ONLY HUMANS WONDER WHY: One STEM Journey. Three Reflections: Human. Al. Yours.

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Marimekala is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and Senior Certified Enterprise Architect with decades of experience leading at the intersection of technology and transformation. His career has spanned research labs in India, consulting across multiple domains, and senior leadership in hybrid cloud, Al, and enterprise architecture. Sanjeev serves as IEEE AI Coalition Representative for Region 1, IEEE CT AI Chair, and a member of an Architect Certification Board - contributing to standards that shape how the industry approaches architecture and artificial intelligence. He is a keynote speaker, author, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and IEEE CT Outstanding Industry Award winner. Only Humans Wonder Why is his most personal work - a twenty-two-chapter meditation on what makes human curiosity, resilience, and purpose irreplaceable, told through the lens of a STEM career that began with a broken transistor in Hyderabad and continues today at the frontier of artificial intelligence.