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PRELEGENCI

Radek Brzózka

Radek Brzózka

Science journalist, technology enthusiast, and television presenter

Telewizja Polska

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Lapo Fioretti
Keynote Speaker

Lapo Fioretti

Senior Research Analyst, Emerging Technologies and Macroeconomics

IDC

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Jakub Łukasiewicz

Jakub Łukasiewicz

Regional Sales Director

HCL Software | CEE

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Jacek Nawrot

Jacek Nawrot

Senior ICT Executive

IDC

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Aneta Gawrońska

Aneta Gawrońska

Chief Financial Director

Medicover Sport

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Robert Cegliński

Robert Cegliński

Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Risk Officer

PayPo

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Marcin Zimny

Marcin Zimny

Principal Solutions Architect

Ping Identity

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Andrei Dumitru

Andrei Dumitru

Executive Partner

IT Smart Systems

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Lucyna Michniewicz-Ślaska

Lucyna Michniewicz-Ślaska

CIO

VOX Group

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Alicja Rybczyńska

Alicja Rybczyńska

Chief Information Officer

Veolia Poland

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Rafał Zbiróg

Rafał Zbiróg

Group CIO

Inter Cars

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Tomasz Bednarczuk

Tomasz Bednarczuk

CIO

Kaczmarski Group

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Robert Tomaka

Robert Tomaka

CIO

Diagnostyka

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Şükrü Çakmak

Şükrü Çakmak

CTO & Co-Founder

Oobeya

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Paweł Grabowski

Paweł Grabowski

Head of Digital B2B

Żabka Group

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Przemysław Kadula

Przemysław Kadula

Co-founder & CBO

Pirxe

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Maciej Borowski

Maciej Borowski

Co-founder & COO

Pirxe

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Evghenia Iarina

Evghenia Iarina

Strategic Partnerships Director

Coursera

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Ewa Zborowska

Ewa Zborowska

Research Director

IDC

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Paweł Majek

Paweł Majek

Product Director, Poland Go To Market

Visa

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Małgorzata McCarthy

Małgorzata McCarthy

Technology Product Leader – Analytics, AI & Data

ManpowerGroup

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Dariusz Korzun

Dariusz Korzun

Director, Applied AI, Global Cloud Solution Architecture

PepsiCo

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Robert Pławiak

Robert Pławiak

CDIO/CTO

Polpharma

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Agnieszka Bochacka

Agnieszka Bochacka

Global Digital Transformation Director

GE Healthcare

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Edyta Zborowska

Edyta Zborowska

Business Development Manager

vSoft

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Jarosław Smulski

Jarosław Smulski

Senior Program Manager, Systems & Infrastructure Solutions

IDC

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Grzegorz Zalewski

Grzegorz Zalewski

CEO

Aplikacje Krytyczne

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Radosław Maćkiewicz

Radosław Maćkiewicz

Director Centre for Information Technology

Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki

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Wojciech Wilk

Wojciech Wilk

Regional Director, CEE

HCLSoftware

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Wiesław Wilk

Wiesław Wilk

CEO

Polska Chmura

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Marcin Mazurek

Marcin Mazurek

Co-Founder

Bitropy

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Norbert Franke

Norbert Franke

CTO

Publicis Groupe Poland

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Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora

Dyrektor Departamentu Cyberbezpieczeństwa, CISO

P4

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Marek Ługowski

Marek Ługowski

Head of Infrastructure

Swiss Krono Group

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Marek Laskowski

Marek Laskowski

CIO

Kancelaria Prawna Domański Zakrzewski Palinka

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Przemysław Szulecki

Przemysław Szulecki

Cyber Risk Senior Manager

HSBC

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Monika Kozakiewicz

Monika Kozakiewicz

CEO

NAUTA Shiprepair Yard

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Diana Skotnicka

Diana Skotnicka

CFO

Respect Energy Holding

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Jens Löhmar

Jens Löhmar

CTO Continental Europe & DACH

Workday

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Speakers

OUR SPEAKERS

Radek Brzózka

Radek Brzózka

Science journalist, technology enthusiast, and television presenter

Telewizja Polska

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Lapo Fioretti
Keynote Speaker

