Whether your primary objective is to increase your brand exposure, demonstrate thought leadership or drive new business, IDC attracts senior decision makers eager to learn about market trends and new solutions and build new business relationships.
The digital installment of the IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2021 will navigate a broad range of themes that are central to this journey, so join us as senior IDC analysts and respected IT leaders take a deep dive into the new economy and explore what it means for your business.
The event’s dynamic agenda will take you through a series of presentations, panel discussions, real-life use cases, and dedicated industry tracks, giving you a bird’s eye view of the current market situation, the latest technological innovations, and strategies for propelling your organization to meet the unique challenges of these unprecedented times.
For the very first time, this year's edition of the IDC Middle East CIO Summit will feature a CIO Masterclass Arena. Here, you will find a selection of CXO best-practice presentations, fireside chats, and panel discussions as respected industry pioneers and thought leaders share insights into the successful digital transformation strategies applied within their own organizations.
Timothy Youngblood
McDonald's Corporation
(USA)
Timothy Youngblood
CISO, McDonald's Corporation
Timothy Youngblood is the CISO of the McDonald’s Corporation, where he leads the company’s global information security organization. He is responsible for overseeing risk management and brand protection on a global scale. He has 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity strategy and operations, product security, IT audit, disaster recovery, technology risk assessment, and management consulting.
Mike Towers
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
International (USA)
Mike Towers
CISO, Takeda Pharmaceuticals International
Mike Towers serves as CISO of Takeda Pharmaceuticals International. In this position, he aims to create trusted experiences for patients and physicians. He has 25 years of IT experience in multinational biopharmaceutical and life sciences environments. He excels at global information security leadership and maintains a focus on digital resilience, intellectual property protection, and data privacy.
Chris Clark
Levi Strauss & Co.
(USA)
Chris Clark
Senior Vice President and CIO, Levi Strauss & Co.
Chris Clark is Levi Strauss & Co.’s senior vice president and CIO. He has over 25 years of experience in leveraging technology investments to fuel profitable growth, improve productivity, and deliver extraordinary consumer, customer, and employee experiences.
Bharathi Viswanathan
Coca-Cola Asia Pacific
(SINGAPORE)
Bharathi Viswanathan
Nick Burton
AVON International
(UK)
Nick Burton
Chief Information and Digital Officer, Avon
Nick Burton is the chief information and digital officer of Avon. He joined the company in March 2020 after leading the IT function at Belron for 18 years. In this role, he directs the organization’s digital pandemic response. As a result of his efforts, Avon has shifted to innovative digital platforms through which it interacts with customers and sales representatives. He is also in charge of digital architecture delivery, digitization, and management of all local market IT teams.
William Braun
Chevron Corporation
(USA)
William Braun
CIO, Chevron Corporation
William Braun is Chevron’s CIO and president of its IT company. Based in Houston, Texas, he assumed this role in 2015. However, he originally joined Chevron in 1991 as a programmer and has since held technical and management positions across the organization, including roles in Chevron North America exploration and production, supply and trading, and ITC. He has had responsibilities in telecommunications, fraud management, project management, and operations.
Vipin Gupta
Toyota Financial Services
(USA)
Vipin Gupta
Group Vice President and CIO, Toyota Financial Services
Vipin Gupta is group vice president and CIO of Toyota Financial Services (TFS). He leads all aspects of digital transformation and IT in order to transform, grow, and expand the TFS business. He has been recognized as a standout winner in innovation by CIO magazine.
Sreeram Iyer
ANZ Bank Global
(Singapore)
Sreeram Iyer
COO, ANZ Bank Global
With over 25 years of international banking experience working in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East, Iyer is the Chief Operating Officer for ANZ’s Institutional Banking business where he supports the organization’s Institutional business strategies in over 20 countries to generate value for customers and is responsible for driving the strategic digital automation agenda to continually improve ANZ’s Institutional customer experience and simultaneously lift the employee experience.
H.E Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti
UAE Government
(UAE)
H.E Dr. Mohamed Al-Kuwaiti
Head of Cyber Security, UAE Government (UAE)
H.E. Wesam Lootah
Smart Dubai Government
(UAE)
Wesam Lootah
CEO, Smart Dubai
Wesam Lootah serves as the CEO of Smart Dubai. He is entrusted with implementing Dubai’s city-wide smart transformation strategy. By leveraging IT, he creates innovative new channels and a world-class smart government infrastructure to improve the quality of public services for citizens, residents, visitors, and businesses in Dubai. He brings 20 years of strategic leadership to his role as Smart Dubai Government’s CEO.
