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.
Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) Keynote
Dr. Mishari Almishari
Deputy Director, National Information Center (NIC) & CEO of the Strategy Management Office, Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA)
8:458:55
Ministry of Human Resource & Social Development (HRSD) Keynote
Mohammed Almogherah
Deputy CIO, Ministry of Human Resource & Social Development (HRSD)
9:009:10
Welcome Address
Hamza Naqshbandi
Associate Vice President, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain
9:109:30
Digital Resiliency: Navigating through the Winds of Change
Meredith Whalen
Chief Research Officer, IDC
9:309:50
Walking the Path to Modernization | The Road We Take Together
Saif Mashat
Country Director Saudi Arabia, VMware
Business applications have never been more essential to our customers, defining customer engagement, market opportunities and workforce services. For every CIO, modernizing this application portfolio, leveraging the cloud, is their top priority. At the same time, the nature of work has dramatically shifted, forcing companies to reimagine what workspaces are. The CIO's app and cloud modernization journey, along with enabling their teams to accelerate this journey from virtually anywhere, have become key drivers of new capabilities and business value throughout the enterprise
Join VMware to explore the latest application modernization and Multi Cloud trends and present best practices for CIOs as they strive to develop effective strategies and roadmaps.
9:5010:10
Leading Your Organization into the Digital Future
Phil Andrews
Vice President and General Manager (Asia CEMEA), Red Hat
Regardless of the industry, technology is causing severe disruption, bringing about a new way of doing things. It has become a fact that those who do not keep up will be left behind. Today, organizations are looking to accelerate their digital capabilities. Yet, this evolution involves a number of moving parts including architecture, culture, and processes. Join this session to learn more on the strategies used by IT leaders to transform into digital first organizations.
As the Global leader in Customer Relationship Management, Salesforce has been working with companies in Saudi Arabia for over 10 years to help drive a great customer experience through the power of their data. This presentation will focus on some of the key areas in which Salesforce helps enable customers in the Kingdom integrate, analyse and extract value to provide a superior Customer Experience
10:3010:50
Enterprise-Ready Cloud by Design to Accelerate the Digital Transformation Journey
Gérôme de Gea
Director of Cloud Strategy and OCI Center of Excellence (EMEA), Oracle
Moving workloads to the cloud provides enterprises with better agility, greater global accessibility, and higher performance and scalability. As cloud services mature, organizations continue to increase the scope of the workloads being migrated to the public cloud, including popular enterprise application and database workloads as well as custom and independent software vendor application workloads. However, migrating enterprise workloads can be ominous despite the many benefits of the public cloud. This presentation will examine how organizations should address six key challenges underpinning a successful digital transformation – security, availability, data sovereignty, cost optimization, automation and governance
10:5011:10
Composable Experiences for Everything
Maher Adi
Sales Director – Digital Engagement Solutions (KSA), Avaya
11:1012:40
Best Practice Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
Managing Partner Saudi Arabia GBS, Country Leader, IBM Saudi Arabia
Leading in Hybrid Cloud, IBM
11:35 - 12:10
Empower Your People and Boost Business Performance with AI-Powered Automation, IBM
Richard Heitmann
Vice President Automation GTM, IBM
Empower Your People and Boost Business Performance with AI-Powered Automation, IBM
Automation is expected to unleash $130B in labor value and companies that deploy automation with applied AI accelerate innovation by making every interaction, experience, and process more intelligent. In this session, we will discuss the latest trends in automation technology and how companies can map their automation journey to empower teams, improve agility and outperform their competition
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
Dr. Fawaz Alharbi
Deputy Chairman of the Board, The Saudi Cloud Computing Association (SCCA) (KSA)
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Besher
Dean of Computing & Informatics, Saudi Electronic University (KSA)
Mohammed Shah
IT & Smart City Director, Knowledge Economic City (KSA)
Fireside Chat: Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
With the national vision to bring about change through digital transformation in the Kingdom, the adoption of cloud has become a foundational step in every digital transformation journey across government and enterprises, more so got accelerated following the onset of the pandemic. In fact this has elevated the role of technology leaders to be involved more than ever in business transformation discussions driving critical outcomes.
