Jeannice Fairrer Samani is the CEO at Fairrer Samani Group, a global consulting firm that integrates business and information technology engineering, and the founder of the STEM education initiative “Fifth Wave.”  Her areas of expertise include Metaverse/Web3, artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Internet of Things, and smart cities.  Fairrer Samani taught engineering and business at Carnegie Mellon and Santa Clara universities, and has supported the U.S. Department of State’s TechWomen initiative.