Dr. Zakareya Ahmed AlKhaja
Information & eGovernment
Authority (iGA) (Bahrain)
Dr. Zakareya Ahmed AlKhajah
Vice Chief Executive, Electronic Transformation, Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA) Bahrain
Dr. Zakareya Ahmed AlKhaja is the vice chief executive, electronic transformation at Information & eGovernment Authority of Bahrain (iGA). He is also a member of specialized national committees such as ICT Governance Committee and eGovernment National Strategy Committee. He has over 20 years of practical and professional experience and has spent 10 years at the iGA. During his career, he has managed and implemented several specialized strategic projects in various public and private organizations. He has also contributed to the development of policies, management procedures and processes, and information system strategies.
Dr. Ammar Alhusaini
Central Agency for Information
Technology (Kuwait)
Deputy Director General,
Saqib Chaudry
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Saqib Chaudhry
Head of Digital Innovation and Development, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Saqib Chaudhry is the head of digital innovation and development at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He is responsible for managing and implementing the informational security programs protecting the clinic from zero-day threats and advanced persistent threats. He is also tasked with securing wireless medical devices and establishing and operationalizing a new function that would nurture, formalize, and accelerate digital innovation across the organization. He is a futurist and a leader with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, compliance, internal audit, data privacy, business resilience, risk management, and IT infrastructure.
Rasha Abu Al Saud
Leading Bank
Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Rasha Abu Al Saud
Head of Information Security Risk, Leading Bank in Saudi Arabia
Rasha Abu Al Saud is an information security and technology professional responsible for the development and implementation of infosec strategies and controls. He is proficient in all aspects of information security, technology risk management, and business continuity. He further has the capacity to implement international standards and best practices, including PCI-DSS, COBIT, ISF, ISO, CMMi, and Six Sigma.
Yuri Misnik
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) (UAE)
Yuri Misnik
Group CTO, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Yuri Misnik is the group CTO of First Abu Dhabi Bank. In this role, he drives technology and transformation strategies to ensure that the group is ready for the next generation of digital banking services. He has 21 years of experience in the technology field, having worked at HSBC, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and the National Australia Bank in London, Melbourne, Singapore, and now the UAE.
Sanjay Khanna
RAK BANK
(UAE)
Sanjay Khanna
CIO, RAKBANK
Sanjay Khannah serves as CIO of RAKBANK. He has been the driving force behind the bank's digital transformation since taking on the CIO role back in 2011. During his tenure, the bank has bolstered its technological prowess by improving the operational effectiveness of its IT architecture. The bank has also created novel services such as mobile banking for its clients.
Latifa Alshehhi
Federal Competitiveness and
Statistics Center (FCSC) (UAE)
Latifa Alshehhi
Head of Algorithms Development and Analysis, Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Center (FCSC)
Alshehhi currently works at the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority as the head of Smart data section in the Future of Data department at the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, where her duties cover digital transformation of the statistical business, using emerging data sources to create insights and utilize various tools and technologies to create new data products.
Dr. Jihad Mohaidat
Higher Colleges of Technology
(UAE)
VP, Education Technologies
Fuad AL Ansari
Al Dhafra Petroleum
(ADNOC) (UAE)
VP, IT & General Services Division
Eng. Ali Al-Asiri
Yesser e-Government Program
(KSA)
Eng. Ali Al-Asiri
CEO, Yesser e-Government Program
Ali Al-Asiri serves as CEO of the Saudi egovernment program Yesser. He has more than 19 years of experience in working with local and international organizations in the program management and organizational leadership domains. He has been a vocal advocate for achieving a fully citizen-centered digital government. In his current role, he emphasizes the critical role of digital transformation in achieving the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030. Due to his efforts, Yesser has met Saudi Arabia's digital goal of evolving toward an integrated smart government.
Piyush Chowhan
Lulu Group International
(UAE)
Piyush Chowhan
CIO, Lulu Group International
In his role at Lulu Group International, Piyush Kumar Chowhan is responsible for digital strategy and execution of technology for all its global businesses across 12 countries which include retail, hypermarket, and shopping malls. He has over 20+ years of experience in driving businesses change using the latest technology innovations thereby enhancing business value.
