This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
As the pioneer, innovator and market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world’s most successful Digital Workforce. The company’s intelligent digital workers provide business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate mission critical business processes, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.
Capgemini is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Serving the most demanding companies, Capgemini is able to meet their evolving expectations and support their digital transformation through a range of innovate products and services, all while driving their overall competitiveness. Capgemini offers a wide spectrum of expertise to its clients. Intimate knowledge of their industry, current challenges and future positioning is a hallmark of this strength.
We're passionate about how business models can be transformed by disruptive technology. Our goal is to help our clients realize the Art of the Possible. We achieve this by researching the technologies and business models that not only disrupt established players, but also create transformational innovation. We share our research insights with business leaders seeking more than just a rubber stamped approval or rear mirror confirmation by traditional legacy analyst firms.
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely.
The enterprise AI market appears to be embracing a little nuance and CxOs would be wise to avoid banter about artificial general intelligence and think about systems that drive returns in the real world. Those returns will likely be generated with fewer workers.
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In this episode of DisrupTV, co-hosts R “Ray” Wang, CEO of Constellation Research and best-selling author of Disrupting Digital Business, and Vala Afshar, Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, sit down with two powerful voices reshaping the conversation around leadership and innovation:
Public sector technology executives laid out a series of takeaways and best practices at the Google Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., in October. The takeaways ranged from focusing on your data foundation to use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the importance of training and human-in-the-loop processes.
Hereâs a tour of what seven public sector technology leaders had to say (PDF).
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Amazon Web Services custom AI chip Trainium2 is fully subscribed and Trainium3 will feature about a 40% performance boost and the ability to reach more customers, said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
Jassy used a strong third quarter earnings report and AWS launch of Project Rainier, a cluster of up to 1 million Trainium2 processors used to train Anthropic's next Claude model, to lay out a few big themes you'll hear from AWS re:Invent 2025 in less than a month.
Apple's fourth quarter results were mixed, but services revenue topped the $100 billion in annual revenue. The results were better-than-expected.
The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $1.85 a share on revenue of $102.5 billion, up 8% from a year ago.
Wall Street was expecting fourth quarter earnings of $1.77 a share on revenue of $102.25 billion.
The September quarter only includes a few days of sales of the iPhone 17 lineup.
Amazon Web Services' revenue growth in the third quarter accelerated 20% as the unit delivered operating income of $11.4 billion on revenue of $33 billion.
The AWS results landed in a better-than-expected quarter for Amazon overall. Amazon reported third quarter net income of $21.1 billion, or $1.95 a share, on revenue of $180.2 billion.
Wall Street was expecting Amazon to report earnings of $1.56 a share on revenue of $177.76 billion.
Wayfair plays in a rough neighborhood where it has to deal with tariffs, an anemic housing market and consumer purchasing patterns that were skewed by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, a technology replatforming during that volatility has made it more agile and able to position itself for AI.
ServiceNow said its third-quarter results were better than expected, raised its outlook and said it will split its stock 5-for-1.
The company reported third quarter earnings of $502 million, or $2.40 a share, on revenue of $3.41 billion, up 22% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $4.82 a share.
Wall Street was expecting third quarter earnings of $4.27 a share on revenue of $3.35 billion.
For years, smartglasses have promised a future where digital and physical worlds merge seamlessly. While the technology keeps on improving, two critical issues have held them back: on one side the hardware “look,” meaning design and social acceptability, on the other content and usability. Today, the first issue is being addressed through partnerships such as Meta and Luxottica, delivering sleeker frames that resemble everyday eyewear.
Microsoft reported better-than-expected first quarter results and delivered Azure revenue growth of 40%.
The software and cloud giant reported first quarter net income of $27.7 billion, or $3.72 a share, on revenue of $77.7 billion, up 18% from a year ago.
Google Cloud revenue surged 34% in the third quarter and is hitting an annual run rate of nearly $61 billion.
In the third quarter, Google Cloud delivered revenue of $15.2 billion with operating income of $3.6 billion. Google Cloud saw strength in core AI infrastructure and generative AI products.
Amazon Web Services said Project Rainier, an AI compute cluster powered by 500,000 Trainium2 chips, is now in use for Anthropic.
The AI infrastructure project is critical for AWS since it is being used by Anthropic to train its Claude models as well as other workloads. AWS said that Project Ranier will ultimately scale to 1 million Trainium2 processors.
Google Public Sector CEO Karen Dahut said there's urgency in government to leverage AI, transform and do it in a national secure way. The company positioned itself as a key public sector AI infrastructure provider that can enable AI agents to carry out missions.
âWe believe agencies of the future will be powered by AI and agents that are ubiquitous and multimodal. This means the public sector will become more productive and more efficient,â said Dahut.
The City of Los Angeles will deploy Google Workspace with Gemini across its workforce of 27,500 employees as part of its broader digital transformation strategy.
Google Public Sector announced the deal at its Google Public Sector Summit in Washington DC. The City of Los Angeles will leverage Google's AI for communications, project planning and ultimately public services. The gains in Los Angeles come as Google Public Sector is landing other states and local governments.
Google Public Sector and Old Dominion University are aiming to embed AI throughout the university including research, teaching and operations workflows via an incubator.
The incubator, called MonarchSphere, Old Dominion University (ODU) is looking to use AI to accelerate discovery, personalize learning and advance student career paths.
Google Public Sector announced the deal at its Google Public Sector Summit in Washington DC.
Lockheed Martin will integrate Google Gemini models into the Lockheed Martin AI Factory in a partnership with Google Public Sector.
The partnership will bring Google's AI tools into Lockheed Martin's on-premises air-gapped infrastructure.
Google Public Sector announced the deal at its Google Public Sector Summit in Washington DC.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang laid out a series of announcements covering an investment in Nokia to meld 6G and AI, quantum computing connectivity with GPUs and a vision to build AI infrastructure as a means for national security.
At Nvidia GTC Washington, Huang laid out a bevy of news items. Nvidia's GTC coincides with Google Cloud's Public Sector Summit in Washington DC. The backdrop of AI competition with China was also hard to avoid.