"Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan is a globally renowned technologist best known for his technological innovations in addressing global humanitarian and sustainable development challenges. He is credited with launching impactful global programs in humanitarian engineering which successfully inspired and engaged students and young professionals in sustainable development activities globally. He is a seasoned technology and business leader with over 16 years of experience in Top 500 Fortune companies. Throughout his career, he has led business critical strategic global programs and successfully delivered cutting-edge technologies in areas of conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding, cloud computing, enterprise systems, infrastructure technologies, assistive and sustainable technologies. He served as an expert in the 2020 Broadband Commission working group on school connectivity co-chaired by UNESCO, UNICEF and ITU to drive “GIGA,” a Global School Connectivity Initiative. He is the founder and president of “The Brahmam,” a technology-based humanitarian program that delivers next-generation social innovations to achieve sustainable development through technological advancements and benefit marginalized communities globally. For over a decade, he has successfully launched large-scale transformational global initiatives that brought together academic institutions, industries and government agencies to address pressing global challenges faced in developing nations and improved the living conditions of children with disabilities, impoverished women and students from marginalized communities. He has delivered 250+ invited talks in international forums, premier technology conferences, industry panels organized by UN, IEEE, ITU, World IoT forum and Top universities around the globe. He has authored and published 30+ research publications and thought leadership articles in leading global conferences, journals and magazines. His technological innovations and leadership excellence were featured in cover stories of global media such as IEEE TV, IEEE Spectrum, USA Today, E-Week, AI-News and IEEE Transmitter, The Bridge and ACM-News. As an active IEEE Eta Kappa NU (HKN) member, Sampath enjoys volunteering and serves in numerous global engineering forums to promote the advancement of engineering and technology. He has extensively contributed to numerous IEEE-HKN’s global programs and IEEE global committees. He currently leads the 2021 IEEE HKN outstanding young professional award global committee. He was a member of the 2020 HKN strategic planning committee which defined the 2020-2025 HKN strategic direction. He served as the IEEE Member & Geographic Activities Governor-At-Large (2015-2017) on the IEEE HKN board of governors (BoG) and strengthened the collaboration between HKN and IEEE MGA entities. He successfully led the outstanding chapter award program (2016-2018) and delivered significant growth for the program. He also spearheaded and established Vtool support for HKN chapters at grassroots. In his 16 years of volunteering journey, he has spearheaded and delivered numerous high-impactful programs which significantly scaled up the growth of 20+ global IEEE programs/committees such as IEEE-HKN, IEEE History Committee, IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, IEEE SIGHT, IEEE EMCC, IEEE Public Visibility Initiatives, IEEE Educational Activities, IEEE Young Professionals, IEEE Women in Engineering, IEEE Standards and IEEE Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS). As the Global chair of 2021 IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (IEEE HAC) appointed by the IEEE Board of Directors, Sampath spearheads the global strategy and portfolio of sustainable development and humanitarian engineering programs to deliver impactful programs to benefit IEEE members (400k+) at grass root-level in 160+ countries. He is credited with launching several transformative programs that have empowered IEEE members to deliver technology for social goods and have made IEEE a world leader in the sustainable development space. Sampath was the Global Chair (2019-2020) of IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian technologies (SIGHT), leading the program to record-breaking growth (4500 members (2018) to 18500+ now) through high-impact, technology-driven sustainable programs benefiting members in 119+ countries. He is the founding chair for the IEEE SIGHT day (2020) and SIGHT week (2019), a global program that showcases the impactful IEEE technology-based humanitarian programs. He currently heads the IEEE Standard 2021 corporate sustainability global efforts. Sampath’s exemplary scholarly contributions and leadership excellence accredited him with numerous global awards and honors like IEEE-HKN outstanding young professional award (2013), IEEE Larry K Wilson Transnational Award (2016), IEEE “New Face of Engineering” (2011), IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award (2014), IEEE MGA Achievement Award (2008 & 2013) and IEEE Presidents’ ‘Change the World’ Award. He was most recently accredited with the 2020 IEEE Theodore W. Hissey Professional Award for his technical and leadership excellence. He received M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA (2010) and B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Tamil Nadu, India (2005). He currently works as a senior technology and program management leader with Alexa Artificial Intelligence Group at Amazon, USA. "