Speakers
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Shilpi Handa
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:05 am
IDC Keynote: Orchestrating Resilience Amid Transformation, Regulation, and Emerging Threats
META’s cybersecurity agenda is shaped by unprecedented digital acceleration, regulatory dynamism, and the proliferation of advanced threats across IT, OT, and cloud. As organizations embrace AI, platform-centric architectures, and hybrid environments, the attack surface expands and adversaries become more sophisticated—leveraging GenAI, identity compromise, and cyber-physical exploits.
One Day Event 9:00 am
IDC Welcome Address
Shahin Hashim
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Shahin Hashim
Vijay Balakrishnan
Senior Sales Engineer
Delinea
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Vijay Balakrishnan
Vijay Balakrishnan is a Senior Sales Engineer at Delinea covering the Middle East and Africa region, based in Dubai. With extensive experience across Privileged Access Management, Identity Security, and Cloud Infrastructure Protection, Vijay works with enterprise customers across UAE, Qatar, and Africa to design and deploy PAM strategies that reduce identity risk at scale. He specialises in SaaS-first PAM architectures, Non-Human Identity governance, and integrating privilege controls into AI and developer workflows.