AI, Data & Resilience

13 Oct 2026 Digital

AI, Data & Resilience

Kuwait’s Next Move

13 Oct 2026 Digital
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The region is living through real economic and geopolitical uncertainty, and Kuwait’s IT leaders are not waiting for it to pass. They are prioritizing AI adoption, data strategy and digital sovereignty as the foundation for how their organizations compete, endure and grow.

 

This event brings Kuwait’s senior IT leaders and practitioners together with senior IDC analysts to explore how to build the resilience to withstand disruption, and the edge to shape what comes next.

Conversations Shaping Kuwait's AI

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AI at Scale: From Pilot to Enterprise Deployment

Moving beyond experimentation, teams build the MLOps pipelines, governance controls, and operational practices to run AI reliably in production.

Data Sovereignty by Design

Balancing residency rules with hybrid cloud and open systems

Cloud and AI Infrastructure Readiness

Connectivity, data classification, and cloud/AI infrastructure buildout are where Kuwait’s regulatory attention is concentrated today. What teams need in place before scaling AI workloads.

Cyber Resilience and Business Continuity

Strengthening infrastructure, disaster recovery and business continuity strategies to keep operations running through disruption.

Generative and Agentic AI: The Next Frontier

As generative and agentic models move beyond assistance, teams architect the guardrails, orchestration, and hybrid model deployments that make them production-ready.

Smart Investment: Balancing Cost and Innovation

Prioritizing the FinOps tooling and spend discipline that sustains AI and resilience investment even amid budget pressure.

IDC Predicts

A public-sector finance authority in Kuwait has deployed a system of six specialised AI agents for compliance validation, performing clause-level validation, regulatory interpretation and bilingual reporting over a governed data layer. IDC records the implementation challenges as complex regulatory interpretation, data governance and access control, and cross-department integration.

7%

of organisations in Kuwait currently use or plan to use sovereign cloud solutions in the next 12 months, against 29% in the UAE, 19% in Qatar and 19% in Oman.

100%

of Kuwait’s cloud market is described by IDC as transitional, with planned local cloud regions expected to shift it from regional access models towards full in-country data residency.

50%

of META organizations are prioritizing new AI investments in the next 12 months, up from 36% two years ago.

45%

of META organizations are running initial agentic AI testing/PoCs, while 3% are investing significantly and 31% have not yet started.

80%

of organizations in META expect their digital and AI investment budgets to increase over the next 12 months.

45%

of META organizations name the CTO as the top driver of AI investment, followed by the CEO (38%) and CAIO (32%).

38%

of META organizations are now realizing AI ROI within 3–6 months, up from 16% two years ago.

61%

of organizations in META report integrated or strategic approaches to data, with 39% having integrated data sets and 22% treating data as a strategic asset.

100%

of Middle East and Africa organizations sit at or above the global average on responsible AI, risk management, and data governance — though maturity remains uneven for agentic AI.

Source: Middle East, Africa, and Türkiye Sovereign Cloud Update | Accelerating Adoption, Regulatory Updates, and Mega-Scale Investment Trends. | Which Hyperscalers Will Enterprises in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa Choose in 2026? Insights from 11 Markets | Digital Business Services Priorities of Organizations in the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa, 2026 | From Data Governance to AI Governance in the Middle East and Africa

Agenda

AI, Data & Resilience

One Day Event

11:00AM

IDC Welcome Address

11:05AM

IDC Keynote – Kuwait’s AI and Resilience Agenda

11:20AM

Data Residency and Hybrid Cloud

Designing infrastructure that meets local data rules without slowing deployment

11:35AM

Guardrails for Agentic AI Systems

Practical controls for autonomous agents operating with production-level access

11:50AM

Zero Trust and Cyber Resilience in Practice

Architecting security and recovery capability into everyday operations

12:05PM

Partner Sessions (Parallel Tracks)

Track A

12:05PM – 12:15PM

Agentic AI in Production

12:15PM – 12:25PM

The Business Case for AI Spend

12:25PM – 12:35PM

Agentic AI, One Year In

Track B

12:05PM – 12:15PM

Data Residency Meets Hybrid Cloud

12:15PM – 12:25PM

Cyber Resilience in Practice

12:25PM – 12:35PM

Regulation as Roadmap

12:35PM

Summary & Takeaways

12:45PM

Close of Event

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