European Tech Women Awards

Wednesday, 2 September 2020 - Tuesday, 8 September 2020

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European Tech Women Awards
Panel Session 1
Panel Session 2
Career Recognition Award: Anne-Marie Imafidon
Career Recognition Award: Sheila Flavell
Business Revolution Award: Sara Boutall
Visionary Tech Leader Award: Narkis Alon (on behalf of Maya Gura)
Data Innovator Award: Camilla Ley Valentin
Tech Inclusion Award: Petra Kotuliakova
Technology Leadership Award: Laura Lozano
Start Up Founder Award: Lisa-Marie Fassl
STEM Pathway Award: Amanda Heslop
Leadership For Change Award: Hillary Harel
International Clean Energy Award: Sabrina Malpede
Innovation For Change Award: Natasha Friis Saxberg
Corporate Innovation Award: Elisabetta Romano
Professional Tech Services Award: Sophie Martinetz
Social Responsibility Award: Iseult Ward
Disruptive Digital Entrepreneur Award: Orit Hashay
Academic and Research Award: Graziella Pellegrini
Future Mobility Award: Tamy Ribeiro
One To Watch Award: Maria Vircikova
Talent Booster Award: Eva Ratti
Green Innovation Award: Inna Braverman
Legal Tech Award: Laura Fauqueur
Tech Good Award: Andrea Panczel
Smart Solution Innovatir Award: Anne Mellano

Download our European Tech Women Awards brochure to learn more about the awards and all the winners here.

European Tech Women Awards

During September 2020, the Department for International Trade (DIT) Europe Network organised the 1st edition of the European Tech Women Awards, springboarding the launch of the DIT Europe Technology Campaign. The Awards ceremony recognised the excellence of 24 women 12 countries in from the European Region through their outstanding and exceptional achievements in technology.

Watch the full show here to view the winners of this years awards.

Watch back the first set of panel sessions from this year's winner here

Panel 1: Championing Diversity in Tech through role models and women empowerment: are we doing enough?
Panel 2: When will the world be ready for new female leaders?
Panel 3: A cure to overcoming the impostor syndrome

Watch back the second set of panel session from this year's winners here

Panel 1: Women and Sustainability: a win-win strategy
Panel 2: The Tech Journey: hard vs soft skills for the jobs of the future
Panel 3: How can Tech Communities be the inspiration for the future of the next generation?

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Award Winners

Career Recognition Award: Anne-Marie Imafidon

From child prodigy to MBE, Anne-Marie Imafidon is a recognised thought-leader in the tech space, Head Stemette and co-founder of STEMettes, the award-winning social enterprise inspiring the next generation of females into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Career Recognition Award: Sheila Flavell

An outstanding leader with over 30 years of experience in the global tech sector, Sheila Flavell is Chief Operating Officer and an Executive Board Director of FDM Group. She also sits on the techUK board and is one of the UK’s leading advocates of diversity and gender equality within IT. She spearheads the FDM’s Global Women in Tech campaign and the FDM’s Getting Back to Business programme aimed at providing opportunities for returners to work.

Business Revolution Award: Sara Boutall

Oxford-educated archaeologist and anthropologist with a PhD in human cognition and music, Sara is now spearheading the Czech artificial intelligence initiative to harness the Czech Republic’s AI talents and build it into a global AI Hub. One of her main interests is Neuron soundware that is revolutionising manufacturing through audio signals to predict machine failure, leading on Industry 4.0 in predictive maintenance.

Visionary Tech Leader Award: Narkis Alon (on behalf of Maya Gura)

Inspiration struck Maya during her work with disadvantaged women in 2011 as part of her graduate studies in criminology at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. Having cut her teeth on two successful start-ups in a male-dominated industry, Maya set up Missbeez, her popular home beauty services on demand mobile app that today provides employment to hundreds of women in the UK and Israel and allows women to order at any time a variety of lifestyle and beauty services.

Data Innovator Award: Camilla Ley Valentin

CCO and co-founder of Queue-it, Camilla has achieved international success with her first software start-up product that develops and markets an online queueing system for managing website overload during extreme user peaks in relation to popular events and activities online. Camilla is also one of the founders of the “Women in Tech” Copenhagen community.

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Tech Inclusion Award: Petra Kotuliakova

Petra founded Aj ty v IT in 2012 and inaugurated a new concept of career orientation programmes for girls and women’s empowerment focused on motivational and hands-on activities, with the main aim of enticing young girls’ interest in technology.

Technology Leadership Award: Laura Lozano

Co-founder and CEO of Chargy, Laura leads a technological innovation company promoting "Social Chargy", a concept similar to "Social Wi-Fi", but applied to the free charge of smartphone batteries. Chargy Smart solutions are based on IoT and in less than two and a half years they have achieved 5 patents, reached out to important multinational clients and established an international presence in 45 countries.

Start Up Founder Award: Lisa-Marie Fassl

Lisa-Marie has contributed significantly to the delivery of technology projects by supporting start-ups in Austria and by founding her own start-up focusing on augmented reality.

She is passionate about helping and developing young companies and was Managing Director at the Austrian Angel Investors Association. She also co-founded Female Founders, her new full-time project, bringing women and start-ups closer together while providing a place to connect.

STEM Pathway Award: Amanda Heslop

After achieving a First Class Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Service Design and Management, Amanda is now Chief Design Engineer at Rolls Royce and one of the company’s few female managers globally.

