Wael Elrifai
Vice President, Solution Engineering, Big Data, IoT, and AI, Hitachi Vantara

Wael Elrifai is vice president of solution engineering for big data, the IoT, and AI at Hitachi Vantara. An engineer, author, and speaker in the AI and IoT spaces, Wael has worked with corporate and government clients in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia across a number of industry verticals. He holds graduate degrees in electrical engineering and economics and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Special Interest Group for Artificial Intelligence, the Royal Economic Society, and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.