Lapo Fioretti

Senior Research Analyst, Emerging Technologies and Macroeconomics

IDC

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Jakub Łukasiewicz

Jakub Łukasiewicz

Regional Sales Director

HCL Software | CEE

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Jacek Nawrot

Jacek Nawrot

Senior ICT Executive

IDC

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Aneta Gawrońska

Aneta Gawrońska

Chief Financial Director

Medicover Sport

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Robert Cegliński

Robert Cegliński

Vice President of the Management Board, Chief Risk Officer

PayPo

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Andrei Dumitru

Andrei Dumitru

Executive Partner

IT Smart Systems

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Marcin Zimny

Marcin Zimny

Principal Solutions Architect

Ping Identity

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Lucyna Michniewicz-Ślaska

Lucyna Michniewicz-Ślaska

CIO

VOX Group

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Rafał Zbiróg

Rafał Zbiróg

Group CIO

Inter Cars

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Alicja Rybczyńska

Alicja Rybczyńska

Chief Information Officer

Veolia Poland

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Tomasz Bednarczuk

Tomasz Bednarczuk

CIO

Kaczmarski Group

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Robert Tomaka

Robert Tomaka

CIO

Diagnostyka

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Şükrü Çakmak

Şükrü Çakmak

CTO & Co-Founder

Oobeya

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Paweł Grabowski

Paweł Grabowski

Head of Digital B2B

Żabka Group

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Przemysław Kadula

Przemysław Kadula

Co-founder & CBO

Pirxe

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Maciej Borowski

Maciej Borowski

Co-founder & COO

Pirxe

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Evghenia Iarina

Evghenia Iarina

Strategic Partnerships Director

Coursera

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Ewa Zborowska

Ewa Zborowska

Research Director

IDC

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Paweł Majek

Paweł Majek

Product Director, Poland Go To Market

Visa

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Małgorzata McCarthy

Małgorzata McCarthy

Technology Product Leader – Analytics, AI & Data

ManpowerGroup

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Dariusz Korzun

Dariusz Korzun

Director, Applied AI, Global Cloud Solution Architecture

PepsiCo

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Robert Pławiak

Robert Pławiak

CDIO/CTO

Polpharma

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Agnieszka Bochacka

Agnieszka Bochacka

Global Digital Transformation Director

GE Healthcare

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Edyta Zborowska

Edyta Zborowska

Business Development Manager

vSoft

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Jarosław Smulski

Jarosław Smulski

Senior Program Manager, Systems & Infrastructure Solutions

IDC

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Grzegorz Zalewski

Grzegorz Zalewski

CEO

Aplikacje Krytyczne

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Radosław Maćkiewicz

Radosław Maćkiewicz

Director Centre for Information Technology

Centralny Ośrodek Informatyki

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Wiesław Wilk

Wiesław Wilk

CEO

Polska Chmura

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Wojciech Wilk

Wojciech Wilk

Regional Director, CEE

HCLSoftware

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Marcin Mazurek

Marcin Mazurek

Co-Founder

Bitropy

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Norbert Franke

Norbert Franke

CTO

Publicis Groupe Poland

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Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora

Dyrektor Departamentu Cyberbezpieczeństwa, CISO

P4

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Marek Ługowski

Marek Ługowski

Head of Infrastructure

Swiss Krono Group

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Marek Laskowski

Marek Laskowski

CIO

Kancelaria Prawna Domański Zakrzewski Palinka

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Przemysław Szulecki

Przemysław Szulecki

Cyber Risk Senior Manager

HSBC

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Monika Kozakiewicz

Monika Kozakiewicz

CEO

NAUTA Shiprepair Yard

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Diana Skotnicka

Diana Skotnicka

CFO

Respect Energy Holding

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Jens Löhmar

Jens Löhmar

CTO Continental Europe & DACH

Workday

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Knowledge Hub / Nishant Rathi

Beyond Digital Transformation: Shifting the horizons towards “AI-Driven Digital Transformation

Nishant Rathi
CEO & Founder
NeoSOFT

Beyond Digital Transformation: Shifting the horizons towards “AI-Driven Digital Transformation

Beyond Digital Transformation: Shifting the horizons towards “AI-Driven Digital Transformation

Is your technology stack helping your business to fly high, or holding it back? You must ask, if your business is smart enough to act alone. True success comes when your systems and processes can work in tandem and accelerate smoothly without your intervention as well.

