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ABOUT THE EVENT

GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, are pleased to announce the launch of the Business and Technology Transformation Road Show 2019. The full day event road show will be organized across March and April 2019, in Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. The key themes will focus on the confluence of technology and business transformation.

Moreover, for the first time in the region the role of the CEO as an enabler of transformation will be brought into the limelight. CEOs will attend the event in combination with their CIOs representing a unified team grappling with the challenges of transformation. CEOs and their CIOs will have the floor to question participating vendors about the suitability of their technology solutions to drive business and technology transformation.

While CIOs need to work closely with their peers in business in order to align digital technologies with digital business, there is now increasing pressure on the CEO to restructure their organizations to enable these synergies to move forward.

GEC Media Group’s, Business and Technology Transformation Road Show 2019, is an exercise to bring forward the winning duo combination of CIOs and their CEOs and to bring them into the limelight. This is an event that top business and technology heads and their top management heads cannot afford to miss.

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SPEAKER

Eng. Khaled AlNuaimi, Senior ICT Consultant Ministry of Interior - Eastern Province KSA
Eng. Khaled AlNuaimi, Senior ICT Consultant Ministry of Interior - Eastern Province KSA
Mohammed Mahnashi, ICT Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KSA
Mohammed Mahnashi, ICT Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, KSA
Dr. Ayad AlDaijy, Former Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture and Adjunct Professor at Al Yamama University, Riyadh
Dr. Ayad AlDaijy, Former Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture and Adjunct Professor at Al Yamama University, Riyadh
Mr. Loai Bin Khaled Bin Mousa, CEO, Saudi Governance Center.
Mr. Loai Bin Khaled Bin Mousa, CEO, Saudi Governance Center.
Abdullah ALSaadoun, Regional Manager - KSA & Bahrain, RSA
Abdullah ALSaadoun, Regional Manager - KSA & Bahrain, RSA
Mansoor Sarwar, Director - Technical Services & Pre-Sales, Sage Middle East
Mansoor Sarwar, Director - Technical Services & Pre-Sales, Sage Middle East
Naif Al Harbi, Founder and Board Member of Saudi Governance Center/General Director, Lean Business Services
Naif Al Harbi, Founder and Board Member of Saudi Governance Center/General Director, Lean Business Services
Hossam El Masry, Head of Information Technology, Gulf Stevedoring
Hossam El Masry, Head of Information Technology, Gulf Stevedoring

WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND

Business transformation around digital technologies can no longer be left to the heads of technology. Every business decision maker also needs to work closely towards aligning their processes with what technology can now offer. Job roles need to be redefined to take advantage of what digital can offer.

Team workers need to be redeployed where the best digital value can be generated. Business heads need to look and relook and continue to relook at what digital experiences their existing and new customers are going through.

While technology can boost digital performance, nobody can reengineer user interfaces and user experiences better than the heads of business themselves. The integrated winning combination of customer experience, customer satisfaction, and user interfaces are strategic in this digital world.

Finally, CEOs needs to be fully aware of the direction in which their organizations are being steered by forces both within and outside. What are the intermediate pitfalls and critical success factors? When can they take a breather and when must they push forward through success and failure? There are very few choices left but to master this change management exercise.

For a CEO to take charge of business and technology transformation they must have an understanding of the underlying enablers and inhibitors going forward. The more conversant they are with these dynamics the better.

TARGET ATTENDEES

  • CEOs, CDOs, CTOs, CFOs
  • Chief Digital Officer, Chief Transformation Officer
  • IT Director, VP of IT, GM of IT, Head of IT Department
  • IT Managers, IT Excellence, IT Network and Data Center Managers
  • Project Managers

REGIONAL SNAPSHOT

  • Across Middle East, Africa, Turkey, banking, finance, healthcare, utilities, vertical markets are leading in digital transformation programs
  • Advanced analytics use cases will cover not just customer insights but also focus on operational efficiencies
  • Blockchain pilots will accelerate across sectors in 2018 with increased mainstream roll outs in 2019
  • Drivers for digital transformation are customer experience enhancement and achieving competitive advantage
  • Economic diversification will finally push Middle East governments to establish progressive cloud regulations
  • Increasingly, organizations will consider analytics at the edge as part of digital transformation
  • Interest levels in implementing digital transformation are highest in Turkey, UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa
  • Realization of data monetization will lead to new revenue streams
  • Rising data volumes will lead to organizations considering AI to automate routine knowledge worker tasks
  • Transformation initiatives are significantly driving investments in mobility, analytics, cybersecurity, cloud technologies

