Who are the driving forces in the tech industry? The Silicon Valley CEOs? The regulators and academics? Or perhaps the lesser known men-behind-the-men?
Welcome to silicon.com's seventh annual Agenda Setters poll, in which we reveal the 50 most influential individuals in tech. Some are household names, some you've never heard of. But they'll all play a key role over the next year and remain influential long after.
Read on for our individual biographies, in-depth analysis and more about the panel who chose the 50. And don't forget to cast your own vote for who you'd choose as number one.
Take a walk down memory lane - and find out who made the Agenda Setters poll over the years:
"Ray Ozzie is a radical change force for Microsoft. He is moving them in a very different direction."
--Richard Sykes, Agenda Setters panellist
"My observation is that [kids today] are far more networked and open than any other generation we have ever seen."
--Peter Cochrane, Agenda Setters panellist
The world's most powerful women Forbes.com
Smart 50 - Asia's best users of IT ZDNet Asia
Chron 500 - The San Francisco Bay Area's top public companies San Francisco Chronicle
The 50 people who matter now Business 2.0
silicon.com and the Bathwick Group have created an opportunity for business and IT executives to share their experience with each other and thus enhance their knowledge of the IT marketplace.
Join our research panel, and you'll be asked to participate in short surveys - and then will be privy to the answers of all your colleagues, as we send you tailored versions of the results. For more about the Research Panel and how to join, click here
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