Top Techies - Agenda Setters 2008
silicon.com names the top individuals in the worldwide technology and IT industries who are close to the nuts and bolts of what they or their companies do – from open source gurus to security experts
Werner Vogels
Amazon VP and CTO
A newcomer to the Agenda Setters list, Werner Vogels is making waves in internet retailing as chief technology officer and VP of Amazon.com. Since joining the company in 2004 Vogels has been... more
JP Rangaswami
Blogger and BT Design MD
Previously the CIO of an investment bank, JP Rangaswami is now MD of innovation and strategy at BT Design, the telco's group IT design and delivery unit, which works with BT Operate to bring... more
Sverre Jarp
Cern chief technology officer
Sverre Jarp's place on the Agenda Setters list was sealed by his involvement with the most audacious scientific experiment in history. As chief technology officer at Cern he plays a key role... more
Craig Mundie
Microsoft chief research and strategy officer
After Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft this summer, Craig Mundie will play a critical role in steering the software giant into the future. The company is facing increasing competition around... more
Don Grice
IBM chief engineer
IBM lifer Don Grice is chief engineer of Big Blue's $100m Roadrunner supercomputer at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos national laboratory. Named after New Mexico's state bird,... more
Justin Rattner
Intel CTO
Intel CTO Justin Rattner caught the attention of the Agenda Setters panel for keeping innovation alive at the chip giant. As head of Intel's microprocessor, communications and systems... more
Peter Sunde and Gottfrid Svartholm
The Pirate Bay operators
Peter 'brokep' Sunde and Gottfrid 'anakata' Svartholm are two of the operators running Swedish website The Pirate Bay, the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. The site, initially established in... more
Mark Shuttleworth
Ubuntu project founder
While Linux has met with success for servers, on the desktop the open source operating system is often perceived as being held back by a lack of usability. But not for long, if this Agenda... more
Aaron Seigo
KDE project developer
Aaron Seigo earns a spot on the Agenda Setters list for his work on what the panel called the "exciting" open source KDE project. KDE is a desktop environment for Unix-based systems that is... more
Bruce Schneier
BT chief security technology officer
Bruce Schneier returns to the Agenda Setters list thanks to his unmistakable clout in the security world. Well known for past achievements such as designing the popular Blowfish and Twofish... more
Jeremy Allison
Samba project co-founder
Computer programmer Jeremy Allison is one of the co-founders and leading developers of the Samba team that developed a suite of open source software in 1992, released under the GNU general public... more
