A slate of six VIP presenters will take the stage to introduce honorees at TVNewsCheck’s 13^th annual Women in Technology Awards Presentation Ceremony.

Set to happen at 6 p.m. PT on Tuesday, April 18, throughout NAB Show in Las Vegas, the awards acknowledge ladies who’ve had a big influence on the event of media trade expertise, or who present nice promise of doing so.

Three senior trade executives will current the Technology Women to Watch Awards, which flip a highlight on rising stars in media and leisure expertise.

Terri Davies, president of the Trusted Partner Network, will introduce Hannah Barnhardt, COO and Co-Founder of TMT Insights.

Del Parks, president of expertise at Sinclair Broadcast Group, will introduce Nadia Khan, CMO at LTN.

Abby Auerbach, chief communications officer on the Television Bureau of Advertising, will introduce Emily Stone, VP digital content material and LiveNOW at Fox Television Stations. Auerbach acquired the 2019 Women in Technology Futurist Award in 2019 partly for her years-long effort to streamline native TV promoting transactions with the assistance of automation.

Two extra media and leisure expertise leaders will current the Technology Futurist Awards, which acknowledge ladies who’ve pioneered new applied sciences or who’ve considerably influenced the event of media trade expertise.

Barbara Lange, founder and CEO of Kibo121, will introduce Suzana Brady, CMO of Cobalt Digital and chair of the RIST Forum. Lange is a 2020 recipient of the Women in Technology Leadership Award and has been main an effort to form trade technique on sustainable expertise.

Janet Gardner, president of Perspective Media Group, will introduce Chrystelle Le Gall, lead cloud options architect at Ateme. Gardner acquired the 2020 Women in Technology Futurist Award.

Marcy Lefkovitz, VP of expertise and workflow technique at Disney Content Operations, will current the night’s highest honor, the Women in Technology Leadership Award, to Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV consortium of TV station teams. Lefkovitz accepted the 2021 Women in Technology Leadership Award. She is taken into account a pivotal drive in bringing main expertise tasks to fruition.

The six VIP presenters highlighting this yr’s Women in Technology Awards will be part of different trade VIPs on the occasion.

Michelle Lehman

Michelle Lehman, NAB’s chief of employees and EVP public affairs, will provide a welcome to the viewers from the trade’s main commerce affiliation, whereas Tim Dotson, director of improvement on the NAB Leadership Foundation, will highlight the work of its academic group.

Tim Dotson

NABLF’s Technology Apprenticeship Program, which trains, informs and recruits a various workforce that meets the rising expertise and engineering wants of the broadcasting group, has lengthy performed a starring function on the awards, as a result of this system helps the inspiration.

Emceeing the awards presentation ceremony, which will probably be live-streamed to TVNewsCheck’s dwelling web page, YouTube channel and social media feeds, will probably be Kathy Haley, co-founder and writer of TVNewsCheck.

Admission to the awards is free. RSVP here.