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Business Disability Forum unveils Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026 finalists. Business Disability Forum, a business membership organisation in disability inclusion, has unveiled the finalists for its prestigious Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026. Now in its 12th year, the annual awards spotlight and celebrate the organisations and practitioners who are removing barriers and driving meaningful, measurable improvements for disabled employees and consumers. The awards highlight projects that demonstrate a real difference to disabled employees and consumers and aim to encourage all businesses to elevate their approach to disability inclusion. From transformative workplace adjustments to customer-focused accessibility innovations, the awards celebrate initiatives that deliver impactful change. Advertisement | Continue story below Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum, said: "This year's finalists are raising the bar on what genuine disability inclusion looks like. The 2026 shortlist showcases a diverse range of organisations and individuals working to overcome barriers and improve outcomes for disabled employees, consumers, and service users. "They all reflect an extraordinary standard of innovation, ambition and action. Their work proves that when organisations prioritise disability inclusion, everyone benefits. We are delighted to amplify their leadership and hope it inspires more businesses to accelerate their own inclusion journeys." Projects in this year's list of finalists include developing a global network for people who stammer to a small, family-owned shop that has made neurodivergent and disabled people feel safe and welcome in a retail environment. There are also global corporations pioneering ways to design products and services with, instead of for, disabled people and campaigns harnessing the power of storytelling across five continents to disrupt harmful and stereotypical assumptions around disability. Winners in the 14 categories of the Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026 will be announced at the Disability Smart Impact Awards Ceremony 2026, hosted by HSBC, on 29 April 2026. There is an additional Lifetime Achievement Award. This year's Disability Smart Impact Awards finalists, by category, includes the Diversity and Inclusion Professional, with finalists including Evtec Automative, Freeths LLP, and Lloyds Banking Group. The Leader Award, with finalists 50 Million Voices, Morgans Butchery, and Unilever. The Technology Award for small organisations of fewer than 250 employees includes finalists Diverse Made Media, Mobility Mojo, and SensePilot. The Technology Award for large organisations with over 250 employees includes finalists ServiceNow, Financial Conduct Authority, and Tesco. The Workplace Experience Award for small organisations of fewer than 250 employees includes finalists Happy Smiles Training CIC, Evtec Automotive, and Tilting the Lens. The Workplace Experience Award for large organisations with over 250 employees includes finalists Sutherland Global, BCLP, and Garanti BBVA. The Recruitment Award includes finalists BBC, Curiously Divergent, and KPMG LLP. The Inclusive Communication Award includes finalists Stichting Uit met Autisme, Sony Europe, and Worley. The Customer Experience Award for small organisations of fewer than 250 employees includes finalists Accessible Housing Scotland, Thrive Together Support, and Festival.org - Greenwich + Docklands International Festival. The Customer Experience Award for large organisations with over 250 employees includes finalists Lloyds Banking Group and Durham University. The Accessible Built Environment Award includes finalists Eli Lilly, Homelands Trust - Fife, and Amazon Italy. The Global Disability Inclusion Award includes finalists Unilever, Bupa, and Sutherland Global. The Product Design Award includes finalists Sensory Shine, Intotum, and Sekond Skin Society. The Procurement Award includes finalists BBC and Barclays. THIIS ROUND-UP Join the 3,750+ mobility professionals who stay informed with THIIS' twice-weekly industry updates. https://thiis.co.uk/business-disability-forum-unveils-disability-smart-impact-awards-2026-finalists/https://thiis.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BDF-2026-awards-900x473-1.jpghttps://thiis.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BDF-2026-awards-900x473-1-150x150.jpg2026-03-18T09:18:15+00:00Millie YorkEvents & ExhibitionsNewsroomTrade Newsaccessibility and inclusion,accessibility awards,Business Disability Forum,Disability Smart Awards,Disability Smart Impact Awards,Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026Business Disability Forum, a business membership organisation in disability inclusion, has unveiled the finalists for its prestigious Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026. Now in its 12th year, the annual awards spotlight and celebrate the organisations and practitioners who are removing barriers and driving meaningful, measurable improvements for disabled employees and consumers. The awards highlight projects that demonstrate a real difference to disabled employees and consumers and aim to encourage all businesses to elevate their...Millie YorkMillie [email protected] Magazine

Sutherland has launched FinAI Hub, an enterprise Agentic AI platform designed specifically for banking and financial services. The platform provides a domain-trained AI agent workforce to help financial institutions scale AI initiatives beyond pilot programmes across legacy systems and core operations. FinAI Hub offers modular AI agents supporting functions including retail banking, payments, lending, servicing, risk and compliance. Agents can operate independently or be orchestrated across workflows such as onboarding, KYC, AML, fraud detection, underwriting and collections. Examples include a KYC Agent for identity verification, an AML Screening Agent for sanction monitoring, and a Loan Underwriter Agent for application decisions. The platform features secure deployment models that keep sensitive data within institutional environments whilst enabling autonomous execution and maintaining regulatory control. Sutherland positions the platform as enabling financial institutions to embed intelligent automation across enterprises at production scale.