Media Innovator Awards 2021

With 23 international companies having been founded as a direct result of Wael Badawy’s work, sized from million-dollar operations to 128-million-dollar operations, his professional acumen has truly been felt across all corners of the world both in the geographical and the corporate sense. In addition to this, he led 8 national entrepreneurship initiatives and programmes that have secured him as even more of a going concern in the ecosystem of modern business innovators and leaders, earning him 73 international rewards in recognition of his hard work. Wael Badawy’s writing and authorship is also second to none. Having contributed to 18 different books, his voice is inexorably tied into the literature that will be shaping the future of the contemporary business world. He also has 21 successful patents under hid belt, with over 600 peer reviewed papers and publications that have been continually cited and used by academics and professionals as great examples of certain arguments and methodologies. Having been licensed as a professional engineer member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta – or the APEGGA – he applies the best of his learning when imparting that knowledge onto his students. This is further enforced by the PhD he has in engineering, the three MScs in Science and Engineering, an honours BSc, an MBA, and six additional diplomas in international laws and arbitration that ensure he is consistently at the top of his game, able to include the most up to date information and business and technology through his writing and lectures. Furthermore, being registered as a P.Eng in Alberta and Egypt both, he is a hard holding CMC member. Both of these things have given him the right to teach and study in these places, whilst reassuring his clientele that his work is done with strict levels of oversight in place. Wael Badawy is also a CAPS professional member. This exclusive and elite group is a member network actively shaping the future of supply management, and one that Wael Badawy is a prominent voice in, helping the network to further promote and enforce its game changing knowledge and insights across the team of professionals it has gathered within itself. All in all, CAPS is at the forefront of exploring the future of professional supply management, and works hard to inspire and inform its businesses, all of which fall swimmingly in line with everything that Wael Badawy wishes to encourage in each and every one of his students and clients. Crucially, he is also a senior member of the IEEE, ACM and SPIE, as well as a Fellow of the Phi Beta Delta Honour Society, the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society, and the Phi Kappy Phi Honour Society, amongst many, many more, making himself a cornerstone voice in organisations across all manner of sectors. When one thinks of a key thinker, they often imagine someone in a very specialised field. Whilst Wael Badawy is specialist, he is also able to provide the benefits of his specialties to a variety of other specialists and professionals, showing through sophistication and prowess the synergy between his multiple different educational abilities. Furthermore, being a husband and father, Wael Badawy realises the importance of work-life balance. He, in this manner, works with sensitivity and understanding when it comes to teaching his pupils, fostering in them an understanding of why work is important, but keeping it to scale with the rest of their lives is also incredibly crucial, sending them away with a fire in their bellies and a healthy game plan. This is what has set Wael Badawy apart from all other educational speakers and writers in his industry. Wael Badawy keeps close sight of the people behind the business, and believes that the most important way to better one’s corporate practices, is to better one’s own mindset, knowledge base, and operational plan. Each of these beliefs and principles have contributed towards making Wael Badawy the incredibly influential figure he is today. Lastly, with so many different titles under his belt, each of these can be found through his website for perusal at a prospective client’s leisure, but once there, a client can expect to see all manner of peer reviewed journal papers such as the Shan Du Ibrahim et al paper on ‘automatic license plate recognition’ and review on the state-of-the- art technology that such innovations have required, delving into the details on IEEE transactions regarding circuits and systems for video technology. Additionally, he contributed to a paper in conjunction with M. Sayed and G. Jullien on the ‘interpolation-free fractional pixel motion estimation algorithms with efficient hardware implementation’, from the Journal of Signal Processing Systems. These are just two of the expansive range available, and each contribution has provided a large step forward for the field in which it resides. Wael Badawy will be continuing to push for further steps as he moves forward into the future, promising to take his students with him as the new era of modern business and technology begins to dawn. Company: Wael Badawy, Counselor, Mediator & Arbitrator Contact: Wael Badawy Website: waelbadawy.com