Ali Abdulla Hassan
National Oil and
Gas Authority (Bahrain)
Ali Abdulla Hassan
Head of IT, Bahrain National Oil and Gas Authority
Hassan brings 16+ Years of experience in IT, working in the National Oil & Gas Authority in Bahrain as head of IT. Working with digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud transformation,and passionate about IT Service Management frameworks.
Dr. Kalthoom AlBlooshi
Ministry of Health & Prevention
(MOHAP) (UAE)
Dr. Kalthoom AlBlooshi
UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention
Managing the MOHAP hospital department since its inception in 2015, Dr.Kalthoom leads the department with a focus on quality management, utilization management, regulatory compliance, risk management, credentialing and physician performance, and health informatics.
Abdulaziz Alkhlaif
Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital
(KSA)
Abdulaziz Alkhlaif
Chief Information Officer, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mishari Hospital
Praveen Sashi
DHL
(UAE)
Praveen Sashi<
Senior Director of IT & Logistics DHL Express (UAE)
Head of Digitalisation DHL Express (MENA)
With over 20 years of international experience in air transportation, logistics, and supply chain industry, Sashi has a distinguished record of driving profitable growth through creative application of technology and innovation, providing technology leadership and delivering world-class IT services to internal divisions and DHL customers in a complex, mission critical and global environment.
Thamer S. AlHamed
Ministry of Human Resources
& Social Development (KSA)
Thamer S. AlHamed
GM of Risk
Lt. Col. Dr. Hamad Al Nueimi
Abu Dhabi Police
(UAE)
Lt. Col. Dr. Hamad Al Nueimi
Telecommunication Division Manager, ICT Center, Abu Dhabi Police
Lt. Colonel. Dr. Hamad and his team manage the wireless telecommunication for Abu Dhabi Police, starting from the designing of our based location to the activation of the network itself. Lt. Colonel. Dr. Hamad holds two degrees from the Higher College of Technology (HCT) which are a higher diploma (HD) in the Science of Network and Bachelor in Network Computer.
Ahmed Al Mulla
Emirates Global Aluminium
(UAE)
Ahmed Al Mulla
Former EVP, Corporate Services, Emirates Global Aluminium
Ghinwa Baradhi
HSBC
(UAE)
Ghinwa Baradhi
Regional CIO, HSBC
Ghinwa Baradhi is the HSBC's CIO for the Turkey and MENA region. She is responsible for creating better customer experiences, enhancing business value through technology and innovation, and simplifying IT strategies with efficiency. In recognition of this work, he was recognized at the IDC CIO Excellence Awards 2019 across MENA.
Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
Standard Chartered Bank
(UAE)
Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
CISO, Standard Chartered Bank
An award winning technical expert and speaker, Dr. Erdalis a leading cybersecurity professional with business development, management, and academic skills who focuses on securing the cyber space & sharing his real-life skills as a security adviser, speaker, lecturer, and author.
Mohammad Jasem Al-Tura
(CITRA)
(Kuwait)
Mohammad Jasem Al-Tura
Chief of Information Technology Sector, Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority (CITRA)
Syed Riyazuddin
Emirates NBD
(UAE)
Syed Riyazuddin
Interim VP/ AVP Agile Delivery (Retail Banking), Emirates NBD
A seasoned leader with over 14 years of overall experience and an international track record in leading and delivering large scale enterprise IT transformation across Australia, Asia, and the UAE, with a focus on digital transformation, scaled agile delivery practices, people and culture, formulating enterprise level transformation strategy, and providing direction and thought leadership in transforming organizational culture, and product design and delivery methods.
Khaled Al Mazrouei
Injazat
(UAE)
Khaled Al Mazrouei
Acting Cheif Commercial Officer, Injazat
Majed Al-Shangiti
(SATORP)
(KSA)
Majed Al-Shangiti
CIO, Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
Mohammed Alenazi
Fawas Alhokhair Group
(KSA)
Mohammed Alenazi
CIO, Fawas Alhokhair Group
Alenazi is Chief Information Officer at Fawaz Abdulaziz Alhokair with 17 years of experience in the communications and information technology sector, strategic technology leadership, digital transformation, IT strategy, business innovation, where he held several positions in IT department. He received awards for excellence in information technology and digital transformation from IDC and SME organizations.