$10b
By 2021, cognitive AI systems spending will cross $100M as demand expands across the breadth and depth of use cases

$100m
Digital transformation spending in the META region will surpass $38B by 2021 and will be a key driver for ICT spending

$38b
Innovation accelerators spending will grow at nearly 20% in 2018 as use cases go mainstream

20%
META 3rd platform technologies spending will surpass $176B by 2021

$176b
META spending on innovation accelerators will touch $27B by 2021

$27b
META spending on innovation accelerators will touch $27B by 2021

BTX CEO Awards

Recognizing breakthrough leadership

This award recognizes breakthrough CEOs who are preparing their organization for next generation business models and digital technologies. They must have a passion for building a healthy employee and work culture and must be champions of adopting technologies and best practices to enable their business.

BTX Team Excellence Award

Recognizing agile and collaborative teams

This award recognizes the various multi-department executives involved in a digital or business transformation exercise. Typically this covers executives in sales, marketing, human resources, front office, operations, administration, manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, information technology, information security, amongst others. These executives are recognized for their ability to work across the organization, across departments, with a forward looking agile outlook.

BTX Solution Provider Award

Recognizing in-country transformation partners

This award recognizes efforts by in-country channel partners, specialist integrators, consultants and vendors to act as enablers and trusted advisors for digital and business transformation projects in their respective countries. Specialist partners and vendors located in-country are best suited to deliver such solutions. Such solutions can be straight from the vendor box, others may be custom built and value added by specialized partners.

BTX CEO Awards

Recognizing breakthrough leadership

This award recognizes breakthrough CEOs who are preparing their organization for next generation business models and digital technologies. They must have a passion for building a healthy employee and work culture and must be champions of adopting technologies and best practices to enable their business.

Venue Detail

AL FAISALIAH HOTEL
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
23rd April 2019

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TIME SEGMENT
09:30 AM Registrations begin for the BTX Roadshow KSA editon
10:00 AM Track 1 (Yanbbou Ballroom ) – Digital Transformation in Business Management Applications
10:30 AM Track 2 (Najed Ballroom) – Intelligent Automation
11:30 AM Registration for the BTX Show and Networking
12:15 PM Lunch
01:00 PM Official Inauguration of The BTX 2019 – KSA Edition
01:15 PM Welcome address by the Editor
01:30 PM BTX Keynote – KSA transformation landscape and vision 2030: Mohamed Mahnashi, ICT Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
01:45 PM The Digital Transformation Roadmap: Dell Technologies
02:00 PM The BTX Team Excellence Awards Recognition and Celebration
02:15 PM Overview of the regional transformation landscape – Mr. Loai Bin Khaled Bin Mousa, CEO, Saudi Governance Center
02:30 PM Security and Networking Transformation: Abdullah ALSaadoun Regional Manager , KSA & Bahrain, RSA
02:45 PM Expert Panel Discussion | Chaired by Meshal AlFouwais, Saudi Electricity Company; Dr. Ayad AlDaijy, Former Advisor to the Saudi Arabian Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture and Adjunct Professor at Al Yamama University, Riyadh; Naif AlHarbi, Board Member Saudi Governance Center and Lean Business Service; Abdullah ALSaadoun Regional Manager, KSA & Bahrain, RSA
03:15 PM Business applications and the new digital user experience: Mansoor Sarwar, Director Technical Services and Pre-sales, SAGE
03:30 PM Digital and Business Transformation journey of Gulf Stevedoring: Hossam El Masry, Head of Information Technology, Gulf Stevedoring
03:45 PM Special Address: Makki Al-Kurdi, Networking Account Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04:00 PM The BTX CEO Awards
04:15 PM The BTX Service Provider Excellence Awards
04:30 PM Closing note and end of the ceremony.

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