On the other hand, from a technology perspective, Hybrid cloud is increasingly becoming the new IT architecture that enables Digital Transformation initiatives leveraging the elasticity, scalability, flexibility and economies it offers. And Importantly, underpinned by distributed cloud architecture, enterprises are focused on driving Digital Business performance outcomes and enterprise level efficiencies leveraging business automation across the organization.
Join this track and panel discussion which focuses on learnings, experiences and best practices from tech experts when approaching cloud & digital, not only from a technology perspective, but also from a business performance and automation standpoint. And we will also uncover the key challenges while adopting cloud by Saudi organizations, potential areas of improvement, and thoughts on the best way forward
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Skills are Key in the New Reality
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Carrie MacGillivray
Group VP & General Manager WW Telecom, Mobility & IoT Research, IDC
IDC Overview
11:25 - 11:40
Maximizing Business ROI with Automation, Blue Prism
Paul Marshall
Partner Solutions Consultant, Blue Prism
Maximizing Business ROI with Automation, Blue Prism
11:40 - 11:55
Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Incident Response, Fortinet
Roy Katmor
General Manager, Endpoint Solutions, Fortinet
Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Incident Response, Fortinet
In this session we will discuss methods to harness artificial intelligence to assist in addressing the challenges of alert fatigue and the inability to keep up with fast-moving cyber threats. Learn how artificial-intelligence enabled eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions allow you to not only investigate but also respond rapidly.
11:55 - 12:10
Forgot About RPA in The Contact Center?
Nada Ammar
Solutions Consultant, RPA & Digital Transformation, IST Networks
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Making Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Real
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
Dr. Abdulrahman Alhabib
Deputy Research Director, National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) - Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) (KSA)
Dr. Abdulrahman Al Khnaifer
CIO, King Saud University (KSA)
Dr. Salem Alelyani
Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence, King Khalid University (KSA)
Hesham Al Ghamdi
Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Abdul Latif Jameel Motors (ALJR) (KSA)
Fireside Chat: Making Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Real
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has clear goals to further the use of emerging technologies such as AI, making them a cornerstone to realizing the country’s Vision 2030 aspirations and goals and to support the national ambition of making Saudi Arabia a world leader in the field of AI. This panel will feature two of the Kingdom’s leading CIOs to discuss the current state of AI implementation how it is impacting various sectors, and the overall quality of life in the country.
The New Normal Requires Zero-Trust Security
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Frank Dickson
Program Vice President, Cybersecurity Products, IDC
IDC Overview
11:25 - 11:40
Zero Trust, Trend Micro
Rasheed AlOdah
Country Managing Director (Saudi Arabia), Trend Micro
Zero Trust, Trend Micro
11:40 - 11:55
Security Zero Trust Architecture for the Workforce, Workplace and Workload, Cisco
Fady Younes
Regional Cybersecurity Director (Middle East & Africa), Cisco
11:55 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: CyberSecurity Requires Multidisciplinary Diverse Thinking to Problem Solving
Arwa Alhamad
Head of Cyber Security, Sanabil Investment (Saudi Arabia)
Dr. Reem Faraj Al-Shammari
Digital Transformation Leader, Kuwait Oil Company (Kuwait)
Hessa Al Nahdi
CISO, Department of Culture & Tourism Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Abeer Khedr
Director of Information Security, National Bank of Egypt (Egypt)
Being Ready for What’s Next
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Rory Duncan
Research Vice President, Cloud Service Providers, IDC
11:25 - 11:40
Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 & the Role of Automation, Nintex
Firass Kiki
Account Executive (EMEA Emerging Markets), Nintex
Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 & the Role of Automation, Nintex
The role of the Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 is vital; They are central players in attracting foreign direct investment and enabling economic diversification.
They represent the more outward-looking policies of the crown prince, and they are at the forefront of changing how citizens, companies, and the state interact with each other.
In this session, we’ll discuss how Nintex has enabled hundreds of financial organizations across the globe (including Saudi Arabia) manage & digitize their business processes, and thus increase productivity, reduce costs, make faster decisions, and reduce repetitive tasks than ever before.
