The Future of IT: Rethinking Digitalization for an AI Everywhere World
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Jyoti Lalchandani
Group Vice President & Regional Managing Director (META), IDC
Steven Frantzen
Senior Vice President & Regional Managing Director (EMEA), IDC
Mohammed Qahtani
Toastmaster Champion, World Champion of Public Speaking
Marc Merheb
Director of Solution Consulting, OpenText
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META), IDC
Hamza Naqshbandi
Vice President, Custom Solutions (Middle East, Türkiye and Africa), Country Lead ( Saudi Arabia & Bahrain), IDC
Karim Bounid
Manager Solution Consulting | Middle East, OpenText
Jason Roos
Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Yogesh Gupta
Editorial Director - Events, India & META, Foundry
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e& enterprise
At e& enterprise, we specialise in supporting governments and large-scale organisations undergo successful digital transformations.
Through optimising operational efficiencies, enhancing customer engagement, and empowering data-driven decision-making, we enable seamless, sustainable, and secure transitions into the ever-evolving digital era.
Currently operating in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, and Oman; our cutting-edge digital solutions are specifically designed to deliver tangible business value and address the unique challenges faced by organisations and executives across various industries.
With a proven track record, extensive consulting expertise unrivalled technical experts and the ability to deploy and manage complex solutions, we collaborate closely with our customers, providing tailored solutions that empower them to navigate their end-to-end digital transformation journey and turn their vision into reality.
To learn more, please visit https://www.eandenterprise.com/
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Red Hat
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.
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Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
Privacy Policy: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/privacy/intel-privacy-notice.html
Publicis Sapient
Publicis Sapient is a digital business transformation company. We partner with global organizations to help them create and sustain competitive advantage in a world that is increasingly digital. We operate through our expert SPEED capabilities: Strategy and Consulting, Product, Experience, Engineering and Data, which combined with our culture of curiosity and deep industry knowledge, enables us to deliver meaningful impact to our clients’ businesses through reimagining the products and experiences their customers truly value. Our agile, data-driven approach equips our clients’ businesses for change, making digital the core of how they think and what they do. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe with 20,000 people and over 50 offices worldwide. For more information, visit publicissapient.com
AWS | Zero&One
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 96 Availability Zones within 30 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com/
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Zero&One
Zero&One is a cloud-native services provider and native AWS Premier Consulting Partner that leads complex technology projects across the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 2017, Zero&One has since evolved into a full-lifecycle cloud adoption enabler with operations in the UAE, Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. As a Premier Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consulting Partner, the company has unmatched AWS expertise that helps organizations through their digital transformation journeys. By leveraging the cloud's innovative capabilities, the company enables clients to build new revenue streams, reduce costs, increase operational efficiency and agility, and deliver incredible customer experiences and engagement.
Nintex
Nintex is the global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today more than 8,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimizing business processes.
For more information, please visit www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of intelligent process automation.
To learn more about the new AI capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform, visit: https://www.nintex.com/process-intelligence/artificial-intelligence/
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Riverbed
Riverbed enables organizations to maximize performance and visibility for networks and applications, so they can overcome complexity and fully capitalize on their digital and cloud investments. The Riverbed Network and Application Performance Platform enables organizations to visualize, optimize, remediate and accelerate the performance of any network for any application. The platform addresses performance and visibility holistically with best-in-class WAN optimization, network performance management (NPM), application acceleration (including Office 365, SaaS, client and cloud acceleration), and enterprise-grade SD-WAN. Riverbed’s 30,000+ customers include 99% of the Fortune 100. Learn more at riverbed.com.
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Zoho Corporation
With 55+ apps in nearly every major business category, Zoho Corporation is one of the world's leading technology companies. Zoho Corporation is headquartered in Chennai, India. The company began its journey in 1996 and serves business of all sizes. It is a privately held and profitable organization with more than 12,000 employees that serve more than 80 million users worldwide.
For more information, please visit : https://www.zoho.com/
Checkmarx
Checkmarx is the enterprise application security leader and provider of Checkmarx One™ — the industry-leading, cloud-native AppSec platform. Powered by AI-driven technology and the intelligence from industry-leading AppSec research and services teams, Checkmarx’s platform is designed to enable CISOs, AppSec, and development leaders to focus on what impacts their business.
