Pavel Abdur Rahman

Pavel is a Partner & Head of Data Science Consulting Practice for IBM Canada, based out of Toronto. He leads a technology agnostic growing global practice of data strategists, scientists, meta-data & AI model managers, designers, ethicists, hybrid cloud platform architects & software engineers.

He is frequently engaged by Fortune 500 digital transformation executives (both central and federated stakeholders) in financial, natural resources and telecom sectors to co-create data informed enterprise that leverages its information to make higher quality decisions and interventions.

In addition to his role at IBM, Pavel is an affiliated researcher & lecturer at Queen’s Smith School of Business focusing on "Ethically Aligned Digital Transformation” to enable Scaling of Ethical AI, Data Monetization and Self-Regulation related initiatives. Pavel regularly speaks at global conferences, advises venture capital firms and supports digital economic development government agencies.