Splunk Public Sector Summit

22 Oct 2026 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Splunk Public Sector Summit

Building the AI-Ready Government

22 Oct 2026 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia’s public sector is entering a new era, one where data, AI and digital resilience are becoming fundamental to how government organizations operate, make decisions and deliver services.

 

Join Splunk in Riyadh for an exclusive summit focused on Public Sector to explore what it takes to build an AI-ready, secure and resilient government.

 

From strengthening cyber resilience and modernizing security operations to improving the performance of critical digital services, the summit will bring together leaders and experts to explore how organizations can turn their data into actionable intelligence, helping teams anticipate disruption, respond faster and deliver better outcomes.

Why Attend

  • Building the AI-ready government, moving from reactive operations towards predictive, intelligent decision-making.

  • Strengthening cyber resilience, modernizing security operations and protecting increasingly interconnected government environments.

  • Delivering digital public services at scale, understanding the health and performance of critical citizen-facing services before disruption becomes a failure.

Agenda

Splunk Public Sector Summit

Thu, Oct 22

9:00AM

Registration & Networking Breakfast

10:00AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks 

10:05AM

Welcome Address

Mamduh Allam

Mamduh Allam

Area Vice President KSA, Bahrain and Kuwait, Splunk

10:10AM

The AI-Powered Future of Public Service Resilience

10:40AM

IDC Keynote: Preparing for the Agent Economy: Acceleration, Orchestration and Resiliency

We have moved past the “Great Implementation.” As we enter 2026, the global enterprise has reached a critical inflection point where the sheer volume of data, the complexity of multi-cloud ecosystems, and the velocity of agentic AI have outpaced traditional human management. The mandate for the IT executives has fundamentally shifted: it is no longer about managing technology, but about architecting autonomy.

Eren Eser

Eren Eser

Associate Research Director, Türkiye, IDC

11:00AM

Securing the Digital Nation: AI, Agentic SOC, and the Future of Cyber Defense

As governments accelerate digital transformation and AI adoption, Security Operations must evolve to address an increasingly complex and dynamic threat landscape.

The emergence of Agentic AI marks a fundamental shift in cybersecurity — moving beyond traditional monitoring, detection, and rule-based automation towards intelligent, collaborative AI agents capable of accelerating threat detection, investigation, and response.

This session explores the vision of the next-generation Security Operations Center (SOC), where unified security data, AI-driven intelligence, and autonomous agents work alongside human expertise to transform security operations and we will discuss how Agentic SOC strategies can strengthen national cyber resilience, improve operational efficiency, protect critical digital services, and establish greater trust in an increasingly AI-powered world.

11:30AM

Coffee & Networking Break

12:00PM

Digital Public Services at Scale INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE: A CRITICAL SERVICE UNDER PRESSURE

A walkthrough of end-to-end observability for citizen-facing digital services, with scenarios applicable to any public sector entity. See how teams identify disruption, understand its impact and intervene before it becomes a major failure

12:30PM

Reliable Agentic Observability by Splunk

This session will examine how to maintain control over autonomous systems by unifying telemetry, application performance, and security signals with Splunk Agent Observability,  which evaluates agent behavior, detects hallucinations and reasoning drift, and applies real-time guardrails in production.

1:00PM

Panel Discussion: From Vision to Value | Insights from Industry Leaders

This executive panel brings together leading public sector innovators to explore what it truly takes to build an AI-ready, secure, and resilient government. Panelists will share frontline perspectives on moving from ambitious digital vision to measurable public impact, highlighting how they are breaking down operational silos across IT and SecOps, modernizing their security operations centers, and ensuring uninterrupted availability for citizen-facing digital services. 

The conversation will delve into strategic use cases across cybersecurity, operational observability, predictive infrastructure management, and emerging autonomous workflows (such as the Agentic SOC), offering actionable lessons on balancing rapid innovation with strict governance, sovereign compliance, and digital trust.

1:30PM

Moderator Wrap Up

1:45PM

Networking & Lunch

Speaker


Eren Eser

Eren Eser

Associate Research Director, Türkiye

IDC

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Mamduh Allam

Mamduh Allam

Area Vice President KSA, Bahrain and Kuwait

Splunk

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Tom Gamali

Tom Gamali

Field CTO & Strategic Advisor, MEA-TRC

Splunk

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Caglar Dogan

Caglar Dogan

Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor MEA-TRC

Splunk

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Mohammed Ali Ahmed Wahba Mohammad

Mohammed Ali Ahmed Wahba Mohammad

Solution Engineer Director

Splunk

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Stephen David

Stephen David

Enterprise Technology Advisor

Splunk

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Sean Price

Sean Price

Public Sector Strategist, EMEA

Splunk

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Venue

Bab Samhan, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Diriyah

7628 King Faisal Ibn Abd Al Aziz, Road, Riyadh

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