IDC & Zoho Roundtable
Beyond the Pilot – How CIOs Are Turning AI Experiments Into Enterprise Reality
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The UAE has set a deadline on agentic AI. The federal government plans to run half of its operations through autonomous agents within two years, and its private sector is following suit. IDC’s research shows many organizations aren’t ready to prove their investment is paying off: 43% of UAE organizations don’t yet consider themselves able to capture full value from AI, and the top reason is that they cannot show a clear return once an agent moves from a pilot into daily operations.
IDC and Zoho are bringing together CIOs and IT leaders from across the UAE for a closed-door roundtable in Dubai to work through how to turn the mandate into an early, provable return on agentic AI.
The session covers how CIOs are proving agentic AI ROI in practice: what to measure, who owns the number, and how to defend it once budgets are on the line.
Agenda
IDC & Zoho Roundtable
One Day Event
Registration, Welcome Lunch & Networking
Welcome Address
IDC Keynote: The Agentic Countdown: What UAE CIOs Must Prove in Two Years
Melih Murat
Associate Research Director, Artificial Intelligence (META), IDC
Scaling from Single Workflow to Enterprise-wide Agent Deployment
Hyther Nizam
Chief Executive Officer, Zoho Middle East & Africa
Open Discussion: What UAE CIOs are Actually Measuring to Prove Agentic AI ROI
Summary & Close
Networking
Partner
Zoho Corporation
For more than 25 years, Zoho has been committed to building software and technology that help businesses excel. From small companies to large organizations, more than 130 million users worldwide rely on Zoho to get work done. Zoho is privately held and profitable with more than 18,000 employees. Its privacy-first approach, long-term thinking, deep engineering focus, and customer-centric philosophy make it one of the world’s most prolific technology companies. Headquartered in Chennai, India, Zoho has additional offices in the United States, Japan, China, Canada, Singapore, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. For more information, visit www.zoho.com
Venue
Sushi Samba
Samba Room
Level 51, The St. Regis Dubai
The Palm Jumeirah