Women Tech Awards

Thank you all for joining us at a once-in-a-decade celebration full of inspiring women, incredible stories, and amazing role models from across the tech community. This year’s event recognized truly astounding women in tech with diverse and impressive accomplishments, including:

• 5 PhDs, 15 masters degrees, a law degree, an abundance of STEM degrees, and even a Master Gardener certification.
• 7 C-suite executives, 5 board members, a member of the Producers Guild of America, a dozen entrepreneurs, and 2 VC investors who have raised hundreds of millions in seed funding.
• Together, these women hold 8 patents and 1 patent-pending.
• 3 are STEM educators who are dedicated to making tech education more accessible to women.
• Our honorees are funded by the White House and the National Science Foundation
• One competed in the US Open Muay Thai Competition
• Several finalists work on some of the biggest projects in the world, like the Mars Rover and Marvel’s Avengers.
• Two women are shaping the future of social media technology and policy. You literally cannot look at your phone and not be impacted by their work.

And that’s only scratching the surface. Their work, experiences and words inspired us, and elevated our vision of what’s possible.

Congratulations to our 2024 award recipients!

• TECH ACCELERATOR Atim Enyenihi Strategic Industry Advisor for Technology and Innovation, Salt Lake City Department of Economic Development
• PATHWAY CHAMPION Bonnie Anderson Associate Dean for Faculty and Research; Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, Brigham Young University
• OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Diane Acevedo SVP Operations and CX, Gabb Wireless
• CYBERSECURITY LEADERSHIP Jami Hughes SVP Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Zions Bancorporation
• VISIONARY TRAILBLAZER Jessica Elwell Chief Operations Officer, OxEon Energy
• DATA INNOVATOR Marissa Saunders Sr Director, Data Science, Recursion
• EDUCATION TRANSFORMATION Xinru Page Associate Professor; Graduate Committee Chair; Director Social Technology and Privacy Lab, Brigham Young University

We also honored 7 Rising Stars—women who are already creating an impact early in their career journeys, and 7 Student Pathway recipients who are already making an impact in tech while they get their STEM degrees.

And congratulations to all our award finalists!

• Alexandra Passi Co-founder and CEO, Lucidity Sciences
• Amy Larson President, SeekWell
• Ashlee Cowley SVP Professional Services, Entrata
• Audra Yocom Teacher, Computer Science and Information Technology, Pleasant Grove High School
• Bharathi Rajan VP Enterprise Data and Applications, Swire Coca-Cola
• Chandana Haque Executive Director, Altitude Lab and Recursion
• Dana Ware Chief Creative Officer, ARound
• Jessica Curran VP Data Science and Analytics. Health Catalyst
• Karen Peterson Chief Marketing Officer, Chatbooks
• Kat Judd Chief People Officer, Lucid Software
• Margaret Woolley Busse Executive Director, Utah Department of Commerce
• Misty Dawson Owner and Principal Consultant, The Jupiter Group
• Shey Samson Global Co-head Multimedia Operations Engineering, Goldman Sachs

In addition to these incredible women, we also recognized 30 members of the community who have shown steadfast and continued commitment to women in tech for over ten years. All together, their efforts have created a Decade of Impact that has elevated and accelerated women throughout the technology sector. Thank you, thank you, thank you to these incredible people for standing shoulder-to-shoulder to us and making our dreams of amplifying women possible.