Kris Singh has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry as well as in academia. Currently Kris is the Strategic Programs Director at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Before IBM Research, Kris has worked with Intel, AMD and National Semiconductor in various roles such as Director of Server Architecture & Planning and Data Center Technology at Intel, Director in the CTO Office at AMD and senior technical management roles at National Semiconductor.

Kris is also the President of Service Research & Innovation Institute which is a global professional organization with members from the industry, academia, institutes and government organizations (www.thesrii.org).

He is an Industry Fellow in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, CA and has been an adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department at Santa Clara University, CA. He is also the member of the Advisory board for the Informatics Research at Manchester University, UK.

Kris has been an invited speaker at various technology conferences around the world.