11:40 - 11:55
Accelerating Data Driven Transformation, NetApp
Matt Watts
Chief Technology Evangelist, NetApp
Accelerating Data Driven Transformation, NetApp
In a world where cloud is changing our everyday lives, transformation tops the strategic agenda in most organizations. Speed is the new scale, cloud is the platform and data is the currency. To successfully transform, data is becoming the lifeblood of an organization. Discover how NetApp’s solutions can help your organization unleash the power of data to meet business demands and gain a competitive edge. It allows your IT organization to better harness the power of hybrid cloud, build a hybrid multicloud experience, and modernize storage through data management.
11:55 - 12:10
Make Your Business Cyber Resilient, DELL Technologies
Mohamed Saif
Senior Consultant Presales, Dell Technologies
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Preparing for the Next Wave of Digital Healthcare in Saudi Arabia
Uzair Mujtaba
Program Manager — IDC Saudi Arabia
Eng. Ahlam Al Sarheed
CIO, King Fahad Medical City (KSA)
Dr. Raed Al Hazme
Executive Director, Information Services & Informatics Division, National Guard Health Affairs (KSA)
Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
Managing Partner Saudi Arabia GBS, Country Leader, IBM Saudi Arabia
11:35 - 12:10
Empower Your People and Boost Business Performance with AI-Powered Automation, IBM
11:35 - 12:10
Empower Your People and Boost Business Performance with AI-Powered Automation, IBM
Automation is expected to unleash $130B in labor value and companies that deploy automation with applied AI accelerate innovation by making every interaction, experience, and process more intelligent. In this session, we will discuss the latest trends in automation technology and how companies can map their automation journey to empower teams, improve agility and outperform their competition
Richard Heitmann
Vice President Automation GTM, IBM
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Multi-Cloud Strategies Enabling Digital Business Performance and Automation
With the national vision to bring about change through digital transformation in the Kingdom, the adoption of cloud has become a foundational step in every digital transformation journey across government and enterprises, more so got accelerated following the onset of the pandemic. In fact this has elevated the role of technology leaders to be involved more than ever in business transformation discussions driving critical outcomes.
On the other hand, from a technology perspective, Hybrid cloud is increasingly becoming the new IT architecture that enables Digital Transformation initiatives leveraging the elasticity, scalability, flexibility and economies it offers. And Importantly, underpinned by distributed cloud architecture, enterprises are focused on driving Digital Business performance outcomes and enterprise level efficiencies leveraging business automation across the organization.
Join this track and panel discussion which focuses on learnings, experiences and best practices from tech experts when approaching cloud & digital, not only from a technology perspective, but also from a business performance and automation standpoint. And we will also uncover the key challenges while adopting cloud by Saudi organizations, potential areas of improvement, and thoughts on the best way forward
Wilson Xavier
Research Director, Telecom & IT Services (META), IDC
Dr. Fawaz Alharbi
Deputy Chairman of the Board, The Saudi Cloud Computing Association (SCCA) (KSA)
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Besher
Dean of Computing & Informatics, Saudi Electronic University (KSA)
Mohammed Shah
IT & Smart City Director, Knowledge Economic City (KSA)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Skills are Key in the New Reality
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Carrie MacGillivray
Group VP & General Manager WW Telecom, Mobility & IoT Research, IDC
11:25 - 11:40
Maximizing Business ROI with Automation, Blue Prism
11:25 - 11:40
Maximizing Business ROI with Automation, Blue Prism
Paul Marshall
Partner Solutions Consultant, Blue Prism
11:40 - 11:55
Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Incident Response, Fortinet
11:40 - 11:55
Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Incident Response, Fortinet
In this session we will discuss methods to harness artificial intelligence to assist in addressing the challenges of alert fatigue and the inability to keep up with fast-moving cyber threats. Learn how artificial-intelligence enabled eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions allow you to not only investigate but also respond rapidly.
Roy Katmor
General Manager, Endpoint Solutions, Fortinet
11:55 - 12:10
Forgot About RPA in The Contact Center?
11:55 - 12:10
Forgot About RPA in The Contact Center?
Nada Ammar
Solutions Consultant, RPA & Digital Transformation, IST Networks
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Making Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Real
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Making Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Real
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has clear goals to further the use of emerging technologies such as AI, making them a cornerstone to realizing the country’s Vision 2030 aspirations and goals and to support the national ambition of making Saudi Arabia a world leader in the field of AI. This panel will feature two of the Kingdom’s leading CIOs to discuss the current state of AI implementation how it is impacting various sectors, and the overall quality of life in the country.
