2018 Leading Light Awards

Leading Light Awards - October 4, 2018

The 2018 Leading Light Awards will be held on Thursday, October 4, 2018 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom.  Every two years, Women & Hi Tech hosts the Leading Light Awards (LLA) to recognize and celebrate women of achievement in STEM fields - women who are innovators in their industries, and have shown expertise, professionalism, leadership, service, courage, and tenacity throughout their careers. We also support the next generation of women in STEM by awarding traditional undergraduate and graduate scholarships as well as professional development scholarships to women already in the in the workforce.  These scholarships are awarded to women in Indiana, who intend to stay in Indiana upon graduation.

Event Highlights:

• Gerry Dick will be the emcee for the event!
• The Leading Light Awards is a Gala!  Attire is typically somewhere between cocktail and not quite black tie.
• We will be serving a full dinner and desserts.
• We will be awarding seven Leading Light Awards and multiple scholarships.  
• The application period for Scholarships and Awards has closed.  To see a full list of nominees, go to the 2018 nominee page.      
• Volunteer to help with the event (as a thank you, volunteers will receive a $50 discount off of the individual ticket price for the awards.       

Purchase Tickets:

• Purchase individual tickets - If you purchase multiple tickets in one transaction, we will seat you together.
• Purchase a whole table - If you purchase a whole table you will be contacted about who will be sitting at your table.          
• Corporate Sponsors (Beacon, Star & Comet levels) - Your company's sponsorship includes table(s) at the event.  Your membership Bundle Admin will be contacted about who will be sitting at your table. 
• Become a sponsor of the Leading Light Awards by contacting our Corporate Engagement Director, Rebecca Bormann, at corpsponsor@womenandhitech.org or Leading Light Awards Director, Ali Hromis, at lla@womenandhitech.org

**By registering for this event, you acknowledge that you may be photographed, videotaped, and/or audio-taped during the course of this event and hereby give permission for your image, and/or voice to be used in education, training, promotion, advertisement, and/or trade and communications media by Women & Hi Tech in any and all media outlets throughout the world, without restriction as to frequency or duration of usage.**

***PLEASE NOTE:  W & HT event registration, including any and all associated registration fee(s), is non-refundable and non-transferable. ***