12 Nov 2025
Grand Hyatt Doha Hotel & Villas
Resilient Security Operations in FSI- Qatar
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Overview
As digital transformation accelerates, financial institutions in Qatar are navigating a rapidly changing landscape where resilience, intelligence, and trust are more critical than ever. This exclusive session explores how AI and advanced analytics are reshaping operations — from enhancing decision-making and customer experience to strengthening organizational resilience.
Through expert insights and real-world examples, we’ll examine how financial institutions can harness the power of AI to optimize performance, increase agility, and proactively manage risk. The session will also highlight how modern Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and intelligent threat detection and response strategies enable institutions to stay secure, compliant, and future-ready in an AI-driven world.
Agenda
Resilient Security Operations in FSI- Qatar
One day event
Registration, Networking & Breakfast
Welcome Address
Eren Eser
Associate Research Director, Türkiye, IDC
IDC Keynote: AI-Driven Resilience: Redefining the Future of Financial Institutions
This session will explore the evolving responsibilities of modern security leadership in the face of an increasingly complex and sophisticated threat landscape. It will then delve into the profound impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity, examining both the risks and the transformative security use cases AI enables. The presentation will also provide insights into strategic security investment priorities for organizations navigating this dynamic environment.
Eren Eser
Associate Research Director, Türkiye, IDC
Future-Ready Financial Services: Using AI to Supercharge Operational Resilience
Elias Haddad
Head of SE Organization North Gulf & NALE, Splunk
A New Era for Security: Powering the Agentic SOC with Splunk
Waleed Abosree
Sr Solutions Engineer North Gulf & NALE, Splunk
Open Discussion
Tom Gamali
Field CTO & Advisor MEA TRC, Splunk
Summary & Closing Remarks
Speakers
Eren Eser
Associate Research Director, Türkiye
IDC
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Eren Eser
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.
Event Sessions
Wednesday, November 12 2025 8:35 am | Location:
IDC Keynote: AI-Driven Resilience: Redefining the Future of Financial Institutions
This session will explore the evolving responsibilities of modern security leadership in the face of an increasingly complex and sophisticated threat landscape. It will then delve into the profound impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity, examining both the risks and the transformative security use cases AI enables. The presentation will also provide insights into strategic security investment priorities for organizations navigating this dynamic environment.
Wednesday, November 12 2025 8:30 am | Location:
Welcome Address
Elias Haddad
Head of SE Organization North Gulf & NALE
Splunk
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Elias Haddad
Event Sessions
Wednesday, November 12 2025 8:55 am | Location:
Future-Ready Financial Services: Using AI to Supercharge Operational Resilience
Waleed Abosree
Sr Solutions Engineer North Gulf & NALE
Splunk
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Waleed Abosree
Event Sessions
Wednesday, November 12 2025 9:15 am | Location:
A New Era for Security: Powering the Agentic SOC with Splunk
Tom Gamali
Field CTO & Advisor MEA TRC
Splunk
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Tom Gamali
Event Sessions
Wednesday, November 12 2025 9:25 am | Location:
Open Discussion
Partner
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Splunk Inc.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns data into doing with the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale. Our powerful platform and unique approach to data have empowered companies to improve service levels, reduce operations costs, mitigate risk, enhance DevOps collaboration and create new product and service offerings.
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