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
Dr. Abdulrahman Alhabib
Deputy Research Director, National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) - Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) (KSA)
Dr. Abdulrahman Al Khnaifer
CIO, King Saud University (KSA)
Dr. Salem Alelyani
Director of Center for Artificial Intelligence, King Khalid University (KSA)
Hesham Al Ghamdi
Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Abdul Latif Jameel Motors (ALJR) (KSA)
The New Normal Requires Zero-Trust Security
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Frank Dickson
Program Vice President, Cybersecurity Products, IDC
11:25 - 11:40
Zero Trust, Trend Micro
11:25 - 11:40
Zero Trust, Trend Micro
Rasheed AlOdah
Country Managing Director (Saudi Arabia), Trend Micro
11:40 - 11:55
Security Zero Trust Architecture for the Workforce, Workplace and Workload, Cisco
11:40 - 11:55
Security Zero Trust Architecture for the Workforce, Workplace and Workload, Cisco
Fady Younes
Regional Cybersecurity Director (Middle East & Africa), Cisco
11:55 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: CyberSecurity Requires Multidisciplinary Diverse Thinking to Problem Solving
11:55 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: CyberSecurity Requires Multidisciplinary Diverse Thinking to Problem Solving
Arwa Alhamad
Head of Cyber Security, Sanabil Investment (Saudi Arabia)
Dr. Reem Faraj Al-Shammari
Digital Transformation Leader, Kuwait Oil Company (Kuwait)
Hessa Al Nahdi
CISO, Department of Culture & Tourism Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Abeer Khedr
Director of Information Security, National Bank of Egypt (Egypt)
Being Ready for What’s Next
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
11:10 - 11:25
IDC Overview
Rory Duncan
Research Vice President, Cloud Service Providers, IDC
11:25 - 11:40
Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 & the Role of Automation, Nintex
11:25 - 11:40
Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 & the Role of Automation, Nintex
The role of the Financial Institutions in Vision 2030 is vital; They are central players in attracting foreign direct investment and enabling economic diversification.
They represent the more outward-looking policies of the crown prince, and they are at the forefront of changing how citizens, companies, and the state interact with each other.
In this session, we’ll discuss how Nintex has enabled hundreds of financial organizations across the globe (including Saudi Arabia) manage & digitize their business processes, and thus increase productivity, reduce costs, make faster decisions, and reduce repetitive tasks than ever before.
Firass Kiki
Account Executive (EMEA Emerging Markets), Nintex
11:40 - 11:55
Accelerating Data Driven Transformation, NetApp
11:40 - 11:55
Accelerating Data Driven Transformation, NetApp
In a world where cloud is changing our everyday lives, transformation tops the strategic agenda in most organizations. Speed is the new scale, cloud is the platform and data is the currency. To successfully transform, data is becoming the lifeblood of an organization. Discover how NetApp’s solutions can help your organization unleash the power of data to meet business demands and gain a competitive edge. It allows your IT organization to better harness the power of hybrid cloud, build a hybrid multicloud experience, and modernize storage through data management.
Matt Watts
Chief Technology Evangelist, NetApp
11:55 - 12:10
Make Your Business Cyber Resilient, DELL Technologies
11:55 - 12:10
Make Your Business Cyber Resilient, DELL Technologies
Mohamed Saif
Senior Consultant Presales, Dell Technologies
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Preparing for the Next Wave of Digital Healthcare in Saudi Arabia
12:10 - 12:40
Fireside Chat: Preparing for the Next Wave of Digital Healthcare in Saudi Arabia
Uzair Mujtaba
Program Manager — IDC Saudi Arabia
Eng. Ahlam Al Sarheed
CIO, King Fahad Medical City (KSA)
Dr. Raed Al Hazme
Executive Director, Information Services & Informatics Division, National Guard Health Affairs (KSA)
12:4013:25
Technology Focus Group Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Next-Generation Security & Resilience
12:40 - 12:55
The Battle of Algorithms: How AI is Beating AI at its Own Game, Darktrace
Mariana Pereira
Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace
The Battle of Algorithms: How AI is Beating AI at its Own Game, Darktrace
Cyberattacks are becoming exponentially more dangerous and harder to identify following the emergence of AI-enhanced malware. AI-driven attacks, which are conducted at unprecedented speed and scale, will become almost indistinguishable from genuine activity as they steadily evolve. In the face of offensive AI, only defensive AI can fight back. Such AI can detect even the most subtle indicators of attack in real time and respond with surgical actions to neutralize threats wherever they strike. This session will examine how cyber-criminals are leveraging AI tools to create sophisticated cyber-weapons and highlight what AI-powered spoofing threats look like. It will also explore why defensive AI technologies are uniquely positioned to fight back against AI-powered threats which cannot be spotted by humans.
