A female leader of a technology, digital or e-commerce start-up that has demonstrated excellent growth in the last 18 months, with a coherent and sustainable strategy in achieving it. Judges will look at demonstrations of growth (turnover, profit, employees etc.), standout achievements and customer testimonials.

WINNER: Joelle Pang, FastJobs Asia

Joelle Pang is paving the way for women in technology by demonstrating impressive entrepreneurship through her various startups. Add to this her digital transformation work with the Singapore Press Holdings and the commercial success of FastJobs across South East Asia. She is building an ecosystem with impressive results.

A woman who has shown outstanding IT excellence and innovation in the last 18 months and demonstrates signs that she will one day become a successful CIO. 

WINNER: Annie An Dongmei, Amazon Web Services

Annie’s robust contributions at AWS and the industry as a whole are worthy of a CIO. Her innovative approach and openness for new ideas has granted her great exposure to different key platforms and through utilising cutting edge industry she has already helped set industry standards. The judges have deemed her one to watch!

An IT team, led by a woman, that has delivered real value – with tangible business results – to a company. Judges will look at projects and achievements, along with examples of best practice, leadership, ROI generated and alignment to business goals. 

WINNER: Citibank

Under the leadership of Meggy Chung the IT Team at Citibank have clearly delivered projects that have resulted in tangible business results.  The judges were particularly impressed by the scale and scope of implementation for their machine learning projects as well as their work on their Big Data capabilities. The IT Team’s impact on the business as a whole is undeniable and it makes them the IT Team of the Year.

A female IT security professional who has demonstrated outstanding work in progressing the industry and/or protecting the company from cyber threats. 

WINNER: Jiahui Tang, Google

For the world’s largest internet destination, security is of paramount importance. Jiahui’s work in this area definitely helps to make the web a slightly safer place. Her innovative approach, coupled with her technical excellence has resulted in clear value. With exciting initiatives and making use of the latest technology Jiahui is pushing the frontier of cybersecurity.

An organisation that has undergone a major, and successful, IT or digital transformation in the last 18 months, in which a woman has played an integral part. 

WINNER: Ayten Ozenc, Toll Group

Ayten’s submission demonstrated the impact her ambitious transformation project has had. She has managed to change the company’s project culture on a global scale, which in itself is impressive. But on top of this the scale of value delivered in the past 18 months is proof of Ayten’s tenacity and ability to inspire her colleagues.

A woman who has demonstrated the highest degree of IT excellence, innovation and leadership in the last year, and shone a light on the great things women in IT can achieve. Candidates should have not only have demonstrated outstanding business- and/or technology-focused achievements, but also acted as a positive role model and actively sought to bring more diversity to the technology industry. Chosen by the judges. 

WINNER: Carolyn Chin-Parry, Formerly at Prism

Throughout her career, Carolyn has mentored many women in IT, be they colleagues at the same company or women within the larger industry. She has an exceptional track record in digital transformation as a Chief Digital Officer and long-term management consultant with a big 4 consulting firm. She is known to have successfully led some of the largest ever transformation projects in Asia Pacific.

She is not just someone to model one’s career after, but she is a role model on how to champion women and supporting them across the board. The judges are agreed that she is an inspiration and a very deserving Woman of the Year.  

A female IT, technology or business leader under the age of 35, or who turns 35 in 2018, who has progressed rapidly though their career and demonstrated business value and innovation through the use of technology. This could include demonstrations of successfully deploying technologies; improving how a company approaches technology; delivering effective IT or technology strategies; enhancing decision-making with technology; creating business value, efficiencies and cost savings, or improving services, through the use of technology; driving new innovation in the industry; or furthering knowledge, awareness and education around technology. Chosen by the judges. 

WINNER: Leeyoung Song, Airbnb

Despite being only in her 20’s, Leeyoung has a solid track record of results. In a very short amount of time she established an QA process, test strategy, and test success metrics from zero as there was no internal QA team previously. Her energetic and positive can-do attitude, coupled with her tenacity and effort to recruit women, makes her one to watch and the Young Leader of the Year.

You can nominate yourself or your colleagues/peers. Do include performance information that the judges can verify when needed. 

You can nominate in as many categories as you deem appropriate.

Please use the criteria (listed below) of the category you wish to enter to shape your written submission, as the judges will refer to each criteria to guide their decisions. You should submit an essay style submission which should be 400-600 words. 

The more factual information and stats you can provide for any of these questions, the better your chances on being a finalist on the shortlist. The submission should cover achievements in the day-to-job as well as prove advocacy of gender diversity. 

There is no cost to enter for the awards. There is a cost if you wish to attend the awards dinner. This also applies to people who are shortlisted. As all nominees who wish to attend need to purchase a ticket.

If you are shortlisted and for some reason cannot attend the the dinner, it will NOT affect your chances of winning the award you are shortlisted for. 

An independent panel of judges will consider each nomination and vote on the winners for each category 2-4 weeks before the awards gala dinner. 

If you need further assistance please contact us via email: event.ops@bonhillplc.com

Nominations are now closed.