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SINGAPORE, March 8, 2024 / EINPresswire.com / -- In a important tribute to nan outstanding contributions of women successful exertion crossed Asia, nan inaugural Asia Women Tech Leaders Awards (AWTLA) proudly announced nan apical 50 winners of its inaugural version connected International Women’s Day today. Celebrating nan achievements of trailblazing women successful nan tech industry, AWTLA seeks to animate and empower nan adjacent procreation of female tech leaders while underscoring gender diverseness successful fostering quality superior improvement successful nan quickly increasing tech industry.
Launched pinch an unfastened telephone for nominations successful October 2023, nan AWTLA sought to item nan exceptional talents of women technologists of various nationalities who reside successful Asia, breaking barriers, and spearheading innovations wrong nan tech assemblage successful Asia. From package engineers and hardware experts to CIOs, CTOs, and cybersecurity specialists, nan nominees’ diverseness and extent of expertise were genuinely inspiring. A full of 126 nominees from 13 countries successful APAC were received.
These 50 winners, hailing from Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong SAR, India, Malaysia, Mongolia, nan Philippines, and Singapore, person besides demonstrated exceptional method expertise, leadership, and a committedness to fostering diverseness and invention successful nan exertion landscape.
The Award besides underscores nan captious domiciled of women successful driving technological advancement and innovation. By honouring these 50 women, nan AWTLA highlights nan request for greater diverseness and inclusion successful nan tech industry, encouraging much women to prosecute and thrive successful technology-related fields.
This timely grant reminds america that astatine this pivotal infinitesimal successful clip erstwhile we are astatine nan dawn of AI, according to Unesco, only 20% of labor successful method roles successful awesome ML companies are women. 12% of AI researchers globally are women. 6% of master package developers are women. Right now erstwhile each assemblage of nine is becoming a tech assemblage and integer technologies are reshaping mundane life, location continues to beryllium outstanding gender gaps successful integer technologies. Unesco figures besides show that women and girls are 25% little apt than men to cognize really to leverage integer exertion for basal purposes, 4 times little apt to cognize really to programme computers and 13 times little apt to record for an ICT patent.
The AWTLA heralds nan value of nickname and empowerment for its 50 winners and symbolises a transformative displacement towards inclusivity and invention successful Asia’s tech landscape:
• Validation: The Award is simply a testament to nan winners’ singular achievements and effect connected nan tech industry.
• Visibility: The Award is simply a important level for these women to summation nickname and visibility wrong Asia and globally.
• Empowerment: The Award inspires nan existent and early generations of women to prosecute and excel successful exertion careers.
• Networking: The nickname from nan Award opens doors to caller opportunities, fostering valuable connections and imaginable collaborations among nan organiser, judges, winners, presenting sponsor and women successful nan tech industry.
The 50 winners were selected based connected nan pursuing qualities and values:
• Inspiring: These women person created groundbreaking products and solutions to amended nan world and support divers communities. They are committed to workplace diverseness and equilibrium and person advocated for women successful tech.
• Technical Expertise: They person demonstrated method expertise and proficiency, pinch roles spanning from technologists, scientists, and researchers to academics successful machine science, engineering, and related disciplines. Senior tech roles specified arsenic CIO, CTO, and CISO are besides included.
• Technical Business Leaders: These women could beryllium scientists, academics, aliases technologists who successfully commercialise their inventions.
The AWTLA winners were independently judged by a sheet of starring practitioners from nan tech industry. Great attraction has been taken successful selecting a assemblage comprising nan correct equilibrium of master knowledge, experience, race, gender and geography. The judging sheet is headed by Soh Siew Choo, Chief Information Officer, Asia of Metlife, Hong Kong SAR and Board Member, Metlife Australia. The sheet included Sandeep Sarkar, Senior Vice President, ASEAN HCLTech; Jacqueline Chua, Vice President, Home Printing Global R&D, HP Inc; Dr Carrine Teoh Chooi Shi, Chief Strategy Officer, Bond Holdings, Malaysia; Dr Bo Zhou, Head of APAC PICO, Hong Kong SAR among others (please mention to https://asiawomentech.com/ the-judges/ for afloat database of judges).
The Presenting Sponsor of AWTLA is HCLTech, a world exertion company, location to much than 224,000 group crossed 60 countries, delivers industry-leading capabilities centred astir digital, engineering, unreality and AI, powered by a wide portfolio of exertion services and products. HCLTech.
• AWTLA Website: https://asiawomentech.com/
• AWTLA Judges: https://asiawomentech.com/the-judges/
• AWTLA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/asia-women-tech-leaders-award/
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About nan Asia Women Tech Leaders Award (AWTLA)
The Asia Women Tech Leaders Awards seeks to recognise 50 accomplished women technologists who are moving and based successful Asia. This inaugural grant is focused connected inspiring women who make tech happen. They are heavy into nan investigation and improvement of emerging and nascent technologies and are tasked pinch managing and operationalising tech projects. They see package engineers and architects, hardware engineers, coders and developers, CIOs, CTOs, cybersecurity forensics specialists and galore different professionals.
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