IDCQatarCIO SummitAccelerating Your Journey to a Digital-First World
In-Person Event | Grand Hyatt Doha Hotels and Villas, Doha | September 27, 2022
The significant acceleration of digital agendas over the past two years has resulted in a continuously changing and increasingly digitally-driven world. As Qatar prepares to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, unprecedented technological innovations within the country have reached all-time high. In fact, 2022 IDC research suggests that 57% of Qatari organizations have introduced new digital products and services, while 70% have increased cost efficiencies through the digitalization of operations.
CIOs in Qatar have rapidly digitalized operations and enabled new digital business models and ecosystem partnerships for the tournament and beyond. They have carried out widespread technology implementations, ranging from enabling cloud operational excellence and developing agile infrastructure to supporting application modernization, process automation, and security. Leveraging the FIFA World Cup as a catalyst to drive its digital economy and expand its ICT ecosystem, Qatar is ideally positioned to attract investments in emerging industries and drive innovation while showcasing itself as a digital-first country.
The 2022 edition of the IDC Qatar CIO Summit will explore the increasing pace of innovation in Qatar and examine the country’s evolving technology landscape. It will also reveal how technological innovation has created a more competitive, diversified, and productive ICT sector that can meet the demands of the country’s rising digital economy.
Agenda
The IDC Qatar 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.
Registration Fee Free of Charge: For End Users (not IT + Consultant companies)
Contact
For More Information, contact: Mahmood Ghalandari - Conference Manager Mobile: +974 50840492 | Email: mghalandari@idc.com
Proceedings
Partners
Host Partner
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing. The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.
Digital Transformation Partner
Dell Technologies | Intel
Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) is a unique family of
businesses that helps organizations and individuals build their digital future
and transform how they work, live, and play. The company provides customers
with the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services
portfolio spanning from edge to core to cloud.
Summit Partner
Cloud4C
Cloud4C is a Global Cloud Managed Service Provider serving 60+ of the fortune 500 multinationals and mission-critical businesses in 25+ countries spread across Middle East, Europe, Americas, India and Asia Pacific.
The Company supports Hybrid Cloud environment and allows customers to choose the cloud of their choices such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud and Cloud4C. It has expertise in managing production workloads across various cloud platforms and also on its own community and Private cloud platform locally hosted across the globe in 25 countries with 50+ in-country Cloud Datacenters with end to end migration and managing the mission critical applications and workloads with a unique single SLA model. In Middle East, Cloud4C has its local Cloud Datacenters in UAE, Qatar & Saudi Arabia servicing to 120+ Enterprises across the region.
Summit Partner
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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
Summit Partner
Platinum Partner
Netapp & Mannai
NetApp is a world leader
in unified storage solutions for today’s data-intensive enterprise. Since its
inception in 1992, NetApp has pioneered technology, product, and partner firsts
that simplify data management. NetApp storage solutions include specialized
hardware, software, and services, providing seamless storage management for
open network environments.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Glasshouse
GlassHouse is a market-leading IT infrastructure services provider. Our company, culture, and portfolio were built to serve the leading enterprises with the most demanding business continuity needs. We support our customers in their digitalization journey with our deep technical expertise in 3 key areas are Data Backup & Business Continuity, SAP Infrastructure Service, and Managed Hybrid Cloud Services. Data is the most valuable asset in the new economy. Data assurance is part of our DNA. GlassHouse engages with the largest enterprises in the region to assure mission-critical data and ensure business continuity with hardware, software, and service solutions. SAP is the digitalization engine for the region’s leading enterprises. GlassHouse is a specialist in SAP infrastructure solutions and supports the business processes of some of the largest SAP customers in the region. GlassHouse's approach to Cloud is that it is not a place, but an operational model. GlassHouse builds and runs enterprise-grade IT infrastructure wherever needed: On-premise, On GlassHouse Cloud, On Microsoft Azure, or on a combination of all.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Udacity
Udacity changes lives, businesses, and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. Udacity's global, online talent transformation platform focuses on in-demand digital technologies, mentor support, and project-based learning taught by industry experts. Programs include real world content for job-ready competencies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, autonomous systems, cloud computing, among other disciplines. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force. Udacity collaborates with more than 200 global industry partners including Google, Facebook, Mercedes-Benz, and NVIDIA to power technical education. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the private company has operations in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Udacity has raised $163 million in funding to date from investors including Bertelsmann, Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Drive Capital. For more information, please visit www.udacity.com
Technology Focus Group Partner
Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 615,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone.
