IDCEgyptCIO SummitAccelerating Your Journey to a Digital-First World
In-Person Event | The Nile Ritz Carlton, Cairo | June 14, 2022
IDCEgyptCIO SummitUnder the Patronage of H.E. Dr. Amr Talaat Minister of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Egypt
IDCEgyptCIO SummitIDC Keynote Steven Frantzen Senior Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA
With digital agendas accelerating significantly over the last two years, the result has been a continuously changing, digitally driven world. IDC research shows that 49% of Egypt CIOs have brought forward their digital agendas by at least one year – and 14% by almost two years – following the upheaval of 2020. Many of these CIOs are now actively reviewing and exploring new digital business models and ecosystem partnerships for the long term.
Whether they're building resilient digital infrastructures or addressing the unique demands of a distributed workforce, CIOs are adapting their organizations to meet a new set of challenges and rethinking their leadership practices for a digital-first world. They are accelerating their digital investments and building organizations that adapt to evolving business requirements and capitalize on change.
The 2022 edition of the IDC Egypt CIO Summit will explore the increasing pace of innovation, examine the region's evolving technology landscape, and present best-practice strategies that will help organizations transform themselves into digitally resilient future enterprises.
Agenda
The Egypt CIO Summit 2022 features a tailored agenda filled with handpicked topics, discussions, panel sessions, and keynote presentations from regional and global technology experts that will explore all of today's hottest ICT issues.
The 2022 edition will be hosted on June 14, 2022. Here's what you can expect:
Contact For more information, please contact: Sara Medhat, Mobile: +20 103 022 2680, Email:smedhat@idc.com
Proceedings
Partners
Host Partner
Gulf Business Machines (GBM)
Founded in 1990, GBM is leading provider of IT solutions in the Middle East. GBM is IBM's sole distributor for select products and services in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, excluding Saudi Arabia. GBM also has strategic partnerships with Cisco, VMware, Apple, Red Hat, and F5. GBM offers an extensive range of IT infrastructure, solutions, and services ranging from consulting, resource deployment, and integration to after-sales support. The company has offices in the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, and Pakistan.
Strategic Partner
ITIDA (Information Technology Industry Development Agency)
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) is the executive arm of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology for spearheading the development of IT in Egypt. ITIDA is Egypt’s engine for spreading technology, driving innovation, and supporting foreign investors seeking to enhance their global offering from Egypt, the global hub for IT/ITES and technology innovation. ITIDA supports and develops the ICT industry through five main segments: (1) Egyptian Companies Development, (2) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Support, (3) Professionals & Students Development, (4) Investor Attraction & Support, and (5) Business Ecosystem Development.
Innovation Partner
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.
Summit Partner
Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$60 billion revenue Fortune Global 500 company serving customers in 180 markets around the world. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, we are developing world-changing technologies that power (through devices and infrastructure) and empower (through solutions, services, and software) millions of customers every day and together create a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.
Summit Partner
HPE and Click ITS
Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps
organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data,
everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to
advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge,
Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds
and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways,
and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com
Click Group was established in 1999 with the purpose of providing different organizations with high quality IT solutions. Step by step, we have successfully expanded our scope of services to bea leading provider of comprehensive and innovative integrated IT solutions starting from assessing the client needs to full solution implementation and maintenance.
Long term successful client relations is a critical philosophy that we build our company upon. Driven by such sharp focus around your own success, we highly invest in developing our human and knowledge capitals to nurture a qualified, talented, very well trained and certified team since we know this is the only way to serve you in more efficient and innovative ways that can keep you satisfied and build the trust and credibility needed for long term relationships.
Click Group is not only a place to work in or with but rather a place through which they can fulfill ambitions, hopes and growth.
Summit Partner
Riverbed
Riverbed is the only company with the collective richness of telemetry from network to app to end user, that illuminates and then accelerates every interaction, so organizations can deliver a seamless digital experience and drive enterprise performance. Riverbed offers two industry-leading portfolios: Alluvio by Riverbed, a differentiated Unified Observability portfolio that unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, so customers can deliver seamless, secure digital experiences; and Riverbed Acceleration, providing fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of partners, and market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 –, we empower every click, every digital experience. Riverbed. Empower the Experience. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.
