50 Top Global Digital Experts & AI Content Creators / Influencers to Follow in 2026

Here’s is our 2026 edition of 50 Top Global Digital Influencers to Follow on X (formelly Twitter) & LinkedIn in 2026 [selection from our home made algorithm, with no ranking, for sure it’s better like this :)]. This list is of course non exhaustive.

This list is covering major Topics around the global economic & technical Digital Transformation, such as:

Large Language Models (LLMs), Climate Action, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Deep Learning,

AI Ethics – AI Security, RegTech-Regulation, Responsible AI, Privacy, Diversity, Women In Stem, Inclusion, Accessibility,

Humanoid robots-Physical AI, Argentic AI, AI Agents, IoT (Internet of Things), IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things), Autonomous Vehicles, 

Digital & Health Tech, Wearables, Cloud & Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Robots/Bots/Chatbots/NLP,

Future of Work, Data Science, Fintech, Insurtech, DevOps, Edtech, Cyber Security, VR & AR, Digital Twins, 

Sustainablity, Environment, Climate Change & Energy,

Blockchain, Quantum Computing, Web3, Crypto, Science, Coding, Python, …

(Big “Giant” tech companies are not in this list because they obviuosly don’t “play the same game” ;=)

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So,

We celebrate this year, here below, the 10th annual edition of our Top Global Interesting Digital Experts & AI content creators-Influencers to Follow in 2026 🙂

Note: ” Twitter*** ” here means that these accounts don’t post anymore on Twitter/X

Geoffrey Hinton X (Twitter): @geoffreyhinton | AI – Machine Learning
Yoshua Bengio X (Twitter): @Yoshua_Bengio |  LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Yann LeCun X (Twitter): @ylecun | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
François Chollet X (Twitter): @fchollet | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Fei-Fei Li X (Twitter): @drfeifei | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Andrew Ng X (Twitter): @AndrewYNg | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Andrej Karpathy X (Twitter): @karpathy  | AI – Machine Learning
Imtiaz Adam X (Twitter): @DeepLearn007 | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Arvind Narayanan X (Twitter): @random_walker | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Louis-François Bouchard X (Twitter): @Whats_AI | LinkedIn  | AI – Machine Learning
Eric Topol X (Twitter): @EricTopol | LinkedIn  | Health Tech – Digital Transformation
John Nosta X (Twitter): @johnnosta | LinkedIn  | Health Tech
Evan Kirstel X (Twitter): @evankirstel | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation – Health Tech
Brian Ahier X (Twitter): @ahier | LinkedIn  | Health Tech – Science
Irma Rastegayeva X (Twitter): @irmaraste | LinkedIn  | Health Tech
Timnit Gebru X (Twitter): @timnitGebru | LinkedIn  |  AI Ethics
Mia Shah-Dand X (Twitter***): @MiaD | LinkedIn  |  AI Ethics – Diversity Inclusion
Women in AI Ethics & WAIE+ (WAIEplus) X (Twitter***): @WomeninAIEthics | LinkedIn  | AI Ethics – Diversity Inclusion
Hessie Jones: LinkedIn  |  AI Ethics – Diversity Inclusion
Karin Lakhoune X (Twitter): @BroadenView | LinkedIn  |  AI Ethics – Diversity Inclusion
Antonio Vieira Santos X (Twitter): @akwyz | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation Tech Sustainablity
Meredith Whittaker X (Twitter): @mer__edith  | Privacy – Cyber Security
Roxana Nasoi X (Twitter): @roxananasoi | LinkedIn  | Cybersecurity Privacy
Kirk Borne X (Twitter): @KirkDBorne | LinkedIn  | AI – Data Science – Big Data
KdNuggets X (Twitter): @kdnuggets |  LinkedIn  | AI – Data Science – Big Data
Bill Schmarzo X (Twitter): LinkedIn  | Data Science – Big Data – AI
Carla Gentry X (Twitter): @data_nerd | LinkedIn  | Data Science – AI
Bob Hayes X (Twitter***): @bobehayes | LinkedIn  | Data Science – Machine Learning
Tom Davenport X (Twitter***): @tdav | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation – AI – Data Science
Jean-Baptiste Lefevre X (Twitter): @jblefevre60 | LinkedIn | Digital Transformation
Antonio Grasso X (Twitter): @antgrasso | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Spiros Margaris X (Twitter): @SpirosMargaris | LinkedIn | Fintech – AI
Theodora (Theo) Lau X (Twitter***): @psb_dc | LinkedIn  | Fintech – Responsible AI
Eveline Ruehlin X (Twitter): @enilev | LinkedIn  | Health Tech – Digital Transformation
Sabine VanderLinden X (Twitter): @SabineVdL | LinkedIn  | Fintech – Digital Transformation
Pinna Pierre X (Twitter): @pierrepinna | LinkedIn  | AI Ethics – Digital Transformation
Data Science Central X (Twitter): @Datasciencectrl | LinkedIn  | AI – Data Science
Linda Grasso X (Twitter): @LindaGrass0 | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Robin Kiera X (Twitter): @stratorob | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
ipfconline X (Twitter): @ipfconline1 | LinkedIn  |  Digital Transformation – AI – Responsible AI
Nicolas Babin X (Twitter): @Nicochan33 | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation – AI
Ian Jones X (Twitter): @IanLJones98 | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Tamara McCleary X (Twitter): @TamaraMcCleary | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation Ethics
Marsha Collier X (Twitter): @MarshaCollier | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation Marketing
Dinis Guarda  X (Twitter): @dinisguarda | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Harold Sinnott X (Twitter): @HaroldSinnott | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Efi Pylarinou X (Twitter): @efipm | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation – Fintech
Stephen Harwood X (Twitter): @drsharwood  | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Khulood Almani X (Twitter): @Khulood_Almani  | LinkedIn  |  Digital Transformation
Franco Ronconi X (Twitter): @FrRonconi  | LinkedIn  | Digital Transformation
Plus: Yann Marchand X (Twitter): @Ym78200 | LinkedIn  | For French speakers and art lovers!

 

Trends

Current and near-term Strong Trends in Tech we observed:
– AI Security: Towards a responsible future : AI Ethics, Responsible AI , Sustainability-Energy Issues, Equity / Diversity / Inclusion
– Announcements of the creation of many data centers to manage LLM data calculations with enormous investments in LLMs and generative AI associated with the possibility of a financial bubble
– The rise of Physical AI
and always:
– Transformers-based Large Language Models (LLMs) & Multimodal (text, audio & video) Gen AI Models take center stage, with Argentic AI (autonomous AI agent) & Autonomous Vehicles.
– Cyber Security
– Health Tech / Digital Health
and Quantum Computing

 

Methodology

We analyzed on stochastic samples the keywords mentioned at the beginning of the article (the fields of digital transformation) on Internet and Twitter between January 2025 and the end of November 2025.

This analysis was done using a home made NLP algorithm written by our team, mainly in Prolog (yes, there are still people who use Prolog ;)). The main structure of the algorithm is a decision tree and so the AI here is “symbolic” because Prolog is a programming language based on mathematical logic. Thus it allows very simple queries to be made in natural “human” language. This choice was made to obtain a high interpretability of the results obtained by the analysis. Here there are also humans in the loop (our team obviously in this case) to establish weights on the decision trees. Biases, as with any algorithm, are certainly present here but we tried to reduce them to a minimum, but always with our own bias, of course, and that’s totally intentional ;))

Concerning X (Twitter) & LinkedIn, we took into account the potential reach and the engagement.