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We would like to acknowledge and extend our sincere gratitude to those who contributed to this initiative. The project engaged a multistakeholder community across the private, government, civil society, and academic sectors through its Steering Committee, Working Group and series of workshops and interviews.
We wish to thank our project advisor, Accenture, for their commitment and support, and in particular, Paul Daugherty, Prith Banerjee, Edy Liongosari, Dadong Wan and Peggy Hsii. We also thank Adrian Turner of Saltgrid for his significant contribution.
At the World Economic Forum, appreciation goes to Derek O’Halloran and Elena Kvochko for their guidance and dedication in this project.
Additional thanks are extended to:
| Casper Clausen | Enterprise Architect, Technology Innovation | A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S |
| Le Tang | Vice President and Head of Corporate Research | ABB |
| Dan Elron | Managing Director | Accenture |
| Frank Riemensperger | Senior Managing Director | Accenture |
| Matt Reilly | Senior Managing Director | Accenture Strategy |
| Pierre Nanterme | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Accenture |
| Allan Alter | Senior Research Fellow | Accenture Institute for High Performance |
| Juan Alberto Yepez | Chairman | AlienVault Inc. |
| Michael Eitelwein | Head of Disruptive Technology | Allianz SE |
| Sam Ramji | Vice President of Strategy | Apigee |
| Markus Korsten | Chief Manufacturing Officer | Apollo Tyres |
| Amit Narayan | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Autogrid Systems Inc. |
| Bella Powell | Head of Strategy, Cyber Business Unit | BAE Systems |
| Stefan Neuwirth | Head of Corporate Office Administration | Bayer AG |
| Amit Kalyani | Executive Director | Bharat Forge |
| Billy Ho | Executive Vice President, Enterprise Engineering | Blackberry |
| Uwe Weiss | Chief Executive Officer | Blue Yonder Start Up |
| Chris Amos | Programme Director, Smart Grids in Group Strategy | BT |
| Petra Trost-Guertner | Vice President, Business Development | BT |
| Vikas Krishna | Vice President, Mobile Application and Content Management Solutions | CA Technologies |
| Aglaia Kong | Chief Technology Officer and Vice President, Internet of Everything Solution | Cisco |
| Bryan Tantzen | Manufacturing Lead | Cisco |
| John T. Chambers | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Cisco |
| Tony Shakib | Vice President, Connected Industries | Cisco |
| Simon Gibson | Founder | Content Culture Group |
| Peter Taylor | Chief Operating Officer | CWS Boco International GmbH |
| Harald Rudolph | Director, Strategy | Daimler |
| Carlos Jericho Petilla | Secretary of Energy | Department of Energy of the Philippines |
| Andreas Brandt | Head of Digital Channels and Marketing Technology | Deutsche Boerse |
| Markus Kueckelhaus | Director, Trend Research | DHL |
| Fabio Rosati | Chief Executive Officer | Elance-oDesk |
| Andre Johnson | Vice President, Technology Services and Chief Information Officer G&A | EMC Corporation |
| Jeff Doerr | Senior Manager, Business Development of Innovation Services | Flextronics |
| Lucile Hofman | Head of Strategy and Digital Transformation, Information Systems Division | GDF SUEZ |
| John Rice | Vice Chairman and President and Chief Executive Officer, Global Growth and Operations | GE |
| Marco Annunziata | Chief Economist | GE |
| Stuart Dean | Chief Executive Officer | GE ASEAN |
| Jose Victor Emmanuel De Dios | Chief Executive Officer | GE Philippines |
| Niloy Sanyal | Managing Director, Industrial Internet Commercial Strategy | GE Software |
| Anant Gupta | President and Chief Executive Officer | HCL Technologies |
| Harmeet Chuahan | Associate Vice President | HCL Technologies |
| Sukamal Banerjee | Senior Vice President | HCL Technologies |
| Franz Gormanns | Director, Engineering, Adhesive Technologies | Henkel AG & Co. KGaA |
| Tod Nielsen | Chief Executive Officer | Heroku |
| Amip Shah | Head Internet of Things Research | Hewlett-Packard |
