Stephen Ibaraki

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]

• REDDS Capital Official Website
• Stephen Ibaraki CIPS Fellow Profile
• Stephen Ibaraki ITU Profile