Rise Awards 2025 winners are announced

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 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 Red Bee 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.