Achievements
A selection of recognitions across hackathons, enterprise programs, and academic publications.
2023
For customer obsession and technical excellence at AWS.
2022
Europe's largest hackathon.
2021
Two category wins in a single edition.
2020
1st place across the bank.
2020
X-OUT.ORG — long-term COVID growth prediction.
2020
Awarded by Huawei at HackZurich 2020.
2019
Institute of Internal Auditors, best use of technology.
2019
2018
2018
2014
Signed gift & letter from PwC UK leadership.
2006
Started in 2006, exited in 2008.
Publications
Published work spanning behavioural economics, reputational risk, and AI-driven fraud detection on smart cards.
2017 · Publication
Co-authored research with ETH Zurich
A behavioural-economics approach to quantifying reputational risk for global financial institutions using external, unstructured data sources.
2007 · Publication
MSc Dissertation — Royal Holloway, University of London (Information Security Group)
Applied AI techniques to detect fraudulent transactions in smart-card systems. Presented at CARDIS and exhibited at the Royal Holloway Smart Card Centre.
Certifications
Cloud, strategy, blockchain, and AI-native craft — verified by AWS, Oxford, IBM and Lovable.
Feb 2026
Sourced from Lovable
Jul 2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Dec 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Nov 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sep 2020
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Oct 2018
IBM
Jul 2018
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Podcasts
Interviews and discussions on AI, entrepreneurship, and the GTM lessons behind Uthereal.
Spotify · Episode
Spotify · Episode
Talks & Interviews
Talks, panels, and interviews — from Talent Kick to Supply Chain Insights.
YouTube · Supply Chain Now
July 2026
Wael Abdelmalek joins Supply Chain Now to unpack the Supply Chains to Admire 2026 winners and how dynamic benchmarking reveals which companies genuinely outperform their peers.
Watch on YouTube →YouTube · EWOR
May 2026
An EWOR interview on the go-to-market mistakes behind Uthereal — pricing missteps, wrong early customers, and the lessons that reshaped how the company sells knowledge-machine interfaces.
Watch on YouTube →YouTube · Talent Kick
June 2025
Wael Abdelmalek reflects on the ETH Zurich and HSG Talent Kick programme and how it helped turn Uthereal from research into a venture turning human expertise into AI training data.
Watch on YouTube →YouTube · Supply Chain Insights
February 2025
A Supply Chain Insights Straight Talk session on applying large language models to workforce training — where they add real value in supply chain teams and where they still fall short.
Watch on YouTube →YouTube · Supply Chain Now
Early findings from AskLora.Ai: what practitioners actually ask an AI supply chain assistant, and what those questions reveal about expertise, data quality and adoption.
Watch on YouTube →