On International Women’s Day, Tech Trailblazers Awards introduces new categories to recognise the faces behind great start up innovations
The Tech Trailblazers Awards, an annual awards programme for enterprise IT start ups, has announced the addition of new categories designed to reward the women and men behind innovative start up technologies, campaigns and company success.
This expansion of the awards brings new categories for C-level start up employees, awarding Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year and Male Tech Trailblazer of the Year accolades to two successful candidates.
In these new categories, the judges will be looking for winning male and female CxO’s to demonstrate key qualities and proven achievements: driving company innovation, proof of leadership, implementing and encouraging agile practices, promoting diversity within the company, and contribution to the wider tech community.
Over the last four years, the Tech Trailblazers Awards have awarded start up companies in the Big Data, Cloud, FinTech, IoT, Networking, Mobile, Security, Storage and Virtualisation space, but recognised the need to identify the catalysts of company success. The popular Emerging Markets and Firestarter categories (designed for BRICS region start ups and those at early stage pre-funding level,) also continue to run, no doubt bringing a variation of diverse, talented candidates for the new categories.
Rose Ross, founder of the Tech Trailblazers Awards, said: “We are thrilled and excited to introduce the Female and Male Tech Trailblazer of the Year Award. It seemed fitting to do so on International Women’s Day. Positive discrimination is anything but positive. It belittles an individual’s true strength and undermines achievement. The suffragettes fought for equal rights not favours; the right to respect and to stand shoulder to shoulder with men in every walk of life and situation. The Tech Trailblazers wants to recognise the best people regardless of gender, race, orientation or disability.
“Creating a level playing field for enterprise tech start ups was the original motivation for the Tech Trailblazers Awards. To encourage more women into tech we need inspiring role models and powerful mentors; men and women of all ages. These are the people that these awards will recognise,” Ross continued.