12:55 - 13:10
Working Together is Always Better BUT not to Commit Cyber Crimes: Discussion on the Role of Contractors in the Cyber Threat Landscape, FireEye Mandiant
Jamil Abu Aqel
Director, Systems Engineering, FireEye
Working Together is Always Better BUT not to Commit Cyber Crimes: Discussion on the Role of Contractors in the Cyber Threat Landscape, FireEye Mandiant
Commercial firms and freelancers have been supporting offensive organizations on a regular basis and pose a moderate to severe threat to a wide variety of industries across the globe. FireEye/Mandiant anticipates that malicious entities will continue to use contractors to support their cyber threat activity in the foreseeable future, particularly as organizations develop and grow their offensive capabilities. Join our session to discuss some of the motives, techniques and collaboration ways to protect our organizations from such methods.
13:10 - 13:25
See, Secure & Unify your OT/IOT Environment, Nozomi Networks
Phillip Page
Director of BD & Partner Technologies, Nozomi Networks
See, Secure & Unify your OT/IOT Environment, Nozomi Networks
Boosting Software-Driven Digital Innovation Using Agile DevOps
12:40 - 12:55
The Future Is Now With Hyper Vision, MicroStrategy
Ranjith Somasundaram
Senior Sales Engineer, MicroStrategy
The Future Is Now With Hyper Vision, MicroStrategy
Conventional tools take too long and require too many clicks to provide analytical data points for simple business questions that your Employees need to answer Every Day. These questions generally require them to search through one or more reporting and dashboarding tools or core business applications like corporate ERP and CRM systems. In this session you will see how MicroStrategy HyperIntelligence embeds insights and actions within the applications that your employees use All Day improving their ability to make Data Driven Decisions.
12:55 - 13:10
Data 3.0 – The Path to Unified Predictive Analytics, Incorta
Matthew Halliday
Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy, Incorta
Data 3.0 – The Path to Unified Predictive Analytics, Incorta
13:10 - 13:25
ERP in Digitalization Context
Eng. Majed A. Al-Shangiti
CIO, Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
ERP in Digitalization Context
Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
12:40 - 12:55
Unleash your Data in your Modern Datacenter and MultiCloud, Veeam
Mohamad Rizk
Senior Regional Technical Director (Middle East and Russia), Veeam
Unleash your Data in your Modern Datacenter and MultiCloud, Veeam
12:55 - 13:10
Digital Transformation, Rackspace Technology
Bryan James
Solution Architect (EMEA), Rackspace Technology
Digital Transformation, Rackspace Technology
The Future of Work has drastically changed — and accelerated — by the ongoing global pandemic. In the journey of digital transformation, enterprises are eagerly modernizing their applications through cloud-native technologies and techniques. Every transformation will have its own nuances and unique considerations. Together Rackspace Technology and GCP will provide you a comprehensive, tailored solution across your operation excellence and within your cloud environment. We can help you build, deploy and manage across your cloud environment by mitigating your risks whilst increasing your ROI. We optimize the costs for our Corporate and Enterprise customers that are in a hurry to move out of their data center or want flexible contracts with our Cloud Agnostic Solution Experts at Rackspace Technology! We have experience with On-premises, Private - and Public Cloud and we can help the customer in every step of their cloud journey. Join us at IDC to know how you can get the most out of your investment:
• Learn how Rackspace Technology and Google Cloud can help assess your environment,
• How Rackspace Technology provides managed and secured services for a variety of your workloads,
• To empower our customers who want to move to the cloud but don’t have cloud native capabilities.
