WeAreTechWomen celebrated the winners of their 2019 TechWomen100 awards yesterday at a ceremony at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster, London. The TechWomen100 awards are the ‘first of their kind’ to focus solely on the female tech talent pipeline and recognise the impact of champions, companies and networks leading the way for future generations of tech talent.
In today’s tech industry only 17% are women, according to WeAreTechWomen. So the sector needs more women studying, working and sticking with tech skills to ensure that there is enough future talent. In 2017, women made up 24% of those working in core STEM industries in the UK. Within the younger generation, however, only 1 in 10 females are currently taking A-Level computer studies.
FUTURE LEADERS
WeAreTechWomen’s campaign aims to change this by “shining a spotlight on 1,000 future female leaders in technology by 2025”, stated Vanessa Vallely OBE, Founder of WeAreTechWomen.
Since August 2019, the organisation has been searching the UK for the best female tech talent in the country. “The response to this year’s awards has been fantastic and the calibre of entries has been outstanding,” confirmed Vallely. The awards were entered by over 700 nominations from across the UK and Ireland, and 30,000 votes of support from across the globe.
Kicking off last night’s celebrations, Vallely said, “Let tonight’s awards be the platform you all spring from, to achieve more, to get your promotions, to help others thrive and be a beacon of light in the tech industry.”
SHOWCASING TECH SUCCESS
The award winners showcase ‘remarkable women within the technology and STEM sectors’, from firms such as the BBC, Starling Bank, Morrisons, University of Oxford, John Lewis, Cancer Research UK, The Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft and many more, said the tech body.
They include Alicia Carolina Beylan Navarrete, a Backend Software Engineer at Deliveroo who was recently awarded an exceptional talent visa sponsored by TechNation; Moriah Baxevane-Connell, a Cloud Consultant at Google, who works with customers across Europe to optimise their usage of Google Cloud Platform; Emma Lindley, an advisor and author on digital identity, and is also Co-Founder of Women in Identity, a not-for-profit organisation focused on developing talent and diversity in the identity industry; and Eva Meyer de Stadelhofen, Founder of GirlCode, an international non-profit and network, which aims to reduce the gender gap in the STEM industry by teaching girls between the ages of 8 and 17 how to code.
TECH CHAMPIONS
The winners of the Champions category, Company of the Year and Network of the Year also collected awards alongside the individual TechWomen100 category award winners. To round off the award’s evening, the Editors Choice Award was given to Debbie Forster MBE, Tech Talent Charter. Commenting on the award, Forster stated, “I say this to every woman who carries the imposter, who feels that they don’t deserve to be here, we all deserve to be in the room, we all deserve to be here, and we’re going to change the world.”
The 2019 awards were headline sponsored by JP Morgan and supported by Accenture, BAE Systems, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Dell Technologies, Informed Solutions, Lloyds Banking Group, Oliver Wyman, OpenFin and Worldpay.
2019 WEARETECHWOMEN WINNERS
Company of the Year
- Code First: Girls
Network of the Year
- TfL WSNG Women in Tech
Champion
- Didem Un Ates – Microsoft
TechWomen100 (in alphabetical order)
- Alice Williams-Allden – Royal Navy
- Alicia Carolina Beylan Navarrete – Deliveroo
- Alison Choy – Starling Bank
- Amanda Heslop – Rolls-Royce
- Anahita Mahmoudi – Capgemini
- Anisha Malde – IBM
- Anna Frankowska – Pigzbe
- Anne Simmons – ThoughtWorks
- Arta Cika – University of Oxford
- Audrey Bampoe – Credit Suisse
- Bella Thornely – Accenture
- Bex Hay – Organise
- Bianca Jemsten – Publicis Sapient
- Bryony Grimes – Telefonica UK (O2 UK)
- Bushra Burge – BB Studio
- Carly Britton – Vualto
- Catherine Llewellyn-Jones – Airbus
- Charly Lester – Lumen
- Christina Howell – AND Digital
- Christina Connelly – DigitalBridge
- Christine Lester – J.P. Morgan
- Claire Donoghue – 3M
- Eleanor Davill – BJSS
- Elle Tweedy – FutureGov
- Ellena Duffy – WiredScore
- Ellie Yell – Fledglink
- Emma Lindley – Women in Identity
- Eva Meyer de Stadelhofen – GirlCode
- Ganna Pogrebna – The Alan Turing Institute
- Gillian Armour – Liberty IT
- Gjeta Gjyshinca – Morgan Stanley
- Grace Jansen – IBM
- Hannah Hellis – Morgan Stanley
- Harriet Shaw – BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
- Hayley Knott – Natilik Ltd
- Holly Boothroyd – Microsoft
- Isabel Chapman – Triple D Media
- Isabel Ashworth – Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
- Jaimini Chandarana – BBC
- Jane Pitt – Microsoft
- Janette Isiguzo – KPMG
- Jenna Kelway – Royal Navy
- Jennifer Kenyon – Cisco Systems
- Joud Hadaie – Oliver Wyman
- Julie Orton – BNY Mellon
- Jyoti Choudrie – University of Hertfordshire
- Kamila Hankiewicz – Untrite Ltd / Girls in Tech London
- Karrie Liu – Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd
- Katrina Novakovic – Red Hat
- Kelly Diamond – Sainsbury’s
- Kinjal Dave – BAE Systems
- Krittika D’Silva – University of Cambridge
- Krupali Bhagani – John Lewis
- Kulvinder Panesar – York St John University
- Laura Flannery – Government Digital Services (GDS)
- Lauren Stewart – Invigorate
- Leena Kalani – Cognizant
- Lisa Ventura – UK Cyber Security Association
- Malika Malik – KPMG UK
- Mansata Kurang – VR Revival
- Maria Luciana Axente – PwC
- Marily Nika – Google
- Marisa Martin-Fernandez – UKRI-STFC
- Marwa Adawy – Yielders
- Melanie Calver – BPDTS
- Merici Vinton – Ada’s List
- Michelle Baeten – PwC
- Monique Ho – BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
- Moriah Baxevane-Connell – Google
- Nina Ma – PwC
- Noon Ali – BNY Mellon
- Penelope Hindle – X-Lab Systems
- Prakriti Karthauser – Vodafone Group
- Pranathi Praveen – EY
- Priyanshi Srivastava – J.P. Morgan
- Rachel Vann – Lloyds Banking Group
- Raghd Rostom – University of Cambridge; Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Ramat Tejani – Amazon Web Services
- Reena Chawla – Fujitsu
- Roxane Heaton – Morrisons
- Rupinder Garcha – GlaxoSmithKline
- Ruth Hurley – Cancer Research UK
- Sara Al Wajih – BBC
- Sarah Bohndiek – University of Cambridge
- Sharon Jones – Barclays Eagle Labs
- Sjoukje Ijlstra – J.P. Morgan
- Soraya Weill – Oliver Wyman
- Sotira Georgiou – Ramboll UK
- Stephanie Gooch – KPMG Sunaina Aytan – eSecure
- Suzie Miller – AWS
- Sylwia Jablonska Bond – Barclays
- Tara Annison – PR9 Network Tina Valand – PwC
- Toni Scullion – dressCode
- Veronika Field – PwC
- Victoria Limont-Brown – HSBC
- Winter Mraz – Barclays Eagle Labs Yemi Oluseun – Barclays
- Zara Powell – Zone
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