Finalists of the 2022 WID Awards

Awarded to Australia’s most outstanding executive leader in the digital sector, this category recognises the importance of leadership in driving digital transformation in Australia and in the industry.

This award is designed to celebrate a data-driven Digital Marketer who has achieved exceptional results across any medium including but not limited to search, paid, programmatic, EDM, content or social media during the 2021/22 Financial Year.

This award recognises the importance of diversity in developing more innovative and inclusive companies to support the future pipeline of women in technology. The Women in Digital Awards were created in the belief that digital services and products should be built by all people, for all people and this award honours that belief.

This award recognises an ambitious innovator who has demonstrated an outstanding level of initiative and leadership as a digital specialist within the first five years of their career.

This award recognises Australia’s best software engineering talent that have achieved outstanding technical outcomes in the Australian market during the 2021/22 Financial Year.

Please note: With a tech giant with over 8,000 employees like our Software Engineer of the Year sponsor Atlassian, there were bound to be some incredible entries that came from that organisation. Our independent industry judging panel reviewed and selected the finalists for this category. Through the judging process, Rachelle Rathbone (Atlassian) and Jovana Dunisijevic (Atlassian) were judged on different software projects and chosen as finalists due to the calibre of their work and submission. To ensure there was no conflict of interest, any judges who were in conflict were removed from the process for those specific applications.

Awarded to Australia’s most outstanding innovator, this category recognises the most forward-thinking, innovative and disruptive product, service or business enhancement of the year.

This category recognises the extraordinary power of customer experience design to create integrated omnichannel experiences. This is an individual entry designed to recognise and showcase exceptional work that creates intuitive and branded customer experiences.

This award recognises a distinctive business leader who has built a revolutionary data-centric program while guiding teams to outstanding achievement through vision, inspiration, creativity, and commitment.

This award champions individuals leading the successful delivery of high-performing technology applications (or projects) and as a result enhances commercial outcomes for an organisation.

This category recognises the extraordinary power of user experience design to create meaningful and intuitive digital experiences.

This category celebrates an impact-orientated individual that is driving change and social good by either using digital or improving the digital industry. It will be awarded to the best Australian Champion of Change working in digital and technology to improve sustainability, accessibility, inclusion or equality.

This award recognises a distinctive business leader driving the transformation of an organisation through digital technology.

This award recognises Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander role models leading technological innovation within their community or the broader digital industry.