Women of Vision Awards Banquet & Top Company For Technical Women Workshop: Past WOV Winners
2012
Sarita Adve, Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for Innovation.
Sarah Revi Sterling, Faculty Director, ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder, for Social Impact.
Jennifer Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director, Microsoft Research New England, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor at All Things Digital, and the Master of Ceremonies was Monica Kim, Broadcast Journalist. Read more about them.
2011
Mary Lou Jepsen, Ph.D., CEO, Pixel Qi, for Innovation.
Karen Panetta, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tufts University, for Social Impact.
Chieko Asakawa, Ph.D., IBM Fellow, IBM Research – Tokyo, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Anousheh Ansari, First Female Private Space Explorer & First Space Ambassador, and the Master of Ceremonies was Monica Kim, Broadcast Journalist. Read more about them.
2010
Kathleen R. McKeown, Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, for Innovation.
Lila Ibrahim, General Manager, Emerging Markets Platform Group, Intel Corporation, for Social Impact.
Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D., Under Secretary for Energy at the Department of Energy, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and the Master of Ceremonies was Sal Pizarro, Around Town columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. Read more about them.
2009
Yuqing Gao, Senior Manager, IBM Research, IBM, for Innovation.
Jan Cuny, Program Director, National Science Foundation, for Social Impact.
Mitchell Baker, Chairperson, Mozilla, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco, and the Master of Ceremonies was Sydnie Kohara, CBS 5 Eyewitness News Anchor. Read more about these women.
2008
Helen Greiner, iRobot, for Innovation.
Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems, Inc., for Social Impact.
Justine Cassell, Northwestern University, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Diane Greene, President, CEO, and co-founder of VMware, and the Master of Ceremonies was Sydnie Kohara, CBS 5 Eyewitness News Anchor. Read more about these two women
2007
Deborah Estrin, University of California Los Angeles, for Innovation.
Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University, for Social Impact.
Duy-Loan T. Le, Texas Instruments, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was Esther Dyson and the Master of Ceremonies was Sydnie Kohara, CBS 5 Eyewitness News Anchor.
2005
The Inaugural Women of Vision event honored:
Radia Perlman, Sun Microsystems, for Innovation.
Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley, for Social Impact.
Janie Tsao, Cisco Systems, Inc.; Co-Founder of Linksys, for Leadership.
Keynote Speaker for this event was John L. Hennessey, and the Master of Ceremonies was Susan Goldberg.