GEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans, Cyber Sentinels, announced the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards at BTX Road Show South Gulf edition on 8th September 2021. The half-day event was organised at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai in person.
The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.
The face-to-face event was started with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. GEC Media Group extended warm wishes to all the champions for their victory.
There were three sets of awards as described below.
BTX Top Executive Awards
Recognising leadership driving transformation
This award recognises a top executives who have accelerated digital and business transformation through the pandemic and created a better future for their business. They have empowered remote teams, managed change, flattened organisational structure, made it agile and secure, managed customer satisfaction, and implemented digital tools like cloud, analytics, data integration, amongst others.
| Aditya Kaushik | Adyard Abu Dhabi |
| Eng Mohammed Ahmed Alrayees | Dubai Municipality |
| Gigi George Koshy | Empay |
| Hadi Anwar | Group42 |
| Hussein M Dajani | Nissan Motor Co |
| Lt Col Dr Hamad Khalifa Al NUAIMI | Abu Dhabi Police |
| Ritesh Singh | Laticrete Middle East and Africa |
| Abbas Dandach | Network International |
BTX Enterprise Awards
Recognising success stories in transformation
This award recognises enterprises that have embraced digital transformation and digital tools through the pandemic and achieved success in various areas. Such enterprises would have rebuilt customer experiences, managed customer expectations, leveraged online sales models, built forecasting models, have an in-depth and ready analysis of market and demand trends, built close collaboration and data sharing amongst teams, amongst others.
| Abu Dhabi Health Services Company | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech |
| United Al Saqer Group of Companies | Diversified Services |
| National Central Cooling Company, Tabreed | Energy and Utilities |
| Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital, Abu Dhabi | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech |
| Amity University Dubai | Education |
| Global Village | Media and Entertainment |
| Government of Sharjah- Department of Town Planning & Survey SDTPS | Non-Profit or Government Organizations |
| Dubai Holding Entertainment, Attractions | Media and Entertainment |
| Department of Community Development, Abu Dhabi | Non-Profit or Government Organizations |
| Capital Health | Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech |
BTX Solution Awards
Recognising solutions for transformation
This award recognises the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants, to manage the challenges of the end-user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the IT industry helped the end-user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.
| Technology Strategies Middle East |
| Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise |
| Oregon Systems |
| Software AG |
| Riverbed Technologies |
| AVEVA |
| Automation Anywhere |
| Veeam |
| NNTC |
BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition was organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.
With the successful completion of the BTX Road Show 2021, South Gulf edition in Dubai, the next BTX Africa will take place on 27 September.
