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.
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
Sun, Sep 27
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.
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (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
Regional Vice President – EMEA East
Veeam Software
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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
EMEA Field CISO
Veeam Software
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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
Senior Director Enterprise Sales EMEA
Veeam Software
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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
Regional Director & General Manager – Saudi Arabia & Bahrain
Veeam Software
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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.
Shilpi Handa
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Shilpi Handa
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.
In Partnership With
Veeam
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk.
Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats — including ransomware, disasters, AI errors, and ensuring the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential.
Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.
Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.