Bio

Dr. Steven Atkin '94 M.S., '01 Ph.D. is a distinguished engineer and the chief globalization architect at IBM and is responsible for establishing the globalization strategy for IBM. Steven has been working on globalization issues at IBM for over 20 years and is focused on improving the global user experience of IBM’s solutions by addressing the needs of IBM’s diverse worldwide client base. Steven’s recent focus has been on the acceleration of cloud-based innovations—with an emphasis on interoperability and cloud-based service solutions. Steven has a long history of contributions in advancing development and testing methodologies for software globalization, maturing the globalization support of computer programming languages, and readying the deployment of cloud and cognitive solutions for a global market.