AI, predicted to have a $19.9 trillion impact on the global economy by 2030, is reshaping economic landscapes, creating new revenue streams, and redefining competitive advantages. This session will provide unique insights and analysis drawn from IDC’s extensive study of CIOs and key decision-makers across Egypt. It will provide a deeper understanding of current and planned AI strategies and use case road maps, covering key topics such as AI-ready data, unified governance, fit-for-purpose and scalable infrastructure, and AI talent.

How SaaS solutions are transforming customer experience through integrated digital business strategies. It highlights aligning technology, data, and processes to deliver seamless, personalized interactions. Attendees will gain insights into leveraging automation, analytics, and scalable platforms to enhance engagement, improve retention, and drive sustainable business growth in a competitive digital landscape.

The rise of Agentic Systems demands a new architectural substrate. Cloudflare explores how CIOs can move beyond “digitization” to provide the secure, low-latency, and compliant infrastructure necessary for autonomous agents to execute at scale—safely and lightning-fast.

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This executive‑level session explores how organizations can maximize the business value of Microsoft 365 while strengthening security, resilience, and AI readiness. We will share practical insights on secure M365 migrations, data protection and compliance, and modern governance strategies. Learn how the AvePoint Confidence Platform helps leaders reduce risk, protect critical data, and confidently enable AI and Copilot—while maintaining control, visibility, and trust across the digital workplace

AI holds enormous promise to transform organizations, from real-time efficiency optimization to truly predictive insights. Yet beneath the momentum, enterprise confidence is fragile, with a significant majority demanding far greater transparency into how their data is used.

In this session, we’ll explore how explainability, auditability, and governance must evolve alongside the algorithms themselves to unlock that trust. Ultimately, true AI maturity starts not with more models, but with robust frameworks that make AI reliable, safe, and accountable at scale. This is how we move from simply seeing AI’s potential to truly trusting its decisions.

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In an AI-first world, success depends on secure, connected, high-quality, and well-governed data. OpenText helps organizations unlock AI’s full potential by unifying data sets across systems such as ERPs, CRMs, supply chains, content management and more, ensuring accuracy with zero hallucination and making sure AI is used in context, all of this in a compliant and secure ways. From ingestion and curation to search, summarization, and protection, we deliver secure information management that fuels smarter automation and scales to make your enterprise ready for the evolving demands of AI.

Across the Middle East, organisations are accelerating investments in AI, analytics, and digital infrastructure. Yet new IDC research reveals a growing imbalance: while advanced technologies are rapidly adopted, data governance maturity is not keeping pace. This session explores what we call the “Governance Gap” and why it is emerging as one of the most critical challenges facing CIOs today. Drawing on IDC research and regional insights, we will examine the structural weaknesses in governance, metadata, and data quality that undermine AI initiatives and regulatory readiness. More importantly, we will discuss how organisations can move from periodic compliance exercises to embedded, operational data governance.