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This presentation delves on the IT oriented individuals that have contributed towards this sector in an unconventional and innovative approach. Note that you can contact them simply by clicking on the social network icons given below their picture !

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Page 1: The 10 Most Creative IT influencers of today
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Page 3: The 10 Most Creative IT influencers of today

Who are we ?

IB Remarketing , a Global IT maintenance and service company that’s

been in the IT market for the last 30 years.

What did we do ?

We compiled a list of individuals, highly specialized in their field who have

contributed towards the IT sector in an unconventional and innovative

approach.

How did we do that ?

Extensive research of about 100 individuals in the IT and Tech sector,

analysis of their contributions, examination of their social networks and Tech

writings, followed by a brief questionnaire that questioned their perspectives

on this field.

Who are we ?

IB Remarketing , a Global IT maintenance and service company that’s

been in the IT market for the last 30 years.

What did we do ?

We compiled a list of individuals, highly specialized in their field who have

contributed towards the IT sector in an unconventional and innovative

approach.

How did we do that ?

Extensive research of about 100 individuals in the IT and Tech sector,

analysis of their contributions, examination of their social networks and Tech

writings, followed by a brief questionnaire that questioned their perspectives

on this field.

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Social media guru for the Social Media age.

Author of the upcoming book “A World Gone Social: How Companies Must

Adapt to Survive“.

His Creative touch : Expert in decoding the relationship between Social

networks + Mobile Data +Cloud Computing + Big Data + Analytics .

#1 Ted Coine

IT isn't just a department

anymore, it's a way of

enabling business

-Co founder of Switchandshift

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I have noticed a lack of leadership and commitment in the

IT sector.

Received the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional award 5 times.

His Creative Touch : Lead Engineer with SharePoint solutions

engineering at Dell R&D center, tech blogger and a regular speaker at

BITPro user group meetings.

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Robert Fine

I think many people, particularly those that work in

IT, forget that even though some technologies seems like they overtook the whole by storm

overnight, many took a number of years

before they became mainstream.

Started off in the field of cellular network design and been involved in the

evolution of wireless industry since.

His Creative Touch : Along with launching the only printed magazine

covering social media, The Social Media Monthly, Bob is engaged in

strategic IT planning for small and large businesses, both private and non-

profit sectors.

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Adam Harris

IT is an ever evolving eco-system and there will be

mistakes, but its important that the right people at

the right time inform, educate and

challenge this sector.

Former owner of two IT Businesses and now a well known professional

speaker in the IT sector.

His Creative Touch : Growing Tech resellers, vendors and distribution

channels through Coaching/speaking/Non Exec work/Interim/Consulting ,

with specialities in : knowing the 'Elephant in the room', what is your WHY

and road to recurring revenue.

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Dana Gardner

The intersection and relationships between

data center transformation, cloud

computing, big data, mobile, and social

networks is what fascinates me the most about the IT

sector.

Founder, president and principal analyst of Interarbor solutions.

His Creative Touch : Veteran IT analyst who’s moderated discussions and

interviews get to the essence of the hottest enterprise technology topics,

Creator of content platform, BriefingsDirect that leverages social media to

explain the latest enterprise software, cloud and big data advances.

Page 9: The 10 Most Creative IT influencers of today

Arthur Goldstuck

The continual pace of change in the IT

sector, means that we cannot become

accustomed to a specific level of IT before it

is rendered obsolete.

The IT information navigator, particularly for the South African market.

His Creative Touch : Combining Marketing Research and analysis with the

IT sector to find relevant trends pertaining to the internet and mobile

computing in the South Africa.

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Dinfin Mulupi

We have got a long way to go especially in the

African context. There is quite a bit of hype fueled

by the media, both locally and internationally, lots of

technology competitions, awards and grants. We

need to go beyond the ‘feel good stories’.

Covering news in the IT field and having an eye for new innovations, profile

trendsetters and disruptors in the African IT sector.

Her Creative touch : Pro-Analyzer of various segments of the Tech sector,

looking at how it is impacting the other industries and the African economies

+ reporting on the growth of entrepreneurship in technology, policy issues,

academia and foreign investors in the African IT landscape.

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Florian

Klaffenbach

The Datacenter field will se a rise in more and

more intelligent Datacenters, that will have the

ability to maintain themselves or can be

managed with less IT Staff.

Engaged in the technical side of Microsoft : Microsoft Hyper-V and

system center VMM, Microsoft Storage services, Microsoft Cluster and

Data design ( including computer, network and storage )

His Creative touch : Data Design and Microsoft, need we say more?

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Rajkumar Selvaraj

When it comes to IT, we need More

collaboration between Security experts

around the world to create a set of standards.

IT majors in Amazon Web Services , Windows Azure, VMware vCloud

Director 5.1, VMware vSphere 5.1, Computer Networking, Advanced End

User Support for Business Applications and Modern Operating Systems

His Creative Touch : Giving cloud computing training and awareness

through a creative IT blog + faculty member of Innobuzz Knowledge

Solutions Pvt ltd.

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Specialization in the IT sector includes

research, information gathering,

information campaigns and awareness-

raising on the environmental and public

health impact of the illegal shipments from

the industrialized countries and dumping

in developing countries such as Ghana of

IT equipment .

His Creative Touch : Mixing his areas of

expertise which is Journalism with Film

making to tackle the issue of E waste,

particularly faced by countries in the

Africa.

I envision a future where the IT industry

takes a holistic environmental

approach that accounts for the production,

consumption, application, and disposal of IT

products

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Any feedback you would like to share with us?

Feel free to give us a shout out @ibremarketing !

www.ibremarketing.com/blog/