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28 November 2023 | Fairmont Riyadh
28 November 2023
Fairmont Riyadh
Get together with Middle East's top CIOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CIOs today:
Understanding CIO & CISO’s Role to Communicate Cyber Risk and Maintain Business Resiliency
Converging IT & Digital Transformation to Increase Operational Efficiencies & Deliver Value
Distilling key Pillars of Leadership, Education and Culture to Ensure a Robust, Secure IT Ecosystem
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CIOs, for CIOs.
Saud Al Dhawyani
Emirates NBD
CTO
Hamad Al-Qayed
Qatar Energy
CIO
Khalid AlMutairi
Maaden
CIO
Sabri Albreiki
Etisalat
Group CIO & CTO
Mohammed Chaara
Abdul Latif Jameel
Group Chief Information and Digital Officer
Carlo Nizam
Emirates Global Aluminum
Chief Digital Officer
Unifying IT Ecosystems to Accelerate Decision-Making
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Harnessing the Power of AI to Improve Cyber Resilience
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive efficiency and technological innovation. Yet taking advantage of this opportunity in the wrong way can have serious security consequences for the organization. Security leaders need to anticipate and prepare to mitigate potential risks as data is increasingly accessed and analysed in increasingly different ways. For business stakeholders to secure investment, how can CISOs demonstrate the benefits of these technologies?
Join this boardroom to learn about:
Leverage Collaboration to Demonstrate IT’s Business Value
The CIO has become the catalyst for digital business and plays a key role in driving the enterprise forward. IT leaders must influence business partnerships to demonstrate IT’s value to increase investment and resources.
Join this boardroom to discuss how to:
Communicating Risk — Translating Insight Into Action
Measuring and communicating security risk is integral to reducing an organisation’s vulnerability to attack. CISOs must be skilled in translating the technical language of security to the board to close the knowledge gap. Bringing security and business together will enable informed decisions that drive growth and protect the organisation.
Join this boardroom to discuss strategies on how to:
The Reality of the Cloud Journey — Comparing Lessons Learned
As cloud infrastructure strategies become more complex, a structured approach with space for flexibility is paramount to execute blueprints. CIOs must streamline efficiencies, invest smartly and improve resiliency. As the journey progresses, what are the lessons learned that will make for smoother transitions in the future?
Join this boardroom to discuss how to:
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