96% of Saudi organizations are digitally mature, yet the shift to agentic government is just beginning. This forum examines the decisions Saudi public sector CIOs face beyond 2027: agentic services, sovereign AI, and cyber-resilient infrastructure.
Explore how Saudi Arabia’s public sector is adopting AI, cloud, and data strategies to meet Vision 2030 goals. Learn from practitioners and policymakers driving transformation across government agencies.
Agentic Government
AI agents transforming Saudi service delivery beyond 2028
Sovereign AI Infra
Humain, NCA mandates, and the sovereign cloud imperative
Cyber-Resilient State
Zero Trust 2.0 and OT security for critical national assets
Data-Ready Ministries
Governance and architecture for agentic AI at scale
Arabic-First AI
ALLaM, national LLMs, and Arabic agentic systems for government
Workforce and Skills
Human-AI collaboration and Saudization in the AI era
Legacy Modernisation
Accelerating infrastructure and platform modernization with agentic AI tools
The Post-Quantum Future
Beyond post-quantum cryptography and the potential of real world models
By 2029, 40% of national governments, led by EU and GCC countries, will agentify digital services by life events, reducing the cost to operate digital channel infrastructure and platforms by 25%.
Sources: IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide — Forecast 2025 (August); IDC’s AI Tech Buyer Survey 2025, KSA (n = 56)
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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Associate Research Director, Türkiye
IDC
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Eren is a seasoned analyst with 20+ years of experience in the ICT sector. He directs all IDC ICT research and consulting engagements in Türkiye, and all sustainability research and consulting projects across the Middle East, Türkiye, and Africa (META).
Based in Istanbul, Eren has been involved in projects ranging from market forecasts to strategic consulting engagements on market entry, competitive analysis, go-to-market strategies, technology marketing, and end-user studies. Eren’s vast experience in the IT services, cloud, software, and telecommunications domains helps IDC clients understand the impact of technology-enabled, sustainable transformation processes in the context of sustainable digital business strategies, operations, products, and services. In addition to his research and consulting activities, Eren is a speaker at industry events.
Prior to joining IDC in 2017, Eren spent more than a decade in IT industry roles spanning portfolio management, channel and business development, pricing, and software development at companies including Turk Telekom and TAI.
Eren earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and an MBA focused on technology road mapping for strategy and innovation, both from Middle East Technical University. He received a master of science in information systems, with a thesis on modeling mobile telecommunications services, from Middle East Technical University. During his academic endeavors, he studied for one semester at the University of Copenhagen, and for one semester at Harvard University. He is pursuing a marketing PhD focused on sustainability.
Associate Research Director (META)
IDC
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IDC research,Saudi-specific
Briefings grounded in IDC’s Saudi Arabia and GCC data, not generic global trends
Peer decision-making forum
A room of Saudi government CIOs, CDOs, and CTOs facing the same post-2027 choices
Agenda set by government
Session topics shaped around Vision 2030 delivery, NCA compliance, and SDAIA mandates
Analyst-led, agenda-free
No vendor pitches in keynotes; IDC analysts moderate with data and independence
When governments are expected to deliver more with fewer resources, agentic AI offers a path to reshape how public services are delivered and managed
Digital sovereignty is becoming a strategic priority across EMEA, reshaping how governments and enterprises choose infrastructure and network partners.
The old playbook of cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and backup no longer covers the necessary ground.
