LEGACY AWARDS
Women in Consumer Technology · Since 2010
The Legacy Awards
Eighteen years of naming the women who built this industry, while they were still building it.
Where it started
An industry naming its own
Women in Consumer Technology was founded by Carol Campbell to do something the industry hadn't been doing for itself: name the women shaping it, in the middle of them shaping it, rather than decades later in a retrospective.
Campbell built WiCT around a simple idea: that women running supply chains, closing the industry's biggest accounts, engineering its products, and owning their own integration firms deserved a network built specifically for them, and deserved to be recognized by name while their careers were still in motion, not after the fact.
The Legacy Awards grew directly out of that mission. Each class is chosen by nomination, judged against the same question WiCT was founded to answer: whose work in this industry has gone unsaid for too long?
Carol Campbell
Founder, Women in Consumer Technology
The consumer technology industry has always had women running its supply chains, closing its biggest accounts, and engineering its products. It just hadn't always said so.
The awards
Four ways to recognize a career
Every class is chosen through nomination, and every honoree fits into one of four categories, each recognizing a different way a career can matter.
Legacy Honoree
The heart of the class each year. Given to women whose sustained work, in retail, manufacturing, sales, engineering, or ownership, has shaped both their company and the wider industry around it.
Woman to Watch
Recognizes someone earlier in her trajectory: the person the industry should already be paying attention to, well before a long career makes the case for her.
Technical Excellence Award
The newest category, built specifically around engineering and technical mastery, for the women whose expertise gets used constantly and credited rarely.
The Carol Campbell Inspiration Award
Named for WiCT's founder. Given not for a title or a sales number, but for mentorship that multiplied opportunity for other women in the industry.
One industry, every corner of it
Retail & Merchandising
Where the product meets the customer: buying, merchandising, and the sales floor itself.
Manufacturing & Engineering
Building the hardware and software the rest of the industry sells.
Custom Integration & Ownership
Running and owning the firms that design, install, and stand behind the work.
Trade Press & Editorial
Covering the industry, and deciding what it pays attention to.
Trade Associations & Advocacy
Running the organizations that hold the industry together.
Through the years
A career-length view of the award itself
The inaugural class
The first Legacy Award class honors seven women across retail, manufacturing, and merchandising leadership, the first time the industry names its own like this.
A named honor takes hold
The Carol Campbell Inspiration Award becomes an annual fixture, formally recognizing that mentorship is its own kind of achievement, distinct from titles or sales figures.
The second decade begins
"We're beginning our second decade of honoring the women in our industry who are not only role models but also innovators," said founder Carol Campbell, announcing that year's class.
Engineering gets its own category
The Technical Excellence Award is introduced, the first category built specifically around technical and engineering achievement rather than sales or leadership.
Eighteenth annual class
The class of 2026 is celebrated at CEDIA Expo in Denver, the latest chapter in a list that now runs eighteen years deep.
Add to the list
Know someone who belongs here?
Nominations open annually and close before each new class is announced. If someone in your corner of the industry has been doing the work quietly, this is where that gets said out loud.