Hisham Arafat is Technical Director, Enterprise Architect, Lean Agile Programs Advisor, Associate Professor of Practice and Research Engineer - working for several international and regional organizations. He has more than 25 years of professional hands-on experience and global exposure in multi technologies and business domains. In addition, he worked in over 50 countries contributing in hundreds of projects for enterprise customers in EMEA, US and Far-east regions in different vertical industries.

During the last 12 years Eng. Hisham focused on big data engineering, Data Science, AI applications, Cloud-Native SW Engineering, Blockchain , IoT in both commercial industry solutions as well as academic-industry research in several universities and programs.

Also, Eng. Hisham will be joining the panelists and will be giving his feedback on the graduation projects of the Faculty of Computer Science.