Privacy Policy: https://checkmarx.com/legal/privacy-policy
HCL Technologies
HCLTech
is a global technology company that is home to more than 227,000 people across
60 countries. HCLTech delivers industry-leading capabilities centered around
digital, engineering, cloud and AI technologies. The company works with clients
across all major verticals, including financial services, manufacturing, life sciences
and healthcare, telecom, and media. HCLTEch’s consolidated revenues for the 12
months ending March 2024 totaled $ 13.3 billion.
Privacy Policy: https://www.hcltech.com/privacy-statement
Mendix
Veeam® Software
Veeam is the leader in back-up solutions that enable Intelligent Data Management. Veeam Availability Platform is the most complete back-up solution for helping customers on the journey to achieving success in the 5 Stages of Intelligent Data Management. Veeam has 330,000+ customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 66% of the Global 2,000, with customer-satisfaction scores at 3.5x the industry average, the highest in the industry. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 61,000+ channel partners; Cisco, HPE, NetApp and Lenovo as exclusive resellers; and 21,000+ cloud and service providers. Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Veeam has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on Twitter @veeam.
Privacy Policy: https://www.veeam.com/privacy-notice.html
Appian
Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian AI-Powered Process Platform includes everything a company needs to design, automate, and optimize even the most complex processes, from start to finish. The world's most innovative organizations trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer experiences.
Privacy Policy: https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/appian-data-privacy
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
e& enterprise
At e& enterprise, we specialise in supporting governments and large-scale organisations undergo successful digital transformations.
Through optimising operational efficiencies, enhancing customer engagement, and empowering data-driven decision-making, we enable seamless, sustainable, and secure transitions into the ever-evolving digital era.
Currently operating in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, and Oman; our cutting-edge digital solutions are specifically designed to deliver tangible business value and address the unique challenges faced by organisations and executives across various industries.
With a proven track record, extensive consulting expertise unrivalled technical experts and the ability to deploy and manage complex solutions, we collaborate closely with our customers, providing tailored solutions that empower them to navigate their end-to-end digital transformation journey and turn their vision into reality.
To learn more, please visit https://www.eandenterprise.com/
Privacy Policy: https://www.eandenterprise.com/en/general/privacy-policy.html
OpenText
OpenText™, is The Information Company™. We are the No. 1 information
management software and services company in the world. We power and protect
information to elevate every person and every organization to gain the
information advantage and be their best.
OpenText
offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for content, business network,
digital experience, security, analytics and AI, DevOps, IT operations
management, and developer APIs. OpenText solutions help customers simplify
their systems, connect their data, build frictionless automation, and thrive in
a multicloud world. The company leverages the diverse backgrounds and
perspectives of all employees, customers, suppliers, and partners to create an
award-winning culture that fosters diversity and inclusion while solving our
customers’ most complex problems. For more information about OpenText
(NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX), visit www.opentext.com.
Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), founded in 1951, is the global leader for storage and information management services. Trusted by more than 220,000 organizations around the world, and with a real estate network of more than 85 million square feet across more than 1,400 facilities in over 50 countries, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and cultural and historical artifacts. Providing solutions that include secure storage, information management, digital transformation, secure destruction, as well as data centers, art storage and logistics, and cloud services, Iron Mountain helps organizations to lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable a more digital way of working. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more information.
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BeyondTrust
BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, enabling organizations to protect identities, stop threats, and deliver dynamic access BeyondTrust offers the only platform with an intelligent identity threat detection and privilege control plane that shrinks attack surfaces and eliminate security blind spots. BeyondTrust protects identities, access, and endpoints across your organization, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies. We are leading the charge in innovating identity-first security and are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, plus a global ecosystem of partners. Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com.
Privacy Policy: https://www.beyondtrust.com/privacy
Confluent
Confluent’s mission is to set ‘data in motion’ and empower organizations to innovate and win in a digital-first world. Confluent has pioneered a cloud-native, enterprise-ready data streaming platform that is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue of an organisation. With Confluent, customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations.
