DEG Opens Nominations for 2022 Hedy Lamarr Award

Nominations are open for the 2022 Hedy Lamarr Award for Innovation in Entertainment Technology, said the Digital Entertainment Group Monday. The annual award, now in its sixth year, honors a female executive “who has advanced and impacted the industry in a unique manner that drove meaningful change,” said DEG. Trimble Chief Technology Officer Poppy Crum, former chief scientist at Dolby Labs, was the 2021 honoree. Nominations close April 1 for the award to be handed out in November to coincide with the 108th anniversary of Lamarr’s birth, said DEG.