Last night, the winners of the inaugural Women in IT Awards Ireland 2018 were unveiled at a gala ceremony in Mansion House, Dublin.

The first Women in IT Awards Ireland 2018, part of the world’s largest tech diversity event, brought together 480 industry leaders last night for a stunning ceremony in Dublin.

The awards, organised by Information Age in partnership with Amazon Web Services, serve to showcase the achievements and innovation of women in technology and identify new role models in a sector where female representation stands at just under 19%.

The Women in IT Awards Ireland is part of the Women in IT Awards Series, which has further events in Silicon Valley, London, New York and Singapore.

The awards were held in Mansion House in Dublin, where Group Chief Operating Officer at Bank of Ireland, Jackie Noakes, gave an inspiring keynote address.

The awards were hosted by Deputy Features Editor and co-producer Roisin Ingle, who helped reveal 14 winners chosen from 500 nominations.

The Women in IT Awards Series is the flagship event in an ongoing Information Age (IA) campaign to tackle technology’s diversity problems. IA has also launched three further diversity events in the UK: Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders, a careers fair for female university students, Diversity and Inclusion Summit and Future Stars of Tech, which identifies and promotes the industry’s top female career climbers.

Joining headline sponsor, Amazon Web Services, at the Women in IT Awards Ireland 2018 are Salesforce, DocuSign, Airbnb, Mace Group, Google Cloud, AIB, Oracle, Red Hat, Ulster Bank, Hays Recruitment and Belvedere Communications

Winners

Advocate of the Year, sponsored by Diversity Q

Paula Harrington, PH Training

Business Leader of the Year, sponsored by Ulster Bank

Aisling Keegan, Dell EMC

Business Role Model of the Year, sponsored by Information Age

Barbara McCarthy, HubSpot

CIO of the Year, sponsored by Salesforce

Myra O’Neill, Vodafone

Data Leader of the Year, sponsored by Women to Watch

Medb Corcoran, Accenture’, The Dock

Digital Leader of the Year, sponsored by Google

Vicky Godolphin, Accenture Ireland

Employer of the Year, sponsored by Hays Recruitment

Vodafone

Future CIO of the Year, sponsored by Mace Group

Seainin McCoy, BT

Innovator of the Year, sponsored by Oracle

Sara Philpott, Openet

Rising Star of the Year, sponsored by Airbnb

Ellen Brady, Accenture Ireland

Security Champion of the Year, sponsored by DocuSign

Jacky Fox, Deloitte

Transformation Leader of the Year, sponsored by Red Hat

Olena Redrugina, Vizor Software

Woman of the Year, sponsored by AWS

Dr. Michelle Cullen, Accenture Ireland

Young Leader of the Year, sponsored by AIB

Kara Crinion, Together Digital