IDC & Veeam Roundtable

27 Sep 2026 Fairmont Riyadh

IDC & Veeam Roundtable

Be Connected: Building Trust in the Age of Agentic AI

27 Sep 2026 Fairmont Riyadh

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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.

Key Learning Outcomes Include

Recovery is part of trust

Data you can’t recover is data you can’t trust, no matter how well it’s governed.

Governance that keeps pace with agentic AI

Only 12% of organizations have moved past basic inventory to measure AI value and risk (IDC, 2026).

Compliance as proof
Boards and regulators want evidence, not a binder.

Know what’s exposed
Security posture means knowing where sensitive data lives and who can reach it.

Agenda

IDC & Veeam Roundtable

Day 1

6:30PM

Registration & Networking

7:00PM

Welcome Address

Mena Migally

Mena Migally

Regional Vice President – EMEA East, Veeam Software

7:05PM

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

Melih Murat

Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META), IDC

7:20PM

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

Nina Tebbe

Senior Director Enterprise Sales EMEA, Veeam Software

7:40PM

Coffee & Prayer Break

8:00PM

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

Andre Troskie

EMEA Field CISO, Veeam Software

8:30PM

Summary & Closing Remarks

Jawad Moghnieh

Jawad Moghnieh

Regional Director & General Manager – Saudi Arabia & Bahrain, Veeam Software

8:35PM

Networking Dinner

Speakers

Mena Migally

Mena Migally

Regional Vice President – EMEA East

Veeam Software

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Andre Troskie

Andre Troskie

EMEA Field CISO

Veeam Software

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Nina Tebbe

Nina Tebbe

Senior Director Enterprise Sales EMEA

Veeam Software

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Jawad Moghnieh

Jawad Moghnieh

Regional Director & General Manager – Saudi Arabia & Bahrain

Veeam Software

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Melih Murat

Melih Murat

Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META)

IDC

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Venue

Fairmont Hotel, Riyadh

Mecca Meeting Room

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