Archive for year: 2021
On June 18th, 2021, Google partnered with Women in Cloud to host the “Fortune 100 Lunch and Learn Series”. This event connected female founders and entrepreneurs of cloud-based companies with key leaders from the industry—while placing an emphasis on inclusivity and empowerment. Through a power panel, cloud solution showcase, and roundtable experience with Google advisors, attendees learned how to conduct business with Fortune 100 companies.
Google has a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. In March, they announced partnerships with several organizations—including Women In Cloud—to support the rise of women in the technology industry. Google’s role in these partnerships is to host educational events, supply technical content for training programs, mentor, provide financial support, and provide Google Cloud developers who will speak at conferences. They made strides towards these goals when they sponsored the #CloudJobs Recruitment Lounge at the Women in Cloud International Women’s Day Summit and co-hosted the #ChooseToChallenge Power Panel. The Lunch and Learn series aimed to build on these foundations by assisting entrepreneurs in their journey to create economic impact.
In addition to their external efforts, Google employees demonstrate the company’s internal commitment to supporting women entrepreneurs. Jeana Jorgensen—senior director and product marketer at Google Cloud—is a pioneer for the empowerment of women in tech. As the power talk panelist at the “Fortune 100 Lunch and Learn Series”, Jorgenson facilitated access by sharing the “Trifecta Approach to Building Strategic Relationships with Google”.
According to the World Economic Forum, addressing gender inequality post-pandemic will be substantially more difficult than it is today. Intervention in the present is more pressing than ever—which is why companies must ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key pillars in their plans for recovering from COVID-19. Google’s pledge to this movement comes at a crucial time and serves as a role model for other corporation’s role in the empowerment of women in technology.
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#WICxFortune100 Lunch & Learn Series is an intimate and curated networking experience designed to open the doors for leading fortune companies and brands to connect with technology business builders. This intimate learning series offers a space to learn about how to do business with Fortune companies, understand their company culture, and get access to decision-makers and procurement officers.
Redmond, Washington: Women in Cloud, an economic development organization is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Women in Alliances to accelerate the representation and growth of women in the technology channel.
Women in Alliances is a free, inspirational group for female alliance and partnership managers with a goal of helping group members develop both their personal and professional profiles, as well as provide practical help for aspiring female alliance managers. Women in Alliances is a part of Alliance Best Practice Ltd (ABP), a strategic alliance research and benchmarking consultancy based in the United Kingdom.
“What makes Women in Cloud powerful is our community. By sharing our stories, we inspire innovation. By leveraging our networks, we create new opportunities for women. I strongly believe in the power of strategic collaboration to drive collective action for economic access. Our partnership with Women in Alliances will help to develop our community and further inclusion and representation in the technology industry,” said Chaitra Vedullapalli, President and Co-Founder of Women in Cloud.
“Women in Alliances is delighted to partner with Women in Cloud because we share so many of the same ideals and ambitions. We both want to help women in alliance and partnership roles to realise their full potential in both their personal and professional roles. We aim to do this through networking, knowledge sharing and active mentoring. We are particularly grateful to Women in Cloud for providing us with a state of the art professional membership platform which we can leverage to enhance our membership experience,” said Mike Nevin, Chairman of Women in Alliances.
The partnership between the two organizations will be mutually beneficial and will contribute to Women in Cloud’s mission: to generate billion dollars in economic access for women in technology to build an inclusive economy.
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The #empowHERaccess Inaugural Awards celebrates the achievements of 8 winners who facilitated economic access and recovery for women affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and recognizes the contributions to the cloud ecosystems made by both individuals and organizations. The awards are supported by corporate and private brands such as M12, IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, Boeing, Insight and others.Seattle, Washington– According to McKinsey, centering women around economic recovery efforts would grow the global GDP by an estimated $13 trillion, or 16 percent, by 2030 — because when women thrive, so do their families and communities. A report from Kaspersky published in January found that roughly half of the 6,500 women surveyed believed that the pandemic had hurt them professionally.
The #empowHERaccess digital advocacy campaign seeks to raise awareness about the magnified impact of COVID-19 on women, promote stories of women’s professional resilience, especially in technology entrepreneurship, and accelerate economic recovery.
The #empowHERaccess Inaugural Awards celebrates the achievements of 8 winners who facilitated economic access and recovery for women affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and recognizes the contributions to the cloud ecosystems made by both individuals and organizations. The awards are supported by corporate and private brands such as M12, IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, Boeing, Insight, Consulate of Canada and Meylah. Over 100 applications were submitted and 26 were chosen as finalists for 8 awards.
Winners were announced in a virtual awards ceremony on July 16, 2021 at the #WICxInspire 2021 event, hosted by TEDx speaker and entrepreneur Patti Dobrowolski, along with board advisor and M12 executive Catherine Mulachy.
Commendations for transformative industry achievements to increase access for women included the IBM Supplier of the Year Award, Accenture: Innovative Partnership of the Year Award, Microsoft Digital Transformation of the Year Award, M12: Outstanding Leadership Award and Insight Cloud Solution of the Year Award and Meylah Cloud Deal of the Year Award. Women in Cloud also honored two impactful community partners with the Advisor of the Year Award and Investor of the Year Award. The #empowHERaccess Award Ceremony, which took place on July 16th at the #WICxInspire event, awarded eight leaders who facilitated economic access and stable recovery to women in tech.
#empowHERaccess Inaugural Award Winners 2021:
| Accenture: Innovative Partnership of The Year Award | Microsoft: Digital Transformation of the Year Award | M12: Outstanding Leadership Award | Insight: Cloud Solution Of the Year Award |
| Sonya Shorey, Invest Ottawa | Vice President, Strategy, Marketing and Communications | Kathy Durfee, TechHouse | CEO & Founder | Sara Menker, Gro Intelligence | CEO & Founder | Sheffie Robinson, Shamrck Education | CEO & Founder |
| WiC: Advisor of the Year Award | Meylah: Cloud Deal of The Year Award | IBM: Supplier of the Year Award | WiC: Investor of the Year Award |
| Lisa Opoku, Goldman Sachs | Partner, Chief Operating Officer of Engineering | Karen Fassio, Microsoft | Director, WW Partner Marketing | Christine Puccio, F5 | VP, Global Cloud Alliances | Sharon Vosmek, Astia | CEO |
“The winners of the #empowHERaccess Awards understand that the roadmap to generating infinite economic access is driven by sustainable collective action. Our winners are thought leaders, innovators, and champions of change, and we are proud to be able to celebrate their achievements and work through these awards,” said Chaitra Vedullapalli, CEO and Co-Founder of Women in Cloud.
The #empowerHERaccess Awards will return in 2022, with nominations set to open in January 2022. To learn more about the award winners, please visit the winner page at https://www.womenincloud.com/empowheraccess-inaugural-award-categories/
About the #empowHERaccess Digital Campaign:
#empowHERaccess is an annual digital advocacy campaign by Women in Cloud to generate greater economic access for women in technology. Launched in 2020, the campaign has reached over 600,000 women all around the world. The 2021 #empowHERaccess campaign is bringing together a number of facets to better understand the global crisis this pandemic has created for women entrepreneurs, and celebrate the many stories of pivots and perseverance.
The #empowHERaccess Inaugural Awards recognize the contributions to the cloud ecosystems made by both individuals and organizations, supported by corporate brands such as M12, IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, Insight and Meylah.
For more information, visit: https://www.womenincloud.com/empowheraccess-campaign/
