John Matogo is the Corporate Social Responsibility Leader for Africa & the Middle East at IBM. He joined IBM in Sept 2014 bringing with him vast experience from the academic community and innovation ecosystem in Africa. His role involves leading IBM’s social impact programmes in Middle East and Africa. These social impact programs include initiatives around skilling learners at various levels, volunteerism and sustainability. This involves working with various partners such as academia, government, non-profit organisations and private sector players.

John has been instrumental in forging collaborations for IBM with numerous institutions of higher education and ministries of education in the MEA region. The outcome of which resulted having over 3000 certifications and over 50000 trained students and faculty members on the new and emerging technologies including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, Internet of Things, data science, cyber security and many more.