Agenda Setters 2008
Welcome to the ninth annual Agenda Setters poll – silicon.com's list of the top 50 most influential individuals in the technology and IT industries.
Who are the top 50?
Analysis Who holds sway in today's tech world? The techies and CIOs? The entrepreneurs and upstarts? The CEOs and business leaders? Find out in our exclusive poll, in which we reveal who is driving the IT industry - in both the predictable and unpredictable ways.
Top Agenda Setters
- Tim Berners-Lee
World wide web inventor - Steve Jobs
Apple CEO - Richard Thomas
UK information commissioner - Jimmy Wales
Wiki Media founder - Mike Lynch
Autonomy founder and CEO - Eric Schmidt
Google CEO - Ashley Highfield
Project Kangaroo CEO - Viviane Reding
European commissioner for information society and media - Werner Vogels
Amazon VP and CTO - Warren East
ARM CEO
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