Finalists of the 2023 WID Awards

The Women in Digital Awards were founded based on the idea ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ and are a celebration of incredible women and non-binary people within the digital industries and the organisations that support them.

For the 2023 Women in Digital Awards, we again received a record number of nominations and completed submissions! It was not an easy decision for our panel of industry expert judges but we are so very excited to announce the FINALISTS for the 2023 Women in Digital Awards.

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

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Bella Zanesco
Senior Partner Development Specialist
Amazon Web Services

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Bittu Ann Cherian
Telehealth Service Manager
Mater

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Lisa Watts
CEO
The Conversation

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Louise Nobes
CEO
KIK Innovation

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Renee Noble
CEO
Tech Inclusion

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.

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Abby Phillips
Senior Designer
Kablamo

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Ally Tutkaluk
Digital Specialist
The Leukaemia Foundation

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Nichole Aird
General Manager Digital & Technology Delivery
UnitingCare Queensland

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Odine Barendse
Customer Experience Lead
Compare The Market

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Sam York
Product Manager – Assist
AGL

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

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Cynthia Vari
Data Analytics Manager
St Vincent’s Health Australia

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Dilusha Weeraddana
Manager – Applied AI and Data Science
EY

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Elakkiya Ramarajan
Lead Data Scientist
VAPAR

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Lacey Webb
Founder & Managing Director
Resource Hub

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Peta Hyam
LiDAR Production Manager
Woolpert

This award is designed to celebrate a data-driven Digital Marketer who has achieved exceptional results across any or all mediums including but not limited to search, paid, programmatic, eDM, content and Social Media during the 2022/23 Financial Year.

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Belinda Lloyd
Marketing Automations SME
Project Manager
Servco Australia

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Bronte Jacobson
Digital Growth Marketing Manager
Miss Amara

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Olivia Hogan
Performance Content Director
Razorfish

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Ronelle Viljoen
Digital Performance Specialist
Yomconnect

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Sala Rankine
Senior Growth Marketing Specialist
Teach Starter

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

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Archana Yallajosula
Associate Director – Global Cloud and Digital Consulting
Protiviti Australia

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Carrie Hu
Head of Digital Product / Chief Digital Product Officer
New Aim

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Cynthia Vari
Data Analytics Manager
St Vincent’s Health Australia

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Narmada Nannaka
Tech Arch Delivery Manager
Accenture

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Vinojini Nair
Major Pursuits and Planning Lead
GHD Digital

This award recognises the important role employers play in evolving their workforce’s skills and capabilities to keep pace with the fourth (and fifth) digital revolution.

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Goanna Education

Generation Australia

Avanade

Optus

SAP Australia

This award recognises the importance of diversity in developing more innovative and inclusive companies to support the future pipeline of women in technology.

Private Media

Avanade

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GHD

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Auror

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GroundProbe

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 across an organisation and industry.

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Fiona Boyd
CEO
ipSCAPE

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Jet Swain
Executive Design Director (EDD)
Symplicit

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Katherine Hartmann
General Manager
Woolworths Group

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Natalie Ashes
Chief Digital Officer
GraysOnline

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Niamh Tobin
Director of Product
Strategy and Design
Genie Solutions

The Founder of the Year celebrates excellence and entrepreneurship within a digital / technology-based enterprise. Demonstrating a true entrepreneurial spirit and with vision and excellent execution, this founder and their organisation will leave an impact.

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Christina Hobbs
CEO and Co-Founder
Verve

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Claire Rogers
CEO and Co-Founder
Oho

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Rebecca Dredge
CEO and Founder
Kiddo App

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Yas Grigaliunas
Founder and Chief Evangelist
Circonomy

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Zara Lord
Founder, CEO; Chief Evangelist
uPaged

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

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Alisha Geary
Founder
Provvy

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Cheryl Bailey
Founder Director
Indigenous Technology

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Khia Emslie O’Brien
GIS Analyst Graduate
Winyama

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Kim Dyball
Manager – Young Indigenous Women’s STEM Academy
CSIRO

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Louisa Warren
CSIRO Manager – Office of Indigenous Engagement
CSIRO

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.

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Dr Angie Montgomery
CEO and Co-Founder
InCheq

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Katherine Hubble
CEO and Founder
Amelio Health

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Rebecca Dredge
CEO and Founder
Kiddo App

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Samira Tollo
CTO and Founder
Elbaite

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Tetiana George
CEO and Co-Founder
Curium

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.

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Chloe Chiang
Senior SEO Analyst
Reform Digital

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Keshavi Charde
PhD Student /
Research Assistant
Silicon Quantum Computing

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Ling Tang
Junior Software Engineer
Midnight Health

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Sarah Tan
Product Designer
Atlassian

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Shenal Harakh
Founder and Developer
Shenal

This award recognises Australia’s best software engineering talent that have achieved outstanding technical outcomes in the Australian market during the 2022/23 Financial Year.

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Anna Janicka
Application Development Manager
Laing O’Rourke

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Carly Christensen
Director of Software Engineering
ZeroFlucs

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Riva Mendoza
Associate Software Engineer
Canva

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Riya Aggarwal
Senior ML Engineer
Voconiq

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Suganya Srinivasan
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft

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