This category is open to those women who make the day-to-day management of their company a breeze by supporting executives and initiatives behind the scenes.

The category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: executive assistants, personal assistants, office managers and business support coordinators.

This category is open to the finance leaders within technology organisations across Australia and New Zealand. Financial governance is critical to the long-term success of a technology business from seed funding to issuing stock options.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: chief financial officer, S/E/VP finance, head of finance, treasurer, financial controller.

This category is open to those within technology businesses who have made significant contributions to the success of their clients’ and customers’ businesses (regardless of sector). It is for those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional customer satisfaction, build strong client relationships and driven business growth through their innovative approach.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: customer success manager, customer support specialist, account manager, technical account manager, customer experience manager, customer success, customer relationship manager and client services.

This category is open to data scientists working for organisations within any sector. Data science is a critical pillar for business success and a core STEM proficiency and rewards curiosity, passion and intuition as much as business intelligence, innovation and technical acumen.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: data scientist, data engineer, data architect, data analyst, database administrator and data modeller.

This category rewards women working in delivery roles within technology businesses, or the technology functions of other businesses. Delivery roles are essential to the functioning and development of businesses as they grow through collaboration, quality assurance and more.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: project manager, program manager, delivery manager, scrum master, agile coach, release train engineer, producer, traffic manager, change manager.

This category is open to women within technology organisations or the technology divisions of other businesses who design tech-based products or services (such as apps or websites) used by internal teams or by external customers and clients.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: UI/UX designer, web developer, VR designer or AR designer.

This category is open to women working as technical developers in technology businesses or the technology divisions of other businesses creating and building products or services used by internal teams or external customers or clients. While Developer and Engineer are often used interchangeably, this category focuses on those developers who build and code specific products.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: software developer, full stack developer, frontend developer, backend developer, web developer or cloud developer (AWS / Azure / GCP Developer).

This category is open to women working as technical engineers in technology businesses or the technology divisions of other businesses involved in the design and maintenance of systems and products to ensure performance, reliability and maintainability. While Engineer and Developer are often used interchangeably, this category focuses on those engineers whose work includes system architecture, infrastructure, testing, optimisation and implementation.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: software engineer, API engineer, infrastructure or platform engineer, systems engineer or network engineer.

This category is open to women who have founded or are leading a technology, digital or ecommerce startup and that has been in business for up to five years (as of 9 February 2026).

This category differs from the Executive Leader category as it focuses on newer, more nascent businesses.

This category is open to women who are currently in C-Suite leadership roles within a technology business and demonstrating visionary leadership of staff as well as creating a meaningful and significant change in the industry and the country.

This category differs from the Entrepreneur/Founder category as it focuses on more established businesses and is open to women with job titles beyond CEO and founder.

This category is open to women in senior marketing roles within technology businesses who have delivered smart, industry-leading marketing communications and grown their businesses.

This category is for women with roles including, but not limited to: CMO, head of marketing, head of brand, head of communications, marketing director, brand director, communications director, marketing manager, brand manager, marketing manager.

This category is open to women working within the internal HR, people management or talent development departments of tech businesses. This category differs from the Recruiter category as People & Culture is focused on the wellbeing of all a company’s employees, not success of executive leadership placements.

This category is for women with roles including but not limited to: chief people officer, head of people & culture, director of employee experience, HR director.

The product category is open to women working within the product and strategy areas of technology businesses–deciding what gets built, why and when.

This category is for women with roles including but not limited to: chief product officer, product manager, product owner, product analyst.

This category is open to women working in an in-house public/press relations or communications role within a technology business, or working for an external agency in a public/press relations or communications role on behalf of a technology business. Entrants to this category should only include work completed as public/press relations, rather than other forms of marketing communications. As well as results for the nominee’s own organisation, the judges will also reward PR/comms work that advances the cause of gender equality and inclusion within the tech industry.

This category is for women with roles including but not limited to: chief communications officer, director of public relations, head of marketing and communications.

This category is open to women working in the fields of executive search for technology businesses–placing CEOs, CTOs, CIOs and more. It differs from the People & Culture category as this is focused on finding and placing the right C-suite candidates for technology businesses.

This category is open to women in the sales department of a technology business–whether B2B or B2C. They are the women making deals between businesses, clients and customers and getting products into the hands of the people who need them.

This category is for women with roles including but not limited to: chief revenue officer, chief sales officer, sales director, business development manager, technical sales consultant.