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