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The Digital Leisure Group (DEG) has introduced the recipients of its 2025 Hedy Lamarr Awards, honoring ladies for distinctive contributions to leisure expertise. This yr’s Innovation Award will go to Shobana Radhakrishnan, Senior Director of Engineering at Google TV.

Radhakrishnan is being acknowledged for her management in integrating synthetic intelligence into Google TV’s working system, enabling extra customized content material suggestions and enhanced consumer experiences for hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide. With over 20 years of expertise in expertise, she has beforehand held management roles at Roku, Netflix, and Yahoo, contributing to large-scale content material discovery and streaming improvements.

“DEG is proud to current the Hedy Lamarr Innovation Award for 2025 to Shobana Radhakrishnan of Google for her pioneering work with AI to supply shoppers a state-of-the-art expertise with customized suggestions within the Google TV OS,” stated DEG President & CEO Amy Jo Smith. “On this yr of explosive AI innovation, we honor her monitor report of essential, sensible and accountable use of the expertise.”

Two extra honorees had been introduced: Wendy Aylsworth, CEO and CTO of Walden Pond, will obtain the Hedy Lamarr Inspiration Award for her affect and mentorship within the subject, whereas Shantelle Subkhanberdina, an undergraduate on the College of Michigan, can be honored with the Hedy Lamarr Achievement Award for Rising Leaders in Leisure Know-how.

The awards ceremony can be held later this yr in Los Angeles throughout DEG’s annual membership assembly.

The Hedy Lamarr Awards, named after the Austrian-American actress and inventor whose frequency-hopping improvements laid the groundwork for contemporary wi-fi communications, had been created to focus on ladies’s achievements in leisure expertise and encourage future generations to pursue careers within the business.

Cowl photos: The Digital Leisure Group.