Security Industry Association Opens Nominations for 2025 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards

The globally recognized program honors innovative women guiding the biometrics and security industry, with awards presented at SIA’s Identity and Biometrics Symposium.

SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has opened the call for nominations for the 2025 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards, a globally recognized program dedicated to recognizing innovative women creating a more secure world by guiding the biometrics technology market. Recipients of this year’s Women in Biometrics Awards will be recognized at SIA’s 2025 Identity and Biometrics Symposium on Nov. 5 in the Washington, D.C., area. 

“The SIA Women in Biometrics Awards are a widely celebrated initiative commending the outstanding women who have shared their exceptional expertise to advance the protection of people, places, facilities and communities through biometrics,” said SIA CEO Don Erickson. “In this eleventh year of the program, we look forward to presenting the awards in a special new venue—SIA’s Identity and Biometrics Symposium—and we urge our members and the broader industry to get involved by submitting nominations to recognize the important work and achievements of women leaders in this field.”

The SIA Women in Biometrics Awards recognize top luminaries and experts in the biometric identity and security industry. Nominees and past winners include those working for biometric companies, peripheral suppliers, system integrators, academia, government and security and IT departments at a variety of organizations in the United States and internationally.

Each nominee should exemplify one or more of the following contributions to the biometrics field:

• Leadership: Substantive and defining leadership in academic, public awareness, legislative and/or standards efforts
• Participation: Efforts that go above and beyond individual company/organizational/agency walls and into the larger identity sphere
• Innovation: Pioneering biometric product, service or solution development and/or advancement
• Mentoring: Industry involvement sharing expertise and mentoring peers, thus growing the market

The 2025 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards will be presented on Nov. 5 during SIA’s Identity and Biometrics Symposium, an event featuring experts from government and exploring key issues in biometrics and identity. The awards program is generously sponsored by Leidos, with support from media partner Biometric Update and organizational partners the SIA Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board and the SIA Women in Security Forum. SIA welcomes additional supporters; if you are interested in sponsoring this year’s awards program, please contact Kevin Murphy, SIA’s senior director of member services, at kmurphy@securityindustry.org.

Nominations for the 2025 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards program will be accepted until Friday, Sept. 19. A jury including previous award winners will select this year’s honorees. Learn more and submit a nomination here.

About SIA

SIA is the leading trade association for global security solution providers, with over 1,600 innovative member companies representing thousands of security leaders and experts who shape the future of the security industry. SIA protects and advances its members’ interests by advocating pro-industry policies and legislation at the federal and state levels, creating open industry standards that enable integration, advancing industry professionalism through education and training, opening global market opportunities and collaborating with other like-minded organizations. As the premier sponsor of ISC Events expos and conferences, SIA ensures its members have access to top-level buyers and influencers, as well as unparalleled learning and network opportunities. SIA also enhances the position of its members in the security marketplace through SIA GovSummit, which brings together private industry with government decision makers, and Securing New Ground, the security industry’s top executive conference for peer-to-peer networking.