Leadership For Change Award: Hillary Harel

Hillary is the founder of Serenus.AI, the first AI-based platform that empowers medical decisions at critical crossroads on patient pathways. It is the first clinically objective, AI-based, automated case-by-case review system to improve the utilisation and prior authorisation processes before medical procedures. The solution reduces both medical and administrative costs, boosts satisfaction across the board and advances care quality and effectiveness.

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International Clean Energy Award: Sabrina Malpede

Sabrina is an Aeronautical Engineer, founder of ACT Blade Ltd and inventor of the next generation of wind turbine blades made from recyclable composite textile. This innovative material contributes to clean energy cost reduction by decreasing operational costs of wind farms. Sabrina has been the leading force behind the development of this new technology working closely with Innovate UK and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult.

Innovation For Change Award: Natasha Friis Saxberg

Working in technology, innovation & entrepreneurship for more than two decades, Natasha has covered many senior management positions and has now taken on the role of CEO of The Danish ICT Industry Association. Natasha was listed as one of the top 100 most influential women in Denmark in 2018, she is active in the Copenhagen startup scene, has founded several SaaS start-ups and authored two books.

Corporate Innovation Award: Elisabetta Romano

Elisabetta has a 30-year career in the Telco, IT and Media industries and is now CEO at Sparkle - TIM Group, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Italy. She is responsible for ensuring the Group’s technological innovation and digitalisation processes.

Professional Tech Services Award: Sophie Martinetz

Sophie Martinetz is an experienced entrepreneur and corporate professional. She has led on innovation and digitalisation within the legal sector in Austria and has inspired women in her own female legal professional business network. In 2012 she set up “Seinfeld Professionals” focusing on providing innovative LegalTech services to legal firms and founded Future-Law, the leading innovation and digitalisation platform for LegalTech in Austria.

Social Responsibility Award: Iseult Ward

Isult is Co-founder and CEO of FoodCloud, a non-profit social enterprise with a vision of a world where no good food goes to waste.

FoodCloud has created a food redistribution solution that tackles the enormous issue of food waste with a scalable technology platform. FoodCloud currently employee 55% of women, support flexible working arrangements and offer 110 days of maternity leave (66% paid).

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Disruptive Digital Entrepreneur Award: Orit Hashay

Orit has over 15 years of experience in software and business development and in 2016 was named by Forbes among the top 100 Successful European Female Founders.

She has created the world’s smartest personal bra shopper called Brayola that, through partnerships with top brands & indie designers, troves of data and smart algorithms provides a personalised way to shop online for lingerie.

Academic and Research Award: Graziella Pellegrini

Graziella devoted her whole career to the study of stem cells in the pursuit of innovative therapies for orphan diseases.

She heads up the Centre for Regenerative Medicine “Stefano Ferrari”, is author of 9 patents and is one of the two inventors of the Holoclar technology for culture and transplantation of limbal stem cells for the treatment of blindness due to corneal stem cell deficiency.

Future Mobility Award: Tamy Ribeiro

As a young tech specialist entrepreneur and Chief Evangelist of sustainable German mobility tech company Wunder Mobility, Tamy has contributed to the company’s success by identifying opportunities and partnerships that amplified its expansion from 1 to over 100 cities.

One To Watch Award: Maria Vircikova

Maria is Co-founder and CEO of Matsuko, a tech company that is developing a unique technology for capturing humans and streaming them in three dimensions. In 2014 and 2015 Forbes selected Maria as one of the “30 under 30”. She is creating a special 3D telepresence technology using machine learning to stream people as holograms moving videoconferencing from 2D to three dimensions.

Talent Booster Award: Eva Ratti

After a degree in Physics and a PhD in Astrophysics, Eva is Co-founder and Director of Find Your Doctor, the first employment start-up agency in Italy specialising in the placement and enhancement of researchers outside the Academia. To boost talent, she combines recruitment with advanced scientific consultancy for companies and organisations and research activities on transferrable skills.

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Green Innovation Award: Inna Braverman

After surviving the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as an infant, Inna made it her mission to find a new source of energy. She launched Eco Wave Power, a company that has developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. The pilot stations in Israel and on the East side of Gibraltar allow testing of new system components and floater designs & materials, with an eye on continuously improving the Eco Wave Power technology and maintaining its leading market position.

Legal Tech Award: Laura Fauqueur

Spain based French legal tech influencer Laura Fauqueur promotes innovation in the Spanish legal industry and drives local legal tech entrepreneurship, coordinating the Madrid meetups of the Legal Hackers network. In Spain Laura acts as Ambassador of the European Legal Tech Association (ELTA), promoting public awareness of technology and software supported solutions for the legal sector and its neighbouring disciplines.

Tech Good Award: Andrea Panczel

After starting her career in communications with large energy companies such as MOL and GDF Suez, Andrea then set up White Paper Consulting, the only energy communication company in Hungary. The company provide consultancy services and organise large scale, international energy events in Budapest such as the 1st Budapest Energy Summit, the Budapest LNG Summit and Women in Energy.

Smart Solution Innovatir Award: Anne Mellano

Co-founder of Bestmile Mobility Services Platform, Anne’s vision is to make efficient and affordable transport available to all. Bestmile enable the intelligent operation and optimisation of autonomous mobility services, managing fixed-route and on-demand services regardless of the vehicle brand or type. Anne oversees Bestmile’s role in Swiss and EU government-sponsored projects including the AVENUE project to bring autonomous services to multiple European Cities.

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