 

In 2026, the big question is no longer just about being digital, but more about how our Digital Strategies are making our people, processes and systems work seamlessly. This requires an ecosystem that is self-learning, self-optimizing, and self-healing in real-time. For the past decade, businesses have been obsessed with becoming digital from migration to the cloud, to modernized legacy apps, and building vast data lakes. A hard truth is emerging at the IDC India CIO Summit. Digital Transformation was just the rehearsal; the real goal is Intelligence Transformation. AI is now the essential driver to ensure businesses stay future-ready for every customer type.

 

The Crisis of Efficient Stupidity

 

Many organizations have done a lot to digitize their business. They have high-speed processes and real-time dashboards, yet their actual decision-making remains slow and reactive. This is typical efficient stupidity where you have the fastest engines in the world but no steering wheel.

 

In 2026, simply having data is a liability if you do not have the cognitive layer to process it. We often hear that data is new gold. However, gold is useless if it remains buried in inaccessible silos. To extract its value, we must shift from connectivity to Autonomy.

 

Making your People, Processes and Systems work together for you, in a self-learning and auto-healing mode with the capability to run complex algorithms & combinations to predict the exceptions well in advance, and take the pro-active approach.

 

Future-Ready, today for the Era of Digital Intelligence:
To move beyond the baseline of digital transformation, leaders must pivot towards these non-negotiable rules for the intelligence era.

 

1. Architecting the Agentic Stack

 

True Intelligence Transformation requires a fundamental architectural shift toward what we call the Agentic Stack. This change moves beyond simple bots that only give basic answers. At NeoSOFT, we build systems where AI agents do real work . These agents finish important tasks and use complex tools on their own. They solve problems by themselves inside a smart digital nervous system and have their own self-learning mechanism. We build systems that act rather than just giving basic help today. This helps your business move from slow software to very fast action. It allows your business to reach real goals and find more success.

 

2. Turning Data into Active Intelligence

 

We must revisit the idea that data is new oil. Just as crude oil must be refined to have value, your enterprise data must be made AI-ready to be useful. Intelligence Transformation requires a sovereign-ready data layer that ensures your AI models learn from your unique intellectual property without leaking that value into the public domain. For a CIO, this means moving away from static data warehouses and toward dynamic data fabrics that power real-time inference and immediate action.

 

3. Shifting from Saving Costs to Acting Faster

 

Stop measuring AI success only by how much money you save on hiring. The real value is Decision Velocity, or the speed at which your business can solve problems. If a supply chain breaks or a customer’s needs change, how fast can you react? Intelligence transformation is about using AI to make your business move faster and find new ways to grow, rather than just cutting down what you already have.

 

The NeoSOFT Perspective: Engineering the Future

 

At NeoSOFT, we have grown. We are no longer just a company that provides technology; we are your partner in building a smarter business. We help global companies get out of the testing trap. Many ideas get stuck in small trials and never help the business. This common problem stops your company from reaching its true potential today. We build high quality AI systems that are ready for real work. Our team makes sure your technology works well in the real world. We believe that AI should handle all the boring and repetitive tasks. This allows your people to focus on big ideas and human goals. Your team can build better connections to make the whole business grow.

 

Winning Together in 2026

 

The time for old digital transformation is now over for most firms. In 2026, the best companies will have true enterprise intelligence. This shift is a powerful way for your business to win today. The future belongs to businesses that can think and act for themselves. We are excited to see how these smart tools help people grow. This is the start of a much better way to work together.

