IDC and SBM Webinar
Investing in Resilient Infrastructure
The Foundation of Saudi Arabia's Digital Future
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Overview
Saudi organizations are targeting a shift from 46% digital-driven revenue today to 74% by 2030, a clear signal that digital transformation is an absolute necessity for aligning with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. That growth, however, depends on the underlying infrastructure that enterprises are building. For an increasing number of Saudi organizations, IT infrastructure resilience ranks as the top digital investment priority. Resilience has become the strategic advantage that determines which organizations can scale their digital plans and which one’s stall.
SBM & IBM, in partnership with IDC, are hosting a webinar for IT leaders across Saudi Arabia to examine how to plan infrastructure capacity ahead of national growth, keep systems available as demand and power requirements rise, and build a resilience case that leadership will approve.
Attendees leave with a practical framework for assessing their own infrastructure resilience gap and a checklist for prioritizing capacity and continuity investments against Vision 2030 timelines.
Key Learning Outcomes Include
A framework to size infrastructure capacity before growth outpaces it
As Saudi Arabia’s datacenter construction spending grows at a 27% CAGR through 2029. Get a method for forecasting capacity needs against realistic Vision 2030 timelines, not vendor sizing guides.
A business case template tied to Vision 2030 milestones
A proposal format finance and leadership can approve, anchored to national digital targets.
A peer view of how Saudi IT teams build resilience without slowing transformation
How peer IT managers make the resilience case without stalling momentum.
Agenda
IDC and SBM Webinar
One Day Event
SBM Welcome Address
IDC Keynote: Building infrastructure that keeps pace with Saudi Arabia’s growth
IDC presents research on why Saudi Arabia’s datacenter demand, driven by giga-projects, sovereign cloud, and AI-ready compute, is outpacing mission-critical infrastructure capacity, and what that means for IT leaders.
Shahin Hashim
Associate Research Director (META), IDC
IBM Power: Future-Proof Your Business with IBM Power Servers
Adham Yehia
Power Servers & Hybrid Cloud Technical Leader – Middle East & Africa, IBM
IBM Storage: Unlock the Value of Your Data with IBM Storage
Amer Alatrash
IBM Storage Systems Brand Leader, SBM
Summary and Close
Speakers
Shahin Hashim
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Shahin Hashim
Event Sessions
One Day Event 11:05 am
IDC Keynote: Building infrastructure that keeps pace with Saudi Arabia’s growth
IDC presents research on why Saudi Arabia’s datacenter demand, driven by giga-projects, sovereign cloud, and AI-ready compute, is outpacing mission-critical infrastructure capacity, and what that means for IT leaders.
In Partnership With
