Kennedy Chinedu Okafor is a Senior Member of the IEEE, USA; a Cisco Certified System Engineer with accumulated industry experiences in Advanced Robotics, Cyber-physical systems, Operational Technologies & Cybersecurity. Kennedy has organized and hosted events like IEEE Special Topics Symposiums, IEEE Virtual Event Programs in Africa on Big Data, Green ICT, PowerAfrica, IEEE NIGERCON, 1st IEEE Mechatronics Conference, MAC-2019, IEEE TEICA2020, IEEE HAC-Skillup2020, Cisco-IEEE Webinar 4.0-2020, IEEE AI & Cybersecurity MasterClasses, & ICMEAS-2021, Kennedy is the founder of Kswitche & Co-founder,IEEE SKillup Hub, Nigeria.

In 2010, he executed a major World Bank Project on ICT in Nigeria. Also, he was the lead consultant in the Biometric Data Capture for PHCN in 2011. Also, he has won impact grants from IEEE, Tetfund, NITMA, among others. His research Lab has developed various products such as COVID-19 Robots, Ventilators, Cloud based AMI, CloudMesh ERP, IoT Automation, API Data-loggers, Micro-grid AMI, Spine-Leaf Datacenters; FPGA Display Modules, Analytic Energy Tracking Systems, Language Translators & Forensic Robots.

Kennedy has over 150 impact technical publications, reviewed over 250 papers, handled over 146 editorial tasks, (both in Scopus & Web of Science), and have presented papers in both Int’l and local Conferences. Kennedy, is Senior associate with University of Johannesburg, South Africa, WPI-USA, Simon Fraser Uni, Canada (PDF), LESA, Cisco systems and IBM.  He’s the Chair, IEEE Consultants Network AG, Coordinator, IEEE SE-Subsection and teach at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nigeria.