IDC & Veeam Roundtable
The Trust Deficit: What Agentic AI Exposes in Enterprise Data
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Overview
Every enterprise in Saudi Arabia can run AI today. Very few can prove the data behind it deserves to be trusted. Resilience, security, compliance, and governance still live in separate silos. Agentic AI doesn’t wait for them to catch up. According to IDC, 84% of IT decision-makers globally already run generative AI in production. Only 12% have moved past the basics to actually measure its value and risk.
IDC and Veeam are bringing together CIOs and CISOs from across Saudi Arabia’s enterprise landscape, on the sidelines of the IDC Saudi CIO Summit, for a closed-door conversation on what it actually takes to bridge that gap.
This interactive peer exchange will focus on lessons from the ground: what’s working, where organizations are facing friction, and how leaders are navigating the complexities of resilience, security, compliance, and governance while continuing to move AI forward.
Key Learning Outcomes Include
Recovery is part of trust
Data you can’t recover is data you can’t trust, no matter how well it’s governed.
Governance that keeps pace with agentic AI
Only 12% of organizations have moved past basic inventory to measure AI value and risk (IDC, 2026).
Compliance as proof
Boards and regulators want evidence, not a binder.
Know what’s exposed
Security posture means knowing where sensitive data lives and who can reach it.
Agenda
IDC & Veeam Roundtable
Day 1
Registration & Networking
Welcome Address
IDC keynote: The Data Control Plane Gap in Saudi Arabia
Melih Murat
Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META), IDC
Data and AI Trust CONVERGE for the Agentic Era
Coffee & Prayer Break
Veeam: Learning from the Adversary: Real-world Resilience with Veeam
Summary & Closing Remarks
Networking Dinner
Speakers
Melih Murat
Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META)
IDC
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Melih Murat
In his role as associate research director for IT services and software across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), Melih drives IDC’s regional research and consulting engagements in the areas of IT services, Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent automation.
He first joined IDC in 2012 as a senior research analyst located out of IDC’s Istanbul office, with various responsibilities for the firm’s IT services, cloud computing, software, and telecom domains — both in Turkey and across the wider META region. Between 2016 and 2021, Melih headed the international marketing and investor relations practice at P.I. Works, a global automation and AI software vendor that serves telecom operators.
Now back at IDC, Melih is leveraging his vast experience in the IT services, cloud, software, and telecommunications domains to advise clients on go-to-market strategies, technology marketing and promotion activities, and market trends analysis. He is also driving a wide variety of research and consulting projects across the META region.
Melih has also previously served as enterprise channel and marketing manager at Nortel Turkey and as business development and strategy manager at Netaş, one of the leading systems integrators in Turkey and a former Nortel subsidiary. He possesses a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and received his MBA from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He has worked as a business development specialist at HP and wrote his MBA thesis for the company, covering European retail channel trends and winning strategies for channel businesses.
Event Sessions
Day 1 7:05 pm
IDC keynote: The Data Control Plane Gap in Saudi Arabia
In Partnership With
Veeam
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk.
Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats — including ransomware, disasters, AI errors, and ensuring the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential.
Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.
Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.