13:10 - 13:25
Cloud Data Management for SaaS, On Prem and Hybrid Environments, Commvault
James Phillips
Metallic Account Executive, Commvault
Cloud Data Management for SaaS, On Prem and Hybrid Environments, Commvault
The Future of Work: Adapting Your Workplace to the Evolution of People, Processes, and Systems
12:40 - 12:55
Re-imagine the Future of Work, Zoho Corporation
Bharath Kumar
Head of Customer Experience & Marketing Initiatives, Zoho Corporation
12:55 - 13:25
Fireside Chat: Giga Projects - The Next Frontier of Saudi Arabia’s Transformation
Jason Roos
CIO, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KSA)
Ayman Alharbi
IT Director, The Red Sea Development Company (KSA)
Fireside Chat: Giga Projects - The Next Frontier of Saudi Arabia’s Transformation
Sustaining Business Continuity
12:40 - 12:55
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in a Security Paradigm Change: Why Prevention Is Always Better than Cure, BlackBerry
Baldeep Dogra
Director of Solutions Marketing, BlackBerry
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in a Security Paradigm Change: Why Prevention Is Always Better than Cure, BlackBerry
12:55 - 13:10
PKI Harmonization: Best practices to Gain Control, Transparency, and Security Across your Entire Organization, DigiCert
Mike Nelson
VP of IoT Security, DigiCert
13:10 - 13:25
Zero-Trust Architectures: Guaranteeing Efficient Security in the New Reality
Muath AlHomoud
CISO, Tasnee
Next-Generation Security & Resilience
12:40 - 12:55
The Battle of Algorithms: How AI is Beating AI at its Own Game, Darktrace
12:40 - 12:55
The Battle of Algorithms: How AI is Beating AI at its Own Game, Darktrace
Cyberattacks are becoming exponentially more dangerous and harder to identify following the emergence of AI-enhanced malware. AI-driven attacks, which are conducted at unprecedented speed and scale, will become almost indistinguishable from genuine activity as they steadily evolve. In the face of offensive AI, only defensive AI can fight back. Such AI can detect even the most subtle indicators of attack in real time and respond with surgical actions to neutralize threats wherever they strike. This session will examine how cyber-criminals are leveraging AI tools to create sophisticated cyber-weapons and highlight what AI-powered spoofing threats look like. It will also explore why defensive AI technologies are uniquely positioned to fight back against AI-powered threats which cannot be spotted by humans.
Mariana Pereira
Director of Email Security Products, Darktrace
12:55 - 13:10
Working Together is Always Better BUT not to Commit Cyber Crimes: Discussion on the Role of Contractors in the Cyber Threat Landscape, FireEye Mandiant
12:55 - 13:10
Working Together is Always Better BUT not to Commit Cyber Crimes: Discussion on the Role of Contractors in the Cyber Threat Landscape, FireEye Mandiant
Commercial firms and freelancers have been supporting offensive organizations on a regular basis and pose a moderate to severe threat to a wide variety of industries across the globe. FireEye/Mandiant anticipates that malicious entities will continue to use contractors to support their cyber threat activity in the foreseeable future, particularly as organizations develop and grow their offensive capabilities. Join our session to discuss some of the motives, techniques and collaboration ways to protect our organizations from such methods.
Jamil Abu Aqel
Director, Systems Engineering, FireEye
13:10 - 13:25
See, Secure & Unify your OT/IOT Environment, Nozomi Networks
13:10 - 13:25
See, Secure & Unify your OT/IOT Environment, Nozomi Networks
Phillip Page
Director of BD & Partner Technologies, Nozomi Networks
Boosting Software-Driven Digital Innovation Using Agile DevOps
12:40 - 12:55
The Future Is Now With Hyper Vision, MicroStrategy
12:40 - 12:55
The Future Is Now With Hyper Vision, MicroStrategy
Conventional tools take too long and require too many clicks to provide analytical data points for simple business questions that your Employees need to answer Every Day. These questions generally require them to search through one or more reporting and dashboarding tools or core business applications like corporate ERP and CRM systems. In this session you will see how MicroStrategy HyperIntelligence embeds insights and actions within the applications that your employees use All Day improving their ability to make Data Driven Decisions.
