Brent Pienaar serves as head of digital transformation and automation within finance technology at Qiddiya. He leads group-wide initiatives that modernize finance operations and processes by embedding automation and intelligence directly into the core of the business. With deep experience across both finance and technology leadership, process re‑engineering, and enterprise-wide digital transformation, Brent is known for turning emerging technologies into operational reality. His focus is on making automation, and more recently AI, work in practice — moving beyond pilots to solutions that are fully integrated, governed, and scaled, delivering measurable business and organizational value.

Saaim Aslam serves as head of enterprise technology at Almosafer, part of Seera Group, a leading travel and tourism group in the Middle East. In this role, he has helped the company build its omni-channel strategy, implemented digital platforms, enabled digital, DevOps, tech, and security teams, and transformed the organization in general and the technology function in particular. Saaim is a proven technology and digital innovator, partnering with CXOs, founders, and investors to build technology platforms that enable business value. He is passionate about transforming engineering technology and digital ecosystems to set them up to be future ready, sustainable, and scalable. Saaim’s goal is to help organizations manage innovation, transform novel ideas, and achieve commercial value from a business perspective, while building a culture and people that are in shape to produce amazing technology products and services.