IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2024 | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 20 February 2024 | Grand Hyatt Dubai, Grand Hyatt Dubai Oud Metha Road, Dubai Healthcare City Riyadh Street - Near Sheikh Rashid Rd - Dubai - UAE

As digitalization spending accelerates in the post-pandemic period. Market-leading organizations are rapidly moving from “digitally transforming” to “running a digital business” as a larger share of their revenues begin to be tied to digital products and services. They are moving beyond Digital Transformation 1.0 and 2.0 toward the adoption of digital-first strategies across all facets and lines of business.

It will help IT leaders to understand their new roles, providing essential guidance on how they can succeed while creating innovative solutions for current and emerging challenges — adapting to changing business environments, creating new business models, and massively scaling in the digital economy.

2024 Speakers

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

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

Miguel A. Villalonga
COO, e& enterprise

Ihsan Anabtawi
EVP, Chief Commercial Officer, Core42

Jonathan Allen
Director of Enterprise Strategy, AWS

Saif Al Refai
Sales Engineering Lead for METAP and CIS, OPSWAT

Tony Zabaneh
Manager Systems Engineering, South Middle East, Fortinet

Tyler Munger
Vice President, Analytics, Global Operations, Rimini Street

Ahmad Saad
Regional Sales Manager, Liferay

Sathya Srinivasan
Area Vice President, Solutions Consultant, Appian

Lee Caswell
SVP, Product and Solutions Marketing, Nutanix

Swati Varma
Director-Sales, Kore.ai

AbdulRahman Mahgoub
Territory Manager, SER

Farida Montasser
CX Consultant, IST Networks

Aaron Hambleton
Director for Middle East & Africa, SecurityHQ

Syed Mujtaba
Business Development Manager, SecurityHQ

Karthik Chandra Akula
Regional Sales Head - Middle East, Freshworks

Fahim Ghaffar
VP of Sales Engineering, Datadog

Islam Afifi
Regional Presales Manager, Veeam Software

Mohammad Al Share
Director, Enterprise Sales, Ivanti

Sandeep Sachdev
Director, Tata Communications

Dr. Dani Abu Ghaida
Chief Digital Officer (MEA), Crayon

Dr. Balaji Muthusubramanian
Head of Data Practices, StackNexus

Ayman Darwish
Enterprise Account Executive Middle East, Confluent

Beshoy Fouad
Digital Solutions Manager, Iron Mountain

Mihails Balonuskovs
Digital Solutions Architect, Iron Mountain

Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC

Hamza Naqshbandi
Associate Vice President (Saudi Arabia & Bahrain), IDC

Roman Spitzbart
Vice President of Solutions Engineering, Dynatrace

Dr. Alexey Sidorov
Chief Evangelist, Denodo

Pawan Pachori
Associate Director, Tata Communications

George Harrak
Chief Information Officer, Al Hilal Bank (UAE)

Dr. Ali Al Sanousi
Executive Director, Clinical Information Systems, Hamad Medical Corporation

Dr. Salim Al-Shuaili
Director, Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Technology Projects Unit, Oman's Ministry of Transportation & Information Technology

Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem Al Zaabi
Director of Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity and AI, Abu Dhabi Government

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

Saket Saith
Group Chief Technology & Data Officer, RAKBANK

Ahmed Al Zarouni
VP Head of IT, Government Entity

Dr. Faisal Al-Nasser
Head of Business Systems (CIO), Al Marai Company

Sanjeev Madavi
Group Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Khimji Ramdas

Mamoun Alhomssey
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Ajman Bank (UAE)

Mhd Wail Khachfa
CISO, Department of Digital Ajman

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Hamad Al Kuwaiti
Head of Cybersecurity Council for the UAE Government

Arvind Gupta
Co-Founder & Head, Digital India Foundation

Youhanna Sidrak
Regional Sales Manager, OutSystems

Alan Flower
Global Head of Cloud Native & AI Labs, HCLTech

Ram Chakravarti
Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software

Ilya Ovchinnikov
Regional Sales Director, Infinidat

Bhawani Singh
Principal Solution Architect, Checkmarx

Morey J. Haber
Chief Security Advisor, BeyondTrust

Abba Gopalakrishnan
Sales Manager, Qlik

Subhashish Roy
Partner Consulting Services, Easy Data Integration (EDI)

Bader Shaath
Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare

Glenn Wilkinson
World-Renowned Security Expert

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

Andrea Benito
Editor, CIO Middle East, Foundry

2024 Partners

SUPPORTERS:
• Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT)
• UAE
• Sharjah Research Technoology
• Cyber Security Council
• National Cyber Security Center
• Abu Dhabi Police
• Dubai Electronic Security Center
• UBF

HOST PARTNER:
• E& nterprise

AI PARTNER:
• Core42

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• Tech Mahindra

CYBER SECURITY PARTNER:
• PaloAlto

AI ENABLED CLOUD PARTNER:
• Aws, Zero&One

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS PARTNER:
• Outsystems, PwC

ICT PARTNER:
• Red Hat
• Intel

TRAILBLAZER PARTNER:
• CPX

INNOVATION PARTNER (IN-PERSON):
• BMC

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PARTNER:
• HCLTech

SUMMIT PARTNERS:
• Denodo
• Dynatrace
• Google Cloud, Oredata

PLATINUM PARTNERS:
• Cloudflare
• BeyondTrust
• Checkmarx
• Boomi
• Qlik
• Servicenow

TECHNOLOGY FOCUSED PARTNERS:
• Servicenow
• Crayon
• Veeam
• Opswat
• Rimini Street
• Appian
• Confluent
• Fortinet
• Liferay
• Ist
• Freshworks
• Nutanix
• Ivanti
• StackNexus
• Tata Communications
• Security HQ
• SER
• Datadog
• Iron Mountain
• ManageEngine
• Mendix
• Alteryx
• NetApp, Logicom

ASSOCIATE PARTNER:
• Women In Cybersecurity Middle East

HEALTH PARTNER:
• Fitness First