StarLink
StarLink is regarded as the fastest growing “true” value-added distributor across the META region, with an on-the-ground presence in 20 countries, including the U.K. and USA. StarLink is a trusted cyber and cloud advisor to over 3500 enterprise and government customers that use its best-of-breed and market-leading technologies. The company also has a channel network of over 1500 partners. The “StarLink Solution Lifecycle” helps customers identify key risks, define priorities for addressing IT security gaps, and enhance their datacenter and cloud infrastructure.
Summit Partner
Oracle
At Oracle, our mission is to help people see data in new ways, discover insights, unlock endless possibilities. For more than four decades, Oracle has delivered innovation upon which entire industries have been built.
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle, please visit us at www.oracle.com .
Summit Partner
VMware
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact. http://www.vmware.com
Summit Partner
Huawei
Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have approximately 195,000 employees and we operate in over 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.
Huawei's mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks to lay the foundation for the intelligent world; provide diversified computing power to deliver ubiquitous cloud and intelligence; build powerful digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, offering consumers a more personalized and intelligent experience across all scenarios, including home, travel, office, entertainment, and fitness & health.
Platinum Partner
Micro Focus
Micro Focus helps you run your business and transform it. Our software provides the critical tools you need to build, operate, secure, and analyze your enterprise in a constantly changing world. Right now, that means powering your digital transformation with solutions spanning four key areas:
Enterprise DevOps—Build and deliver better software faster.
Hybrid IT Management—Operate with agility.
Security, Risk, and Governance—Secure what matters most.
Predictive Analytics—Analyze in time to act.
By design, these solutions bridge the gap between existing and emerging technologies—which means you can innovate faster, with less risk, in the race to digital transformation.
Platinum Partner
CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform offers instant visibility and protection across the enterprise and prevents attacks on endpoints on or off the network. CrowdStrike Falcon deploys in minutes to deliver real-time protection and actionable intelligence from Day One. It seamlessly unifies next-generation AV with best-in-class endpoint detection and response, backed by 24/7 [x-apple-data-detectors] managed hunting. Its cloud infrastructure and single-agent architecture take away complexity and add scalability, manageability, and speed.
CrowdStrike Falcon protects customers against all cyber attack types, using sophisticated signatureless AI and Indicator-of-Attack (IoA) based threat prevention to stop known and unknown threats in real time. Powered by the CrowdStrike Threat Graph™, Falcon instantly correlates 1 trillion security events a week from across the globe to immediately prevent and detect threats.
There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Veeam
Veeam® is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects over 400,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners and has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Alkan Telecom
Alkan Telecom is a systems integrator and turnkey solution provider established in 1999 as one of Alkan CIT Group’s subsidiaries. Alkan Telecom provides broadband communication systems, including voice, data, videoconferencing, IoT, wireless communication, satellite connectivity, and AI solutions and more to a wide array of users such as service providers, telecom operators, carriers, and medium and large enterprises.
Alkan Telecom serves a large community of customers crossing government and private sectors covering a wide spectrum of market segments across the various phases of planning, implementation and operations
Technology Focus Group Partner
SAP
As the market leader in enterprise application software,
SAP helps companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best. Our
machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies
turn businesses into intelligent enterprises and SAP applications and services
enable more than 413,000 customers to operate profitably and adapt
continuously. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and
thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people’s lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com
Exhibit Partner
Exhibit Partner
Exhibit Partner
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making jobs easier. The company’s 120+ award-winning products and free tools cover everything the IT function needs. From network and device management to security and service desk software, ManageEngine brings resources together for an integrated approach that optimizes IT.
Enabling Digital Resiliency to Thrive Beyond the Crisis
Nagia El-Emary
Country Director (Egypt), IDC
The sudden strike of the pandemic highlighted the great importance of rapidly accelerating digital transformation
Partner Spotlight
Digital Resiliency has Become Central to Every Organization’s Digital Agenda
Amr Refaat
CEO, GBM
Digital resiliency has become central to every organization’s digital agenda
Partner Spotlight
Enterprises Need Unified Observability to Empower Digital Experiences
Mena Migally
Regional Vice President (Middle East, Turkey & Africa), Riverbed
In today’s technology-driven world, digital experiences must be flawless.
