AGENDA SETTERS - WHO ARE THE DRIVING FORCES IN THE TECH INDUSTRY?

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Agenda Setters 2005
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Ken Kutaragi

No. 31 Ken Kutaragi, president and CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

Last year's position: Not placed

It takes a rare individual to convince a monstrosity such as Sony that it needs to take a chance in an unproven market with a new breed of product.

But that's what Ken Kutargi did with the PlayStation - and lucky for him, it and its successor, the PlayStation 2, turned out to be among the company's biggest moneymakers.

It's this mix of vision and realism that wins the father of the PlayStation, who previously worked on early digital cameras and LCD screens, a spot on the Agenda Setters list.

He also represents the sometimes dismissed videogaming arena which our panel believes is "as influential as anything else in IT these days and increasingly so". This year Kutargi unveiled his latest creation, the PlayStation 3, which he's hoping will not only please the usual gaming crowd but also become a mainstream home entertainment device. Given his track record, who's to say he can't pull it off?

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Agenda Setters Past

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QUOTATION

"China clearly has many dimensions and many are setting an agenda. It's at the political level, it's at the investment level, it's at the contract manufacturing level and it's at the software level - it's all over."
--Peter Rowell, Regent Associates executive chairman and Agenda Setters panellist


AGENDA SETTERS .EXTRA

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Ballmer: Microsoft 'not above learning from others' eWeek


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