The World Economic Forum has announced 34 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2009 for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest calibre, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society.
Previous Technology Pioneers awardees, which have turned into today's technology icons, include Google, Infosys, Mozilla Corporation and Nanosolar among others.
Following are the top 15 technology pioneers honoured by WEF this year:
Advanced Track & Trace
Jean-Pierre Massicot, Chief Executive Officer
Advanced Track & Trace is a pioneer in digital security solutions applied to Brand Protection. ATT is a French company, subsidiary of the LAMY Energies & Technologies Group It is headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris. ATT offers high-security technological solutions and protected intervention procedures to its clients.
Brightcove Inc.
Jeremy Allaire, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Brightcove is an online video platform used by media companies, businesses and organisations worldwide to publish and distribute video on the Web. Its on-demand platform is used by hundreds of professional publishers to power online video initiatives that reach over a hundred million Internet users every month.
Etsy Inc.
Robert Kalin, Founder
Etsy is an online marketplace for buying & selling all things handmade. Its mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Its vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.
GameForge
Klaas Kersting, Chief Executive Officer
Gameforge is the largest independent supplier of browser- and client-based MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) worldwide.
Founders Alexander Roesner and Klaas Kersting utilised the enormous growth in terms of broadband Internet access to easily distribute MMOGs such as "OGame" thereby creating a new variety of games industry attracting millions of players in only a short period of time.
JiGrahak Mobility Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Sourabh Jain, Chief Executive Officer
JiGrahak provides "ngpay", India's first end-to-end, mass market mobile commerce service. Through ngpay, consumers anywhere across India can shop, buy tickets, bank, order food, pay bills and more - easily and securely - from their mobile handset.
Mint.com
Aaron Patzer, Chief Executive Officer
Mint.com applies breakthrough technology to make it easier to make smarter financial decisions. It provides information and recommendations for saving or making more money based on each user’s individual purchase history.
Mojix, Inc.
Dr. Ramin Sadr, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Mojix, Inc. was founded in 2004 by a team of former JPL/NASA scientists and engineers with the vision of applying breakthroughs in deep space communications to exponentially refine the precision, reach and scope of RFID technology.The company's mission is to leverage advanced signal processing technology, perfected for deep space communications, to create a new generation of game-changing RFID systems.
MPedigree
Bright B. Simons, Chief Strategist
mPedigree manages the 1393 service, which has been deployed in Ghana since January of this year, and is the first system anywhere in the world by means of which consumers and patients can instantly verify the source of a purchased pharmaceutical at no cost, at the point of purchase, using standard mobile phones.
Nivio
Sachin Duggal, Chief Executive Officer
Nivio is the first online Windows desktop. It can work from existing PCs, Laptops through to its own little device called the Companion and eventually any internet-device that is “nivioEnabled”; ubiquitous access everywhere.
Qifang Inc
Calvin Chin, Chief Executive Officer
Qifang is a company built on the simple premise that everyone should be able to get an education, no matter their financial means. Leveraging the latest in web and community technologies, Qifang efficiently brokers data and relationships through a transparent platform built on trust to connect and assist everyone involved in education finance.
Slide, Inc.
Max Levchin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Slide's current sources of revenue include product sponsorships, product-placement within applications, display advertising, and direct-to-consumer products. It offers people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
SpinVox Ltd
Christina Domecq, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
SpinVox is the creator and global leader in an entirely new category of communications which it has called Voice-to-Screen. SpinVox captures spoken messages and converts them into text. It then delivers your message to a destination of users' choice – inbox, blog, wall or space.
Tideway Systems
Richard M. Muirhead, Chief Executive Officer
Tideway provides data center search software that continuously consumes and transforms IT data into intelligence, including identifying application software components and inter-relationships and mapping them to physical and virtual infrastructure. Tideway Foundation software continuously maps application relationships to physical and virtual infrastructure, including the dependencies between them. This single, automated view of application topology helps IT professionals to visualise and report on the data they need to make informed decisions.
Ubiquisys Ltd
Chris Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer
Ubiquisys launched the femto industry in 2004 to improve and reduce the cost of mobile coverage, capacity and services in homes and offices. With its innovative ZoneGate technology, Ubiquisys was the first vendor to demonstrate a fully working femtocell solution at 3GSM World Congress 2006.
TraceTracker Innovation ASA
Ole-Henning Fredriksen, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
TraceTracker is the global information exchange for the food industry. TraceTracker's business is taking care of vital electronic footprints left by all suppliers and manufacturers contributing to a finished product.
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