 

Knowledge Hub / Harvinder Singh

Analyst Spotlight

Harvinder Singh
Chief Business Officer
AceCloud

Analyst Spotlight

The Inflection Point: From Agentic Pilots to Production-Scale Operations

Thirty years in enterprise sales teaches you to tune out the noise. I’ve watched every technology cycle come through and most of them changed something, just not everything, and rarely on the timeline promised but Agentic AI feels different. I am not declaring this because of the hype, but because its failure mode is unlike anything I have seen before and this is where it gets interesting. Enterprises aren’t failing to adopt this technology, they’re failing to scale something they have already proven.

 

The results from pilots are real. Customer support teams handling 60% more inquiries. Finance operations that process invoices in a fraction of the time. Sales teams qualifying pipeline at a scale no headcount plan could match. The technology works. Yet, 60% of enterprises have evaluated agentic systems, only 20% have progressed to pilots, and just 5% reach full production.

We have seen the pattern constantly. A brilliant pilot launches, delivers results, builds internal momentum then hits a wall at month six. The agent runs in isolation. Systems aren’t connected. Governance frameworks don’t exist. Infrastructure buckles under production workloads. The project stays alive on paper and dies in practice.

 

This is not a model problem. It is an infrastructure problem.

 

Agentic systems demand something traditional cloud was never designed for: elastic compute that absorbs agent burst loads without punishing idle costs, data layers that don’t bottleneck under continuous automation workflows, security that enforces governance at the task level and economics that make enterprise-wide deployment viable, not just enterprise-grade pilots. These properties need to work together.

 

The enterprises winning this aren’t the ones with the most sophisticated agents. They’re the ones that made infrastructure decisions eighteen months ago that turned out to be exactly right for this moment.

 

At AceCloud, we’re building an AI-first cloud platform designed precisely for this transition. Not retrofitting AI onto existing infrastructure, but architecting from the ground up for what production-scale agentic operations actually demand. As India’s sovereign public cloud, that also means infrastructure enterprises can trust with sensitive data and critical workloads.

The question for CIOs at this summit has moved on. ‘Should we invest in agentic AI?’ is settled. The harder question that will define outcomes over the next three years is, ‘do we have the infrastructure and operational readiness to move from pilot to production at scale?’

 

That’s the conversation I’m eager to have at the CIO Summit in Chennai.

 

Agenda

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Thursday, July 23

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Red Hat

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Dr. Alexey Sidorov

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Chief Data Evangelist and Data Management Director

Denodo

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Tareq Momani

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Infoblox

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Cliff Madru

Cliff Madru

Vice President, Digital Solutions

Iron Mountain

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Faye Murray

Faye Murray

Field Chief Data Officer (EMEA)

Dataiku

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Tom Gamali

Tom Gamali

Field CTO & Strategic Advisor, MEA-TRC

Splunk

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Rob Greenman

Rob Greenman

Principal Sales Engineer

Ping Identity

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Akshay Dalal

Akshay Dalal

Head of Regional Risk and Compliance, UAE

Google Cloud

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Ahmed Afrose

Ahmed Afrose

Head of Customer Engineering UAE, Levant and North Africa Dubai, UAE

Google Cloud

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Bilal Issa

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Technical Manager, Gulf

TrendAI

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IDC

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Specialized Solutions Sales Leader, Saudi Arabia

ServiceNow

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Field CTO, Middle East & Africa

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Mohammed A Alreedi

Mohammed A Alreedi

CTO

IBM

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Samer Hasan

Senior Solutions Engineer, Strategic

Cloudflare

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Dr. Alexey Sidorov

Dr. Alexey Sidorov

Chief Data Evangelist and Data Management Director

Denodo

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Tareq Momani

Tareq Momani

Head of Systems Engineering, Middle East

Infoblox

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Cliff Madru

Cliff Madru

Vice President, Digital Solutions

Iron Mountain

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Faye Murray

Faye Murray

Field Chief Data Officer (EMEA)

Dataiku

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Tom Gamali

Field CTO & Strategic Advisor, MEA-TRC

Splunk

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Principal Sales Engineer

Ping Identity

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Quentin Gaumer

Cybersecurity and Compliance specialist, Middle East, Turkey and Africa

Google Cloud

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Google Cloud

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