Influencers 2017 | IoTGuide Documents

This year, a number of "pure-play" IoT influencers continued to replace highly influential individuals who just include IoT topics in their technology posts. Twitter activity continues to factor heavily in our rankings, particularly because of the "breaking news" aspect of so much that is going on in the IoT space. Organizations that hold events, such as developer conferences, are considered particularly influential.

	Twttr Foll.	Links
AWS IoT The AWS IoT umbrella includes AWS IoT Core, AWS Greengrass, Amazon FreeRTOS, AWS IoT Button and more.	1.59M
Intel IoT Intel sits at the center of an IoT ecosystem and the Internet of Things Solutions Alliance.	122K
Cisco IoT Offers both Kinetic and Jasper, plus products in IoT Networking, Management, Security, Fog and more.	83.7K
IBM Watson IoT The Watson IoT Platform can build specialized, integrated solutions in the industrial IoT space.	86.5K
Arduino An open-source platform that is the starting point for many IoT projects, forming a passionate community.	253K
Stacey Higginbotham A journalist covering technology since 2001; Records the IoT Podcast and delivers insightful consumer IoT reviews.	38.8K
GE Digital Under the "Minds + Machines" theme and Predix brand, GE Digital is a leader in industrial internet solutions.	32.6K
IOTA Offers a blockless distributed ledger called Tangle which is scalable, lightweight and enables the transfer value without any fees.	80.2K
Samsung IoT Samsung's IoT efforts center around the ARTIK platform and ecosystem, joining hardware and cloud services.	53.4K
Internet of Things Consortium A membership-based association that brings companies together to accelerate IoT adoption.	32.8K
Nest Bringing the heft of Alphabet, Nest is pushing to into multiple aspects of the Consumer IoT and Smart Home segments.	178K
Make At the center of the maker movement, Make Magazine and Makers Faires are, for many, their first introduction to the world of IoT development.	221K
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Designer, speaker and founder of the Good Night Lamp	15.3K
ThingWorx PTC's ThingWorx delivers an IoT deveopment platform, developer portal, marketplace and community.	12.3K
The Internet of Things Community An organization of 22,000+ senior business leaders and IoT practitioners, the IoT Community organizes the annual IoT Slam conference.	43.6K
Amyx+ Amyx+ is an award-winning IoT strategy & innovation lab. Scott Amyx is Managing Partner at Amyx Ventures, TEDx speaker, author of Strive, and more.	29.5K
Zigbee Alliance Zigbee's interoperable wireless standard is used in countless consumer and enterprise IoT products, having a huge impact behind the scenes.	10.4K
Rob van Kranenburg Founder of the IoT Council and proponent of IoT Day, April 9th.	10.4K
Bosch Software Innovations Brings together a team of IoT consultants, software developers, solution architects, project managers, UX designers, and more.	10.4K
Ajit Jaokar Works at the intersection of Data Science, IoT, AI, Machine Learning, Big Data, Mobile, Smart Cities.	11K

This page has a corresponding Twitter list on @IoTGuide. Inclusion on the list comes from a variety of factors, with an emphasis on Twitter visibility, frequency and focus on IoT (there are many extremely influential people who often tweet about IoT but don't focus on it). The minimum for inclusion this year was 10K Twitter followers.