OPEX Week Middle East: Business Transformation Leaders Summit 2021 | IQPC | 22 February 2021 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

OPEX Week Middle East: Business Transformation Leaders Summit will once again gather the region’s leading organisations to explore topics ranging from digitising business processes, robotics, customer-centric process innovation, data-driven operational excellence and more.

2020 Speakers

Fadi Hindi
Chief Executive Officer, Takaful Emarat Insurance

Andrew Mortimer
Country Manager and Chief Operating Officer - Middle East Region, Barclays

Ross Maclean
Group Chief Digital Officer, Gems Global

Ashley Boots
Head of HR Operations and Transformation, Senior Vice President, NOOR Bank

Lays Laraya
Director of Quality, Emerald Palace Kempinski Dubai

Damian Ellacott
Vice President - Airport Operations Control Centre, Dubai Airports Operations Control Centre

Jay Anand
Chief Operating Officer & General Manager, Five Palm Jumeirah Hotels and Resorts

Ali Nurcan
Senior Vice President – Transformation & Delivery Management, DU

Henk Meyknecht
Chief Operating Officer Middle East & Africa, Kempinski Hotels

Ahmed Alrefaei
Chief Operating Officer, AL Masraf

Ali Khaled Alhashmi
Senior Vice President and Head of Human Resources & Centre of Excellence Group, Union National Bank

Paul McLeod
Chief Operating Officer, Emirates Insurance Company

Zoeb Adamali Madraswala
Vice President - Risk, Abu Dhabi Finance PSJC

Soheyl Mohammad Ziaie Kadjani
Vice President - Agile Delivery, Head of Scrum Masters Chapter, Emirates NBD

Amar Ahluwalia
Regional Head of Operations - Middle East, Africa & Turkey, MetLife

Peter Fernandes
Head of Business Excellence, AL Futtaim Group

Randa Kreidieh
Head of Operational Governance, Commercial Bank International

Abdulaziz Alshamsan
Executive Director General of Customer Experience & Digital Transformation, Ministry of Labor & Social Development, Saudi Arabia

Steve Snowdon
Head of Lean, Mashreq Bank, UAE

Ignacio S. Gatell
Director Business Transformation - Quality and Health, Emirates Global Aluminum

Angad Singh
Global Director of Operations, Programs and Excellence, Fetchr, UAE

Klaas van Asten
Director Business Excellence - Asia Pacific, LEGO Group

Said Amara
Head of Transformation, Nokia

Dr. Yousef Padganeh
Head Enterprise Risk Management, Commercial Bank International

Mohamed El Bassuni
Head of Change & Transformation, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Chintan Shah
Senior Manager – Continuous Improvement, Transguard Group

Tarek AbdelKhalek
Digital Transformation Lead & Business Process Innovator, Dubai Customs

Mazin Gadir
Strategy & Organisational Transformation Advisor, Dubai Healthy Authority

Shikha Gupta
Head of Operational Excellence, AXA Insurance Gulf

Santanu Kumar Pal
Operational & Business Excellence Advisor, ENOC

Yasser Bahaa Eldin
Organization Excellence Expert, Sheikh Saqr Program for Government Excellence

Gaurav Bhandari
Assistant Vice President - Business Planning & Innovation, Damac Group

Robert Hutcherson
CEO/Founder, Optimize Consulting, Inc

Helen Bliss
Head of Group Operating Model, Wilko

Lee Winters
Senior Director of Strategy Optimization, Optimize Consulting, Inc.

Kumar Prasoon
Group Chief Information Officer, AL Safeer Group

Larry Leow
Professional Services Group Manager, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Middle East

Santosh Balan
Sr. Manager - Technology Delivery, Integration & Innovation, AL Masraf

Muhammad Ismail bin Shahul Hameed
Center of Competence Lead - 1Process BPM Program, Islamic Development Bank

Toomas Kästik
Digital Government Consultant, Enterprise Estonia

Gary Thompson
Consultant, Rokaboat

Arsalan Sheikh
Managing Partner, Continuum Consulting

Yazan Hilal
Partner Account Manager - EMEA Emerging Markets, Nintex

Moosa Al Balooshi
Business Application Manager, ENOC

Yasser Zaki
VP Channels & Sales, Agile Technologies

Audrey Jegu
CIO Transformation Manager, AXA Gulf Insurance

2020 Sponsors

• Agile Technologies
• K2
• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Middle East
• MindMap Consulting
• Nintex
• Optimize Consulting, Inc
• Sia Partners
• Signavio