Datanami Unveils Honorees for its 2018 People to Watch Feature

SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 26, 2018 – Datanami, a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis, and up-to-the-minute information about data science, AI, and advanced analytics, today announced the honorees for its 2018 People to Watch feature, which highlights key industry players poised to drive the industry in the coming year.

“In our line of work, we often get caught up in the technology. And for good reason – major technological breakthroughs seem to happen all the time,” said Datanami Managing Editor Alex Woodie. “While technology is important, it has the unfortunate side effect of taking our attention away from other things that matter, like the people who create the technology, lead us in making it work, and inspire us to make it better.

“So today,” Woodie continued, “we’re putting the focus squarely back on the people. We’re celebrating 12 men and women who have contributed something special or otherwise left an important mark on this industry. Congratulations to everybody who is a part of Datanami‘s 2018 People to Watch.”

Being selected one of Datanami’s People to Watch serves as recognition of the incredible work an individual has contributed to the big data community, as well as the tremendous potential to make even greater contributions in the future. We look forward to bringing our readers news of their continued success, and anticipate even greater contributions to the industry in the year to come.

The 2018 Datanami People to Watch honorees are:

AB Periasamy
CEO and Co-Founder of Minio
Creator of GlusterFS

Bill Schmarzo
CTO of the Big Data Practice at EMC Global Services
Dean of Big Data
Dell EMC

Cathy O’Neil
Author of “Weapons of Math Destruction”
Founder of mathbabe.com

Crystal Valentine
VP of Technology Strategy
MapR

Emil Eifrem
CEO Neo4j

Lloyd Tabb
Founder, Chairman, & CTO
Looker

Michael Jordan
Computer Science Professor and RISElab Director
UC Berkeley

Nima Negahban
CTO and Co-Founder
Kinetica

Tom Siebel
CEO of C3 IoT
Founder of Siebel Systems
Creator of CRM

Tyler Akidau
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Founding Member of Apache Beam PMC

Wes McKinney
Creator
Pandas

Yann LeCunn
Computer Scientist, Chief AI Scientist
Facebook

To read exclusive interviews with each Person to Watch, please visit:
https://www.datanami.com/people-to-watch-2018/

About Datanami

Datanami is a news portal dedicated to providing insight, analysis and up-to-the-minute information about emerging trends and solutions in big data. The portal sheds light on all cutting edge technologies including networking, storage and applications, and their effect upon business, industry, government, and research. The publication examines the avalanche of unprecedented amounts of data and the impact the high-end data explosion is having across the IT, enterprise, and commercial markets. Subscribe now at: www.datanami.com.

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