2022 Cloud Girls Award

Jan 1, 2022

APPLY BY JANUARY 31, 2022

Calling all female cloud evangelists!

This is your chance to win some recognition for your outstanding work in the cloud space.

Cloud Girls is opening the seventh annual Cloud Girls Rising: Women to Watch Awards.

We’re honoring and recognizing women who have demonstrated innovation, solution-orientation and thought leadership in the cloud space in 2021.

Does that sound like you, or someone you know? Fill out the submission form. Tell us how you or your nominee has advanced and shaped the cloud conversation at your/her company and with clients and peers.

Got Mad Cloud Skills? We encourage you to nominate yourself!

The yardstick for measurement is innovation, solution-orientation and thought leadership.

The ideal candidate is a woman who is moving the cloud conversation forward. She goes above and beyond every day to make a significant and lasting impact on her company, her clients and her professional community.

We’re accepting submissions from the partner community now. If you or your nominee are in a sales, marketing or engineering role for an agent, VAR, MSP or service providers delivering cloud services through the channel, we’d like to hear from you.

All applications must be submitted by January 31, 2022. 

Winners will be announced in April 2022.

Winners receive:

  • One year of complimentary membership in Cloud Girls
  • A commemorative crystal trophy
  • A profile of their achievement on the Cloud Girls’ website

Awards Given:

  • Visionary:A female leader who has demonstrated innovation in recognizing where the cloud and next-gen tech market is headed and is leading the ecosystem toward that vision.
  • Trailblazer: A seasoned female technology industry veteran who is paving the way for her organization, customers and industry in advancing cloud and next-generation technology solutions.
  • Rising Star: A female up-and-comer in the cloud community who has shown initiative in advancing cloud and next-generation technology solutions for her organization, customers and the industry.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the award, a woman must working a sales, marketing or an engineering role within the channel community (Agent/VAR/MSP/SI or their cloud service providers) and been an integral part of creating products, tools or solutions around cloud services.

Ideal Candidate

An ideal candidate is a woman who has advanced and shaped the cloud conversation in 2021. The yardstick for measurement is innovation, solution-orientation and thought leadership.

The ideal candidate:

  • Contributes significantly to transform the cloud conversation at her organization, either in a sales, marketing or engineering capacity
  • Serves as a catalyst to help advance others in cloud knowledge both internally and externally
  • Is recognized as a role model and mentor to colleagues and others at work and the partner community
  • Is adept at listening and connects well with varied communities of people
  • Shows authentic leadership with a commitment to her values

Key Selection Criteria:

Candidates will be judged based on three areas:

  1. Demonstrating Success and Innovation in Cloud
  2. Evangelizing Cloud in Your Organization
  3. Inspiring the Next Generation of Women in the Cloud

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