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Variety’s Carolyn Giardina Nommed for WITH Leadership Award

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October 5, 2024

Carolyn Giardina, Variety‘s senior entertainment technology and crafts editor, is among the nominees for this year’s Women in Technology: Hollywood Leadership Awards.

The nonprofit organization aims to help women who work in technology-related aspets of media and entertainment advance their careers through professional development programs, networking and community engagement events. The Leadership Awards will be presented Nov. 8 as part of the organization’s annual SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit in Hollywood, which will unfold alongside the AI-focused Infinity Festival at the Avalon Hollywood.

“The WiTH Leadership Awards are a testament to the incredible talent and dedication within our industry,” the organization said in announcing the nominees. “The nominees represent a diverse range of professionals who have excelled in their careers and have made significant impacts in their communities.”

Giardina is an award-winning journalist who joined Variety in February after a long run as tech editor for The Hollywood Reporter. Giardina has been honored with American Cinema Editors’ Robert Wise Award for journalistic illumination of the art of film editing, the International Cinematographers Guild’s Technicolor William A. Fraker Award for journalistic contributions to cinematography, and the Advanced Imaging Society’s Distinguished Leadership Lumiere Award.

Here is a full list of 2024 nominees for Women in Technology: Hollywood Leadership Awards:

Diane Arnold, Interim EVP, Enterprise Technology & CIO, The Walt Disney Company
Sherri Brown, Vice President, Global Network Strategy, The Walt Disney Company
Hollie Choi, Managing Director, Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR)
Karen Chupka, EVP and Managing Director, Global Connections and Events, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Carol Danoff, EVP and Chief Procurement Officer, Warner Bros. Discovery
Terri Davies, President, Trusted Partner Network
Joe Devon, Co-Founder,Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Nicole Dove, Head of Security, Riot Games
Gail Evans, Chief Digital & Technology Officer, Disney Parks, Experiences & Products
Johanna Faries, President, Blizzard Entertainment
Adaire Fox-Martin, Chief Executive Officer & President, Equinix
Heather Fuller, Partner Manager, Unreal Engine Partnerships, Epic Games
Tracy Geist, Global Head of Media & Entertainment, Games, & Sports Marketing, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Carolyn Giardina, Senior Entertainment Technology & Crafts Editor, Variety
Melody Hildebrandt, Chief Technology Officer, FOX
Ina Huang, Director, Head of Content Design & Localization, Sony PlayStation
Tammee Layne, Manager, Product Management, The Walt Disney Company
Barbara Marshall, Industry Strategy & Marketing, Media & Entertainment, HP
Debbie Menin, Vice President, Sr. Client Partner, Globant
Mira Murati, Chief Architect, Open AI
Cindy Olivio, Global Marketing Lead, Dell Technologies
Karen Raz, Founder, Raz Public Relations
April Schneider, Vice President, Corporate IT, Intellectual Property Management & General Counsel, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Lori Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer & Principal, Storytech
Debbie Taylor, Chief Information Officer, DirecTV
Rachel Joy Victor, Co-Founder, FBRC.ai
ErinRose Widner, Global Head of Business Strategy, Emerging & Creative Technologies, Media & Entertainment, Verizon
Toshino Yuhaku, Global Media & Entertainment Practice Leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Shelley Zalis, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, The Female Quotient

(Pictured: Carolyn Giardina, far left, moderates a panel at the 2024 Produced By conference in June with Latham & Watkins’ Ghaith Mahmoud, Revelations Enteratainment’s Lori McCreary and SMPTE’s Renard T. Jenkins)