Agenda
CIO Summit Egypt
One Day Event
Registration & Networking
IDC Welcome Address
Nagia El-Emary
Country Director, Egypt and META Custom Solutions, IDC
IDC Opening Keynote: Preparing for the AI Economy: IT Market Outlook, Key Trends and Insights for the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa (META) Region
Nagia El-Emary
Country Director, Egypt and META Custom Solutions, IDC
Sovereign AI as a Strategic Priority
The conversation around AI has changed – and agentic systems are at the center of it. From the boardroom to the data center floor, tech leaders across the region recognize that AI is now business-critical infrastructure.
In an era of increased complexity, the focus is on building a secure and sovereign AI supply chain – where trust is built in from the silicon level. Always-on, verified AI powered by infrastructure that delivers business continuity, flexing to any operational environment without compromising on security.
This keynote explores how agentic AI infrastructure is being engineered for operational resilience and security, helping enterprises navigate a shifting landscape with confidence.
Eng. Taha M. Khalifa
General Manager (MEA), Intel Corporation
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Hybrid AI the Ultimate Path to AI Democratization
Lenovo’s latest Hybrid AI strategy positions the company as a leader in combining Personal AI, Enterprise AI, and Public AI into one connected ecosystem. Rather than relying only on cloud-based AI, Lenovo promotes a model where intelligence is distributed across devices, private enterprise environments, and public AI platforms to maximize speed, privacy, cost-efficiency, and productivity.
Rony Mezeraani
General Manager for Levant, Egypt, North Africa (LENA), Lenovo
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Securing the AI Era
The age of AI is rapidly transforming businesses but also accelerating the threat landscape, as bad actors utilize AI to scale attacks and bypass traditional defenses at machine speed. To combat this, a new security era is required, and Google is positioned to deliver it with a full AI stack built on the most secure cloud, offering Gemini-native agentic defense that automates response and can reduce the risk and cost of a breach by 70%. This defense is powered by Google’s unmatched visibility from the world’s largest threat observatory and the frontline expertise and real-world tradecraft of Mandiant.
Hatem Ali
Head of Google Cloud Security, Gulf and N. Africa, Google Cloud
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Revolutionizing Customer Experience: Integrating Digital Business Strategies in SaaS Solutions
How SaaS solutions are transforming customer experience through integrated digital business strategies. It highlights aligning technology, data, and processes to deliver seamless, personalized interactions. Attendees will gain insights into leveraging automation, analytics, and scalable platforms to enhance engagement, improve retention, and drive sustainable business growth in a competitive digital landscape.
Amir Hanna
Business Development Manager, Zoho Egypt
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The Intelligent Edge: Powering and Protecting the Rise of Agentic Systems
The rise of Agentic Systems demands a new architectural substrate. Cloudflare explores how CIOs can move beyond “digitization” to provide the secure, low-latency, and compliant infrastructure necessary for autonomous agents to execute at scale—safely and lightning-fast.
Hazem Taha
Senior Solutions Engineer, Cloudflare
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Advisory Council Felicitation
Tea / Coffee & Networking Break
Engage, Explore, and Network—Where Technology Meets Unforgettable Moments!
IDC Overview
Samar El Sayed
Research Manager, IDC
Start of the Session Raffle
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Turning Data into Decisions: GB Corp’s Journey to AI-Driven Enterprise Value
This session unveils GB Corp’s transformation journey in building a modern, scalable data ecosystem that turns data into a strategic business asset. It will showcase how we architected and seamlessly integrated core layers—data infrastructure, data operations, and data consumption—to establish a unified, governed, and business-ready data foundation.
The session will further highlight how a lakehouse architecture enables us to operationalize data at scale, delivering faster processing, enhanced accessibility, and near real-time insights across the enterprise. Most importantly, it will demonstrate how AI and machine learning are embedded into this ecosystem to unlock tangible business value, accelerate decision-making, and drive sustainable digital transformation at scale.
