’ Rising Star category. (Also pictured: iTnews editorial director Simon Sharwood and iTnews editor Julian Bajkowski.)