October 2016 – This year, the Dallas Business Journal expanded its 2016 Women in Technology Awards program to include a half-day conference. Keynote speakers, including Ernst & Young's Shari Yocum and Niki Lee and Thomson Reuters' Katherine Manuel, balanced a chief information officer panel that explored the topic of managing through change. The afternoon wouldn't have been complete without a touch of networking and an awards segment to highlight the 2016 honorees.
From the University of North Texas, Mary C. Jones, was recognized as one of the talented, technology-focused women driving innovation, leading technology companies and working as a key contributor to the North Texas community. Jones' research interests are in the organizational issues and benefits of large scale information systems. Her recent projects have focused on issues surrounding the implementation of enterprise resource planning and post-adoptive behavior of firms after ERP implementation. Other research interests are in organizational impacts of large-scale information systems.
"I am working on several related research projects now that examine this topic from different perspectives," said Jones. "One perspective is how organizations achieve success in management support systems. Another research stream I have recently begun is management of IT in an organization, particularly focused on skills, knowledge and other antecedents of IT manager success."
The 25 women selected for the Women in Technology Award have a stake in the public and private arenas; span startups and tech meccas; and serve in roles from IT to IOT.
Kasey Bevans, CIO, Balfour Beatty Construction
Sheryl Chamberlain, vice president, group strategic initiatives and partnerships, Capgemini
Christina Cheng, avp, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, AT&T
Elyse Stoltz Dickerson, CEO, Eosera, Inc.
Ellen Dowd, senior vice president, solutions and innovation, Hitachi Consulting Americas
Liana Dunlap, president, founder and owner, CoreSpace, Inc.
Hilda Espinal, chief technology officer, HKS Architects
Romelia H. Flores, distinguished engineer and master inventor, IBM
Lesley Harris, vice president, Sabre Airline Solutions
Joan Holman, chief information officer, Strasburger
Debra Hughey, vice president, information services, Baylor Scott and White Health
Mary C. Jones, Ph.D., department chair and professor of information systems, Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department, UNT College of Business
Deborah Kerr, executive vice president & chief product & technology officer, Sabre Corporation
Rose Manjarres, senior vice president IT, CBRE
Sha-Chelle Devlin Manning, director of corporate innovation, Pioneer Natural Resources
Theresa Meadows, RN, MS, CHCIO, senior vice president and CIO, Cook Children’s Health Care System
Leah Miller, CIO, HCA North Texas
Stacy Peterson, CIO, Wingstop
Beverly Rider, VP Cloud, IOT & Smart Cities, Ericsson
Jamie Schott, director, corporate digital marketing, Mary Kay, Inc.
Diane Schwarz, vice president and CIO, Textron
Cecelia Smith, vice president Texas Instruments
Dalia Soliman-Powers, vice president of software engineering, CapitalOne
Rashmi Varma, CEO and co-founder, United Softech Conscorcio
Sailakshmi Santhanakrishnan, CRISC,CISM, vice president, information risk management at Bank of New York Mellon, Dallas