2025 RightBrains Celebration Event
November 2025
Following the success stories of previous years, we will bring an inspiring programme with keynotes from digital leaders on stage and there's lots of time to meet and mingle for our annual Celebration Event featuring the RightBrains Awards!
The purpose of the awards is to share inspiring role model stories and best practices. The Digital Leadership & Diversity award goes to those leaders of organisations who don't only talk about bringing more gender balance in digital technology but have proven actions to success. The Digital Talent award goes to someone at the start of their career who is an example for the next generation of female digital talents. Female role models are essential for attracting and retaining more women in this field, and we aim to spotlight those who are changing the face of digital technology for the better!
The RightBrains Awards in collaboration with Computable.nl recognise exceptional female talent and leadership, and incredible male allies, who are driving change within the industry. We are celebrating that the entire industry wins by making the circle bigger together with our community partners. It’s only through strong collaboration and support that we can move the needle!
The winners will be determined by an expert jury consisting of Kay Formanek (Author D&I, CEO Diversity and Performance), Prof. dr. Erik Beulen (Professor of information management at Tilburg University), Raymond Hannes (expert on Entrepreneurship and Innovation), Hanneke Takkenberg (Professor of Clinical Decision Making in Cardio-Thoracic Interventions at Erasmus MC & Executive Director Erasmus Centre for Women and Organisations), and Sander Hulsman (editor-in-Chief at Computable).
Award winners 2017 - 2024
The winners of the Digital Leadership awards were: Mimoent Haddouti, Partner at PwC (2017); Corry Wouters, Cluster Manager I&A at VieCuri Medical Center (2018); Candice Dillon, CIO at VodafoneZiggo (2019); (2020); Benji Coetzee, Chief Strategy Officer at KPN (2021); Tamara Oosterman, EVP Service Quality Center at KPN (2022) and Yvonne van Rees Vellinga-Leenders, Group Director People and Facilities at Eurofiber (2023), Anke den Ouden, CEO at Microsoft Netherlands (2024).
The winners of the Digital Talent awards were: Laura Helgering, IT Engineer II at Tikkie (2017); Lotte de Haas, Manager Digital Channels at KPN (2018); Erida Kaja, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft (2019); Lisanne Brons, EMEA Global Black Belt - AI at Work (Copilot) at Microsoft (2020), Lisanne Smink, (2021); Anastasia Khomenko, Data Analyst at RET (2022); and Claudia van der Veer, Interim Professional at Randstad Digital (2023), Véronique Van Vlasselaer, Analytics & AI Lead South West & East Europe at SAS (2024).
Check out the event highlights of 2024 and watch this space for announcements of the 2025 awards and Celebration Event!
Your chairwoman
Geke Rosier, Founder at RightBrains and winner of the Dianne Bevelander Prize 2022.