SmartData - Unlocking Big Data Value Summit 2018 | Expotrade Middle East FZ-LLC | 17 April 2018 | Atlantis, The Palm, Crescent Rd - Dubai - United Arab Emirates

Driving Customers Insight & Business Performance through Big Data Solutions.

Today, big data & analytics are tools used in every business. In fact, cities are also realizing the power of big data and analytics in building smart cities and Dubai is not far behind. Known for driving innovation, Dubai is exploring the full potential of big data to achieve its ambition to becoming the world’s happiest city.

2018 Speakers

Younus Al Nasser
Assistant Director General, Smart Dubai Office

Alejandro Carbon
CEO, Beam Portal LLC

Anshul Srivastav
Chief Information Officer, Union Insurance

Ajay Rathi
Chief Information Officer, Meraas

Sebastian Samuel
Chief Information Officer, AW Rostamani Group

David Ashford
Chief Information Officer, The Entertainer

Zack Hazim
Director, Global Enterprise Architecture, BI and Shared Services, ALDO

Shekaran Sury
Global Head of Analytics Consulting, Wipro

Celal Kavuklu
Head of Business Solutions, Middle East & Turkey, SAS

Joshua Robinson
Founding Engineer – Flash Blade, Pure Storage

Amit Ray
Managing Director, Protiviti

Fahad Alsaawi
Analytics Consultant, DRC

Abboud Ghanem
RVP, MEA, Alteryx

Richard Dib
Head of Business Development, Smart Dubai Office

Kumar Prasoon
Group Chief Information Officer, Al Safeer Group

Maha Muraish
VP / Data Monetization and Digital Channels, Etisalat

Faisal Ali
Group Head – IT, Deyaar

Akram Assaf
Co-founder and CTO, Bayt.com

Louise Blake
Head of Data, Tajawal and Almosafer

Alessandro Casuccio
Customer and Marketing Analytics Lead, Careem

Joel Farvault
Head of Data, AXA Insurance

Mohamed Tahoon
BI Developer and Visualization Lead, Dubizzle

Mike Lovett
Lead Architect - Enterprise Information Architecture, Etihad Aviation Group

(Ghana)shyama Mahanty
Senior Director, Global Data Science, CEMEA, VISA

Elias Aad
Vice President, Government Business Lead – MENA, Principal, Advisory, Mastercard

Alexandar Williams
Director, Future Economy - Corporate Strategic Affairs Sector, Dubai Economy

Jetendra Bujraj
Technology & Innovation Services Manager, Etihad Airways

Shafique Ibrahim
Group Head of IT, Al Fardan Group

Abhijit Sharma
Assistant Vice President, Landmark Group

Bahaa' Awartany
Head of Business Intelligence - Personal Banking Group, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Safdar Hussain
Lead Data Scientist - Financial Crime Analytics, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Fadi Salem
Director of Research & Advisory, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government

Abdessamad Aqdim
Head of Data Science, Analytics & Insights, Middle East Broadcasting Center

Youmna Borghol
Head of Data, Choueiri Group

Kathy Shen
Associate Professor in Information Systems, University of Wollongong in Dubai

Eiman Al Shammari
Assistant Professor - College of Computing Sciences and Engineering, Kuwait University

Dr. Dhrupad Mathur
Associate Professor in IT Management, S P Jain School of Global Management, Dubai UAE

2018 Sponsors

OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PARTNER
Smart Dubai

DIAMOND SPONSOR
• IBM

GOLD SPONSORS
• PURE STORAGE
• DOC Digital Research Company
• protiviti

ANALYTICS
• sas

SILVER SPONSOR
• alteryx
• NEC
• AIMS

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
• ISB

NETWORKING SPONSORS
• AIMS
• Knowledge foundry
• Knowledge Lens
• ACXIOM TECHNOLOGIES
• rbbi
• Ekimetrics
• SINATRA IT Solutions
• Graph Aware
• SOL ANALYTICS
• SQUAREONE
• accelstor
• R.I.T Dubai

ASSOCIATE PARTNER
• the ENTERTAINER
• DIGITAL ANALYTICS ASSOCIATION

MEDIA PARTNER
• OXFORD BUSINESS GROUP
• AsianDataScience
• INSIGHT
• Insight World
• BIS infotech
• Analytics India