IDC, AWS and Zero&One Roundtable
Building Resilient Cloud Operations
Security, Governance, and Data Protection
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Cloud adoption in the UAE has witnessed unprecedented growth over the last few years. What began as migration and modernization initiatives has evolved into large-scale, business-critical cloud operations that now underpin core enterprise systems and digital services.
Artificial intelligence is accelerating this shift. IDC research shows that AI is emerging as the fastest-growing cloud workload across META, expanding at close to 73% CAGR, fundamentally reshaping how organizations design and operate their cloud environments.
As cloud environments grow in scale and complexity, CIOs must move beyond simple cloud adoption – more so in the current phase of volatility. Building resilient, secure, and well-governed cloud operations is a non-negotiable in today’s context. Managing distributed workloads, protecting critical data, maintaining strong governance frameworks, and ensuring rapid recovery in the event of disruption have become essential priorities for technology leaders.
Join your peers, IDC analysts, and industry leaders for an exclusive roundtable hosted by AWS and Zero & One to explore how enterprises can strengthen cloud governance, improve security posture, and implement effective data protection and recovery frameworks while continuing to scale innovation in the cloud.
Agenda
IDC, AWS and Zero&One Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration & Networking
IDC Welcome & Keynote- Scaling with Confidence: The State of Cloud and AI in UAE Enterprises
AI is reshaping cloud at an unprecedented pace, with IDC research pointing to a 73% CAGR across META. This session delivers the data-backed intelligence CIOs need to navigate the next phase of cloud complexity with clarity and confidence.
Jebin George
Senior Research Manager, Software, Cloud, and Industry Transformation (MEA), IDC
Building for Resilience: Cloud Architecture That Scales and Survives
Growth without resilience is a liability. This session explores how leading UAE enterprises are architecting cloud environments that remain secure, governed, and recoverable — even as scale and complexity intensify.
From Adoption to Operation: Governing the Cloud You’ve Already Built
Most enterprises have moved to the cloud — the harder challenge is running it well. This session tackles the operational realities of cloud governance, data protection, and workload management.
Open Discussion: Building Resilient Cloud Operations- Security, Governance, and Data Protection
As cloud environments become the backbone of enterprise operations in the UAE, resilience is no longer optional — it’s a boardroom imperative. This peer-led conversation brings together CIOs and technology leaders to candidly explore how organizations are strengthening security posture, embedding governance frameworks, and ensuring robust data protection and recovery — all while continuing to scale innovation in the cloud.
Closing Remarks & Summary
Dinner & Networking
Speakers
Jebin George
Senior Research Manager, Software, Cloud, and Industry Transformation (MEA)
IDC
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Jebin George
Jebin George joined IDC’s vertical markets group in 2009. As a research analyst, he is responsible for the verticals research and analysis practice in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, including assessment of market sizing, market trends, forecasting, and vendor strategies for the region. He contributes to consulting and advisory projects and prepares and publishes reports focused on this region.
Having worked as a research analyst with SunTec Business Solutions, a software product company in India, George possesses strong product marketing and market research experience. At SunTec, he handled primary and secondary research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, market sizing, competitor analysis, analyst relations, and worked with analytical tools. He was also involved in business writing, research interviews, collateral development, and market requirements documents (MRD) and business requirements documents (BRD).
George’s academic background includes a postgraduate degree in management from SCMS, Kochi, and a Bachelor’s degree in engineering from Madras University. In addition to his native Malayalam, he speaks English and Hindi.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 7:00 pm
IDC Welcome & Keynote- Scaling with Confidence: The State of Cloud and AI in UAE Enterprises
AI is reshaping cloud at an unprecedented pace, with IDC research pointing to a 73% CAGR across META. This session delivers the data-backed intelligence CIOs need to navigate the next phase of cloud complexity with clarity and confidence.
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AWS | Zero&One
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 123 Availability Zones within 39 geographic regions, with announced plans for 7 more Availability Zones and 2 more AWS Regions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Chile. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
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Zero&One
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Venue
Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, The Palm
Royal Ballroom
East Crescent, The Palm Jumeirah
Dubai, United Arab Emirates