Privacy Policy: https://www.confluent.io/legal/confluent-privacy-statement/
IST & Kore.ai
Kore.ai is a leading provider of advanced AI with a decade of experience in helping enterprises realize business value through the safe and responsible use of AI. The company’s innovative platform, no-code tools and solutions are used to deliver end-to-end customer and employee experiences from automated to human assisted and to build generative AI enabled applications. Kore.ai takes an open approach allowing companies to choose what LLMs and infrastructure best meet their business needs. Trusted by over 200 partners and 400 Fortune 2000 companies, Kore.ai helps them navigate their AI strategy. The company has a strong patent portfolio in the AI space and has been recognized as a leader and an innovator by top analysts. Headquartered in Orlando, Kore.ai has a network of offices to support customers including in India, the UK, Middle East, Japan, South Korea, and Europe.
Visit Kore.ai to learn more.
Privacy Policy: https://kore.ai/privacy-policy/
Rimini Street
Rimini Street, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise software support products and services and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products. The company was founded to disrupt and redefine the enterprise software support market by developing innovative new products and services, providing ultra-responsive services, and delivering outstanding value to clients.
Privacy Policy: https://www.riministreet.com/privacy-notice/
Snowflake
Appian
Appian is a software company that automates business processes. The Appian AI-Powered Process Platform includes everything a company needs to design, automate, and optimize even the most complex processes, from start to finish. The world's most innovative organizations trust Appian to improve their workflows, unify data, and optimize operations—resulting in better growth and superior customer experiences.
Privacy Policy: https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/appian-data-privacy
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.
Icon Outlook
ICON Outlook magazine is a hub for businesses around the world using technology to transform our world. The magazine's seasoned researchers, analysts, and writers spot global trends and the latest tech marvels poised for disruption. As a team with the most powerful and futuristic vision, ICON Outlook caters to the largest community of tech buyers, users, and enthusiasts around the globe. It seeks to demystify the industry space, enabling businesses to modernize and grow by creating their own niche of innovation.
Siliconindia
siliconindia publishes exclusive and authentic content through the stories of burgeoning entrepreneurs, outstanding technologists, and accomplished CXOs, along with business analysis, leading technology trends, and opinions. Having procured the wisdom and augmented the insights on various verticals, besides technology, siliconindia over the years has branched into sectors ranging from enterprise services to healthcare, education, consultants, real estate, lifestyle, and start-ups. Having grown profoundly, siliconindia today reaches out to top management and senior executives (VPs and CXOs), venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs across India. siliconindia is a proponent of the bilateral business corridor, acting as a quintessential forum for professionals to interact, exchange knowledge, develop business relationships, and share their experiences — a one-of-a-kind proposition.
GCC Business News
GCC Business News (GBN) first appeared on the digital landscape in May 2008 before being acquired by Consultfull in February 2015. Today, GBN is a top-tier business news portal that serves entrepreneurs and traders both within and outside the GCC region. With a focus on fact-based reporting, GBN strives to be a reliable source of business news from the GCC and worldwide markets.
Financial IT
Financial IT is a digital platform for multimedia and editorial content, rankings and overviews of major industry events. Financial IT magazine is published throughout the year in digital form. Financial IT magazine is available in print form at major trade events through our media partnerships.
We believe that our competitive edge comes from our established relationships with financial IT companies and institutions, the breadth of the solutions described and the quality of content. Financial IT provides a detailed map of the everchanging space where the IT provider sector meets the broadly defined financial services sector.
Visit our website: www.financialit.net
Finance World Magazine
As the leading financial magazine in the MENA region, The Finance World is the preferred and trusted source of content for entrepreneurs, business owners, and industry veterans. It offers essential news, data, and analysis for business sectors across the Middle East and beyond, covering a broad range of topics such as fintech, banking, stock market, trade, energy, entrepreneurship, healthcare, education, and travel. With its impeccable reach as a digital and print magazine, it remains a leading finance publication in the MENA region, attracting a dynamic and influential audience from the industry.
Ronita Bhattacharjee
Vice President - Conferences, IDC Middle East, Africa, & Turkey
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