Making a difference award 2020
Alistair Hamill
Head of Geography at Lurgan
Alistair Hamill, Head of Geography at Lurgan College, Lurgan, Co Armagh, was awarded our very first Making a Difference award.
Customer Success Awards
Making a Difference
Taking a geographic approach, our customers address some of the most significant challenges on the planet – from climate change, to food production, to humanitarian relief, to business growth to making cities safer and better places to live.
Making a Difference
Our Customers are the Difference they Make
Through the application of GIS and its capabilities, our customers see the patterns, connections and relationships that others may not. It is these patterns, connections and relationships that are enabling our customers to make a difference for their organisations, their employees, their stakholders and society at large.
Our Customer Success Awards recognise the difference our customers make.
Customer Success Awards
Upcoming Awards Ceremony
Date: April 10, 2025
Time: 20:00 to 22:30
Location: The College Green Hotel Dublin
The awards ceremony will welcome 170 guests where together we will recognise and celebrate the great work our customers are doing through the application of location, place, and geography.
Our annual customer success awards acknowledge our customer's creativity and innovation in nine separate award categories as detailed below.
This celebration of success will be held at the College Green Hotel in Dublin and is by invitation only.
Watch the Event Night Highlights from last year's Customer Success Awards.
Award Categories
The ArcGIS platform provides our customers with a range of geospatial capability from mapping & real-time visualisation to spatial analysis and data science. This years awards will recognise the work our customers do across six main categories.
Making a Difference
Our Making a Difference Award is special. It is awarded to individual who has made a significant contribution to the GIS field, demonstrating leadership, innovation, and dedication.
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Making a difference award 2021Lorraine McNerney
Chief Information Officer at OSi
Lorraine McNerney is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a General Manager at Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi), National Mapping Agency. -
Making a difference award 2022Robert Ovington
GIS Manager at DHLGH
Rob Ovington is a GIS Manager at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH) . -
Making a difference award 2023Gearoid O'Riain
Director of Talav Investments & Advisory
After more than 25 years with Compass Informatics, Gearoid now continues to work with GIS & data, technology, and strategy development projects.
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Customer Success Awards
Stand Out Successes in Previous Years
The following is a list of customers whose work with location, place and geography has been recognised as being Stand Out in their category, and whose work continues to deliver value for today.
Explore our Customer Success Awards 2023 - Storymap to discover how the Shortlisted organisations demonstrated outstanding use of ArcGIS technology to address challenges and improve business workflows.
- Customer Success Awards 2023
- Dublin Fire Brigade | Mapping & Visualisation | >>>
- Indigo | Field Operations | >>>
- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage | Spatial Analysis and Decision Support | >>>
- Northern Ireland Water | Digital Twin | >>>
- Galway County Council | Community Engagement | >>>
- Northern Ireland Water | Sustainablility | >>>
- Customer Success Awards 2022
- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage | Mapping & Visualisation | >>>
- Actavo | Field Mobility & Monitoring | >>>
- South Dublin County Council & Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council | Data Collection & Management | >>>
- Fibrus | Design & Planning | >>>
- Ordnance Survey Ireland | Decision Support & Analytics | >>>
- Inland Fisheries Ireland | Community Engagement | >>>
- Customer Success Awards 2021
- Customer Success Awards 2020
- AIRO (All Island Research Observatory) | Mapping & Visualisation | >>>
- Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government | Data Management | >>>
- Indigo (formerly 4Site) | Field Mobility | >>>
- Dublin Airport | Monitoring | >>>
- KN Circet | Design & Planning | >>>
- Education Authority Northern Ireland | Decision Support | >>>
- Donegal County Council | Community Engagement | >>>
- Gas Networks Ireland | Sharing & Collaboration | >>>
2023 Awards Nominees
Below you will find the nominees for each of our six award categories as described above. The standout successes that were recognised on the night are highlighted in bold and underlined.
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