Wael Elrifai is a book author & public speaker and have been featured in BBC News, Wired Magazine, Forbes, The Financial Times, and many other publications in addition to his role as Global VP of Solution Engineering at Hitachi Vantara. With graduate degrees in both electrical engineering and economics, he is a member of the Board of Directors at the Alliance for IOT Innovation, 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.