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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

The rise of Big Data - the ability to store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured, internal and external data - promises to let companies react more nimbly than ever before. Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. Nor should they on a technology utility. It is happening today.