Technology Focus Group Partner
Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services is the global enterprise division of the Orange Group supporting businesses worldwide in their digital transformation, thanks to its global presence and local approach.
Leveraging connectivity and system integration expertise throughout the digital value chain, it supports global businesses in areas like software-defined networks, multi-cloud services, Data and AI, smart mobility services, and cybersecurity. It securely accompanies enterprises across every stage of the data lifecycle end-to-end: collection, transport, storage, processing, analysis and sharing.
Through its open collaborative ecosystem of partners, finely selected start-ups and Orange Group assets and expertise, it aims to deliver innovative, sustainable business growth.
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.
Exhibit Partner
SymphonyAI Summit
SummitAI is an enterprise-class solution suite that delivers measurable business outcomes through digital transformation. SummitAI leverages the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and automation to take enterprises to greater levels of speed, responsiveness, and productivity. As a true multi-tenant solution, SummitAI is deployable in public cloud and on-premises environments, with enterprise-wide functions that go beyond IT to include human resources, shared services, facilities, and more. Through AI-driven knowledge intelligence, CIOs and service providers can simplify operations and reduce costs while factoring in on-demand scalability. SummitAI is your digital transformation partner to help unleash enterprise productivity.
Media Partner
AI Time Journal
We explore how Artificial Intelligence and Exponential Technologies bring opportunities for people, organizations, and societies to increase their wealth and health.
Our audience is anyone who wants to improve in their career, their business, their investments; who wants to live a healthier, more productive, and fulfilling life; who wants to simplify and improve the education systems of their communities, or who simply wants to understand how Exponential Technologies are changing the world.
We publish articles, podcast interviews, and ebooks with insights from industry leaders and experts, and use cases of exponential technologies across multiple fields, including finance, healthcare, and education.
www.aitimejournal.com
Media Partner
Tech Magazine
Tech Magazine is the MENA region’s leading technology news platform. We produce and publish engaging content related to technology, cybersecurity, Web3, social media, and more. Our content is catered toward tech-savvy millennials living in the MENA region as well as Arab millennials living abroad who are interested in keeping up with the latest stories from MENA.
ILoveQatar.net (ILQ) is a media organization generating reliable, verified, entertaining, educational, and engaging content relevant to Qatar. ILQ's main aim is to bridge the cultural barriers between the locals and expats through fun and cool content we create that will bring the community together in celebration of our similarities and differences.
Social investment and supporting the community are the backbone of the ILQ Network. We are a multi-national team and this makes us unique – making us a true reflection of Qatar.
Media Partner
Marhaba Qatar
Founded in 1994, Marhaba produces Qatar's premier information guide that has sections on everything you need to know about the country. Marhaba also produces the ever-popular Pocket Map – a must for navigating your way around town – and Qatar Image, a souvenir coffee-table book. All products are readily available for purchase in stores or can be customized to each client’s requirements.
Media Partner
Media Partner
IE Industry Events
Industry Events is a digital platform that connects professionals to the world's top conferences and exhibitions. The global directory also features industry news and professional development courses across all sectors. Every day, thousands of professionals across the globe use the Industry Events platform to discover their next in-person or virtual event to attend; as a delegate, speaker, exhibitor or sponsor.
Enabling Digital Resiliency to Thrive Beyondthe Crisis
Ranjit Rajan
VP, Research (META), IDC
The severe headwinds of the past 18 months have spurred an increased focus on business resiliency. However,
Analyst Spotlight
Qatar's Cybersecurity is on High Alert
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
Cybersecurity has been a top priority for Qatar government for over two decades now.
Partner Spotlight
Embracing a Holistic Approach to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Mohammad Al-Jallad
Chief Technology Officer & Director (UK, Ireland, Middle East & Africa), Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Several years ago, HPE had a vision that the enterprise of the future would be edge centric
Partner Spotlight
Building a Framework for Future-Ready Mission-Critical Cloud Transformations
Sriram Narasimhan
Associate Vice President, Solutions, Cloud4C
Over the course of our service expertise at Cloud4C, we have witnessed enterprises
The severe headwinds of the past 18 months have spurred an increased focus on business resiliency. However, organizations need to be digitally resilient as well. This is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore operations, but also capitalize on the changed conditions.
