Karen Medhat

I am a Customer Success Manager at IBM UKI and the youngest Chair of the IBM Technical Consultancy Group.

I am the youngest IBM thought leader and Open group distinguished technical specialist. I led mega projects for clients around the world in the public and private sectors. I graduated from the faculty of engineering at Cairo university with honors and 9th rank. When I was an undergraduate, I was a Microsoft Student Partner and led several initiatives for the benefit of other students at Cairo University. I worked as a research assistant and a developer in Microsoft along with my MSc part-time study which I continued with my full-time Job at IBM and published 5 publications and a patent. I have been progressing in my career at IBM, being a technical leader, inventor, Redbooks author, and creator of courses in different areas such as Cloud, IoT, AI, and blockchain which have been delivered to thousands of IT professionals, students, and university staff across the world. I joined volunteering initiatives for Women in Tech, engineering students, and mentoring IT professionals. I managed the IBM Digital Nation Africa project which has reached 50K students and professionals in Egypt and 250K in Africa to learn new technologies. Leading different teams and building enterprise applications that made difference for clients. I am the youngest member of the IBM Academy of Technology which is an elite community of top talented technical IBMers globally. I am on the editorial board of different internal journals and conferences.