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People to Watch 2023


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2023 marks the eighth year of Datanami’s – now BigDATAwire‘s – People to Watch Program, which recognizes the people who play leading roles in driving innovation in big data, advanced analytics, and AI. Over the course of the program, BigDATAwire has recognized nearly 100 luminaries who have gone on to achieve extraordinary things.
 
This year, we’ve selected 12 of the best and brightest from this large and vibrant ecosystem in order to shine a spotlight on the remarkable ways in which their work has impacted their particular fields, along with society as a whole.

We present the


BigDATAwire People to Watch 2023

Sam Altman

CEO and Co-founder, OpenAI

Maxime Beauchemin

CEO and Founder, Preset, creator of Apache Superset and Apache Airflow

Justin Borgman

CEO and Co-founder, Starburst

Kim Crider

Managing Director of AI Innovation for National Security and Defense, Deloitte Consulting LLP

George Fraser

CEO and Co-founder, Fivetran

Barr Moses

CEO and Co-founder, Monte Carlo Data

David Nalley

Head of Open Source Strategy and Marketing, AWS, President, Apache Software Foundation

Micaela Parker

Founder and Executive Director, Academic Data Science Alliance


Raluca Ada Popa

Associate Professor UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and President of Opaque Systems, Co-Founder of PreVeil

Karthik Ramasamy

Head of Streaming at Databricks, Creator of Apache Storm and Apache Pulsar

Reggie Townsend

Director, Data Ethics Practice, SAS

Fangjin Yang

CEO and Co-founder, Imply, co-author, Apache Druid

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