Shaik Abdulkhader
(Qapco)
(Qatar)
Shaik Abdulkhader
CISO, Qatar Petrochemical Company Limited (Qapco)
Hassan Jasim Al-Sayed
(MOTC)
(QATAR)
Hassan Jasim Al-Sayed
Assistant Undersecretary for the Information Technology Sector, Ministry of Transport and Communications (MOTC)
Peter Jamieson
Abu Dhabi Department of
Culture & Tourism (UAE)
Peter Jamieson
CTO, Abu Dhabi Department of Culture & Tourism
Louise van der Bank
AfriSam
(South Africa)
Louise Van Der Bank
Head of Technology, AfriSam
Louise Van Der Bank is head of technology at AfriSam. He is a strategic partner in decision making, strategy formulation, innovation, and overall management of the organization. He helps create business differentiations and competitive advantages through the effective leveraging of information and technology enablers. He also increases organizational efficiencies, improves services, and streamlines business models across departments. He was recently selected as one of South Africa’s top five visionary CIOs by IT Web.
Nasser Alawad
(SIDRA)
(Qatar)
Nasser Alawad
Former Acting CIO, Sidra Medical and Research Center (SIDRA)
Alawad has over 25 years of experience in IT, working heavily in government, international and multinational sectors for several healthcare organizations and institutes.
Dr. Raed AlHazme
(NGHA)
(KSA)
Dr. Raed AlHazme
Executive Director Information Services and Informatics Division, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA)
Eng. Hisham Al Sheikh
(Yesser)
(KSA)
Eng. Hisham Al Sheikh
Deputy CEO, Saudi eGovernment Program (Yesser)
Ahmad Yahya
American Hospital
(UAE)
Ahmad Yahya
CIO, American Hospital
With over 25 years of experience, Yahya is a senior IT professional who has worked across the USA and the Middle East as a dynamic, success-oriented leader and a team builder. He is reputed for delivering technology solutions and creating an amicable IT ecosystem for organizations to function optimally, with experience in handling large IT departments along with advising and counseling departments for better operations and implementations of tech-strategies.
Veneeth Purushotaman
Aster DM Healthcare
(UAE)
Veneeth Purushotaman
Group Chief Information Officer, Aster DM Healthcare
With over two decades of experience in leading large technology teams in driving enablement and digital transformation across retail and healthcare sectors, Veneeth is an internationally acclaimed and respected technology leader and has been instrumental in consolidating and transforming the technology landscape at Aster DM Healthcare in the last two years.
Augustine Amusu
Medicilinic
(UAE)
Augustine Amusu
CIO, Medicilinic
Robert Denson
Malaffi
(UAE)
Robert Denson
SVP IT & Operations, Malaffi
Dr. Hamed Ali AlHashemi
Department of Health (DOH)
(UAE)
Dr. Hamed Ali AlHashemi
Director of Strategy, Department of Health (DOH)
Al-Hashemi is currently the Director of Strategic Affairs at Department of Health (Abu Dhabi) overseeing the healthcare strategic planning and performance management as well as leading digital healthcare transformation programs including accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence, building big data analytics capacity, heath information exchange, AI and Innovation Lab and foresights in healthcare.
