Abie Award honors women technologists each year along with a cash prize (ranging from $15,000 – $50,000) and, an opportunity to speak at GHC!
Abie Awards honor distinguished leaders, whose achievements and life stories demonstrate that all of us have the power to improve our world, individually and collectively.
Technical Leadership Abie Award Categories for 2022
This award is open to Executive/Senior Level Technologists.
Prizes
- Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at Grace Hopper Celebration and invited to give a presentation on the main stage at GHC.
- The award winner will also have multiple speaking opportunities throughout GHC on their work and accomplishments.
- All-expense paid trip to GHC.
- In addition, a cash prize of $50,000.
Eligibility
- Technical leaders with responsibility for organization-wide technology strategy or expertise and/or high-level functional responsibility for a technical product, as well as executive-level individual contributors.
- Technical leaders who may reside outside of the “technical career path” or R&D/Engineering function, but manage technical employees and the delivery of technical products, lead technical development, project teams, divisions, and organizations, and/or have deep technical knowledge/specialization.
Supporting Documents
- Two letters of reference from professional contacts of the nominee
- Also, the nominee’s biography (maximum of 500 words)
- The nominee’s CV or resume
- In addition, landscape orientation high-resolution photograph of the nominee (minimum of 5MB JPG)
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Student of Vision Abie Award Categories for 2022
This award is open to undergraduate and graduate students who identify as women or non-binary.
Awards
- Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at Grace Hopper Celebration and invited to give a presentation on the main stage at GHC.
- Also, the award winner will also have multiple speaking opportunities throughout GHC on their work and accomplishments.
- All-expense paid trip to GHC.
- In addition, a cash prize of $15,000.
Supporting Documents
- At least two letters of reference, one of which is from one of your professors
- Your biography (maximum of 500 words)
- CV or resume
- Also, Landscape orientation high-resolution photograph of yourself (minimum of 5MB JPG)
- Description of your video submission (maximum of 800 words)
- Moreover, Low-resolution video. Please provide a URL or upload a low-resolution version of your video in MP4, MPG, MOV, or AVI format. Selected finalists must provide an HD ProRes Video with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio.
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Change Agent Abie Award Categories for 2022
This award is open to international women and non-binary technologists (non-U.S. residents) regardless of age or education level.
Prize
- Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at Grace Hopper Celebration and invited to give a presentation on the main stage at GHC.
- Also, multiple speaking opportunities throughout GHC on their work and accomplishments.
- All-expense paid trip to GHC.
- In addition, a cash prize of $15,000.
Supporting Documents
- Two letters of reference from professional contacts of the nominee
- The nominee’s biography (maximum of 500 words)
- The nominee’s CV or resume
- In addition, Landscape orientation high-resolution photograph of the nominee (minimum of 5MB JPG)
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Emerging Leader Abie Award Categories for 2022
This award is to a junior, non-tenured faculty member for high-quality research and significant impact on diversity.
Awards
- Recipients of the Emerging Leader Abie Award are honored by the technical women’s community at Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) and invited to give a presentation on their work and accomplishments at the Celebration.
- Also, Winners receive an all-expense-paid trip to GHC.
- In addition, a cash prize of $15,000.
Required Supporting Documents:
- Two letters of reference from professional contacts of the nominee
- The nominee’s biography (maximum of 500 words)
- Also, the nominee’s CV or resume
- Landscape orientation high-resolution photograph of the nominee (minimum of 5MB JPG)
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Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award Categories for 2022
This award is for a builder of a technology venture. She transforms markets by implementing, developing, or promoting technology, creative processes, or new business models.
Prizes
- Recipients are honored by the technical women’s community at Grace Hopper Celebration and invited to give a presentation on the main stage at GHC.
- The award winner will also have multiple speaking opportunities throughout GHC on their work and accomplishments.
- All-expense paid trip to GHC.
- In addition, a cash prize of $15,000.
Required Supporting Documents
- Two letters of reference from professional contacts of the nominee
- Also, the nominee’s biography (maximum of 500 words)
- The nominee’s CV or resume
- In addition, landscape orientation high-resolution photograph of the nominee (minimum of 5MB JPG)
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