John McNamara is a Senior Inventor at IBM, currently leads the Senior Inventor community at IBM Hursley and is IBM UK's University Lead.
John's career in IBM began creating mainframe applications and moved on to international consultancy, where he led projects in industries and fields ranging from Banking, Pharma', Defence and Disease Control.
Prior to his current role, John was the Lead Technologist for the IBM Innovation Centre, where he helped IBM Partners to innovate with technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Cloud.
Outside of IBM, John is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth, and an Advanced Visiting Fellow at the University of Sheffield.
