Nordic Women In Tech Awards Land in Helsinki in 2025

In 2025, Women4Cyber Finland is joining forces with other Nordic non-profit organizations to bring the Nordic Women in Tech Awards (NWITA) to Finland.

If you’ve been following us on social media, you may have come across a few posts about these awards.

In this article, you can learn more about what they are, who is behind them and how nominations work.

NWITA & Women4Cyber Finland: towards the same goal

We are all aware that the tech industry is heavily male-dominated and needs more diversity. Many non-profit organisations have stepped in to empower women in pursuing careers in tech through role models, training, community, events, etc. 

Women4Cyber Finland is one of these non-profits, and our goal is to build a more diverse and inclusive cybersecurity industry in Finland. The Nordic Women In Tech awards share the same goal on a broader level and expands the impact to the Nordic countries and the entire Tech industry.  

NWITA: An event to celebrate and recognize Nordic Women In Tech

NWITA is an initiative established by the non-profit organization WonderCoders, an organisation “on a mission to inspire, empower and support women in Tech”. The entire team is exclusively volunteer-based, made of people sharing the same passion to achieve a more diverse technology field in the Nordic countries.

The event’s goal is to recognize women who have made outstanding contributions to the tech industry in the Nordic countries in the hopes that shining a light on these innovators and changemakers will pave the way for the next generation of women to enter the industry. 

NWITA strongly believes that diversity and inclusivity play a key role in the future of the tech industry, which has so far been and still is heavily male-dominated. The event’s goal is to amplify the voices of all the women who have made significant contributions to the industry. 

The journey so far

The NWITA initiative was started in 2019 and has been one of the fastest growing changemaker communities in the Nordics with over 11 000 community members and over 2 600 Role Models nominated from the Nordic tech scene. 

The gala ceremony is organised annually in different Nordic countries, it initially started in Denmark and has been organised in different countries in the past few years.

In 2022 the event was held in Sweden, in 2023 in Iceland and in 2024 in Norway.   

NWITA in 2025 

The Gala’s journey in 2025 brings it to Finland as the ceremony will be held at Clarion Hotel Helsinki on the 10th of October 2025. This year, Women4Cyber Finland joined the ranks in the organisation of the Awards alongside the founders, WonderCoders, and the non-profits Women In Tech Norway and Women in Tech Iceland.  

The best way to know what NWITA is about is to attend the event, if this interests you, stay tuned on our social media to find out when the tickets to attend the event will be available. But before that, you can be part of the change by submitting a nomination! 

Nominating your Role Models 

As the event is aimed at recognizing role models in the Tech Industry, it is here that the entire community, you included, has a role to play. Until the 18th of May a form is open on NWITA’s website to nominate your role models in the Nordic Tech industry. 

There are 11 categories to nominate role models for:

• Developer of the year: someone who has made significant contributions to software development, has been part of significant projects or has found creative code-based solutions to problems.  

• Digital transformation leader of the year: someone who has demonstrated successful results in digital innovation during the past 24 months.  

• DEIB Champion of the year: An organisation (employer) or individual who has made significant contributions in closing the gender gap and promoting a more diverse tech industry. 

• Entrepreneur of the year: Someone who is the owner or main shareholder of a start-up operating in the tech industry which company has achieved significant growth in the last 36 months and with a readiness to demonstrate a successful commercial plan in achieving their goals.  

• Initiative of the year: An individual or an organisation which has demonstrated exceptional initiative to show the importance of diversity in a tech project’s success and has overall served as an example in closing the gender gap in the industry. Whether it is through training, education or other types of campaigns.  

• Innovator of the year: An individual or tech company that has, in the last 24 months,  achieved or implemented significant innovation or inventions, client successes and deployments. 

• Investor of the year: An organisation or individual who has invested in female-led tech startups.  

• Social impact award: An individual, social enterprise or organisation that has made significant contribution to society by making a positive impact with technology and thus developed for example a technology that resulted in social change or empowered underrepresented people. 

• Rising star of the year: An up-and-coming tech industry professional who has, during the past five years, demonstrated exceptional creativity or ability in their own industry and who others recognise as having the potential to be a future leader in the field with significant evidence to  back this up.

• Women in Tech Ally: An ally who acts as a mentor, advocates for more diversity in tech and who empowers women in the field. An individual who has made a difference in their community and whose support has helped significantly in attracting more women in the tech industry during the past 24 months. 

• Teen Of The Year: A young woman, aged 13-19 who is making waves in the world of technology, innovation and leadership in the Nordics. 

If any of these categories remind you of someone, a company or an organization, do not hesitate to nominate them for the Nordic Women In Tech Awards.

The nomination process is quite straightforward, you only have to go to NWiTA nomination page and fill the form with the following information on your nominee before the 18th of May by 25:59 CET :

• Full Name & Email address

• Country of operation 

• LinkedIn profile 

• The nomination Category from the categories above 

• The reason you think this nominee should win this category’s award

Ensure that you have your nominee’s permission to provide their contact details before submitting the form. 

Once all the nominations are in, a local jury in each country will determine shortlisted nominees for their respective countries which will be announced on the 30th June 2025. Once the shortlisted nominees are announced, a global jury will step in to determine the winner in each category. The winners will be announced at the Gala Ceremony on the 10th October 2025 following a day full of inspiring talks, panels and workshops. 

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Picture: Nordic Women In Tech Awards

Text: Varpu Huhtinen, W4CFI Articles