IDC CIO Summit 2024- Saudi Arabia | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 17 September 2024 | Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences, 6623 Eastern Ring Rd, Ghirnatah, Riyadh 13241, Saudi Arabia

In the era of GenAI-driven disruption, technology leaders are reassessing AI's pivotal role in the digitalization landscape. Given AI’s transformative power to significantly enhance digital innovation, customer experience, operational efficiency, and sustainability, forward-thinking governments and digitally-driven organizations are adopting an ‘AI everywhere’ mindset and making AI a tech agenda priority to maintain competitive parity with early adopters.

Why you should attend:
• Assess the progress of your team or your organization's growth while discovering what to do to correct common mistakes.
• Learn new leadership skills that will set you apart and help you to advance in your career.
• Participate in immersive networking exercises and engage with your fellow leaders over lunch and dinner.
• Discover how to get you what you want when you need it.
• Enhance your tech stack and strategy with exclusive access to the very latest services and solutions.

2024 Speakers

Jyoti Lalchandani
Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META), IDC

Thomas Meyer
General Manager and Group Vice President, EMEA Research, IDC

Mohammed Qahtani
Toastmaster Champion, World Champion of Public Speaking

Tareq K Alangari
CEO, e& enterprise Saudi Arabia

Haroon Ahmed
Vice President of R&D, BMC Software

Amine Chigani
Global Head of Enterprise Technologists, AWS

Ayman El-Hattab
Regional Vice President, Emerging Markets, Nintex

Deb Deep Sengupta
Global President & Chief Revenue Officer, Cloud4C

Wilco Leenders
Architecture Solution Team Lead, Mendix

Sakhr Ali
Digital Solutions Architect, Iron Mountain

Eric Helmer
SVP & Global Chief Technology Officer, Rimini Street

Dr. Ebrahim Alareqi
Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Incorta

Jawad Moghnieh
Regional Leader, Veeam Software

Ahmed A. Omer
Senior Director Cloud Communications, e& enterprise

Ala Al Sharif
Enterprise Solutions Engineer, Confluent

Amer Zein El Abdin
Business Development & Public Relations Lead, CompTechCo

Sathya Srinivasan
Area Vice President, Solutions Consultant, Appian

Mohamed Zouari
Sr. District Manager, Snowflake META

Zaher Awada
Senior Solution Engineer, Kore.ai

Mohammad Alyousef
Sales Manager, F5

Marc Merheb
Director of Solution Consulting, OpenText

Cüneyd Gülüt
Managing Director, AkademiDX

Hammam Abunaser
Regional Sales Manager, Fileorbis

Omar Sheliby
Regional Sales Manager, Liferay

Navin Nair
Regional Sales Director, SymphonyAI

Burak Atamgüç
Vice President of Sales, Oredata

Islam Ma’moun
Enterprise Solutions Manager, Naseej for Technology

Nidal Azba
CTO, Kyndryl (Middle East and Africa)

Mohamed Abdallah
Consulting & Training Lead, TestCrew

Dominic Keating
Regional Director, Middle East, Rubrik

Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC

Hamza Naqshbandi
Vice President, Custom Solutions (Middle East, Türkiye and Africa), Country Lead (Saudi Arabia & Bahrain), IDC

Salman Ali
Senior Manager - Solution Engineering, Emerging EMEA, Riverbed Technology

Saran Babu
Regional Director, (MEA), Zoho Corporation

Ahmed Sadek
Lead Solutions Architect, Boomi

Shabir Bhat
Regional Director for Middle East, India, and Africa, Checkmarx

Tarek Khattab
Digital Transformation Solutions Country Manager, SBM

Dr. Aseel Addawood
Senior Advisory Director for AI, Oracle

Beshoy Fouad
Digital Solutions Manager, Iron Mountain

Nada Ammar
Sales Director, KSA & Egypt, Kore.ai

Karim Bounid
Manager Solution Consulting | Middle East, OpenText

Paul Toffis
Head of North America and EMEA Services Partners, Whatfix

Fares Suliman
Senior Cyber Security Presales Consultant, Fileorbis

Nizar Al Toraif
Cloud Engineering, Google Cloud

Abdullah Al Hour
Country Leader for Security and Resiliency Services, Kyndryl

Paul Potgieter
Director, Technology & Digital Platforms, NEOM

Jayesh Maganlal
Group Chief Information & Digital Officer, ROSHN Real Estate

Anas Mosa
IT Director, Public Investment Fund–Projects

Jason Roos
Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ahmed AlRifai
IT Director, Muhaidib Group

Dr. Abdurhman A. Alkhanifer
Chief Information Officer, King Saud University

Fawaz Kilfaden
Information & Operations Technology Director, Saudi Air Navigation Services

Abdurhman Jubairy
GM Digital Transformation Program Champion, Saudi Aramco

Dr. Azzam Alsudais
CIO/CDXO, Prince Sultan University

Abdulbary Atassi
Director of IT, Zamil Industrial

Abdallh Alfadhel
IT Sr. Executive Director, National Infrastructure Fund

Mohannad AlSalmi
Chief Information Officer, Flyadeal

Muhammad Anum Saleem
Legal Director & Senior TMT Counsel, AlDhabaan & Partners in association with Eversheds Sutherland (International)

Ayman Alharbi
Executive Director, Technology Infrastructure, Red Sea Global

Mohannad Abuissa
CTO, Cisco

Mohammed Idriss
Regional Solution Architect Senior Manager, Red Hat

Randy Roberts
Head of Digital Transformation Portfolio, FPT Software

Bader Shaath
Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Dr. Alexey Sidorov
Chief Evangelist & Data Management Director, MEA, Denodo

Anupam Gupta
Vice President of International Business and Alliances, Profit.co

Mohammed Fayed
Presales Engineer, Commvault

Ahmed Mounir
Solutions Go-To-Market Manager, Link Development

Yogesh Gupta
Editorial Director - Events, India & META, Foundry

Andrea Benito
Editor, CIO Middle East, Foundry

2024 Partners

HOST PARTNER:
• e enterprise

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• BMC

AUTOMATION PARTNER:
• Nintex

INNOVATION PARTNER:
• Red Hat

DIGITAL BUSINESS PARTNER:
• Publicis Sapient

TRAILBLAZER PARTNER:
• CISCO

CLOUD TRANSFORMATION PARTNER:
• Cloud4C

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PARTNER:
• OutSystems

SUMMIT PARTNER:
• River bed
• ZOHO
• Checkmarx
• HCLTech
• Boomi - Supercharging Progress™
• Easy Data Integration
• Qlik
• SBM - Platinum Partner
• IBM - Platinum Partner
• Oracle
• SAS

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• Denodo
• FPT
• Dynatrace