IDC IT Forum 2019 - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 18 September 2019 | Park Hyatt Jeddah - Marina, Club and Spa, District Southern Corniche, الحمراء، Al-Hamra'a, Jeddah 21432, Saudi Arabia

Multiplied innovation represents the next chapter of the digital transformation journey, and the new imperative is to keep pace with the unprecedented rate of business change while increasing the speed of business operations, the speed at which changes are delivered, and the speed and scale of innovation. The forces of multiplied innovation are powering up, and we are seeing an explosion in digital innovation platforms and ecosystems to facilitate this transformation.

Developing an effective digital transformation platform that can sustain, advance, and scale business operations may be the most important task facing the region’s decision makers over the next few years. Many future applications will be developed by AIs without human supervision, and beyond that, augmented humanity – the fusion of digital technologies and humans – for improved mobility, sensing, and cognition will start to become routine.

As a result, the future workplace will become far more collaborative. However, while new technologies are transforming key aspects of the modern business, legacy systems are holding others back, limiting innovation, opportunity, and engagement. Indeed, end-user organizations from every sector are now facing up to the challenge of having to balance traditional systems and next-generation technologies.

2019 Speakers

Ibrahim Almoqbil
Chief Support Services Officer, General Entertainment Authority

Jason Roos
CIO, KAUST

Hisham S. Hammami
CIO – Ministry of Hajj & Umrah, Saudi Arabia

Eng. Ali Al-Asiri
CEO, e-Government Program-Yesser

Steven Frantzen
Senior Vice President (EMEA) & Managing Director (CEMA), IDC

Gamal Badr
Technology Sales Consulting Director, Saudi Arabia, Oracle

Hamza Naqshbandi
Country Manager, Saudi Arabia, IDC

Eng. Faisal Ahmed Bakhashwain
Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation - Ministry of Civil Service, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Rani Hmayssi
Oil & Gas Regional Lead, Google Cloud, Google Cloud

Cyril Voisin
Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group – Microsoft

Robert Westervelt
Research Director, Security Products, IDC

Bahi Hour
SE Director, META, Attivo Networks

Fahad A Al-Naeem
VP Sales and Business Development ICT, Advanced Electronics Company

Matthew Eastwood
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure & Datacenters, IDC

Rawad Zaki
Regional Sales Manager, Veeam

Ranjit Rajan
Associate Vice President, Research (META), IDC

Lynel Dsouza
Sales Manager, Akamai

Abdullah Alqudah
Regional Sales Engineer, Carbon Black

Anser Khan
Chief Technology Officer, MIS

Ram Sajja
Global Head – Cloud Engineering and Operations, Cloud4C

Mansoor Sarwar
Director Technical Services & Pre Sales, Sage

Maen Ftouni
Country Sales, Saudi Arabia, MIMECAST

Uzair Mujtaba
Program Manager — IDC Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud Ghanem
Senior Systems Engineer, Dell EMC

Dieter Kittenberger
Senior Director Print- & Document-Solutions(EMEA), HP Inc

Mostafa Feteha
Regional Sales Director, Gigamon

Samer Hasan
Cyber Security Engineer, Tenable

Taher Haj Yousef
Regional Manager(Middle East), Rimini Street

Kaveh Vessali
Senior Partner and Global Data Practice Lead, NXN

Ahmed Rezk
Country Channel Manager - Aruba

Milan Sheth
Executive Vice President(IMEA), Automation Anywhere

Celal Kavuklu
Head of Customer Advisory - Middle East, SAS

Adrian Ewer
VP & GM MEA, Blue Prism

Mohamed Afifi
Managing Director, Genesys Middle East

Karan Dixit
Vice President – Middle East & Africa, UiPath

2019 Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• E-Government Program

SUMMIT PARTNER:
• Oracle

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• Genesys
• Ui Path
• Blueprism
• SAS / Intel
• Automation Anywhere
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft
• NXN
• Aruba

BREAKFAST PARTNER:
• IBM

FOCUS GROUP PARTNERS:
• Carbon Black
• Attivo Networks
• Omis
• AEC
• Sage
• Tenable
• Cyberia
• Mimecast
• Veeam
• Gigamon
• Cloud 4c
• Dell Technologies
• Hp Intel
• Rimini Street

AWARD PARTNERS:
• Lenovo / Intel
• Qlik

EXHIBIT PARTNERS:
• Outsystems
• Detasad
• T2sa
• Msegat
• Hawsabah
• Sysprove Consulting
• Equinix
• Indorse Services
• Freshworks
• Manage Engine
• Digital Gov