Everywoman announced the winners of his 2025 Everywoman in Technology AwardsSponsored by Bupa.
It’s 15th Year, each woman has celebrated women in the technology sector through her prices, highlighting female role models in an effort to encourage others in technology, having presented more than 500 women since her inception.
The importance of visible and accessible role models is often highlighted in the discussion concerning the increase in the number of women in the United Kingdom technological sector, experts indicating that Young people are more likely to consider these careers for themselves when they can see others like them In the technology sector.
Maxine Benson, co-founder of Everywoman, said: “Role models are used not only as success beacons, but as a tangible proof that success is achievable. Authentic models provide the roadmap and encouragement to sail in a successful career in an industry that needs diversity in all forms – thought, approach and living experience.
“This is why we need each of these impressive finalists and winners of this year, to be seen and celebrated if we want to attract more female talents – now more than ever.”
Despite the efforts made to increase the number of women in the technology sector, the search for BCS in 2024 noted that women represented only 17% From this specialized in the United Kingdom, a number that had only increased by 1% in the previous five years.
Every woman’s own research, in partnership with BUPA, has revealed that almost 40% of women in the technology industry said that a lack of models – especially above in the sector – made them difficult during the continuation of their own career.
This year, 16 winners were chosen from a list of nearly 90 finalists, each at different levels, students and apprentices to women in executive level roles, to act like these important beacons towards a possible technology career for others.
Bupa Everywoman in Technology Awards winners this year were as follows:
AI Champion Prize
- Maryleen Amaizu, main automatic learning engineer, Redgate
Apprentice price
- Grace Thomas, Management consulting partner, Accenture
CTO / CIO of the year
- Amanda Barker, CTO and Vice -President – is strategy and architecture, Centrica
Cybersecurity Prize
- Sarah Rench, Director of Generative Security of the World AI, Avade
Digital Star Award
- Shahzadi Awan, frontal software engineer II, Booking.com
Digital transformation leader
- Rosanne Kincaid-Smith, former group leader, chief of the farm, Northern Data Group
Entrepreneurial price
- Payne Mbe, director of marketing, Open Bionics
Innovator Prize
- Laurence Levy, founder and CEO, meditsimple
Leader price
- Sandra Stanley, Data Sciences Chief, Dunnhumby
Price of the male change agent
- Ashar Khan, data director, sse
One to Watch Award
- Joey Lin, student of the Maynard school
Rising Star Award
- Jemima Abu, Front-End developer, WemakeweBsites
Software engineering price
- Anna Wilde, senior engineer, American Express
Team leader
- Maddie Clingan, Main Agile Coach and Manager of Agile People, Controlplane
Tech for good award
- Sue Black Obe, computer teacher and technological evangelist, University of Durham
The price of the woman of the year was awarded to Carla Brackstone, head of senior partnerships at Kheiron Medical Technologies, who used AI for the detection of breast cancer, having already found cancer at an early stage in 11 women in Aberdeen. She works to help introduce this technology through the NHS, as well as in the United States.
The admission of technology was not initially part of its “large plan”, Brackstone said: “Technology continuously opened new doors and provided me with a growth, innovation and impact platform.”