Professor Sa'ad Sam Medhat emphasizes the role of disruptive innovation in transforming economies and reshaping societal structures, particularly through education and training in STEM fields. The talk examines how educational ecosystems must adapt to meet the evolving technological demands of businesses and prepare a future workforce. Medhat, a leader in STEM education and innovation, has extensive experience in various academic and industrial roles, advocating for the integration of technology in educational portfolios.

1. The RACE to
STEM talent
Professor Sa’ad Sam Medhat
Chief Executive
Institute of Innovation & Knowledge
Exchange | STEM Foundation
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Disruptive innovation is redefining economies and reshaping societies. It is reconfiguring the way
in which we do business to create new economic value and deliver social benefit. Innovation
makes the need for transformation the inevitable constant.
Investment decisions demand a focus on what businesses need in terms of the supply of skills,access
to services and synergy with other stakeholders.It is therefore,important for education and training
providers to understand the interconnectedness of these ecosystems that help them to define
“where to invest” to create the future STEM talent.
This talk will ask a key question: How proactively
prepared are you to respond to the current and future
needs of your ever changing technological customers?
It will highlight how the convergence of technologies could be integrated into educational
portfolios to prepare the future workforce and invigorate local economies.
25 November 2016
SAFEE Conference, Glasgow

2. Professor Sa’ad Sam Medhat is the founding
Chief Executive of the Institute of Innovation and
Knowledge Exchange – the professional body in
the UK for innovators, and a leading provider of
SciTech innovation and growth services to busi-
ness, education and government.
Medhat is also the Founder and Trustee of the
UK STEM Foundation – an educational charity
that has supported some 250 colleges in the UK
and impacted positively the lives of over 600,000
students studying science, technology, engineering
and mathematics. Professor Medhat is a member
of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.
He is also aVisiting Professor to the University of
Suffolk and the University of St Mark and St John
and served as a Governor at a number of colleges in Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
He chaired a number of think-tanks and served on a number of national and international committees includ-
ing amongst others the Higher Education Funding Council’s committee on Quality Assessment in England, and
Adviser to the European Parliament and UK-Dubai Economic Development Committee.
He also held two Professorial Chairs with a worldwide remit: the IBM Professor of Concurrent Engineering and
the Intergraph Professor of Electronic Design Automation. Professor Medhat led innovation accreditation and
scientific skills certification programmes in many multinational organisations such as BAE Systems,Thales, EDF
Energy, Magnox, Horizon Nuclear and Panasonic.
Professor Medhat held a number of senior academic and industrial positions nationally and internationally
including Director of the UK Engineering and Technology Board, founding Principal of Dubai Polytechnic (now
Dubai University), Head of University’s Office of Research and Head of School of Electronics at Bourne-
mouth University andVice President of a NASDAQ Technology company. Professor Medhat has been
responsible for establishing 9 business start-ups.
Medhat’s early career was with Philips. Subsequently, he worked as an ASICs Designer on
large-scale projects in the defense, telecommunications and instrumentation sectors.
His PhD in microelectronics was sponsored by Siemens Defense Systems. Medhat is a
Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institution
of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, a
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Directors and a Fellow of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange.
Professor Sa’ad Sam Medhat
PhD MPhil CEng FIET FCIM FCMI FRSA FIKE FIoD
www.IKEInstitute.org
www.STEMFoundation.org.uk