Sabine Holl is IBM's Vice President Technology Technical Sales and Chief Technology Officer for IBM Middle East and Africa. She is responsible for IBM's technical community across the Middle East & Africa. For her, innovation is literally driven by inclusion, across all levels of technology, skill and experiences, from graduates just starting out, through to thought leaders, specialists, architects and advocates, who help and advise IBM's clients to accelerate and transform their business across all industries and into the fourth, cognitive, industrial revolution.

Early in her career in the mid 90's, Sabine started as a graduate herself. In IBM Austria's mainframe services division she partnered with clients to building out strategies, modernizing their existing environment and moving into the internet era. Impassioned about the arising opportunities that technology brings she quickly became a subject matter expert teaching workshops around the world, publishing several books, and being a trusted advisor to large institutions across Europe.

With new markets opening up in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Middle East and Africa she led by example, introducing first of a kind, brand new technologies whilst transforming and persuading minds towards the digital world. It led her to be the first woman in IBMs software division in CEMEA region to be certified as an IT Specialist. In 2006 Sabine took on an assignment in Corporate HR in the US focusing on how to help technical leaders grow their technical careers all the way to Distinguished Engineers and IBM Fellows. In her current role as CTO she leverages her experience in the US to help build the future generation of technical leaders in MEA. In addition she also established several graduate programs focusing on diversity and inclusion. These programs support national agendas such as Emiratization, Saudization or BBBEE in South Africa as well as providing young women an opportunity to start their technical career. In 2019 she started to build a Women In Tech network for Technical Women across IBM in Middle East and Africa.

In 2016, IBM established IBM Health Corps. Sabine had the privilege to join the first team of senior experts who worked with the American Cancer Society to design and build ChemoQuant — a free, IBM cloud-hosted tool that helps health ministries better forecast their chemotherapy needs. The tool draws upon IBM's analytics, data science, and cancer epidemiology expertise. ChemoQuant is helping Ethiopia, Uganda and Nigeria forge agreements for access to therapies at significantly lower costs.

If – when! - she needs a break from her busy schedule she disappears into the blue… not the "big blue" IBM… but exploring marine life in Oman or if time allows further away in one of the many wonderful seas of the world…