Kayihan Altninoz
Republic of Turkey (MOI)
(TURKEY)
Kayihan Altninoz
IT SVP, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior
Sudheer Prabhu
Cim Finance
(Mauritius)
Sudheer Prabhu
Chief Technology Officer, Cim Finance Mauritius
Nkosenhle Ngongoma
Ascendis Health
(RSA)
Nkosenhle Ngongoma
Group CIO, Ascendis Health (RSA)
Samresh Ramjith
Absa Group
(South Africa)
Samresh Ramjith
Deputy CISO, Absa Group
Aytekin Güzeliş
Allianz Turkey
(TURKEY)
Aytekin Güzeliş
Head of Security Governance, Allianz Türkiye
Jason Roos
(KASUT)
(KSA)
Jason Roos
CIO, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KSA)
Mohammed Ali
Emirates Post
(UAE)
Mohammed Ali
Director of Digital Business, Emirates Post
Ennis Giaaki
Injazat
(UAE)
Ennis Giaaki
Senior Visual Designer, Injazat
Antonio Antonuccio
Injazat
(UAE)
Antonio Antonuccio
Digital Transformation Director, Injazat
Sanaa Elbernoussi
Injazat
(KSA)
Sanaa Elbernoussi
DX Strategy Consultant, Injazat
Tobe L. Nnadozie
(CSCS)
(Nigeria)
Tobe L. Nnadozie
Divisional Head, Technology and Innovation, Central Securities Clearing System PLC (CSCS)
Jyoti Lalchandani
Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META), IDC
Khaled AlMazrouei
Acting Chief Commercial Officer, Injazat
Meredith Whalen
Chief Research Officer, IDC
Andy Ward
Senior Vice President, NBI Products & Solutions, du
Aaron White
Managing Director, METI, Nutanix
Wolfgang Egger
Vice President and Managing Director, HPE
Tejas Patel
Managing Director, Strategy and Consulting, Accenture
Kristine Dahl Steidel
Vice President End User Computing, EMEA, VMware
Andrew Sutherland
SVP, Business Development – Technology License & Systems EMEA, Oracle
Mirel Sehic
Global Director of Cybersecurity, Honeywell Building Technology
Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT)
Injazat
For more information visit https://www.injazat.com
Dubai Internet City (DIC)
Dubai Internet City (DIC) was established in 2000 and is currently regarded the Middle East and North Africa's largest ICT cluster. Built as a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in neighboring regions, DIC’s core focus area extends from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent, and from Africa to the CIS. DIC has created a dynamic international community of IT companies that include various Fortune 500 brands and many small and medium-sized enterprises and ventures.
du
http://du.ae
Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Companies around the world use Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software to bring one-click application management and mobility across public, private and distributed edge clouds so they can run any application at any scale with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. The result is organizations that can rapidly deliver a high-performance IT environment on demand, giving application owners a true cloud-like experience.
Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 514,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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أكسنتشر شركة عالمية توفر مجموعة متنوعة من الخدمات والحلول المهنية في المجال الرقمي، والتقنيات السحابية وأمن المعلومات. ونجمع بين خبرة منقطعة النظير، ومهارات متخصصة في أكثر من 40 قطاعاً صناعياً، وعبر أكبر شبكة عالمية للتكنولوجيا المتقدمة ومراكز التشغيل الذكية، نوفر خدمات التخطيط الاستراتيجي والاستشارات، والخدمات التفاعلية، والتكنولوجيا، وإدارة العمليات. وتوظف أكسنتشر 514,000 شخص يستخدمون يوميا التكنولوجيا والمهارات البشرية لخدمة عملائنا والأفراد والمساهمين والشركاء www.accenture.com والمجتمعات في أكثر من 120 دولة للحصول على معلومات أوفى يمكن زيارة موقع الويب
VMware
Oracle
Oracle offers suites of integrated applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.
Trademark
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
Honeywell
Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT) is a global business with more than 20,000 employees. HBT creates products, software and technologies found in more than 10 million buildings worldwide. Commercial building owners and operators use our technologies to help create safe, energy efficient, sustainable and productive facilities. For more news and information on Honeywell Building Technologies, visit http://www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 technology company that delivers industry specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Our technologies help aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants, supply chains, and workers become more connected to make our world smarter, safer, and more sustainable. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywell.com/newsroom.
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud, founded in 2009, is a global leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, providing services to thousands of enterprises, developers, and governments organizations in more than 200 countries and regions. Committed to the success of its customers, Alibaba Cloud provides reliable and secure cloud computing and data processing capabilities as a part of its online solutions. In January 2017, Alibaba Cloud became the official cloud services partner of the Olympics.
Google Cloud
Google Cloud is widely recognized as a global leader in delivering a secure, open, intelligent, and transformative enterprise cloud platform. Our technology is built on Google’s private network and is the product of nearly 20 years of innovation in security, network architecture, collaboration, artificial intelligence, and open source software. We offer a simply engineered set of tools and unparalleled technology across Google Cloud Platform and G Suite that help bring people, insights, and ideas together. Customers across more than 150 countries trust Google Cloud to modernize their computing environment for today’s digital world. www.cloud.google.com
Fortinet
Fortinet secures the largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet provides its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface. The Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud, or mobile environments. Fortinet has one of the most shipped security appliances worldwide, and more than 450,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses.
