The State of the Edge and Edge Computing World Present the Second Annual Edge Woman of the Year Award.
Edge Computing Industry Comes Together to Recognize Women Shaping the Future of Edge and Invite Nominations for 2020.
Edge Woman of the Year Award 2020
WHAT IS THE EDGE WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2020 AWARD?
The award recognizes those in a role impacting the direction of their organization’s strategy, technology, or communications around edge computing, edge software, edge infrastructure, or edge systems. The organizers encourage industry participants to nominate their colleagues, and also encourage qualified women to nominate themselves.
The “Top Ten Women in Edge” finalists will be chosen by the organizers and the winner will be chosen by a panel of industry judges. Don’t Miss the Award Announcement at Edge Computing World during the FREE-to-attend Keynotes on Monday, October 12th. The Announcement of the 2020 Winner will be the culmination of a special feature Keynote on that day, which includes 2019 Winner Farah Papaioannou and Valley Christian Schools COO Rob Valilton discussing the implementation on a “safe kids” Covid-19 compliance solution, and an interview with Verizon Board Member & leading black female entrepreneur Shellye Archambeau, discussing themes of talent development & her new book “Unapologetically Ambitious”.
SELECTION CRITERIA AND FINALISTS
The 10 Edge Woman of the Year 2020 Finalists:
- Fay Arjomandi, Founder, President & CEO – mimik technology inc.
- Kathleen Kallot, Director, AI Ecosystem – Arm
- Nancy Shemwell, COO – Trilogy Networks, Inc.
- Angie McMillin, Vice President & General Manager, IT Systems – Vertiv
- Ramya Ravichandar, VP of Product Management – FogHorn
- Meridith Schuler, Financial and Strategic Operations Manager, SBA Edge
- Jenn Didoni, Head of Cloud Portfolio – Vodafone Group Business
- Kathy Do, VP, Finance and Operations – MemVerge
- Nurit Sprecher, Head of Management & Virtualization Standards – Nokia
- Malini Bhandaru, Open Source Lead for IoT & Edge, VMware
Nominees are being evaluated on the following criteria:
- Career contributions and involvements (ex. industry associations, open-source contributions etc.)
- Overall involvement in greater technology industry and demonstration of leadership qualities
- Specific contributions to edge computing (team projects and collaborations admissible)
- Contributions and involvement need not be technical; award may be given to those in functions that include senior leadership, sales, marketing, etc.
Judging panel of the 2020 Edge Woman of the Year Award include:
- Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium
- Samantha Clarke, Director of Business Development, Seagate Technology
- Eliane Fiolet, Co-founder, Ubergizmo
- Janet George, GVP Autonomous Enterprise, Oracle Cloud
- Maribel Lopez, Founder and Principal Analyst, Lopez Research
- Maemalynn Meanor, Senior PR, Marketing and Social Media Strategist, The Linux Foundation
- Carolina Milanesi, Founder, The Heart of Tech
- Molly Wojcik, Director of Education & Awareness, Section
- Michelle Davis, Manager, DoD/IC Specialist SA team, Red Hat
- Farah Papaioannou, Founder and President, Edgeworx, & 2019 Edge Woman of the Year
Winner of the 2019 Edge Woman of the Year award – Farah Papaioannou, Founder and President, Edgeworx