--- title: Rise Announces Award Winners for 2025 description: Rise, the gender diversity network for the media technology industry, today announced the shortlist for the Rise Awards. image: https://risewib.com/hubfs/Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-105.jpg --- [![Rise Final Logo](https://risewib.com/hubfs/Rise%20Final%20Logo.jpg)](https://risewib.com) - [ABOUT](https://risewib.com/about) ## [About Rise Rise is the leading organisation dedicated to fostering gender diversity within the broadcast and media technology sector.](https://risewib.com/about) ### [ABOUT RISE Meet our team and Regional Councils across the globe](https://risewib.com/about) ### [GET INVOLVED Learn how you can support Rise and be an active member of our community](https://risewib.com/get-involved) ### [RISE NEWS AND RESOURCES Find out the latest Rise news](https://risewib.com/news) ### [BECOME A RISE SUPPORTER By becoming a Rise Supporter, you are making a visible commitment to investing in women and in the future of our industry](https://risewib.com/donate) - [MENTORING](https://risewib.com/mentoring) ### [MENTORING Learn more about our award winning, global mentoring programme.](https://risewib.com/mentoring) ### [MENTORING Register your interest for 2027](https://risewib.com/mentoring) ### [UK COHORT 2026](https://risewib.com/uk-pairings) ### [EUROPE COHORT 2026](https://risewib.com/europe-pairings) ### [NA COHORT 2026](https://risewib.com/na-pairings) ### [APAC & INDIA COHORT 2026](https://risewib.com/apac-and-india-pairings) ### [ANZ COHORT 2026](https://risewib.com/anz-pairings) - [RISE AWARDS](https://risewib.com/rise-wib-awards) - PROGRAMMES ## Rise Programmes Learn about our programmes and initiatives aimed at fostering diversity and inclusivity within the broadcast and media technology sector. ### [RISE ELEVATE PROGRAMME The Rise Women in Broadcast Elevate Programme is a high-impact leadership development initiative designed to build the next generation of senior women leaders in the broadcast & media technology industry.](https://risewib.com/rise-women-in-broadcast-rise-elevate-programme) ### [RISE C-SUITE PROGRAMME The Rise C-Suite Programme is an intensive, residential workshop designed to accelerate your progress to the C-Suite, within the company of other women from across media technology.](https://risewib.com/rise-c-suite-programme) ### [RISE ACADEMY Rise Academy is an outreach programme delivering broadcast engineering and technical workshops to primary and secondary school children aged 11 through to 18 years old.](https://rise-academy.live) - [JOB BOARD](https://risewib.com/job-board) - [PANEL PLUS](https://risewib.com/panelplus) - [PARTNERS](https://risewib.com/partners) - [EVENTS](https://risewib.com/events) [GET INVOLVED](https://risewib.com/get-involved) [BECOME A MEMBER](https://risewib.com/membership) # Rise Announces Award Winners for 2025 Rise, the gender diversity network for the media technology industry, today announced the shortlist for the Rise Awards. [Rise](https://risewib.com/news/author/rise-blog) Nov 24, 2025 --- **London, UK, 19 November 2025 -** [**Rise**](https://risewib.com/), 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**](https://www.youtube.com/live/LvseUcIOBfU?app=desktop). 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 Martín-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. - ![Copy of RiseAwards2025-36](https://risewib.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-36.jpg?width=5647&height=3765&name=Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-36.jpg) Hover message - ![Copy of RiseAwards2025-248](https://risewib.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-248.jpg?width=5919&height=3946&name=Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-248.jpg) Hover message - ![Copy of RiseAwards2025-353](https://risewib.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-353.jpg?width=5634&height=3756&name=Copy%20of%20RiseAwards2025-353.jpg) Hover message ### [Rise Announces Award Shortlist for 2025](https://risewib.com/news/rise-announces-award-shortlist-for-2025) Rise, the gender diversity network for the media technology industry, today announced the shortlist for the Rise Awards. 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