SS&C Technologies
Red Hat
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies. It helps organizations standardize across environments, develop cloud-native applications, and integrate, automate, secure, and manage complex environments with award-winning support, training, and consulting services.
Trend Micro
Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity, helps make
the world safe for exchanging digital information. Leveraging over 30 years of
security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend
Micro enables resilience for businesses, governments, and consumers with
connected solutions across cloud workloads, endpoints, email, IIoT, and
networks.
Our XGen™ security strategy powers our solutions with a cross-generational
blend of threat-defense techniques that are optimized for key environments and
leverage shared threat intelligence for better, faster protection.
With over 6,700 employees in 65 countries, and the world’s most advanced global
threat research and intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations to secure
their connected world. www.trendmicro.com
Dell Technologies
Software AG
Software AG reimagines integration, sparks business transformation and enables fast innovation on the Internet of Things so you can pioneer differentiating business models. We give you the freedom to connect and integrate any technology from app to edge. We help you free data from silos so it’s shareable, usable and powerful - enabling you to make the best decisions and unlock entirely new possibilities for growth. Software AG has nearly 5,000 employees and is active in 70 countries
Thales Cloud Protection and Licensing
Today’s enterprises depend on the cloud, data and software in order to make decisive decisions. That is why the most respected brands and largest organizations in the world rely on Thales to help them protect and secure access to their most sensitive information and software wherever it is created, shared or stored – from the cloud and data centers to devices and across networks. Our solutions enable organizations to move to the cloud securely, achieve compliance with confidence, and create more value from their software in devices and services used by millions of consumers every day.
We are the worldwide leader in data protection, providing everything an organization needs to protect and manage its data, identities and intellectual property – through encryption, advanced key management, tokenization, and authentication and access management. Whether it’s securing the cloud, digital payments, blockchain or the Internet of Things, security professionals around the globe rely on Thales to confidently accelerate their organization’s digital transformation. Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing is part of Thales Group.
AWS
AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster
Palo Alto Networks
Tenable Network Security
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Approximately 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable extended its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver the world’s first platform to see and secure any digital asset on any computing platform. Tenable customers include approximately 60 percent of the Fortune 500, approximately 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Learn more at tenable.com.
f5
F5 empowers its customers — the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, financial and educational institutions, government entities, and consumer brands — to create, secure, and operate applications that deliver extraordinary digital experiences. Powered by automation and AI-driven insights, these applications will naturally adapt based on their changing environment — so companies can focus on their core business, boost speed to market, improve operations, and build trust with their customers. By enabling these adaptive applications, F5 (with NGINX and Shape technology) offers an essential solution for every digital organization in the world.
Equinix
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company. Digital leaders harness our trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. We enable our customers to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
Veeam
FireEye
FireEye is the intelligence-led security company. Working as a seamless, scalable extension of customer security operations, FireEye offers a single platform that blends innovative security technologies, nation-state grade threat intelligence, and world-renowned Mandiant® consulting. With this approach, FireEye eliminates the complexity and burden of cyber security for organizations struggling to prepare for, prevent, and respond to cyber attacks. FireEye has over 10,100 customers across 103 countries, including more than 50 percent of the Forbes Global 2000.
© 2021 FireEye, Inc. All rights reserved. FireEye and Mandiant are registered trademarks or trademarks of FireEye, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
Commvault
Commvault enables enterprises to redefine backup and recovery with a converged data management solution to protect, manage, and use an organization’s most critical asset — data. Commvault encompasses comprehensive data protection, backup and recovery, storage infrastructure, and more, that aligns with your cloud and on-premises data storage, IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions and established data governance and compliance procedures. No other data management solution available today provides the breadth and depth of coverage in their core offering as Commvault.
Darktrace
Lloyd’s Register
We understand that people sit at the heart of a successful business. Your customers, suppliers and employees all place their information in your hands and expect you to do everything in your power to protect it. That’s why we go beyond compliance, diving deeper into your business to emerge with meaningful insights and smarter solutions. Implementing an information security management system (ISMS) standard and gaining ISO 27001 certification can help your organisation keep its information assets secure.
