This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
What does the future of the Internet look like? Is it a force for good?
In early 2019, half of the world will be online. This inflection point marks an extremely important moment for examining the unfinished work of the Internet and discussing the community norms, human rights and social contracts required in this exponential digital era.
On Oct 10th IBM announced the release of IBM Notes and Domino v10. Get it, v10 on 10/10? Nice how that works in either MM/DD or DD/MM format. Anyway, as you probably know I started my technology career at IBM as a Lotus Notes administrator and developer using v2 back in 1994.
How the Pan-Industrial Revolution, Pricing Power & Digital Forces Are Reshaping Business | DisrupTV Ep. 127
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 127), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Richard D’Aveni (Professor & Author of The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans will Transform the World), Celia Fleischaker (Chief Marketing Officer at PROS), and Jon Reed (Co-Founder at Diginomica).
On Sunday afternoon, October 28th 2018, IBM reported that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy all issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share, which values the acquisition at roughly $34B. That will make it the 4th largest technology acquisition in history (trailing Dell buying EMC by an order of magnitude and close to the Qualcomm acquisition of NXP ($38B) and Avago's acquisition of Broadcom ($37B).
Navigating the Messy Middle: Lessons in Product, Data & Creative Boldness | DisrupTV Ep. 126
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 126), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Scott Belsky (Chief Product Officer & Executive VP for Creative Cloud at Adobe; author of The Messy Middle), Jedidiah Yueh (Founder & Executive Chairman at Delphix), and Alan Lepofsky (VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research).
The Constellation SuperNova Awards celebrate the leaders and teams who successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies for their organizations. The 2018 SuperNova Award winners were announced on October 24 at the SuperNova Award Gala. This year's winners demonstrated leadership and foresight, leading successful high-stakes technology implementations that prepared their organizations for the future. Not only did these leaders convince their organizations to go along with their audacious plans to implement disruptive technologies, their projects worked!