MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Dec. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Edge computing leaders from State of the Edge and Edge
Computing World name Farah
Papaioannou, Co-Founder and President of Edgeworx, Inc the
winner of the First Annual Edge Woman of the Year Award
2019. The Edge Woman of the Year 2019 award recognizes
Papaioannou for her outstanding impact on the edge computing
industry and her multidimensional leadership in the technology
industry including venture capital, edge cloud computing, and open
source projects. Selected by a panel of industry judges,
Farah Papaioannou exemplifies
overall exceptional leadership in edge computing and was presented
with a trophy at the Edge Computing World on December 11, 2019, hosted in Silicon Valley.
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Papaioannou is one of ten women recognized by the edge computing
organizations for their leadership efforts. Under her leadership,
Edgeworx has become widely recognized as one of the leaders in the
Edge Cloud Computing category, having also been recognized as a
finalist for the Leading Lights Award for the Most Innovative Edge
Computing Strategy.
"I'm honored to have been chosen as Edge Woman of the Year 2019
and to be recognized alongside many inspiring and innovative women
across the industry," said Papaioannou. "I appreciate the
recognition and look forward to continuing my work in the industry;
together we have a lot to accomplish."
Papaioannou is also lauded for her relentless work to move the
edge computing industry forward through her ioFog open source
project, which is part of the Eclipse Foundation. ioFog has been
promoted to a top-level project at the Eclipse Foundation, and is
the fastest-growing Eclipse IoT project with core parts of the
project being downloaded over 100,000 times a month.
"The State of the Edge and Edge Computing World are
honored to sponsor the first annual Edge Woman of the Year Award,
and we're thrilled to honor Farah as a technology leader
well-deserving of this recognition in the industry," said
Candice Digby, Partnerships and
Events Manager at Vapor IO. "With her impressive track record, we
hope to draw attention to the advancements of women in this
field."
The Edge Woman of the Year Award 2019 was created as part of an
industry commitment to highlight the growing importance of the
contributions and accomplishments of women in edge computing. The
award will be presented annually at the Edge Computing World event
which gathers the edge computing ecosystem, including networking,
cloud, applications, and infrastructure, as well as end-users and
developers. The annual event is the leading place to share the
latest edge information and best practices.
For more information on the Women in Edge Award
visit: http://www.edgecomputingworld.com/edgewomanoftheyear.
About State of the Edge
The State of Edge
(http://stateoftheedge.com) is a member-supported research
organization that produces free reports on edge computing and was
the original creator of the Open Glossary of Edge Computing, which
was donated to The Linux Foundation. The State of the Edge 2020
report can be downloaded for free at stateoftheedge.com. . The
State of the Edge welcomes additional participants, contributors
and supporters. If you have an interest in participating in
upcoming reports or submitting a guest post to the State of the
Edge Blog, feel free to reach out by emailing
info@stateoftheedge.com.
About Edge Computing World
Edge Computing World is the
only industry event that brings together the entire edge ecosystem.
The industry event will present a diverse range of high growth
application areas – including AI, IoT, NFV, Augmented Reality,
video, cloud gaming & self-driving vehicles – are creating new
demands that cannot be met by existing infrastructure. The theme
will cover edge as a new solution required to deal with low
latency, application autonomy, data security and bandwidth
thinning, which all require greater capability closer to the point
of consumption.
Join us at Edge Computing World October
12 & 13th, 2020 at the Santa
Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley to accelerate the
edge market and build the next generation of the internet.
The website remains the same at www.edgecomputingworld.com
Media contact:
For State of the Edge:
Jessica Rees
Jess@publicity.im
(415) 889-7444
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