Dr. Walid Rjaibi

CTO & Distinguished Engineer, Data Security, IBM Security

Dr. Walid Rjaibi is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Data Security at IBM. He drives the research for data security as well as the technical architecture and vision for IBM products and services. Prior to this, Walid held several technical and management roles within IBM including Research Staff Member at the IBM Zurich Research Lab, Security Architect for DB2 at the IBM Toronto Lab, and Chief Security Architect for Data & AI at the IBM Toronto Lab.

His Data Security work resulted in 27 granted patents, publications in leading scientific and academic journals/conferences, and industry-proven commercial capabilities that are relied upon by thousands of organizations from around the world to protect critical data and meet security and compliance mandates.

Walid also serves on the professional advisory board for the department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University, the department of Computer & Information Systems at the University of Michigan and the Cybersecurity Center at the University of Missouri.