A technologist, teacher, data scientist, and blockchain developer.

Gary Stephen (GS) Jackson brings with him nearly three decades of experiences in IT, Enterprise Architecture, Big Data & Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain working for and within multinational companies around the world.

Gary helped create the first Artificial Intelligence written magazine, Esquire Singapore April 2019 issue with a technology called AI-Writer. More recently, co-founded Blockstamped.io to prevent false narratives AKA 'fake news' and deep fakes using Ethereum Blockchain.

On this new Blockstamped platform, built the first blockchain authencity app for the media industry with the help of Oscar nominated, multiple Grammy Award winner, 'Bassy' Bob Brockmann to help digitalize licensing and royalty payments to producers and artists.

Gary formally was Regional Director of System Integrators (SIs) and Technology Partners for Qlik across Asia Pacific (including Japan, Australia, and New Zealand), Gary led the drive for interactive and collaborative partnerships between global and regional SIs, Business Consulting firms, and Technology Partners. These included Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Accenture, Wipro, Cloudera, Revolution Analytics, MapR, Intel, and many others.

Prior to that he was the Principal for Big Data & Analytics Growth Markets, for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), supporting Latin America and Asia-Pacific traveling back and forth between São Paulo, Brasil and Hong Kong. Gary has also worked for SAS Institute as Head of Technology for Asia Pacific, South Africa, Europe, and North America for more than a decade.

Gary has also been a TEDx speaker and see his presentation "The Analytics of Hate".

Gary teaches a Generative AI class at the University of Tennessee Knoxville focused around IT modernization that shows students how to hunt and replace legacy code. Recently, Gary led CGI Federal’s Web3/blockchain strategy for its Emerging Technology Practice and CGI Federal’s outreach to the Knoxville technology startup ecosystem. Gary is currently part of CGI's Emerging Technology Practice collaborating with clients data scientists and data engineers in the AI and Machine Learning space to do Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision to Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Exploratory Analysis, and Visualization.

Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Information Technology and Computer Information Systems. He is a resident of both Hong Kong 香港 and Knoxville, Tennessee.