As organizations battled to navigate the headwinds caused by the pandemic, there was an increased focus on business resiliency. This is the ability of an organization to rapidly respond to business disruptions and restore business operations in a timely fashion. However, this alone is not sufficient - organizations need to be digitally resilient as well.
This is different from being simply resilient. Digital resiliency is the ability of an organization to rapidly adapt to business disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to not only restore business operations, but also capitalize on the changed conditions. While business resiliency tends to focus on anticipating the crisis and preparing for it, digital resiliency is focused on rapidly adapting to any business disruption.
Being digitally resilient requires resiliency across many parts of the organization, all working together. Organizations need to develop digital resiliency across all dimensions of the business – leadership and organization, financials, workforce, operations, brand and reputation, and customers and ecosystems – as they look to thrive in the post-pandemic, digital-first world.
Cybersecurity has been a top priority for Qatar government for over two decades now. Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and Qatar Computer Emergency Response Team (Q-Cert) have been instrumental in shaping up the country's cyber threat defense. There have been continued efforts to build threat intelligence labs and malware detection labs in the country by Q-Cert. Government has been putting serious efforts in ramping up the cybersecurity initiatives in the country and previously had established the National Cyber Security Committee to address cyber security at national level.
Government commitment to digitalization and protection of its people and resources is also gaining interest from global Hyperscalers. With regards to the same global cloud providers are not just increasing their infrastructure investment in the country but also in building an in-country digital workforce. Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, in collaboration with Microsoft, had recently launched an initiative aimed at accelerating sustainable human development and digital transformation in the country.
All the above put together, this year's Qatar's cybersecurity commitment will be unparalleled to any of the previous years. As Qatar, prepares to hold Arab world's first FIFA World Cup, the country will get the spotlight from threat actors. Qatar nationals as well as visiting guest can become a target of phishing and social engineering attacks. Other than stealing of personal and financial information, media companies hosting the broadcast of football matches will also be at the target list of threat actors.
With increased digital presence, most organizations in Qatar, directly or indirectly can come under the radar of adversaries. Qatar organizations need to be vigilant. Closing security control gaps in areas of data security and network security will be important than ever before. Securing cloud adoptions undertaken during pandemic will also be imperative. Securing cloud security, remote workforce security and supply chain security were some of the top areas of security investment as reported by C-suite executives in the region, in a recent IDC survey.
Several years ago, HPE had a vision that the enterprise of the future would be edge centric, cloud enabled, and data driven, and it is clear that this vision is increasingly becoming a reality. By envisioning the megatrends around the nexus of edge, data, and cloud experiences, we have been able to develop a strategy that is designed specifically to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation journeys.
Transformation must be holistic across several critical domains if it is to operate successfully in today's hybrid environment. A comprehensive edge-to-cloud adoption framework is required if organizations are to successfully navigate their way through their transformation journeys. Such framework can be used to break down the complexity of transformation into the big rocks that most organizations need to worry about.
As they attempt this, it is critical for organizations across all sectors to embrace an unbiased approach that covers strategy, people, operation, innovation, application, DevOps, data, and security. Such an approach will enable them to effectively assess their current maturity levels, define their backlogs and strategies, and most importantly, execute these strategies with proper governance.
Over the course of our service expertise at Cloud4C, we have witnessed enterprises fall into a dilemma on whether they should aggressively pursue their cloud transformation ambitions or remain cautious so as to not disrupt ongoing operations. However, this would not be a forward-thinking approach.
Modern consumers demand digital services, personalized offerings, and seamless experiences regardless of location, device, or time. Such agility and relentless release of innovation demands a hyper-scalable, high-performance backend infrastructure that supports mission-critical operations at its core and at the edge. Without the cloud, this will not come to reality.
As such, the recommended approach is to embrace a standardized transformation framework that helps leverage the best of cloud with zero risk and data loss. Join me at the IDC Qatar CIO Summit 2022 on September 27 to learn more as I present an exclusive session titled "Building a Framework for Future-Ready Mission-Critical Cloud Transformations.
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