Biography
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Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is Vice President of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation working with the largest technology companies and open source projects. In this role, he's focused on facilitating a vendor-neutral environment for advancing the open source platform and empowering generations of open source innovators by providing a neutral, trusted hub for developers to code, manage, and scale open technology projects. Haddad leads the LF AI & Data Foundation that supports and sustains development and innovation in open source artificial intelligence and data. His work, and the work of the LF AI & Data as a whole, supports companies, developers, and the open source community in identifying and contributing to the technological projects that address the challenges of industry and technology for the benefit of all participants.
Prior to the Linux Foundation, he served as Vice President of R&D and Head of the Global Open Source Division at Samsung Electronics based in Silicon Valley. At Samsung Research, he established the global open source division, executed Samsung's open source strategy, launched internal and external R&D collaboration projects with universities and other organizations, supported M&A and corporate VC activities via SamsungNEXT, and represented Samsung in various open source foundations and consortia. |
Throughout his career, Haddad has held technology and portfolio management roles at Ericsson Research, the Open Source Development Labs, Motorola, Palm, Hewlett-Packard and the Linux Foundation. He graduated with Honors from Concordia University (Montréal, Canada) with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, where he was awarded the J. W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship and the Concordia University 25th Anniversary Fellowship. Haddad is fluent in Arabic, English and French.
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Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is Vice President of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of LF AI & Data. Throughout his career, Haddad has held technology and portfolio management roles at Ericsson Research, the Open Source Development Labs, Motorola, Palm, Hewlett-Packard, the Linux Foundation and Samsung Research. He writes and speaks on topics ranging from legal compliance to using open source as an R&D tool to drive collaboration and innovation.
Dr. Ibrahim Haddad is Vice President of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of LF AI & Data. Throughout his career, Haddad has held technology and portfolio management roles at Ericsson Research, the Open Source Development Labs, Motorola, Palm, Hewlett-Packard, the Linux Foundation and Samsung Research. He writes and speaks on topics ranging from legal compliance to using open source as an R&D tool to drive collaboration and innovation.
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