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Ainura Sagyn

Award Description: The Student of Vision Abie Award recognizes and celebrates an undergraduate or graduate student who has a unique vision of how technology innovation can solve important problems, and how inspiring more women in technology enables meaningful innovation. The Student of Vision is passionate about impactful technologies or inspires others to help build them. Sponsored…

Eden Canlilar

Award Description: The Emerging Technologist Abie Award is an award that highlights the creative ways women in technology confront problems and seek solutions. We want to celebrate women who are still early in their careers and have the potential to shape the future of their fields for years to come. The Emerging Technologist Abie Award…

Lisa Hauser

Award Description: The Educational Innovation Abie Award in Honor of A. Richard Newton recognizes educators for developing innovative teaching practices and approaches that attract female students to computing, engineering, and math in K-12 or undergraduate education. The Educational Innovation Abie Award honors the life and career of A. Richard Newton (1951-2007). Newton was a professor…

Dr. Nuria Oliver

Award Description: The Technical Leadership Abie Award is our most prestigious award and celebrates a woman who led or developed a product, process, or innovation that made a notable impact on business or society. Eligible nominees must work on projects that require deep technical knowledge and must demonstrate a commitment to increasing the representation of…

Dr. Dieuwertje Kast

Award Description: The Social Impact Abie Award recognizes those making a positive impact on society, via technology. Nominees may have developed technology that caused social change or empowered underrepresented peoples. Sponsored by Pure Storage. Dr. Dieuwertje Kast Director of STEM Education Programs, Joint Educational Project, University of Southern California Dieuwertje (DJ) Kast works on issues…

Pelagia Majoni

ZIMBABWE Pelagia Majoni is a 3rd year Computer Science and Africana Studies student at Haverford College, USA. Pelagia is interested in engineering technologies to help fight food and electricity shortage in her home country, Zimbabwe. Pelagia is an incoming Software Engineer intern at Microsoft, has received scholarships from Palantir, Micrsosft, Lyft in recognition of her…

Dr. Jess Wade

UNITED KINGDOM Dr. Jess Wade is an Imperial College Research Fellow working in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. Her research considers new materials for optoelectronic devices, with a focus on chiral organic semiconductors. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fuchter group at Imperial College London, where she optimized these…

Dr. Olga Russakovsky

Dr. Olga Russakovsky is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She is one of the leaders of the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, and has been recognized as one of the world’s top young innovators. Her current research considers the historical and societal bias within visual recognition and the development of…

Tracy Young

Tracy Young is the co-founder and former CEO of PlanGrid, the leader in mobile construction management software. Under Tracy’s leadership and vision, PlanGrid grew from a small startup in 2011 to a construction industry leader with more than 400 employees and 1.5 million construction projects in over 90 countries. In this period of growth, Tracy…

Pelagia Majoni

Pelagia Majoni is an outstanding undergraduate student of Computer Science at Haverford College in Pennsylvania who is using her skillset as an engineer to address the agricultural and infrastructure challenges in her home country of Zimbabwe. Pelagia grew up in a remote unelectrified region of Zimbabwe. She was aware of challenges within her community from…

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