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==Career==
After graduating from university, Ismail worked as a software architect for CSC Europe and later as a business consultant at ITIM Associates in London. In 1999, he became the COO of [[New York Business Forums]] in New York City.
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In September, 2008, [[NASA]] invited Ismail to the founding conference of [[Singularity University]], held at NASA’s [[Ames Research Center]]. In October of that year, Ismail was appointed as its founding Executive Director.
Singularity University’s goal is to “educate, inspire and empower a new generation of leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” [[Singularity University]] – whose founders hail from [[Google]] and the [[X Prize Foundation|XPRIZE Foundation]] – has empowered people from more than 85 countries to apply disruptive technologies – biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience – to more than 100 startups and countless patents and ideas. For two years, Ismail worked with [[Peter Diamandis]] and [[Ray Kurzweil]], along with key partners [[NASA]], [[Google]], [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]], [[Autodesk]] and [[Genentech]] to build out the university, assembling its core team and faculty, establishing the curriculum and leading the first
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