Nominees 2021
Women in Tech advocate of the year
Recognizing an inspirational organization or person for their accomplishments as leaders in business and visionaries of technology who have made a difference in their community and have gone out of their way to support the cause of attracting more women in the tech industry over the last 24 months.
Alter State
Zivile Einikyte, Co-founder | Denmark
Dora Palfi
Co-founder and CEO, imagiLabs | Sweden
Rea Parashar
Head of Innovation & Communication at NCE Finance Innovation | Norway
Valgerður Hrund Skúladóttir
CEO at Sensa ehf. | Iceland
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder & CEO at Tech Nordic Advocates | Denmark
Rising star of the year
Recognises an up-and-coming tech professional in the last five years that has demonstrated exceptional creativity or ability within the industry; who is recognised by others as having the potential to become a future leader in their industry and presents significant evidence of a promising future.
Alexandra Gunderson
Co-Founder & CEO at unifai | Norway
Eeva-Jonna Panula
Software Developer, Accessibility Specialist at Oura Health| Finland
Freyja Thorarinsdottir
Founder & CEO of GEMMAQ | Iceland
Smriti Mishra
Head of Artificial Intelligence at EarthBanc AB | Sweden
Elinor Samuelsson Edit Founder and UX/UI Designer at BrightAct | Sweden
Mentor of the Year
Awarded to honor a person who has provided significant support and guidance by empowering a less experienced person to develop his/her skills in an IT or Technological field. As a result, the mentee/pupil has achieved vital knowledge growth and results in their field.
Deborah Lygonis
CEO and business coach at Friendbase AB and Innovatum Science Park | Sweden
Juliana Araujo
CEO and Founder at Beela | Sweden
Nilma Abbas
Teacher, Zealand Academy | Denmark
Sandy Bansal
Computer Science teacher & Vice Principal at Amerikanska Gymnasiet | Sweden
Vibha Deshpande
Senior Customer Engineer at Microsoft | Finland
Investor of the Year
An individual or organisation who has invested in female-led tech startups.
Malin Frithiofsson
Program manager at Startup Norway + President of Women in Tech – Gothenburg | Norway
Mia Wagner & Anne Stampe Olesen
Co-Founders at Nordic Female Founders | Denmark
Jessie VanderVeen
Head of Marketing – Front-end Web and Mobile at Amazon Web Services | Iceland
Innovator of the Year
This category focuses on an individual or technology company who has created or implemented exceptional innovation/inventions, client successes, and deployment in the last 24 months.
Babou Olengha- Aaby
Founder and CEO / The Next Billion | Norway
Caroline Iwers Prahl
COO / Inkonova | Sweden
Cecilia Videcél,
CEO & Co-Founders at Kura | Sweden
Gemma Whitehouse,
Founder & CTO / Meditt* | Norway
Kaisa Salakka,
Director, Research Labs/ Unity | Finland
Initiative of the Year
Awarded to honor an individual or organisations that has raised the bar and serves as an example to the industry and has also demonstrated exceptional initiative to show that women are a significant part of a tech project’s success. This could involve education, training, and various other types of campaigns.
Co-coders / Lise Back Lystlund, Data consultant at ProActive | Denmark
Femme Lead Podcast / Alexandra Ciobotaru
Product & Growth Manager at Novorésumé | Denmark
InTechFounders, Joo Runge & Ann – Christine Roope | Denmark
The Code Pub
Netlight Consulting | Sweden
ReDi School, Ida Jepsen
CEO | Denmark
Entrepreneur of the year
Is awarded to an individual, who is an owner or main shareholder of a tech start-up with significant growth over the last 36 months and who is ready to demonstrate a successful commercial plan in achieving their goals.
Ida Bjerga
Managing Drector & Co-founder of Noise Studio | Denmark
Tarnjit Saini
CEO & Co-Founder at StepOut | Finland
Stefania Bjarney Olafsdottir,
CEO & Co-Founder @ Avo | Iceland
Sonni Christine Jacobsen,
Founder & CEO at Bill Kill AS | Norway
Mathilde Jakobsen
CEO & Co-founder at Fresh.Land | Denmark
Diversity leader of the year
This category focuses on a specific diversity initiative or project that has been established by organization or individual to promote diversity in IT in a specific company or for the wider community. Judges will assess the impact of this project and how successful it has been based on its tangible results in closing the gender gap and promoting diversity in tech.
Anne Gretland
CEO at FotoWare | Norway
Jenifer Clausell-Tormos
Founder and CEO at Develop Diverse | Denmark
Samaneh Utter,
Founder at Women in IT (www.kvinnor.it) | Sweden
Sara Shafie,
Founder and CEO at DivERS | Denmark
Liva Echwald, Founder and Stine Colding Alstrup Co-Founder of Found Diverse | Denmark
Digital leader of the year
A person in a digital position within Tech industry, who has demonstrated successful results in the area of digital innovation in the last 24 months.
Karoliina Hagman
Managing Director – Technology – Liquid Studio Helsinki at Accenture | Finland
Kim Hedberg
Manager Strategy and Offering at Stratiteq Sweden AB | Sweden
Mie Holmbo Bech Hansen
NewTech Management Consultant at KPMG| Denmark
Raquelita Rós Aguilar,
Director of Digital Development at Isavia ohf.| Iceland
Sofie Wahlström
CEO BrightAct and Innovation manager in Uppsala municipality| Sweden
Developer of the year
Is awarded to an individual who has made a meaningful and lasting contribution to the technological area of software development and has achieved or was a part of outstanding projects, and who has developed creative solutions to problems that were solved with code.
Dipika Baad
Senior Data Consultant @ Netlight Consulting Oy, Founder @ HuskyCodes Oy| Finland
Julia Flamet Wallin
Senior Software Engineer @ Haptiq AS | Norway
Nanna Munkholm
Software Pilot At Trifork | Denmark
Saoni Mukherjee
DevOps Engineer in Enfuce | Finland
