Datanami Unveils 2024 People to Watch

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 13, 2024 — Datanami, the leading publication covering big data, analytics, and AI news, today unveiled its BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2024. This feature highlights key community members who are poised to drive the industry forward in the coming year.

For the past nine years, Datanami has scoured the landscape every 12 months in search of exemplary individuals who have made a big difference in the wider big data community. And 2024 is no different. As it has for previous years, the 2024 People to Watch puts the spotlight on 12 individuals who have done extraordinary work in the areas of big data, advanced analytics, and AI.

I’m pleased to announce the 2024 Datanami People to Watch,” said Managing Editor Alex Woodie. “This year’s class represents exceptional progress across a wide swath of big data, advanced analytics, and AI. Technology never stands still, and I’m proud to honor the people who drive it forward.”

From virtual file systems like Alluxio to embedded databases like DuckDB, the big data world never stays still. Behind these groundbreaking technologies are the people who develop them and make them work in the real world. This is the essence of the People to Watch program, and what inspires the Datanami editorial team to highlight the great work of exceptional individuals every year.

The 2024 People to Watch selections are:

• Ilkay Altıntaş: Chief Data Science Officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center & Founding Faculty Fellow of Halicioglu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego
• Luis Ceze: CEO & Co-founder of OctoAI, Lazowska Endowed Professor at University of Washington
• Vinoth Chandar: Founder & CEO of Onehouse, Creator and PMC Chair of Apache Hudi
• Harrison Chase: CEO & Co-founder of LangChain
• Aidan Gomez: CEO & Co-founder of Cohere
• Renen Hallak: CEO & Founder of VAST Data
• Haoyuan “HY” Li: Founder & CEO of Alluxio and Creator of the Alluxio Virtual Distributed File System
• Chisoo Lyons: Executive Director of WiDS Worldwide
• Hannes Mühleisen: Creator of DuckDB & Co-founder and CEO of DuckDB Labs, Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud University Nijmegen
• Josh Patterson: CEO & Co-founder of Voltron Data
• Victor Peng: President of AMD
• Elham Tabassi: Chief AI Advisor & Associate Director of Emerging Technologies Information Technology Laboratory

To read exclusive interviews with each Person to Watch, please visit: https://www.bigdatawire.com/people-to-watch-2024.

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Source: TCI