Stephen Ibaraki

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Stephen K. Ibaraki has been a teacher, [1] an industry analyst, [2] writer [3] [4] [5] and consultant [6] in the IT industry, and the former president of the Canadian Information Processing Society. [7]

Currently, Ibaraki is a venture capitalist, [8] [9] [10] entrepreneur, [9] [11] [12] [13] [14] futurist [9] [12] [14] and speaker. [15] He is also the founder of the UN ITU AI for Good Global Summit, [12] [16] [17] and a vicechair of the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health, founding chair of the Financial Services Roundtable Tech Advisory Council, [18] and founding chair of the International Federation for Information Processing Global Industry Council. [19] Ibaraki serves as an Advisor for the Business Development Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. [20] He is the co-founder for the Technology Advisory Board at Yintech Investment Holdings Limited. [21] [22] [23] [24]

In 2018, he was invited to be a founding member of IPSoft's AI Pioneers Steering Committee [25] and he was also invited to join the Science and Technology Council for the ARCH Mission Foundation. [26] Aside from taking on these new roles, he was invited to be a keynote speaker at the Yonder25 Conference as well as the Reshaping National Security forum which was hosted by Shanghai Institute for International Studies; and the UNICRI Centre for AI and Robotics. [27] [28]

Ibaraki has been the recipient of a Microsoft MVP award for 13 years in a row since 2006 [29] [30]

In December 2018, Ibaraki was invited by YPO to share his insights about business and investments with respect to the Fourth Industrial Revolution at YPO Edge 2019. [31]

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