Splunk Public Sector Summit
Building the AI-Ready Government

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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
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Building the AI-ready government, moving from reactive operations towards predictive, intelligent decision-making.
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Strengthening cyber resilience, modernizing security operations and protecting increasingly interconnected government environments.
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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
Registration & Networking Breakfast
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Welcome Address
Mamduh Allam
Area Vice President KSA, Bahrain and Kuwait, Splunk
The AI-Powered Future of Public Service Resilience
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
Associate Research Director, Türkiye, IDC
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.
Coffee & Networking Break
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
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.
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.
Moderator Wrap Up
Networking & Lunch
Speaker
Eren Eser
Eren is a seasoned analyst with 20+ years of experience in the ICT sector. He directs all IDC ICT research and consulting engagements in Türkiye, and all sustainability research and consulting projects across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META).
Based in Istanbul, Eren has been involved in projects ranging from market forecasts to strategic consulting engagements on market entry, competitive analysis, go-to-market strategies, technology marketing, and end-user studies. Eren’s vast experience in the IT services, cloud, software, and telecommunications domains helps IDC clients understand the impact of technology-enabled, sustainable transformation processes in the context of sustainable digital business strategies, operations, products, and services. In addition to his research and consulting activities, Eren is a speaker at industry events.
Prior to joining IDC in 2017, Eren spent more than a decade in IT industry roles spanning portfolio management, channel and business development, pricing, and software development at companies including Turk Telekom and TAI.
Eren earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and an MBA focused on technology road mapping for strategy and innovation, both from Middle East Technical University. He received a master of science in information systems, with a thesis on modeling mobile telecommunications services, from Middle East Technical University. During his academic endeavors, he studied for one semester at the University of Copenhagen, and for one semester at Harvard University. He is pursuing a marketing PhD focused on sustainability.
Event Sessions
One Day Event 10:40 am
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.
Mamduh Allam
Tom Gamali
Tom Gamali is a seasoned Technology Executive and cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience driving strategic security and technology initiatives across Europe and the Middle East. He has served as Group CISO for several leading banks and major conglomerates, and has been a member of board risk committees for financial institutions, advising on cyber risk and digital resilience.
Tom is currently Field CTO and Strategic Advisor at Splunk and has also served on the EMEA Advisory Council for (ISC)², contributing to the advancement of cybersecurity leadership and professional standards across the region.
Caglar Dogan
Mohammed Ali Ahmed Wahba Mohammad
Stephen David
Sean Price
Venue
Bab Samhan, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Diriyah
7628 King Faisal Ibn Abd Al Aziz, Road, Riyadh