15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference In 2008
Meet 15 people who will help shape the business technology world in the coming year. They're not the usual suspects -- the names everyone knows. Several are industry and tech execs, and most are gurus, prophets, or evangelists of one sort or another. They're all passionate about an idea, an approach, or a technology, and they're focused on driving it to the next level. Watch for each of them to be a force for change in their own corner of the tech world.
InformationWeek
December 15, 2007 12:01 AM
(From the December 17, 2007 issue)
CIO, Partners Healthcare
Health-care industry skeptic, who's helping Partners take one of the toughest stances on e-records adoption
CTO, Citrix Systems' Virtualization & Management Division
Driven by the belief that "virtualization has got to be everywhere."
Founder, Ubuntu open source project and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu
Technologist, venture capitalist, social experimenter, philanthropist, Russian-trained space traveler, and chief backer of Ubuntu
Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks
Agile Development's chief evangelist
Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks
Driving force behind NAC standardization
Senior Strategist, Advanced Micro Devices and Green Grid Board Member
Green computing advocate who will make sure energy-efficient computing stays on every tech company's agenda
Co-founder & President, Workday
Using software-as-a-service model to put the squeeze on Big Software
Executive VP & GM, Nokia's Multimedia Business Unit
Exec in charge of remaking Nokia into a Web services company
CEO, SAS Institute
Owns the company that dominates the most important piece of the BI market-data integration and advanced analytics
CEO, Spiceworks
Pioneered the ad-supported software
CIO, Cummins
Applied Six Sigma process improvement to get the right leaders in place to support her company's future growth
Corporate VP, Microsoft's Unified Communications Group
Developing new methods to communicate and collaborate via software
Lead developer of Spring Framework and CEO of SpringSource, the company behind Spring
Asked "why is Java so complex" and ended up with the simpler Spring Framework developer platform
Chief Information & Global Services Officer, Procter & Gamble
Wants to be the "go-to" organization for all of P&G decision making
CEO, Socialtext
Believes enterprise wikis will free workers to be more connected and productive
Eight top-of-mind innovators to watch in 2008
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