Where Leadership Meets Innovation

The Women Tech Awards is the premier platform recognizing the leaders advancing innovation and driving economic impact. This year you will learn about the innovations, their impact and what it takes to be a leader doing this work. This year’s awards are hosted by Entrata and presented by CHG Healthcare, Cox Automotive, Domo and Vivint.

Registration is Now Open! Reserve your Company Section today and join Utah’s technology leaders for an afternoon of innovation, insight, and inspiration.

This is more than an awards celebration. It’s where executives, innovators, entrepreneurs, and future technology leaders come together to learn from the women driving the ideas, technologies, and business innovations shaping our economy.

• Join Us
• Thursday, September 17, 2026
• 3:00–5:00 PM
• The Grand America Hotel

Meet this year’s 2026 Women Tech Award Honorees.

These remarkable women are leading the innovations transforming industries. You are going to learn about how to advance AI, create new business models, develop breakthrough technologies, improve healthcare, strengthen cybersecurity, scale companies, and solve complex challenges that create measurable economic impact.

2026 Women Tech Award Honorees

• Alice Schwarze – Head of Research at the Office of AI Policy, Utah Department of Commerce
• Alisha Garrett – Chief Enterprise Strategy Officer, Utah Transit Authority
• Amy Cook – Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Fullcast
• Arpana Sinha – Vice President, Goldman Sachs
• Becki Wright – Founder & CEO, Proximity
• Brittany Woytko – Thermal Vacuum Manager, Space Dynamics Laboratory
• Cara Baldwin – Head of Product Operations and Chief Legal Officer, Torus
• Carmen Kivisild – CEO and founder, Elnora AI, Inc.
• Christina Baum – Vice President of Digital Transformation/CIO, Utah Valley University
• Crystal Anderson – VP of Product, Operations and Chief of Staff, MX
• Katherina Holzhauser – Founder and Strategic Advisory, Argosia Consulting
• Kristin Wihera – Director of Fund Operations, Nucleus
• Lucy Andre – CEO, Stadler
• Mandi Fang – SVP, Client Operations and Site Leader, Cox Automotive
• Mattie Langford – Director, Data Science, Entrata
• Michele Hollist – Senior Chemical Engineer Analyst, OxEon Energy
• Murium IqBal – Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Shopify
• Nancy Fulda – Associate Professor of Computer Science, Brigham Young University
• Rasha Qudisat – Chief Engagement and Effectiveness Officer, Utah Valley University
• Sara Heath – Vice President and Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Engineering, Zions Bancorporation
• Sarah Teofilo – Chief Information Officer, ARUP Laboratories
• Tamara Moores Todd – Chief Health Informatics Officer and VP of Digital Technology Services, Intermountain Health
• Theresa O’Leary – Chief Information Officer, CHG Healthcare

Over the coming weeks, we’ll also introduce our:

• Rising Star Honorees – Innovation driven by emerging leaders
• Career Transformation Honorees – Leaders powering reinvention and lifelong learning.
• Student Pathway Honorees – The next generation of innovators preparing to shape our future.

The Distinguished Women Tech Honorees —will be revealed live on stage during the celebration.

Attend the Event

Purchase a Company Section to help your team learn about innovation and how to be an innovative leader. A Company Section provides reserved premium seating for your team and guests while creating the opportunity to:

• Learn from the leaders behind breakthrough innovations transforming business, AI, healthcare, cybersecurity, education, and emerging technologies.
• Connect with Utah’s most influential technology and business leaders.
• Invest in the next generation by welcoming SheTech high school students into your Company Section for mentoring and conversation.
• Celebrate the innovators whose leadership is strengthening our technology ecosystem and economy.

Bring your leadership team, your clients, and your future leaders to the event where leadership meets innovation. You’ll leave with new ideas, meaningful connections, and a deeper understanding of the innovations shaping the future of business and technology.

Company Sections are now available. Reserve yours today and be part of the community building what’s next.

The results are in! We’re excited to introduce the 2025 Women Tech Award Finalists—a group of exceptional women who are visionaries, trailblazers, and all-around inspirations in tech, science, engineering and math.

These finalists are leading innovation, launching transformative technologies, growing companies, and creating lasting impact across every level of the tech industry. From executive leadership to emerging pioneers, they represent the strength, talent, and future of our technology ecosystem.

The Women Tech Awards is the premier recognition platform celebrating women making real contributions to the growth and innovation of the tech economy. This program elevates the visibility of women who are not only advancing technology—but inspiring the entire community along the way.

Congratulations to the 2025 Women Tech Award Finalists!

• Amy McDonnell Neuroscientist, University of Utah
• Brittney Vierra Formerly Director of Data Science, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
• Brooke Baker Head of Data Engineering & Data Science, LVT
• Charushila Samant Vice President, Goldman Sachs
• Dolly Chitta PhD, CEO, TekHolding
• Emma Moss AI for K-12 Program Director, Utah State Board of Education and Digital Teaching & Learning Specialist, Canyons School District.
• Evita Weagel CEO & Co-Founder, Eris Biotech
• Heidi Barnett President of Talent Acquisition, iSolved
• Janlynn Robertson SVP Sr. Business Relationship & Project Portfolio Manager, Zions Bancorporation
• Kanika Gera Senior Product Manager, Adobe
• Kathryn Armstrong Chief Science Officer, USANA Health Sciences
• Kori Ann Edwards Chief Strategy Officer, 47G
• Lauren Mason Carris Senior Product & Learning Strategist, Codingscape
• Lynn Reichert Community & Innovation Manager, Utah STEM Action Center
• Lynne Yocom Fiber Optics Director, Utah Department of Transportation
• Mary-Lou Smulders Chief Marketing Officer, Dedrone by Axon
• Melanie Jordan EVP & Director of Enterprise Retail Insights and Strategic Initiatives, Zions Bancorporation
• Michaela Hatch Senior Scientist, Recursion Pharmaceuticals
• Mou Nandi CEO & Co-Founder, Monere
• Natalie Clark Vice President, Goldman Sachs
• Shawnna DelHierro Chief Information Officer, SoundHound AI

Join us October 3, 2025 for a luncheon honoring this incredible group of leaders and their work. By doing so, you will help accelerate the impact of women in tech at all levels, and inspire the next generation of tech leaders.

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.