| Guo Ping | Deputy Chairman of the Board | Huawei Technologies |
| Ivan (Rantong) Huang | Senior Director, Global Marketing and Strategy | Huawei Technologies |
| Jesse Jijun Luo | Director, Solution Management and Marketing | Huawei Technologies |
| Agustin Delgado | Director, Innovation, Environment and Quality | Iberdrola |
| Richard Soley | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Industrial Internet Consortium & Object Management Group, Inc. |
| Ton Steenman | Vice President and General Manager, Internet of Things Strategy | Intel |
| Yossi Vardi | Chairman | International Technologies Ventures Inc. |
| Ashwin Rangan | Chief Innovation and Information Officer | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
| Kuek Yu Chuang | Vice President | Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers |
| Anthony Goldbloom | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Kaggle |
| Olivier Brique | Vice President, Technology, Cyber Services and Technologies | Kudelski |
| Andres Ruzo | Chief Executive Officer | Link America |
| Jeff Wilcox | Corporate Vice President, Engineering | Lockheed Martin |
| John Kelly | Senior Research Engineer, Data Analytics Initiatives Lead | Lockheed Martin |
| Ray O. Johnson | Chief Technology Officer | Lockheed Martin |
| Erik Brynjolfsson | Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| James Isaacs | Chief Executive Officer | Mocana |
| Francois Meunier | Managing Director, Technology Equity Research | Morgan Stanley |
| Alok Batra | Chief Executive Officer | MQ Identity |
| Tarkan Maner | Chief Executive Officer | Nexenta |
| Benjamin Wesson | Vice President, Internet of Things | Oracle |
| Jon Bruner | Editor-at-Large | O’Reilly Media |
| Tim O’Reilly | Chief Executive Officer | O’Reilly Media |
| Laurie Yoler | Senior Vice President, Business Development | Qualcomm |
| Stan Schneider | Chief Executive Officer | Real-Time Innovations |
| Fabia Cristina Tetteroo-Bueno | Country Manager and General Manager, Lighting | Royal Philips |
| Jeroen Tas | Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare Informatics, Solutions and Services | Royal Philips |
| JP Cojan | Executive Vice President, Strategy and Transformation | Safran |
| Jason Wild | Vice President, Enterprise Innovation | Salesforce.com |
| Marc Benioff | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Salesforce.com |
| Adrian Turner | Chief Executive Officer | Saltgrid |
| Rod Beckstrom | Chief Security Advisor | Samsung |
| Alexander Atzberger | Chief of Staff, Chief Executive Officer Office | SAP |
| Gil Perez | Senior Vice President, Cloud Industries and General Manager, Connected Vehicles | SAP |
| Adaire Fox-Martin | President | SAP Asia |
| Cliff Wu | President, Greater China | SAS Institute Inc. |
| Tobias Nittel | Director, SAP Business | SAS Institute Inc. |
| Cyril Perducat | Executive Vice President, Digital Services Transformation | Schneider Electric |
| Jean-Pascal Tricoire | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Schneider Electric |
| Elisabeth Neun | Project Manager, Strategy | Siemens AG |
| Michael Steinbauer | Senior Consultant, Business Development and Strategy | Siemens AG |
| Ragnvald Naero | Senior Vice President, Business Development | Statkraft |
| Natarajan Chandrasekaran “Chandra” | Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director | Tata Consultancy Services |
| Mike Cihra | Director, Emerging Opportunities, Software Group | Telstra Corporation Ltd |
| David Gutelius | Principal and Co-Founder | The Data Guild |
| Stefan Kistler | TÜV IT, Strategic Sales and Marketing | TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH |
| Rajan Goel | Vice President, Strategy for Building and Industrial Systems | UTC |
| Janos Sztipanovits | Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Director, Institute for Software Integrated Systems | Vanderbilt University |
| Siby Abraham | Chief Technologist and Vice President, CTO Office | Wipro |
| Tom Williams | Independent Board Director and Strategic Advisor | |
| Tucker Durmer | Independent Technology Executive |