Ranjith Somasundaram
Senior Sales Engineer, MicroStrategy
12:55 - 13:10
Data 3.0 – The Path to Unified Predictive Analytics, Incorta
12:55 - 13:10
Data 3.0 – The Path to Unified Predictive Analytics, Incorta
Matthew Halliday
Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Strategy, Incorta
13:10 - 13:25
ERP in Digitalization Context
13:10 - 13:25
ERP in Digitalization Context
Eng. Majed A. Al-Shangiti
CIO, Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)
Building Hybrid Clouds for the Digital Era
12:40 - 12:55
Unleash your Data in your Modern Datacenter and MultiCloud, Veeam
12:40 - 12:55
Unleash your Data in your Modern Datacenter and MultiCloud, Veeam
Mohamad Rizk
Senior Regional Technical Director (Middle East and Russia), Veeam
12:55 - 13:10
Digital Transformation, Rackspace Technology
12:55 - 13:10
Digital Transformation, Rackspace Technology
The Future of Work has drastically changed — and accelerated — by the ongoing global pandemic. In the journey of digital transformation, enterprises are eagerly modernizing their applications through cloud-native technologies and techniques. Every transformation will have its own nuances and unique considerations. Together Rackspace Technology and GCP will provide you a comprehensive, tailored solution across your operation excellence and within your cloud environment. We can help you build, deploy and manage across your cloud environment by mitigating your risks whilst increasing your ROI. We optimize the costs for our Corporate and Enterprise customers that are in a hurry to move out of their data center or want flexible contracts with our Cloud Agnostic Solution Experts at Rackspace Technology! We have experience with On-premises, Private - and Public Cloud and we can help the customer in every step of their cloud journey. Join us at IDC to know how you can get the most out of your investment:
• Learn how Rackspace Technology and Google Cloud can help assess your environment,
• How Rackspace Technology provides managed and secured services for a variety of your workloads,
• To empower our customers who want to move to the cloud but don’t have cloud native capabilities.
Bryan James
Solution Architect (EMEA), Rackspace Technology
13:10 - 13:25
Cloud Data Management for SaaS, On Prem and Hybrid Environments, Commvault
13:10 - 13:25
Cloud Data Management for SaaS, On Prem and Hybrid Environments, Commvault
James Phillips
Metallic Account Executive, Commvault
The Future of Work: Adapting Your Workplace to the Evolution of People, Processes, and Systems
12:40 - 12:55
Re-imagine the Future of Work, Zoho Corporation
12:40 - 12:55
Re-imagine the Future of Work, Zoho Corporation
Bharath Kumar
Head of Customer Experience & Marketing Initiatives, Zoho Corporation
12:55 - 13:25
Fireside Chat: Giga Projects - The Next Frontier of Saudi Arabia’s Transformation
12:55 - 13:25
Fireside Chat: Giga Projects - The Next Frontier of Saudi Arabia’s Transformation
Jason Roos
CIO, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KSA)
Ayman Alharbi
IT Director, The Red Sea Development Company (KSA)
Sustaining Business Continuity
12:40 - 12:55
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in a Security Paradigm Change: Why Prevention Is Always Better than Cure, BlackBerry
12:40 - 12:55
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in a Security Paradigm Change: Why Prevention Is Always Better than Cure, BlackBerry
Baldeep Dogra
Director of Solutions Marketing, BlackBerry
12:55 - 13:10
PKI Harmonization: Best practices to Gain Control, Transparency, and Security Across your Entire Organization, DigiCert
12:55 - 13:10
PKI Harmonization: Best practices to Gain Control, Transparency, and Security Across your Entire Organization, DigiCert
Mike Nelson
VP of IoT Security, DigiCert
13:10 - 13:25
Zero-Trust Architectures: Guaranteeing Efficient Security in the New Reality
13:10 - 13:25
Zero-Trust Architectures: Guaranteeing Efficient Security in the New Reality
Muath AlHomoud
CISO, Tasnee
13:2514:00
Networking & Gamification
(Visit Partner Booths, Download Resources and Stand a Chance to Top the Scoreboard to win Exciting prizes!)
14:0015:15
IDC Excellence Awards
15:1516:15
Networking & Gamification
(Visit Partner Booths, Download Resources and Stand a Chance to Top the Scoreboard to win Exciting prizes!)
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