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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.
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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." |
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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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