4th Data Driven Govt 2024 | Great Minds Event Management | 25 February 2024 | Park Hyatt Dubai, Dubai Creek Resort, Park Hyatt Dubai - Dubai Creek Club St - Port Saeed - Dubai - UAE

As the economies in MENA are increasingly undergoing digital transformation, governments across the region continue to expand their investments in data management, governance, and protection. Dubai’s government services hit 99.5% digitization rate in 2023. Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation has skyrocketed in recent years, with the Kingdom digitalizing more than 6,000 government services, representing 97% of total government services in 2022. (The National Transformation Program (NTP) report).

These advancements highlight the critical role of data and the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as 5G deployments, AI, IoT, cloud computing, and analytics to achieve MENA’s digital transformation goals.

In this exciting and disruptive era, the Data-Driven Government Conference acts as a crucial platform annually bringing together key stakeholders from ministries, government and public sector to facilitate collaboration, illuminate significant obstacles including real-time data management, data breaches, data accuracy issues, incompatibility among solutions, the constraints of traditional systems and other main issues collectively impeding the region’s swift economic development and exchange insights on leveraging data-driven innovations to drive societal transformation and position the Middle East economy as an economic powerhouse globally.

‘Another characteristic of mature digital governments is that they are data-driven, leveraging their national data assets to generate insights that improve decision making and develop advanced analytics and artificial intelligence use cases.’ – In ‘The Journey to Digital Government 5.0 Part 1 Publication’ by PwC.

2024 Speakers

Ahmed Said
Advisor of Economic and Statistical affairs to the Minister at Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Executive Director National, Telecommunications Regulatory Authority

Ali Abdulla Alsadadi
Chief of Information Technology, Ministry of Oil and Environment

Fatmah Alabdouli
Director of Data Management & Statistics, Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure

Stuart Brown
Chief Data Officer, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development

Muhammed Alsami
Director - Data Governance and Compliance
Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority

Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem Al Zaabi
Director - Digital Transformation - Cyber Security - Artificial Intelligence Expert
Government of Abu Dhabi, UAE

Noora Alawi
Senior Director - Smart City
Dubai Integrated Economic, Zone Authority

Eng. Ali Abuzinjal
Director of IT, Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Authority

Walid Lotfy
Acting Head of Data & Economic Intelligence Section, Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Mohammad J Sear
Digital Government & Public Sector Consulting Leader, EY