In pictures: Highlights from the Benchmark Awards gala dinner

Matthew Faries from AFG, Nigel Phillips from DXC Technology and Catherine Cherry from the University of Adelaide.

Iain Lang and David Allen from the Australian Tax Office.

Lisa Bouari and Paul Van der Linden from OutThought.

David Preston from Sigma Healthcare, Ray Baird from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and Diana Thomas from the Legal Service Commission of South Australia.

Se Yong Oh, Nitin Rohmetra from the Victorian Electoral Commission with William Brennan from SA Water.

Ann-Marie Fletcher (L) and Craig Muller (R) from the University of Wollongong with Sheila Fitzpatrick (C) from Fitzpatrick & Associates.

Bipula Khatiwada, Tania Page, Sherrie Killiby, Anne Kinsella, and Kurt Brissett from Transport for NSW.

Catherine Cherry, Tim Harvey, and Nici Perriam from the University of Adelaide with Juliana Button from Rubicon Red.

Matthew Faries from AFG, Juliana Button from Rubicon Red and Brad Foord from AFG.

Faye Johnstone and Jonathan Whittaker for Port Stephens Council.

Matthew Tosh from GrainCorp and Peter Johnson from Tigerspike.

Glen Beckett and Brodie Ruttan from the Local Government Association of Queensland.

Jessica Der Mattossian from the Federal Courts of Australia with Ian Robinson and Shanthi Amal from WaterNSW.

Rossano Gallardo, Ryan McCartney, Stephen Kyefulumya, Winnie Leung, Wayne Schwebel, Siddhi Suman, Sunny Zheng and Geoff Hall from Nine.

Miriam Hernandez-Kakol and Catherine Wickham from KPMG.

Kirsty Garrett from Doctors on Demand and David Preston from Sigma Healthcare.

Carol Maher and Dr Karen Murphy from the University of South Australia.

Avi Sharabi from KPMG with Daniel Garcia and Aleena M O'Neill from VirtualIT.

Dhanush Makan from Civica with Mike Ohrimenko and Dushyant Sattiraju from Deakin University.

Nitin Rohmetra and Se Yong Oh from the Victorian Electoral Commission.

Andrew Broberg, Brendan Galea, Katrina Salhioui and Janet Granger-Wilcox from Aussie Broadband.

KPMG's Elisa Tweedie, Piers Hogarth-Scott, Jacinta Hargan, Morgan McCullough, Miriam Hernandez-Kakol, David Ryan, Ian Hancock, Mason Davies, Avi Sharabi, Guy Holland and Catherine Wickham.

John O'Grady from Tigerspike, Di Menz from Rodwells, Andrew Slatter from Nutrien Ag Solutions (RuralCo) and David Sutherland from Tigerspike

Dushyant Sattiraju, Fadi Alja'fari and Craig Warren from Deakin University.

Oliver Poulter from Tigerspike, Anthony Edelman and Matthew Tosh from GrainCorp, and David Sutherland from Tigerspike.