Balloting Opens For TVN’s 2026 Women In Technology Awards

TVNewsCheck has opened the balloting season for its 2026 Women in Technology Awards. 

Presented each year at NAB Show, the Women in Technology Awards are presented in three categories:

• The Women in Technology Leadership Award honors exceptional women who have advanced media and entertainment industry technology through strategic innovation or operational excellence.
• The Women in Technology Futurist Award celebrates visionary women who are redefining the boundaries of media and entertainment through pioneering innovation.
• The Technology Women to Watch Award honors rising stars who are already making a meaningful mark in media and entertainment technology.

To nominate yourself or a colleague for the 2026 Women in Technology Awards, please download ballots here.

Learn more about the Women in Technology Awards program here.

Past Recipients of the Women in Technology Leadership Award 

• Gabby Redfern, Group Content Services Director, Sky
• Anne Schelle, Managing Director, Pearl TV
• Shari Berg,president of Fox Weather and COO, news and operations, Fox Television Stations.
• Judy Parnall,head of standards and industry, BBC
• Marcy Lefkovitz, VP, technology and workflow strategy, The Walt Disney Co.
• Barbara Lange, founder, Kibo121
• Lisa Pedrogo, VP of engineering and strategic initiatives, WarnerMedia
• Tish Graham, former VP of broadcast technology at ABC Owned Television Stations
• Diane Tryneski, now board member and advisor to several digital technology companies
• Glodina Connan-Lostanlen, now chief sales officer, Imagine Communications
• Michelle Munson, now founder, Eluvio
• Renu Thomas, then EVP of media operations, technology and IT at Disney ABC Television Group
• Darcy Antonellis, now executive adviser, Amdocs
• Wendy Aylsworth, now CEO, Walden Pond
• Cindy Hutter-Cavell, senior engineer and practice manager, Cavell Mertz & Associates
• Andrea Berry, now EVP operations & technology, Telemundo Enterprises and LATAM

Past Recipients of the Women in Technology Futurist Award

• Jacqueline Voss, executive director, strategy & innovation, Managed Technology Riedel Communications GMBH
• Swati Karkun Sen, then SVP product & strategy, NBC News Group
• Nina Walsh, global leader, industry business and development, media & entertainment, games and sports, AWS
• Susana Brady, SVP worldwide sales & marketing, Cobalt Digital and chair, RIST Forum
• Chrystelle Le Gall, lead cloud solutions architect, Ateme
• Kelly Abcarian executive vice president for measurement and impact, NBCUniversal
• Anupama Anthantharaman, vice president of technology, Interra Systems
• Annie Chang, VP creative technologies, Universal Pictures
• Janet Gardner, president, Perspective Media Group
• Jade Kurian, co-founder and COO, latakoo
• Madeleine Noland, president, ATSC
• Abby Auerbach, EVP and chief communications officer, Television Bureau of Advertising

Past Recipients of the Technology Women to Watch Award

• Carys Hughes, principal engineer, video presentation and PQ display engineering, Sky
• Catherine Koutsaris, Product Manager, Matrox Video
• Hannah Barnhardt, Managing Partner, TMT Insights Group
• Nadia Khan, CMO, LTN
• Emily Sone, VP Digital Operations, Fox Television Stations
• Kylee Pena, manager, Creative Technologies Program Management, Netflix
• Diane Strutner, founder-CEO, Datazoom
• Rose Adkins Hulse, founder-CEO, ScreenHits TV
• Yushi Xu, senior architect, FreeWheel
• Sally Hattori, executive director, product development at Walt Disney Studio’s StudioLAB
• Kate Ketcham, director, Media Composer product management, Avid
• Deb Grivois, director of engineering, WLWT Cincinnati
• Katy Noland, senior R&D technologist, BBC
• Larissa Goerner, director of advanced live solutions, Grass Valley
• Deborah Adeogba, now senior media experience manager, Microsoft
• Jennifer Leung, now senior director at AppD Labs and Emerging Tech
• Anne Marie Rohaly, director of accessibility policy and standards, Microsoft
• Tania Paz, VP of digital media operations and technology, Telemundo
• Yvonne Thomas, now strategic technologist, Digital TV Group
• Sara Kudrle, now marketing manager, Americas, Riedel
• Alison Neplokh, now VP innovation and strategy, NAB

To nominate someone for a 2026 award, download ballots here.