Reflecting on the Digital Transformation & AI Awards 2025, Peter Rose, co-founder and Technical Director of TEKenable Group, took his place on the judging panel, contributing nearly 40 years of experience in business transformation, enterprise technology, and digital innovation to the evaluation of Ireland's most forward-looking technology initiatives at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire on 19 June 2025.

Rose co-founded TEKenable Group and has built a career at the intersection of business change and technology delivery across a wide range of industries. His expertise spans artificial intelligence, data analytics, cyber security, software development, and low code platforms, a breadth of technical knowledge that gave his panel contribution a command of the full technology stack that organisations deploy in the pursuit of digital transformation.

As a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society and a recognised expert in enterprise AI and business transformation, he brought to the judging process a perspective capable of distinguishing genuine digital leadership from incremental technology adoption dressed up as innovation.

That depth of experience is particularly relevant to a programme as expansive as the Digital Transformation & AI Awards, which in 2025 covered over 40 categories spanning the full landscape of digital transformation and AI innovation in Ireland.

From Overall Best Digital Transformation and AI Innovation of the Year to sector-specific categories in healthcare, financial services, retail, public sector, aviation, and life sciences, alongside awards for responsible AI, sustainability, and best use of AI across multiple industries, the programme demanded evaluators capable of assessing entries across radically different organisational contexts and technological approaches. Rose's nearly four decades of hands-on delivery experience in enterprise technology positioned him to do precisely that.

He was joined on the panel by Judging Coordinator Maria Svejdar of GS1 Ireland, alongside Noel Carroll of the University of Galway, Warren Kavanagh of Aweb Digital, Brendan Keegan of Maynooth University, Cliona McParland of Dublin City University Business School, Denis O'Brien of GS1 Ireland, Peter Robbins of Dublin City University, Pierangelo Rosati of the University of Galway, Antonio Vieira Santos of Atos, Declan Sheehan of the National Transport Authority, and Mike Yan of Manychat.

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