
Middle East CIO Community
Executive Summit
30 September 2024 | Fairmont Riyadh
30 September 2024
Fairmont Riyadh
Collaborate with your peers
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:
Create Alignment with Business to Demonstrate IT & Security’s True Value
Unlock AI’s Potential through Trust, Leadership Buy-In and Governance
Converging IT & Digital Transformation to Increase Operational Efficiencies
Middle East CIO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CIOs, For CIOs®.
Governing Body Co-Chairs

Wissam Al Adany
ADES Group
Group CIO

Saud Al Dhawyani
Emirates NBD
Chief Platforms Officer

Khalid AlMutairi
Maaden
CIO

Sabri Albreiki
Etisalat
Group CIO & CTO

Nikhil Chaturvedi
GFG Alliance
Global CIDO

Carlo Nizam
Emirates Global Aluminum
Chief Digital Officer
What to Expect
Agenda
9:00am - 9:45am Registration & Breakfast
9:45am - 10:30am Keynote
Embed Sustainability into IT Strategy to Maximize Growth Potential

Kristin Moyer
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
In times of change and growth, CEOs are turning to their CIOs and CISOs to play a key role in sustainability. IT and Security leaders want to understand a step-by-step approach to adopt sustainable IT into their strategy. In doing so, they can demonstrate how to create sustainable impact and lasting change across the business.
In this keynote Ms. Moyer will discuss how to:
- Define the roles CIOs & CISOs can play in sustainability
- Incorporate sustainability into decision making for your IT strategy
- Understand next steps for CIOs & CISOs to drive rapid impact with sustainable initiatives
10:30am - 10:45am Break
10:45am - 11:30am Breakout Session
Transform Your Enterprise — Lessons From Cloud Migration

Vinay Kumar
Chief Technology Officer
Landmark Group
As considerations on how to spend your IT budget mount, CIOs and CISOs are becoming more cost-conscious. No more so than during your cloud migration journey when costs can easily balloon out of control. Not having a straightforward ‘lift and shift’ approach means organisations struggle to understand which challenge to tackle first. Gaining leadership buy-in, managing cost and reassessing your security posture are three scalable steps to master on your cloud migration journey.
In this case study we will discuss how to:
- Communicate the ‘why’ behind cloud cost to leadership and engage right external partners
- Incorporate a holistic view of applications to ensure business framework reflects your cloud migration goals
- Develop strategies to reassess your security posture during migration and ensure resilience
10:45am - 11:30am Executive Boardroom
Analysing Your Application Landscape to Enhance Efficiency

Anup Patel
Global Head of Strategy & Transformation
Sanofi

Ferenc Böle
Head of IT
National Bank of Oman

Nikhil Chaturvedi
Global CIDO
GFG Alliance
Applications can make or break an organisation’s growth. Too many and you create opportunity for inefficiencies; too few and you risk being behind the curve. How can CIOs evolve their application infrastructure to streamline processes and maximise business value?
Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss strategies to:
- Build a business case to rationalise technology and increase resource allocation
- Create agile IT architecture to evolve with ever-changing business objectives
- Communicate change and value of applications to senior stakeholders
11:30am - 12:30pm Networking Break
Apply to Participate
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