To achieve greatness, you must follow great Influencers. This has been made easy by social media in this era. We have listed here the most influential tech personalities. Whether you are looking for some inspiration, guidance, or just some general social networking savvy, these people should be in your following list.
Mike Quindazzi
Managing director and the U.S. digital alliances leader for PwC, Mike Quindazzi, tops our list of top influencers for several reasons. With 30 years of industry experience in management consulting abilities, Mike is the favourite of global enterprises when it comes to building their innovative digital space. He was recognized by Onalytica as a top 10 influencer for fintech as well as augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital transformation. His interest in all kinds of emerging technologies makes him the best person to follow as you can find a plethora of latest inventions in his feed.
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Spiros Margaris
Spiros Margaris is the first international influencer to achieve ‘The Triple Crown’ ranking. He was ranked the international № 1 FinTech, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) influencer by Onalytica. He regularly appears in the top three positions of established global industry influencer rankings. His interest in marketing led the foundation of Margaris Ventures, a company with extensive experience in using technology and innovation to deliver profitable growth for companies. If you have an interest in AI, he is the best person to follow!
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Andrew Ng
Co-Founder of Coursera and Stanford CS adjunct faculty, Andrew Ng, is known as an AI star. If you are trying to pursue a career in AI and ML, he is your guy. He continuously writes articles to share insights regarding success in this field. Ng founded the Google Brain deep learning project and was also the head of Chinese tech giant Baidu AI Group. He found Landing AI in 2017 with the vision to help companies incorporate AI in all their tasks. Last year, Ng also unveiled the AI fund, raising $175m to invest in new start-ups.
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Simon Porter
Simon Porter, a leading influencer in the fields of Cloud, Big Data, and IoT, helps organizations with their digital transformation by offering valuable insights and research to improve employee productivity and enhance workplace engagement. He is currently the VP of Digital HR Services at NGA Human Resources and fulfilling his dream of providing innovative business solutions to global organizations through HR Outsourcing, HR Consulting, and HR Technology. His twitter has an overflow of knowledge on the subject of IoT, including its opportunities and limitations.
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Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Vision Lab. Dr. Li has also worked as the Chief Scientist of AI/ML and a VP at Google Cloud. It is amazing seeing women flourish in the latest field of AI and Computer Vision. These days she is putting her effort into her role as the co-founder and chair at AI4ALL, which is a nonprofit organization educating the next generation of AI technologists, thinkers, and leaders.
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Tamara McCleary
International branding expert, technology futurist, social media marketing/digital strategy consultant, and Thulium CEO Tamara McCleary is listed as one of the Top 50 Social Influencers of 2015 to 2018 by Onalytica. She was also named #1 Most Influential Woman in MarTech by B2B Marketing and ranked by LeadTail as the 2nd most mentioned person on Twitter by Chief Marketing Officers. Thulium.co is where she works these days to provide companies with data-driven strategies.
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Ronald van Loon
Ronald van Loon is known for his writings for leading Big Data sites like The Economist, Datafloq, Data Science Central Dataconomy, and as a public speaker at leading Big Data, Data Science, and IoT events. He has been recognized as one of the top 10 Global Big Data, IoT, Data Science, Business Intelligence Influencer by Onalytica, Dataconomy, and Klout. As a recognized expert and thought leader in Big Data, he works with data-driven companies to generate business value so that they may meet and exceed goal after goal.
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Harold Sinnott
Harold Sinnott is an HR leader, recognized as a social media influencer in emerging technologies, digital transformation, the future of work, and business intelligence. He empowers leaders to enable business strategy and deliver value transformation. Harold is a Bilingual HR professional currently serving as the Director, Consultant, Emerging Technologies Influencer, Social Media, and HR Talent Development at Human Resources Consulting.
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Sean Gardner
Forbes #1 Social Media Power Influencer, Sean Gardner, is a visionist and wants to make Earth a better place with people working together to produce constructive, responsible solutions to our most pressing problems. He is a keynote speaker at NATO Headquarters, Harvard University, the annual Google Conference, the Smithsonian, and at conferences and events in cities on three continents with interests in Digital Storytelling, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics, Blockchain, Business Intelligence, Smart Cities, and Cybersecurity. He is also a travel enthusiast and a great philanthropist.
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Evan Kirstel
With an organic reach in millions on Social Media, Evan is a B2B thought leader and has helped B2B tech brands like Intel, IBM, AT&T Business, and Samsung achieve massive visibility and scale across the social media landscape. He is building EvIRA, a network of fellow B2B thought leaders, and digital social practitioners. Evan has extensive experience in Social Media marketing and strategy building. He is using this experience in enabling startups to get discovered and introduced to potential partners and investors through eViRA Health.