The Breaking Boundaries series invites distinguished speakers to share insights and wisdom on their STEM expertise and discuss topics of women leadership, with the aim to inspire women's advancement and create a supportive network to empower women in engineering.

In this inaugural edition, we are honoured to have Ms Kyungsoon Kelly Um, ASEAN Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IBM, to share about her accomplishment as a technical leader, and her career journey of how she progressed from a system programmer to becoming the first women CTO and Distinguished Engineer in IBM Asia's history.

Register today to learn more about how women in engineering and technology are continually breaking barriers, and creating innovative solutions to resolve current and arising real-world challenges.

Host : Priyanka Deva, Senior Technical Staff Member, Quantum Ambassador, IBM Supply Chain

Co Host: Jacqueline Chua, Director of New Product Introduction, HP

About the speaker

Kyungsoon is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and IBM ASEAN CTO. She is widely recognized as a leader in innovation who has repeatedly applied new and emerging technology to drive complex client and industry transformations. She has deep expertise in Cloud Transformation, Financial Services Industry, System z, Blockchain, AI, Analytics and Electronics Industry. During her 30 years tenure, she has held positions as the IBM ASEAN CTO, IBM Korea CTO, Samsung Electronics (SEC) Client Technical Advisor (CTA), Cloud & Cognitive Software CTO, SW Client Architect Leader, System z Client Architect, and System z SW Technical Sales Leader.

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