Our range of assessment and training services is suitable for organisations of all sizes and locations and can help you make the most of the standard. We offer a wide range of services like Training, Gap analysis, Certification, Surveillance, etc. We can also incorporate verification against any of the following Guidelines and Codes of Practice: ISO 27017, ISO 27018 and ISO 27032.
SentinelOne
SentinelOne is the only cybersecurity solution encompassing AI-powered prevention, detection, response and hunting across endpoints, containers, cloud workloads, and IoT devices in a single autonomous XDR platform. With SentinelOne, organizations gain full transparency into everything happening across the network at machine speed – to defeat every attack, at every stage of the threat lifecycle. To learn more visit www.sentinelone.com or follow us at @SentinelOne, on LinkedIn or Facebook.
OutSystems
OpenText
OpenText, The Information Company™, enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.
Riverbed
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is the security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today it runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers anything connected to the Internet, with its services being used by everyone, from nonprofits and SMBs to Global 2000 companies and top government organizations.
Wrike Ireland Limited
Incorta
Incorta is the data analytics company on a mission to help data-driven enterprises be more agile and competitive by resolving their most complex data analytics challenges. Incorta’s Direct Data Platform™ translates complex information from multiple sources into clear intelligence at unprecedented speed, while maintaining data integrity and fidelity.
Incorta helps leading enterprises unleash the full potential of complex data and gain insights previously thought impossible in record time. Incorta’s Direct Data Platform™ surpasses all others in incisiveness and speed
Sophos
Sophos evolves to meet every new challenge, protecting more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs, our cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions are able to adapt and evolve to secure endpoints and networks against never-before-seen cybercriminal tactics and techniques. Managed through our award-winning, cloud-based platform, Sophos Central, our best-of-breed products work together through our unique Synchronized Security system to share threat intelligence and respond to evolving threats. The Sophos suite of products secures networks and endpoints against automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
Oracle
Oracle offers suites of integrated applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.
Trademark
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
Rackspace Technology
Quest
In IT, next is always around the corner – the next need, the next threat, the next technology. As a result, your challenges never stop. Neither do we. From platform migrations to cloud deployments to security and governance, we work with you to help you solve your toughest IT challenges.
Since 1987, we’ve provided software solutions for the fast-paced world of enterprise IT. We have the experience to help you manage and monitor your databases, take control of your hybrid environments and secure it all with security solutions that ensure you are ready for the next threat.
We’re Quest – Where next meets now.
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Appian
Appian helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help maximize resources and improve business results. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. For more information, visit www.appian.com
Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
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AMD
For over 50 years
AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and
visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming, immersive
platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of consumers, leading
Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research facilities around
the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play.
AMD employees around the world are focused on building great products that push
the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is
enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, Facebook and Twitter pages.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multi-cloud era. It does this with products, solutions, and services that transform the way people connect, work, and live. Juniper Networks simplifies the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multi-cloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. To learn more, visit www.juniper.net.
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Microsoft
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GBI Inc.
Founded in 2008, GBI is a global cloud, connectivity, and content enabler that owns and operates a smart and fully managed network.
GBI's multilayer terrestrial and subsea cable meshed network bridges the East to the West through the Middle East, empowers businesses, connects societies, and contributes to the region's accelerated digital transformation.
GBI offers managed SD-WAN services in partnership with some of the world's leading IT vendors, Versa Networks and Nokia Nuage.
The agility, business innovation, and diverse portfolio of services we offer make us a partner of choice for carriers, ISPs, governments, and enterprises of all sizes.
GBI is a carrier's carrier, and an enterprise global managed services provider dedicated to turning the region into a global connectivity hub.
Mendix
The Mendix platform is built to promote intense collaboration between business and IT teams and dramatically accelerate application development cycles, while maintaining the highest standards of security, quality, and governance — in short, to help enterprises confidently leap into their digital futures.
We are steadfast in our belief that everyone, anywhere should have the ability to build world-class software. Our platform uses visual models and collaboration tools — opening the software development process to people with a wide variety of technical skills.
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China Mobile International Limited (CMI)
China Mobile International Limited (CMI) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Mobile. In order to provide better services to meet the growing demand in the international telecommunications market, China Mobile established CMI in December 2010, headquartered in Hong Kong, China. CMI has expanded its footprint in 36 countries and regions.
