Zeroseven wins top Umbraco Cloud award for Icon Group

Zeroseven has won Best Umbraco Cloud Solution at the 2026 Umbraco Awards, giving the Australian agency one of the top honours in the global programme run by the Danish software group.

The Brisbane-based digital agency was recognised for work for healthcare provider Icon Group. Judges said the project used Umbraco Cloud to build a multi-site setup that supported the expansion of the client's international network of medical centres.

The recognition comes six months after Umbraco opened an office in Melbourne and appointed Emmanuel Tissera as Head of APAC, expanding its direct presence in Australia. That followed earlier investment in Australian regional hosting for Umbraco Cloud users, aimed at customers with data residency requirements in Australia and New Zealand.

Umbraco's annual awards are presented at its gathering in Denmark, where agency and software partners showcase work built on the company's open-source content management system. This year's winners were chosen from more than 100 submissions by a panel of agency executives, technical specialists and two Umbraco team members.

Mats Persson, Chief Executive Officer of Umbraco, said the winning entries reflected the breadth of work being produced across the platform's partner network.

"This year's award-winners demonstrate the pinnacle of creativity, collaboration, and technical skill in building highly-scalable, business-critical digital experiences on the Umbraco platform. We are continually inspired by the ingenuity of our international partners and open-source community as they meet and exceed clients' expectations," Persson said.

Judges described Zeroseven's project as "A powerhouse case study that uses Umbraco Cloud to its fullest extent and provides a masterclass in using Baselines to instantly spin up regional websites. This stood out as a premier example of enterprise-level cloud transformation, backed by a robust architecture built for rapid global deployment."

AI awards

Artificial intelligence featured prominently in this year's awards, with Umbraco introducing a new category for AI-related work. NXT Digital Solutions won Best Innovation with AI for back-office tools developed for Exclusive Networks, a cybersecurity distribution business operating across multiple languages.

The project was recognised for integrating AI functions into editorial workflows and extending the platform's multilingual tools. Umbraco said the system enables translation management across 28 languages used on the site.

A separate Best AI Package award went to Justin Neville, Founder of Nevitech IT Solutions, for AI Log Analyser. The tool adds an "Analyse with AI" function next to log errors and returns plain-English explanations with suggested fixes for developers working in the Umbraco back office.

International winners

Other category winners reflected the international spread of Umbraco's agency ecosystem. US agency Diagram won Best Enterprise Solution for a site built for the National Association of Tax Professionals, with judges citing its links to five external systems and its use of Umbraco as the central orchestration layer.

In the UK, Dotcraft won Best Umbraco Commerce Solution for an aftersales platform built for Renault-Dacia Alpine. Judges highlighted the mobile-first design and the way the platform connected customer identity and vehicle data through external integrations.

Dutch agency Webwonders took Best Umbraco Engage Solution for work for Cosmetique Totale. Judges pointed to the site's use of analytics, dashboards and personalisation to connect marketing activity with sales outcomes across a multilingual customer journey.

London-based Yoyo Design won Best Designed Site for its work for children's charity Demelza. Judges said the site balanced a warm visual identity with clear user pathways and practical support for editors managing content.

Perplex Digital, also based in the Netherlands, won Best Accessibility and Security Solution for a bilingual site built for Koninklijke Visio. The project included a voice-enabled search tool designed to improve access for users with limited vision.

Best Editing Experience went to Nordic agency Kraftvaerk for an article platform for Danish broadcaster DR. Umbraco said the system serves 900 journalists, supports collaborative publishing and provides access to an archive of 1 million articles.

Kraftvaerk developer Kaspar Boel Kjeldsen also collected the Best Package award for the open-source Block Filter package. The software allows developers to hide content blocks dynamically according to document type, user group or other runtime conditions.

Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Odense, Umbraco says its software is used by a community of more than 250,000 developers and users. The company has expanded its footprint in recent years with offices in several markets, including Australia, where it is seeking to deepen ties with local agencies and enterprise customers.

The Australian result is likely to be noted in that context, given Umbraco's recent push into the region and the role local partners play in delivering projects on the platform. Zeroseven's win places an APAC agency alongside winners from North America and Europe in a programme intended to showcase work across the Umbraco ecosystem.

The judging panel for the main awards included Jen Bradshaw, Managing Director of Moriyama; Jason Prothero, President & Co-owner of ProWorks; Vytautas Pilipas, Chief Technology Officer of Solution Lab; Niels Christian Laursen, Head of LeadGen at Umbraco; and Lasse Fredslund, Staff Product Manager at Umbraco.