Rise Announces 2025 Award Winners

Rise, the award-winning advocacy group for gender diversity in the broadcast media technology sector, is delighted to announce the winners for this year's Rise Awards.

Rise received over 400 nominations from across the globe, with attendees from Australia, United States, Canada, Australia, France, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands), at the ceremony. With a new host this year, comedian Laura Lexx, winners were celebrated by a talented group of women, advocates, and companies at Troxy in London, in partnership with Sky and Gravity Media. The ceremony was streamed globally on the Rise YouTube channel.

Rise Business Manager, Deborah Cross, said: Now in its seventh year, the Rise Awards continues to go from strength to strength with many more companies bringing clients with them this year to share the Rise message. The 2025 ceremony was the culmination of a challenging task for our judging panel, selecting this year's winners from an exceptionally high calibre of nominees. Congratulations to all those that took home an award, we feel privileged to champion the talents of these inspirational women and diversity advocates.

The winners of the 2025 Rise Awards are as follows:

Advocate, sponsored by Techex

Levant Ozparlak - Irdeto

Scott Kerr - Sky

Business Leader, sponsored by IBC

Liz McParland - Globecast

Business Operations, sponsored by Encompass

Laura Mart n-Moralejo - Warner Bros. Discovery

Company Award for Investment in Women, sponsored by Ross Video

Channel 4

Influencer, sponsored by Disguise

Mirusha Jegatheeswaran - ITV

Marketing, sponsored by DCE Agency

Margot Ouali, Appear

Product Innovation, sponsored by Clear-Com

Regina Poniridis - Caretta Research

Product Support Engineer, sponsored by appear

Brittany Shoemake - Warner Bros. Discovery

Project Management Or Delivery (Vendor/Service Provider), sponsored by Globecast

Jane Lavineway - Irdeto

Project Management Or Delivery, End User, sponsored by Warner Bros. Discovery

Sarah Thornley - Sky UK

R&D Engineer, sponsored by AWS

Shufei He - Irdeto

Rising Star, sponsored by RedBee Media

Patrycja Foltynowicz - Limitless Broadcast

Sreekala Kallidil - Irdeto

Sales, sponsored by Mimir Saga (part of the Fonn Group)

Juliet Bayliss - Globecast

Student/Apprentice, sponsored by SMPTE

Juliette Maes - Media Distillery

Technical Operations, sponsored by Vizrt

Jayne Hilton - Globecast

Woman Of The Year, sponsored by Zixi

Sue Farrell, Channel 4

The Special Recognition Award was presented to Nicki Fisher for her services to the broadcast industry and Rise.

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