Hidden Figures Award
Celebrating and awarding women in STEM field, who have done amazing work and are our role models for future generations.
These are the Hidden Figures Award winners 2021
From left to right: Taisha Fabricius (Keynote Non-Profit Category, Tatjana Nebel, Noemi Kaufmann, Alexandra Diening, Marisa Tschopp, Zulma Prieto, Claudia Bruce-Quartey (Jury Member), Magaly Mathys, Priska Burkard (Initiator and Co-Founder TechFace)
Category: Empowered Women
Congratulation to Alexandra Diening (EPAM Systems)
Alexandra is the head of Research for a large corporation in the tech industry. She built a team from 0 to 10+ experts, is part of senior leadership and driving the global research competency. Empowering others and driving the excellence in research in tech is at the heart of her work. All that meanwhile having her first child (now 2 years old), she embodies a true example of resilience and women power.
Finalists:
Introduction finalists
Category: Startup / Innovation
Congratulations to Zulma Prieto (Emilian AG)
Zulma has co-founded Emilian AG, an insurtech startup offering an insurance platform helping small insurance advisors, particularly in emerging countries, to digitize and contribute to closing the insurance gap in those countries. Thanks to Zulma’s vision, Emilian has developed a platform with the power of getting more people in the world protected. Emilian, being white label platform, allows insurance advisors to strengthen their business and their own brand and thereby contribute to their community with their business. Emilian is innovative because there currently exists no insurance platform which seeks to establish end-to-end-connectivity by connecting the data silos that currently exist in the sector.
Finalists:
Introduction finalists
Category: Non-Profit Organisation
Congratulations to Sonia Karkare (Adavanced to Ampify)
Sonia has co-founded Advanced to Amplify, to serve professionally at-risk women in reskilling and preparing for the digital economies of tomorrow. Advance to Amplify (AtoA), is a venture born out of the Roxbourg MBA program – a special, one-of-a-kind MBA program focused on social impact. The goal of our venture is to make a difference in gender diversity, especially for women who are professionally at-risk.
Finalists:
Introduction finalists
Award Nomination
Why?
Hidden Figures Award aims to make sure meaningful but less obvious contributions to STEM are never overlooked in the way the black women who played a key role in the moon landing at NASA were.
We believe that these Hidden Figures need to be awarded for their efforts, work, achievements and most of all for their contribution as women in STEM. These are the role models the world needs to see and we want to celebrate. We want to expose the amazing work they have done and give others the opportunity to thank them for their contribution! Therefore we grant the “Hidden Figures Award 2021”.
Who?
There is this one female work colleague, who just pulled off a huge project for the company. The one who has amazing ideas and created an innovative solution for an issue your company was facing. Or your friend, who puts all her passion and energy into their startup or volunteer organisation to help others.
In other words, we all know them, those Hidden Figures in our lives, who have made the world a tiny bit better or even had a huge impact, but never got the well deserved recognition.
Above all, they don’t appear in newspaper, they were never nominated for an award and let alone received the Nobel price.
How?
There are a few rules, we would like to instate to be eligible for the nomination of this award:
- This award is only for women
- Everyone can nominate, even the nominee herself
- The nominee has never been a finalist for or has received an award before
- Nominees and the reason for nomination must be related to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics)
Every nominator gets the chance to win a ticket for the #wetechtogether conference where we will be celebrating and awarding the women in STEM you have nominated.
Award Categories
Empowered Woman Award
Startup / Innovation
Non-Profit Organisation
Nominate a woman, who has shown her empowerment on the job, in a team or company. She has showcased how valuable her input was and has either increased revenues, made new business or created opportunities.
Nominate a woman, who started her own business in any of the STEM related industries, helped to increase diversity in STEM or has been a crucial part of an innovative solution.
Nominate a woman, who has made a tremendous contribution for a non-profit organisation within or supporting the STEM area or has had a great impact as a volunteer.
The Award prices will be proudly supported by:
Award Prizes
Overnight Stay at Sheraton Zurich West
All finalists will be invited to stay overnight at the Shearton Zurich West with VIP amenities and breakfast included.
Award Celebration & #wetechtogether Conference
All finalists are invited to celebrate the nomination at the Award Night and join us for the #wetechtogether conference the next day!
Presents from different sponsors
Our sponsors will be giving away different kind of presents! Stay tuned to see who will be supporting our Hidden Figures!
Schedule
29th of August 2021
Nominate your Hidden Figure
15th of September 2021
Announcement of finalists
1st October 2021
Award Ceremony
(*all finalists will receive complimentary access to the #wetechtogether conference 2021)
Jury Members
More jury members will be announced soon!
David Luyet
Head Talent Attraction
@ Swisscom
Claudia Bruce-Quartey
Key Account Manager
@ Red Hat
Stefano Mallè
Head of Technology Switzerland
@ AWS
Heike Riel
Head Science & Technology
@ IBM
Christine Leiss
Head of Philanthropy & Sustainability EMEA
@ Fossil
Dalith Steiger
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
@ Swiss Cognitive