IDC CIO Summit 2018 - Middle East | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 21 February 2018 | JW Marriott Marquis Hotel , Sheikh Zayed Road, Business Bay - Dubai - UAE

IDC's Middle East CIO Summit has served as a pioneering platform for ICT thought leadership in the region since 2008, and returns in 2018 to lay down a blueprint for thriving in the digital economy and delivering digital business at scale.

So join us at JW Marriott Marquis as respected global analysts, market-leading vendors, and 200 of the region's most influential ICT leaders gather to make sense of the region's rapidly evolving digital transformation landscape and shape the digital strategies of tomorrow.

2018 Speakers

H.E. Wessam Lootah
Chief Executive Officer (CEO, Smart Dubai Government Establishment

Fuad Al Ansari
VP IT - ADNOC Refining

Abdul Rahman
CIO - Ajman Bank

Mario Foster
Group CIO - Al Naboodah

Steven Frantzen
Senior Vice President, EMEA Region, Managing Director CEMA-IDC

Jyoti Lalchandani
Group Vice President & Regional MD Middle East, Africa & Turkey-IDC

Ahmad Al Hedaithy
General director of ICT within Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health

Hamza Naqsha
Principal analyst

Hany George
Sales Engineer – Mimecast

Megha Kumar
Head of software research and advisory practice at IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey

Abdelnaser Eid
Network security consultant at Tenable Network Security

Ray Kafiti
Attivo Networks' vice president for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa

Bilgin Demir
Managing Director – MENA & EURASIA Region

Nader Baghdadi
Enterprise Sales Director at Fortinet, managing the South Gulf countries

Ghazi Atallah
Founder and CEO of NXN

Nigel Tozer
Commvault's solutions strategy director for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region

Al Lalji
Founder and chairman of SmarTek21 Technologies

Hakem Al Saghri
IT Executive Director

Shivkumar Kumar
Associate vice president and geographic head of the Middle East and Africa region at Mindtree

Motref Alsahli
CIO of the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)

Dr Salim Al Ruzaiqi
CEO of the Omani Information Technology Authority

Aziz Alsharafi
IBM's hybrid cloud and DevOps technical leader for the Middle East and Africa region

Ryan Mcgee
Mobility Sales Leader Middle East and Africa at Check Point Security Technologies

Mansoor Sarwar
Director of technical services and presales at Sage Middle East

Elias Mouchantaf
Sales Director at Kodak Alaris

Susanth TS
Director of product management for datacenter, cloud, and security services in the Middle East and Africa region at Tata Communications

Angus Morrison
PointNext regional sales manager at HP Enterprise (HPE)

Muks Hirani
Technical Director, EMEA/APJ Region – Mandiant (a FireEye Company)

Serge Findling
Vice President, Research-IDC

Simon Pettit
Cloud Data Services Manager, Northern Europe, Middle East, and Africa – NetApp

Pete Lindstorm
Vice President of Research, Enterprise / NextGen Security-IDC

Mohammad Riaz
Managing Partner/Global Business Leader, Gulf, Levant, and Pakistan – IBM Middle East and Africa

Mohit Pal
Datacenter Category Manager, Western Europe, Middle East, and India – Fujitsu

Stephen Elliot
Vice President of Research, DevOps-IDC

Ranjit Rajan
Associate Vice President, Research, Middle East and Africa- IDC

Esther Spanjer
Director of Business Development Enterprise, EMEAI – Western Digital

2018 Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• CAIT
• ITA
• eOman

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• NXN

SUMMIT PARTNER:
• IBM

FOCUS GROUP PARTNER:
• Commvault
• IBM
• Fortinet
• FireEye
• Tenable
• Western Digital
• Mimecast
• SOTI Inc.
• Fujitsu
• Hewlett Packard
• Alpha Data
• NetApp
• Attivo Networks
• Veeam
• Check Point
• Alibaba Cloud
• Sage
• SmartBotHub
• ALROWAD IT Solutions
• Kodak Alaris
• RSTN Consulting
• Tata Communications
• Mindtree
• Injazat Data Systems

EXIBIT PARTNER:
• Malwarebytes
• Zimperium
• Freshworks Inc.
• Syncsort
• Nexthink
• Gigamon
• MDS
• YAS Digital Media

MEDIA PARTNER:
• Eye of Riyadh