IDC & Veeam Roundtable
Be Connected: Building Trust in the Age of Agentic AI

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The Trust Deficit: What Agentic AI Exposes in Enterprise Data
Every enterprise in Saudi Arabia can run AI today. Very few can prove the data behind it deserves to be trusted. Resilience, security, compliance, and governance still live in separate silos. Agentic AI doesn’t wait for them to catch up. According to IDC, 84% of IT decision-makers globally already run generative AI in production. Only12% have moved past the basics to actually measure its value and risk.
IDC and Veeam are bringing together CIOs and CISOs from across Saudi Arabia’s enterprise landscape, on the sidelines of the IDC Saudi CIO Summit, for a closed-door conversation on what it actually takes to bridge that gap.
This interactive peer exchange will focus on lessons from the ground: what’s working, where organizations are facing friction, and how leaders are navigating the complexities of resilience, security, compliance, and governance while continuing to move AI forward.
Agenda
IDC & Veeam Roundtable
Day 1
Registration & Networking
Welcome Address
Mena Migally
Regional Vice President – EMEA East, Veeam Software
IDC Keynote: The Data Control Plane Gap in Saudi Arabia
Saudi organizations are still addressing foundational readiness gaps across data, skill and governance, even as investment increasingly shifts toward generative AI. Drawing on IDC’s latest survey data, this keynote examines the current state of AI readiness in Saudi Arabia and what organizations need to do to scale agentic AI safely and effectively.
Melih Murat
Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META), IDC
Data and AI Trust CONVERGE for the Agentic Era
Digging into how data trust and AI trust are merging into a single governance problem as agentic AI moves from pilots into production.
Nina Tebbe
Senior Director Enterprise Sales EMEA, Veeam Software
Coffee & Prayer Break
Veeam: Learning from the Adversary: Real-world Resilience with Veeam
Veeam’s session, framed around resilience — likely covering ransomware/attack scenarios and how backup and recovery strategy needs to evolve to keep data (and by extension AI systems built on it) trustworthy and recoverable.
Andre Troskie
EMEA Field CISO, Veeam Software
Summary & Closing Remarks
Jawad Moghnieh
Regional Director & General Manager – Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, Veeam Software
Networking Dinner
Speakers
Mena Migally
Migally is a seasoned IT industry leader with over 20 years of experience in sales and leadership roles. He is currently the Regional Vice President of Eastern Europe, Middle East, and English-speaking Africa (EMEA East) at Veeam Software, where he spearheads business operations and growth strategies.
Previously, Migally held key positions at Riverbed Technology, Lenovo, and IBM, and is an Executive Member at Pavilion. He is based in Dubai and is recognized for driving business growth and value in the technology sector.
Andre Troskie
Andre Troskie is the EMEA Field CISO at Veeam, where he leads strategic cybersecurity initiatives across the region. In his role, he drives product strategy, go‑to‑market engagement, and collaboration with alliance partners and enterprise customers, with a strong focus on cyber resilience, risk management, and compliance.
With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity management consulting, IT risk, and assurance services, Andre brings a wealth of expertise in helping organizations strengthen governance, mitigate threats, and build resilient security frameworks. His background spans Big‑4 professional services, global systems integrators, and private consulting practices.
Event Sessions
Day 1 8:00 pm
Veeam: Learning from the Adversary: Real-world Resilience with Veeam
Veeam’s session, framed around resilience — likely covering ransomware/attack scenarios and how backup and recovery strategy needs to evolve to keep data (and by extension AI systems built on it) trustworthy and recoverable.
Nina Tebbe
Nina Tebbe leads Enterprise Sales across EMEA at Veeam, helping organisations strengthen cyber resilience and protect their most critical data. With extensive experience in driving digital resilience strategies for some of Europe’s largest organisations, she partners with customers to navigate complex data protection, cyber resilience, and cloud transformation challenges.
Event Sessions
Day 1 7:20 pm
Data and AI Trust CONVERGE for the Agentic Era
Digging into how data trust and AI trust are merging into a single governance problem as agentic AI moves from pilots into production.
Jawad Moghnieh
Jawad Moghnieh leads Veeam across Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, bringing 17 years in the industry to one of the region’s fastest-moving markets. He joined Veeam in 2016 and has grown the business by double digits every year since, built on sharp execution and close partnerships across the channel.
His focus is helping organisations in the Kingdom think differently about their data. That means making the case for Data & AI Trust in terms a board will act on, being direct about how ransomware actually unfolds, and keeping business continuity at the centre of the conversation rather than at the end of it. He knows the market deeply and works with customers as an advisor rather than a vendor, guiding them through the practical decisions that data resilience demands.
Born and based in Riyadh, Jawad holds an MBA from Hult International Business School. He has a track record of building teams that stay, shaping go-to-market strategies that hold up under pressure, and delivering growth that outlasts a single quarter.
Melih Murat
In his role as associate research director for IT services and software across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META), Melih drives IDC’s regional research and consulting engagements in the areas of IT services, Cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent automation.
He first joined IDC in 2012 as a senior research analyst located out of IDC’s Istanbul office, with various responsibilities for the firm’s IT services, cloud computing, software, and telecom domains — both in Turkey and across the wider META region. Between 2016 and 2021, Melih headed the international marketing and investor relations practice at P.I. Works, a global automation and AI software vendor that serves telecom operators.
Now back at IDC, Melih is leveraging his vast experience in the IT services, cloud, software, and telecommunications domains to advise clients on go-to-market strategies, technology marketing and promotion activities, and market trends analysis. He is also driving a wide variety of research and consulting projects across the META region.
Melih has also previously served as enterprise channel and marketing manager at Nortel Turkey and as business development and strategy manager at Netaş, one of the leading systems integrators in Turkey and a former Nortel subsidiary. He possesses a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and received his MBA from Esslingen University of Applied Sciences in Germany. He has worked as a business development specialist at HP and wrote his MBA thesis for the company, covering European retail channel trends and winning strategies for channel businesses.
Event Sessions
Day 1 7:05 pm
IDC Keynote: The Data Control Plane Gap in Saudi Arabia
Saudi organizations are still addressing foundational readiness gaps across data, skill and governance, even as investment increasingly shifts toward generative AI. Drawing on IDC’s latest survey data, this keynote examines the current state of AI readiness in Saudi Arabia and what organizations need to do to scale agentic AI safely and effectively.