LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Carlota's work has brought together the knowledge of different aspects crucial for business life, such as technology, innovation and economic development. Her books and papers are studied all over the world while inspiring others and being a spark for a deep understanding of how the world works.

British-Venezuelan researcher, lecturer and international consultant, Carlota Perez studies the mutual shaping of technical change and society and the lessons provided by the history of technological revolutions for economic growth and development.  In Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Elgar 2002), she put forward her theory of the emergence and diffusion of technological revolutions and of the role of finance in the process. 

Her work has contributed to the present understanding of the relationship between technology, innovation and economic development; between technical and institutional change; and between finance and technological diffusion.

She is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London, UK and at SPRU, the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK; Adjunct Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at TalTech, Estonia; Professor Perez’ books and papers are used as study material in post-graduate courses in universities around the world, and she has lectured at numerous seminars and student conferences.

Dr. Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Marconi Prize and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Robert E. Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer, who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet. In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP.

Cerf and Kahn developed a set of guidelines for data transfer using packet switching in 1980, calling those guidelines TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. The TCP part of the protocol is in charge of packing the data before it moves across the network and unpacking it once it has arrived. The IP component acts as the trip coordinator and maps the movement of information from its start point to its end point.

While Kleinrock’s experiment proved that a single network between two computer systems was possible, Cerf and Kahn’s TCP/IP provided the backbone for an efficient and large web of interconnected networks—thus the name “Internet.”  ​

The study  of scrum software development process for small teams  by Rising and Norman S. Janoff is cited as the first published study in which the scrum, a development process for small teams which includes a series of "sprints" which each last typically between one and four weeks, was tested in real-life projects. The study has been cited for showing "that nonhierarchical teams work more effectively through the complex iterations and time-consuming gestation of a software program" and that "they gain strength through shared successes and failures".

She is editor of the book  Design Patterns in Communication Software , a compendium of patterns, which appeared in 2001. Contributors to her book include experts from the patterns community such as James O. Coplien and Douglas C. Schmidt. She is the author of Fearless Change : Patterns for Introducing New Ideas , co-authored with Mary Lynn Manns and published 2004.

Rising has been a keynote speaker at the  Agile2007  conference (topic: "Are agilists the bonobos of software development?"), the  OOP 2009  conference (topic: "Who Do You Trust?"), the  Agile testing days Berlin 2010  (topic: "Deception and Estimation: How we fool ourselves"), at the  GOTO Amsterdam 2014  conference (topic: "Science or Stories?"), and at the  European Testing Conference 2016  in Bucharest (topic: "The Agile Mindset")

Her work has inspired many in the agile community, for instance, Steve Adolph and Paul Bramble, who, together with Alistair Cockburn and Andy Pols, expanded further on Rising's use patterns.

Rising lives in Phoenix, Arizona.