Women Without Boundaries Awards 2026

Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a nomination for the Women Without Boundaries Awards. Your nominations are helping us recognize the incredible women whose leadership, expertise and contributions are making a difference across our industry. Our panel of 13 industry judges will now review the submissions and select this year’s award recipients. We look forward to recognizing this year’s honorees at NAB Show New York on October 21, and we hope you’ll be there to celebrate with us. Join us for the awards and register for a complimentary NAB Show New York exhibit pass using passcode NS7345. The Women Without Boundaries Awards celebrate the women driving innovation, leadership, and impact across media, broadcast, AV, workplace technology, and related industries. A select group of finalists will be invited to New York City for special recognition during NAB Show New York (October 21-23, 2026), where they will be celebrated alongside industry leaders and peers shaping the future of the industry. This exclusive experience includes roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations, and full access to NAB Show New York. In addition, award recipients will receive a $1,500 cash prize in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions to the industry. The award categories below recognize the diverse talents, contributions, and achievements of women who are helping move the industry forward. For a woman driving innovation, technical excellence, or creative problem-solving across AV, media, broadcast, workplace, or digital experience technology. For a woman whose leadership shapes direction, drives momentum, and influences outcomes across teams, projects, clients, or the industry. For a woman who builds trust, strengthens relationships, and creates meaningful business or client impact. For a woman who mentors, advocates, creates opportunity, and helps others grow. For an emerging woman in the industry who is already making a noticeable impact and showing strong future leadership potential. The program’s highest honor, recognizing a woman whose leadership, impact, and influence reflect the spirit of Women Without Boundaries. Nominees may come from across the media, AV, broadcast, digital experience, workplace technology, live events, production, enterprise technology, and related industries. This includes women working in: engineering, integration, design, sales, marketing, production, operations, project management, customer success, executive leadership, field services, consulting, education, product, content, and community advocacy. Nominees do not need to have a public profile or executive title. We are looking for meaningful impact, demonstrated leadership, and stories that deserve to be seen. Owner, BAM! Marketing & PR Agency Brandy Alvarado-Miranda is the Owner of BAM! Marketing & PR Agency. Established in 2021 to serve the Pro A/V and Digital Signage communities with their marketing endeavors. She also founded WAVIT, a 501 3C non-profit supporting women in the AV/IT industries in 2023. BAM! manages many brands with their brand recognition, product marketing, and content creation through various digital marketing channels. She is also passionate about helping women succeed in the industry and is the past Chair for the AVIXA Women’s Council and has served as an Advisor on the Board for the Women of Digital Signage, and AVIXA Member Services Committee. In 2021, she received Women of the Year in AV and was on the Pro AV Watch List, and was honored as an AV Living Legend in 2024. In 2025, she was nominated to serve on the Digital Signage Experience Show Advisory Board. Group Director of Content + Editorial, Emerald/Commercial Integrator Dan Ferrisi is group director of content + editorial, industrial + tech, at Emerald. His portfolio includes Commercial Integrator, Security Sales & Integration, CE Pro and Demand Gen Report. He has been reporting on the commercial AV industry since 2004, and he has attended 21 in-person InfoComm shows. His editorial coverage area focuses on integrator business enablement, strategic transformation of the channel and positioning businesses for maximum profitability. He also embraces a personality-driven coverage approach, overseeing popular editorial initiatives like the 40 Influencers Under 40, the #AVLivingLegends, #HerAVStory and more. Recognizing and amplifying the voices of underrepresented groups in the pro AV industry is an abiding passion of his. Gary Kayye has worked in technology branding and marketing for more than 30-years. He’s the Founder of the rAVe brands; including rAVe PUBS and THE rAVe Agency, a tech-focused creative agency. Prior to rAVe, Gary served as VP of sales and marketing for Extron and EVP at AMX Corporation, now part of Samsung; he also chaired the AVIXA PETC committee for 12-years. In addition, he’s either helped create or assisted on dozens of branding campaigns for companies like Cisco, Samsung, HP, Barco, Sony, Zo