What “best of” lists, or awards, in tech, do you think are actually meaningful and worth paying attention to? Why so?
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CISO in Softwarea year ago
I honestly think there are so many now, it is hard to recognize or identify which one(s) are meaningful.Senior Information Security Manager in Softwarea year ago
95% of these awards and lists are nothing more than pay-to-play. See https://twitter.com/benrothke/status/1686404912387624961The Turing Award from the ACM is one of the few awards that really means something - https://amturing.acm.org/
Vendors like to tout that such and such a company uses the product on their customer lists. The potential customer needs to ask: how many licenses did they buy? As many firms will buy the product to test, and technically be a customer, but in fact, has never actually deployed the product.
Chief Information Security Officer in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago
Few are - 1. CIO 100,
2. CSO 10
3. ETCISO
In India, Dell had partnered with CIO Association of India - formed by CIOs for collective learning with more than 1000 members; they used to give away awards like the "Most Respected CIO" and "India's best CIOs" where voting was done by peers. Won these a couple of times and then exited the CIO role for an entrepreneurial journey in 2014. This was very gratifying as the votes were given by peers.