Partner Spotlight
Thought leadership
Aly Noureldin
MENA Sales & Channel Manager, Red Hat
The government’s recent focus on driving the digital transformation of all sectors and projects across the Egyptian state, as well as its buildup of technology infrastructure
The sudden strike of the pandemic highlighted the great importance of rapidly accelerating digital transformation to enable the continuity and resilience of businesses. Egyptian organizations across different industries brought forward their digital road maps significantly, some by two years or more. And now they are realizing the benefits and impact of this digital acceleration.
Around 50% of CIOs of Egyptian organizations say they have seen an increase in cost efficiencies through the digitalization of operations and improved customer satisfaction. Process automation and the creation of new digital business models, as well as leveraging data capabilities and enterprise intelligence, are the Organizations across the country are looking to adapt to business disruptions and accelerate their resiliency so they can quickly respond to changing market dynamics and navigate their way through the waves of economic fluctuation.
But while most organizations tend to focus on anticipating the coming dynamics and developing their contingency plans accordingly, becoming truly digitally resilient requires the deployment of well-orchestrated techniques that empower the organization to rapidly adapt to any business disruption it may face.
Digital resiliency has become central to every organization’s digital agenda and technology plays a central role in achieving this, which subsequently enables business resiliency. In our work with customers in Egypt, we bring our three decades of expertise to enhance their IT infrastructure and accelerate their digital transformation which supports operational continuity and overall growth, while also making room for innovation.
We are also excited to bring our expertise to the IDC CIO Summit as a Host Partner as is it is one of Egypt’s foremost technology events which provides a great platform for CIOs and IT executives to gather and exchange ideas which contribute towards the growth of the country’s technology sector.
In today’s technology-driven world, digital experiences must be flawless. And while digital channels have simplified engagements for customers and employees, they have created exponentially more complex, dynamic, distributed, and hybrid environments.
The solution? Observability, which enables access to actionable insights by correlating information across disparate tools and providing appropriate context around why things are happening. In doing so, observability ensures seamless business continuity, increases agility and productivity, improves service availability and reduces cost, and bridges silos across domain-specific IT teams.
The key pillars of unified observability are:
Full-fidelity telemetry captured across the entire IT ecosystem, from client devices, networks, and servers, to applications, cloud-native environments, and the users themselves.
Intelligent analytics, gained by applying AI, ML, and proprietary data science techniques across disparate data streams, including third-party data, to better detect anomalies and changes.
Actionable insights made possible through the powerful combination of AI- and ML-enabled automation, giving organizations context-rich, filtered, and fix-first insights.
Automated remediation recommended by the system based on the issue being investigated, while giving IT decision-making control over whether and when to execute the suggested corrective actions.
The government’s recent focus on driving the digital transformation of all sectors and projects across the Egyptian state, as well as its buildup of technology infrastructure and digital development of many industries, reflects the sound approaches being applied by various modern and developed countries. The presence of technology companies that can support and provide the very best high-tech solutions and products will play a key role in enabling this great digital transformation.
At Red Hat, we are extremely excited to participate in the upcoming IDC Egypt CIO Summit 2022 so we can connect with open-source experts from diverse backgrounds and engage in discussions on key trends, best practices, and the latest technologies in areas such as big data, IoT, IT modernization, cloud, and mobile. We are also looking forward to discussing Red Hat's role in enabling the next phase of digital modernization and accelerating the digital transformation process
In Egypt today, we are seeing an acceleration of hybrid cloud computing strategies across all levels and sectors of business. Organizations are increasingly embracing the flexibility of such an approach as it presents them with an opportunity to build, operate, and manage the widest range of apps. At the same time, many enterprises are looking to operate with Red Hat OpenShift programs and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in secure environments as these provide the freedom of choice, flexibility, and high-performance quality that they require.
In Egypt, we provide specific solutions to fill the gaps between general and private cloud computing systems, and we are focused on building an ideal model of hybrid cloud computing for our customers across the region.
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