Dr. Bisohy Sawiris
Chief Data Officer, GB Corp
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Building Secure and Resilience Data Protection for an AI-Ready Future
This executive‑level session explores how organizations can maximize the business value of Microsoft 365 while strengthening security, resilience, and AI readiness. We will share practical insights on secure M365 migrations, data protection and compliance, and modern governance strategies. Learn how the AvePoint Confidence Platform helps leaders reduce risk, protect critical data, and confidently enable AI and Copilot—while maintaining control, visibility, and trust across the digital workplace
Mohammed Helaly
VP, Head META, AvePoint
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From AI Potential to Decision Trust
AI holds enormous promise to transform organizations, from real-time efficiency optimization to truly predictive insights. Yet beneath the momentum, enterprise confidence is fragile, with a significant majority demanding far greater transparency into how their data is used.
In this session, we’ll explore how explainability, auditability, and governance must evolve alongside the algorithms themselves to unlock that trust. Ultimately, true AI maturity starts not with more models, but with robust frameworks that make AI reliable, safe, and accountable at scale. This is how we move from simply seeing AI’s potential to truly trusting its decisions.
Mohamed Elgeziry
Data & AI Expert, Strategy
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The AI-Powered Data Activation Platform
90% of enterprise AI use cases never make it out of pilot—not because the models fail, but because the integration foundation isn’t there. Without connected data, AI agents have no context, no fuel, and no real business impact.
Boomi’s session cuts through the noise to show how integration is the make-or-break layer for agentic AI. Learn how Boomi enables organizations to activate their data, connect their systems, and deploy AI agents that actually work — at scale, within guardrails, across any cloud or environment. Boomi gives CIOs the platform to move from AI experimentation to AI execution.
Ahmed ElHamouly
Managing Director, META, Boomi
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Secure Information Management for AI: Control Your Enterprise Information to Drive Trusted, Scalable Results with AI
In an AI-first world, success depends on secure, connected, high-quality, and well-governed data. OpenText helps organizations unlock AI’s full potential by unifying data sets across systems such as ERPs, CRMs, supply chains, content management and more, ensuring accuracy with zero hallucination and making sure AI is used in context, all of this in a compliant and secure ways. From ingestion and curation to search, summarization, and protection, we deliver secure information management that fuels smarter automation and scales to make your enterprise ready for the evolving demands of AI.
Mohamed Matar
Sales Leader – Content Egypt, OpenText
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Start of Platinum Partner Sessions
Closing the Governance Gap: Why Data Maturity is the Missing Layer in AI Transformation
Across the Middle East, organisations are accelerating investments in AI, analytics, and digital infrastructure. Yet new IDC research reveals a growing imbalance: while advanced technologies are rapidly adopted, data governance maturity is not keeping pace. This session explores what we call the “Governance Gap” and why it is emerging as one of the most critical challenges facing CIOs today. Drawing on IDC research and regional insights, we will examine the structural weaknesses in governance, metadata, and data quality that undermine AI initiatives and regulatory readiness. More importantly, we will discuss how organisations can move from periodic compliance exercises to embedded, operational data governance.
Mutaz Salem
Chief Executive Officer, Dstation
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Infuse AI across the enterprise — from productivity and automation to AI agents
Discover how organizations can embed AI across every layer of the business, from enhancing daily productivity and automating workflows to deploying intelligent AI agents that drive autonomous execution and measurable business value.
Husein El-Sayed
General Manager, Solutions & Services, Global Brands
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End of Session Raffle- AI Glasses
Networking Lunch
IDC Overview
Michael Hanna
Senior Research Analyst, IDC
For the CIO-By the CIO Session: Agentic AI in Action: Industry Use Cases and Early Wins
Dr. Bisohy Sawiris
Chief Data Officer, GB Corp
Micheal Mounir
Group Director, AI, IT and Digital, Eva Pharma
Dr. Mohamed Salem
Chief Information Officer, Juhayna
Eng. Mohamed Fathy
Group Chief Information Officer, EFG Holding
Ayman Fathy
Managing Executive: IT, Vodafone Egypt
For The CIO- By The CIO Session: The CIO Talent Agenda: How CIOs, CHROs, CFO’s and Business Leaders Are Shaping the Future Workforce
Alaa Abou Elmagd
VP, Digital Transformation, GB Capital
Dr. Amr Alashkar
Chief Information Officer, Cleopatra Hospitals Group
Karim Solyman
Chief Digital Officer, Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources
Ahmed ElShanet
Chief Operating Officer, Emirates NBD
Dr. Ayman Fawzy
Chief Financial Officer, Suez Canal Bank
Hanan Thabet
Chief Human Resources Officer, National Bank of Kuwait- Egypt