{"id":16589,"date":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/28\/14-cisco-women-named-as-finalists-at-the-channel-asia-women-in-ict-awards\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T05:00:00","slug":"14-cisco-women-named-as-finalists-at-the-channel-asia-women-in-ict-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/28\/14-cisco-women-named-as-finalists-at-the-channel-asia-women-in-ict-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Cisco women named as finalists at the Channel Asia Women in ICT Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>28 July 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisco.com\/c\/en\/us\/index.html\">Cisco<\/a>\u00a0is <\/i>proud to announce that 14 Cisco women have&#13;<br \/>\nbeen listed as finalists of the new-look <i>Women in ICT Awards (WIICTA). The&#13;<br \/>\nWIICTA awards <\/i>housed a record-breaking number of submissions this year, in&#13;<br \/>\nwhat will be the largest celebration of female excellence within the technology&#13;<br \/>\nchannel across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Representing&#13;<br \/>\nthe entire ASEAN ICT industry ecosystem, 160 finalists (150 individuals and 10&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies) made the shortlist from a pool of more than 65 organizations and&#13;<br \/>\nover 220 nominations, spanning partner, vendor and distributor businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vicki&#13;<br \/>\nBatka, Vice President, APJC Partner Sales for Cisco&#13;<br \/>\nwho is also the executive sponsor for Cisco&#8217;s Women of Cisco Asia Pacific,&#13;<br \/>\nJapan and Greater China chapter, has explained that the women who made the&#13;<br \/>\nfinalist list this year truly&#13;<br \/>\nrecognize and embody the unique strengths, vision, and achievements of female&#13;<br \/>\nleaders in the IT channel across the region.\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On top of everything&#13;<br \/>\nthat has happened over the past 18 months, these exceptional women on this list&#13;<br \/>\nhave pushed forward with innovative business plans, marketing initiatives and&#13;<br \/>\nother comprehensive route to market initiatives to support our partners and&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers, helping them through the uncertainty brought on by the global pandemic.&#13;<br \/>\nCisco celebrates these exceptional women for their leadership, dedication and commitment&#13;<br \/>\nto the channel and our partners,&#8221; said Batka.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>The 14 Cisco finalists&#13;<br \/>\nare listed below: <\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Angeline&#13;<br \/>\n     Ong <\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Atitaya&#13;<br \/>\n     Surapunthu \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Deborah&#13;<br \/>\n     Wong <\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Farah&#13;<br \/>\n     Darlina<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Fidi&#13;<br \/>\n     Putri \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Huong&#13;<br \/>\n     Nguyen <\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Jina Park&#13;<br \/>\n     \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Kerri&#13;<br \/>\n     Lampard<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Lynette&#13;<br \/>\n     Lim \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Maria Eva&#13;<br \/>\n     Kalaw \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Michelle&#13;<br \/>\n     Teo <\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Sarah&#13;<br \/>\n     Quinto \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Ulrike&#13;<br \/>\n     Agostin \u00a0<\/li>\n<p>&#13; <\/p>\n<li>Vicki Batka <\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&#8220;<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Channel&#13;<br \/>\nAsia<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> congratulates <\/span><b style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Cisco <\/b><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">on having 14 finalists named, with strong&#13;<br \/>\nrepresentation in every award category,&#8221; said Cherry Yumul, vice president of&#13;<br \/>\nStrategic Partnerships and Innovation at IDG. &#8220;We applaud your standout&#13;<br \/>\ncontribution in helping to set an industry benchmark for female achievement&#13;<br \/>\nacross Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">&#8220;This year&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\n<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">WIICTA<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> has generated a volume and calibre of nominees that have set new&#13;<br \/>\nstandards in the award&#8217;s history. This is an encouraging sign of a positive&#13;<br \/>\ntrend that gender diversity is high on the corporate agenda of more and more&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses in ASEAN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is&#13;<br \/>\nnot just to tick a box or meet a quota, but evidently, to bring in alternative&#13;<br \/>\nviewpoints for problem-solving and different leadership styles for competitive&#13;<br \/>\nadvantage, in turn delivering better returns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reflective&#13;<br \/>\nof a diverse technology network \u2013 and a thriving channel community \u2013 over 25&#13;<br \/>\npartner companies are in the spotlight, in addition to more than 30 vendors and&#13;<br \/>\nfour distributors.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Within this&#13;<br \/>\nstandout group of finalists, female leaders are located across the entire&#13;<br \/>\nregion, spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and&#13;<br \/>\nVietnam.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All career&#13;<br \/>\nstages are in the spotlight from graduate-level entrants to well-established&#13;<br \/>\nCEOs, in addition to inspiring entrepreneurs, creative thinkers and technical&#13;<br \/>\nexperts, as well as talent rising through the ranks and consistently&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-performing individuals. This is also supported by both individual and&#13;<br \/>\ncompany champions of D&amp;I initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Collectively,&#13;<br \/>\n<i>WIICTA<\/i> in 2021 stands tall as the leading forum for setting the industry&#13;<br \/>\nbenchmark for female achievement across Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shaped by&#13;<br \/>\nthe feedback of more than 50 leading female technology executives, <i>WIICTA<\/i>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2013 now in its 10th year of running \u2013 will honour the channel across eight&#13;<br \/>\ncategories, spanning Innovation, Technical, Entrepreneur, Graduate, Rising&#13;<br \/>\nStar, Shining Star, Achievement and D&amp;I Champion (Company and Individual)&#13;<br \/>\nawards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The winners&#13;<br \/>\nwill now be selected by an executive panel of more than 45 industry judges \u2013&#13;<br \/>\nacknowledging creativity, innovation and excellence \u2013 before being announced at&#13;<br \/>\na virtual celebration event on Thursday, 5 August.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Read the&#13;<br \/>\nfull article on Channel Asia :<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelasia.tech\/article\/689208\/channel-asia-unveils-record-breaking-number-finalists-new-look-women-ict-awards\/\">https:\/\/www.channelasia.tech\/article\/689208\/channel-asia-unveils-record-breaking-number-finalists-new-look-women-ict-awards\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Find out&#13;<br \/>\nmore about the Women in ICT Awards<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelasia.tech\/wiicta\/\">https:\/\/www.channelasia.tech\/wiicta\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-28\/88025\/14-cisco-women-named-as-finalists-at-the-channel-asia-women-in-ict-awards\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211;\u00a028 July 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Cisco\u00a0is proud to announce that 14 Cisco women have&#13; been listed as finalists of the new-look Women in ICT Awards (WIICTA). The&#13; WIICTA awards housed a record-breaking number of submissions this year, in&#13; what will be the largest celebration of female excellence within the technology&#13; channel across Southeast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}