Born | Skåne, Sweden | January 17, 1974
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Occupation | Writer; technology officer Microsoft |
Daniel Akenine is an author, IT architect and former researcher in neurophysics. In 2008, he was ranked by IDG as one of "Sweden’s top 10 developers/architects" [1] and the same year appointed as National Technology Officer at Microsoft. [2]
In 2015 Daniel received an IASA Fellowship for his work in the field of IT-architecture – one of the highest international awards in the field with profiles as Grady Booch as former recipients. [3] In 2018 the newspapers Ny Teknik [4] and Voister [5] described Akenine as one of the developers of the technology behind blockchain. In 2019 Daniel was appointed member of the Swedish commission for digitalization [6] by the Minister of Digital development and in 2022 he was ranked as one of Sweden's 50 most influential persons in tech. [7]
In 2023 Daniel was elected as a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. [8]
Akenine is a graduate of Lund University where he studied engineering physics, economics and law. After graduating Akenine began his career in a research group at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, working with mathematical models of the human brain. During a later period at the Royal Institute of Technology, Akenine developed and launched one of the first anonymization services for Internet users. A service later acquired. [9] During his time at the Nasdaq stock exchange, Akenine developed and patented the cryptographic algorithm SecureLog [10] – today mainly used in the financial sector to protect digital logs from tampering.
Akenine is the former chairman for the Swedish IT architect organization which he co-founded in 2007. [11] He is a frequent commentator on matters of IT and privacy and a member in the international ISO:s expert committee for cloud standards. [12]
After writing mostly non-fiction books Akenine debuted in 2014 with the thriller 11 grams of truth. The novel is about a man named Simian, using big data, psychology and machine learning to succeed in manipulating our world towards a predetermined future. The rights to the book were sold to the United States before it was published [13] and Akenine was named by Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden, as one of three debutants not to miss in 2014. [14]
Born | Skåne, Sweden | January 17, 1974
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Occupation | Writer; technology officer Microsoft |
Daniel Akenine is an author, IT architect and former researcher in neurophysics. In 2008, he was ranked by IDG as one of "Sweden’s top 10 developers/architects" [1] and the same year appointed as National Technology Officer at Microsoft. [2]
In 2015 Daniel received an IASA Fellowship for his work in the field of IT-architecture – one of the highest international awards in the field with profiles as Grady Booch as former recipients. [3] In 2018 the newspapers Ny Teknik [4] and Voister [5] described Akenine as one of the developers of the technology behind blockchain. In 2019 Daniel was appointed member of the Swedish commission for digitalization [6] by the Minister of Digital development and in 2022 he was ranked as one of Sweden's 50 most influential persons in tech. [7]
In 2023 Daniel was elected as a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. [8]
Akenine is a graduate of Lund University where he studied engineering physics, economics and law. After graduating Akenine began his career in a research group at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, working with mathematical models of the human brain. During a later period at the Royal Institute of Technology, Akenine developed and launched one of the first anonymization services for Internet users. A service later acquired. [9] During his time at the Nasdaq stock exchange, Akenine developed and patented the cryptographic algorithm SecureLog [10] – today mainly used in the financial sector to protect digital logs from tampering.
Akenine is the former chairman for the Swedish IT architect organization which he co-founded in 2007. [11] He is a frequent commentator on matters of IT and privacy and a member in the international ISO:s expert committee for cloud standards. [12]
After writing mostly non-fiction books Akenine debuted in 2014 with the thriller 11 grams of truth. The novel is about a man named Simian, using big data, psychology and machine learning to succeed in manipulating our world towards a predetermined future. The rights to the book were sold to the United States before it was published [13] and Akenine was named by Aftonbladet, the largest newspaper in Sweden, as one of three debutants not to miss in 2014. [14]