Leveraging the strong support by China Mobile, CMI is a trusted partner that provides comprehensive international telecom services and solutions to international enterprises, carriers and mobile users.
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liferay
Liferay makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices. Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. We try to leave a positive mark on the world through business and technology. Hundreds of organizations in financial services, healthcare, government, insurance, retail, manufacturing and multiple other industries use Liferay. Visit us at liferay.com.
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Cato
Cato is the world’s first SASE platform, converging SD-WAN and network security into a global, cloud-native service. Cato optimizes and secures application access for all users and locations. Using Cato, customers easily migrate from MPLS to SD-WAN, optimize connectivity to on-premises and cloud applications, enable secure branch Internet access everywhere, and seamlessly integrate cloud datacenters and mobile users into the network with a zero-trust architecture. With Cato, the network, and your business, are ready for whatever’s next. www.CatoNetworks.com
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Crayon
helps customers build the commercial and technical foundation for a successful
and secure cloud-first, digital transformation journey. To learn more about
Crayon, please visit Crayon
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International Business Magazine
Founded in 2018, International Business Magazine covers trending topics across the globe, with a particular focus on the Middle East and the world's emerging markets. The magazine has an avid readership across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, providing extensive coverage of all the latest developments in the world of business, banking, finance, and technology.
Oxford Business Group
Whether your primary objective is to increase your brand exposure, demonstrate thought leadership or drive new business, IDC attracts senior decision makers eager to learn about market trends and new solutions and build new business relationships.
IDC advises senior decision makers on how to lead their organisations through this period of multiplied innovation and disruption. Through research and surveys, IDC analysts truly understand the priorities on the agenda.
Our CIO Summits are strictly invitation-only events, and attendees are handpicked to ensure seniority. Only attendees from the region’s leading public and private sector entities are invited.
Our CIO Summits are much more than just events. IDC builds communities across the Summits, providing an opportunity for vendors to seamlessly interact with a wide range of influential stakeholders.
Our CIO Summits provide multiple opportunities to engage with senior decision makers to gain insights, build relationships, and identify new business opportunities — supported by IDC all the way.
Leverage the local expertise of IDC’s analysts to bullet-proof your messaging and optimize the impact of your sessions.
We offer a broad range of sponsorship opportunities to suit your budget and objectives. Our range of partnerships include:
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As part of our exclusive collaboration with IDG, the IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2021 will also play host to the inaugural CIO50 Middle East Awards.
The CIO50 list recognizes the efforts of the region's top 50 technology executives, based on their ability to drive innovation, strengthen resiliency, and shape rapid change. Aligned to a global awards program, securing a place on the CIO50 list is viewed as a genuine mark of enterprise excellence.
Immersive, Enjoyable, Interactive
At IDC, we are committed to bringing you the latest industry findings and updates during our annual CIO Summits. Due to the current COVID-19 situation we have had to curtail our physical events, but as they say, "The show must go on!"
As such, we're delighted to bring you the latest virtual experiences so you don't miss out on any part of our traditional events.
This event will employ an immersive virtual platform, enabling you to seamlessly participate in sessions hosted by IDC and our partners, use video chat tools to connect with exhibitors, interact with your peers in designated networking zones, attend the IDC Digital Excellence Awards, and browse through a sea of valuable content. You can also participate in interactive games for a chance to win exciting raffle prizes.
The IDC Middle East CIO Summit 2021 is not all about serious discussion and networking.
We've also created a series of fun, exciting, and memorable experiences for you to enjoy while you're on our virtual platform.
So, please feel free to explore the various gamification options available.
Ronita Bhattacharjee
Vice President - Conferences, IDC Middle East, Africa, & Turkey
+971 4 391 2747 EmailTaher Hamdan
Senior Sales Manager, Conferences, IDC Middle East, Turkey & Africa
+971506591320 Email57 Years | 1300 Analysts | 110 Countries
International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets. With more than 1,300 analysts worldwide, IDC offers global, regional, and local expertise on technology and industry opportunities and trends in over 110 countries. IDC's analysis and insight helps IT professionals, business executives, and the investment community to make fact-based technology decisions and to achieve their key business objectives. Founded in 1964, IDC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG), the world's leading media, data and marketing services company. To learn more about IDC, please visit www.idc.com.
