Agenda

12:00 pm

Welcome Message

5 minutes

12:05 pm

Presentation: Intelligent Cloud Complete Vision

20 minutes

Presented by:

Mahmoud Moussa
Senior Cloud Solution Architect for Data & AI, Microsoft

12:25 pm

Presentation: Enable the Hybrid Workforce with People Centric End Point Solutions

15 minutes

Presented by:

Abbas Ali-Ahmad
Sales Manager, Citrix

12:40 pm

Presentation: VMware Cloud Vision

20 minutes

01:00 pm

Panel: Country Cloud vs Public Cloud: End Customer Options in a Rapidly Changing Middle East environment

45 minutes

Moderator:

Parthasarathy Pillairkulam
EVP- Chief Information Security Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Mr. Pillairkulam is the EVP Group CISO at First Abu Dhabi Bank.

He has 29 years of experience in the Financial sector, and 19 years of experience in information security and security systems auditing.

Mr. Pillairkulam is responsible for aligning information security to the bank’s core business functions.

Speakers:

Chadi Ghazal
General Manager, Capital Outsourcing

Chadi has more than 20 years of experience in hosting and cloud services, ranging from technical to business development and strategies’ building. He is currently the General Manager of Capital Outsourcing, the first ASP in MEA, and a leader in service provider cloud and managed services.

His vision and passion are to use cutting edge technologies to build services and solutions that last, be it Educational, Commercial, Social, Financial or Government sectors.

His mission is to help transforming Students, Working Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Organizations into the breadth of the new technologies.

Chadi is a smart and passionate initiator who thinks disruptively and loves challenges to help organizations succeed in their digital transformation journey.

Alain Sawaya
General Manager, Zain Datapark

Mohamed Ayad
Co-founder, VP & Business Development Manager, Libyan Spider

Yahya Zakir Sait
General Manager, Gulf Infotech

01:45 pm

Concluding remarks