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Day 1 - Morning (Saturday, 8th September)
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ICT Leadership Strategies
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration & Coffee
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| 9:00 AM |
Keynote: Top Challenges for the Region’s CIOs & IT Managers
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Predicting IT Challenges for GCC Organizations & Their IT Leaders in the Next 5 years
Mr. Ghassan Mayassi
Business Consulting Director –MEA
Oracle Public Sector - Middle East & Africa
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| 10:00 AM |
2007 Deadly Sins: Emerging Technologies, Threats and Trappings
Mr. Mark Sunner
Chief Security Analyst
MessageLabs, UK
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| 10:45 AM |
Coffee Break & Business Networking
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| 11:15 AM |
Panel Discussion: Code-Sharing and Collaboration to Reduce IT Spending in GCC Organizations
By sharing code and collaborating on IT developments among GCC organizations, they can expect to reap many significant benefits and a substantial reduction in their IT spending. The session discusses what needs to be done for a code-sharing and collaboration initiative among the GCC organizations and discusses the technology, managements and implementation issues for such an arrangement.
Moderator: Mr. Roman Konovalov, Managing Director, Aroma Software LLC
Panelist:
- Mr. Ghassan Mayassi, Business Consulting Director-MEA, Oracle Public Sector
- Mr. Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst, MessageLabs, UK
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| 12:00 PM |
Challenges While Aligning New Technology with Existing Business Processes
Mr. Roman Konovalov
Managing Director
Aroma Software L.L.C, UAE
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| 1:00 PM |
Lunch and End of the Day
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Day 2 - Morning (Sunday, 9th September)
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Enterprise ICT Strategies
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration & Coffee
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| 9:00 AM |
CIO’s Master Plan for Building Core ICT Systems to Serve New GCC Mega Projects
As more and more GCC organizations are announcing mega projects and global mergers, the regional CIO’s task is to either scale up existing systems or build new ICT Systems and either of these options isn’t easy. The session discusses key technology challenges CIOs and IT Managers face while designing new core ICT Systems (Platforms) to serve requirements from newly announced projects. More often it is observed that existing ICT Systems in reality does not support such large scale requirements or it does not support new versions of technologies or updates calling for expensive updates… The session will provide and update on how CIOs can build their ICT platforms that are flexible, adaptive and long-lasting to serve new requirements.
Mr. Zaki Sabbagh
CIO
Zamil Industrial Investment Co., KSA
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| 9:45 AM |
Capturing Customer Value: Managing your customers for maximum profitability
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Mr. Adam Hughes
Head of Indian Operations
PA Consulting Group
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| 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM |
To CEOs, CFOs and All Other C-Level Executives: Think About Application Integration Now, or Lose Your Business!
Mr. Yasar Yilmaz
Senior Manager, Business Consulting, Financial Services
Oracle Middle East & Africa
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| 11:45 AM |
Forecasting Government (User) Markets in Open Source Technology
Dr. Christine Hansen, J.D.
President
Le Ciel, Inc., USA
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| 12:30 PM |
Coffee and Networking
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| 12:45 PM |
Relationship between Corporate Governance, Information Technology Governance and Information Security Governance
Dr. SH (Basie) von Solms
President-Elect : IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
Academy for Information Technology, University of Johannesburg, RSA
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| 1:30 PM |
Panel Discussions: How CIOs and IT managers should make use of latest storage technology developments?
Moderator: Mr. Zaki Sabbagh, CIO, Zamil Industrial Investment Co.,KSA
Panelist:
- Dr. SH (Basie) VOn Solms, President-Elect IFIP, Academy of Information Techology, RSA
- Dr. Christine Hansen, J.D. , President, Le Ciel, INC. USA
- Mr. Yasar Yilmaz, Sr. Manager, Business Consulting, Financial Services, Oracle
- Mr. Adam Hughes, Head of Indian Operations,PA Consulting, UK
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| 2:00 PM |
Lunch and End of the Day
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Day 3 - Morning (Monday, 10th September)
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Mobile IT Strategies
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration and Coffee
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| 9:00 AM |
CIO & IT Manager Master Plan for Buying IT Services for the next 5 years
Mr. Kent Lewis
President
Anvil Media, Inc., USA
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| 9:45 AM |
Opportunities and Challanges of Web Technologies on Mobile Platform
Mr. Stéphane Boyera
Member, Mobile Web Initiative
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), France
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| 10:30 AM |
Coffee and Networking
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| 11:00 AM |
Leveraging Common Information to Deliver Convergent Services in an on Demand World
Mr. Richard Noel
Marketing Director
Telcordia Technologies, UK
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| 11:45 AM |
Proving Work Through Mobile Solutions - Delivering cost savings and unrivalled customer service with maturing mobile technology
Mr. Ian Berriman
Senior Consultant
PA Consulting Group, London
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| 12:30 PM |
Mobile Banking and Payments - moving from hype to reality
Mr. Reg Swart
Regional Executive - Middle East & Africa
Fundamo (Pty) Ltd.
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| 1:15 PM |
Lunch and End of the Day
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Day 4 - Morning (Tuesday, 11th September)
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Web & Portal IT Strategies
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration and Coffee
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| 9:00 AM |
Challenges of Integrative Portals for Networked Virtual Organizations
Dr. Wojciech Cellary
Head of the Department of IT
Poznan University of Economics, Poland
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| 9:45 AM |
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) & Enterprise Blogging
Mr. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala
CEO & Managing Director
Web Spiders (India) Pvt Ltd.
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| 10:30 AM |
Coffee and Networking
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| 11:00 AM |
What is required in Corporate Mobile Solution in today's dynamic business environment? Blackberry an example of a successful solution
Mr. Shady Saeed Mohamed Fahmy
Senior Manager Product Marketing Wireless
Etisalat, UAE
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| 11:45 AM |
Web 2.0: The Battle for the Anywhere Consumer TM
Ms. Anette Schaefer
Director Consumer Research, EMEA
Yankee Group, UK
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| 12:30 PM |
Application of Geographic Information Systems for Municipal & Environment Planning
Case Study: GIS Applications, EPA Kuwait
Mr.Shaker M. G. Madi
Director, Information Systems Center
Environment Public Authority - EPA Kuwait
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| 1:15 PM |
Lunch and End of the Day
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Day 5 - Morning (Wednesday, 12th September)
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IT Security, Identity and Network Strategies
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| 8:30 AM |
Registration and Coffee
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| 9:00 AM |
IT Security - The layered approach to protecting online business
- Online business growth in Middle East
- Security concerns, a barrier to business
- Key assets of online business: consumers, brands, Web sites, and internal networks
- A systematic approach to mitigating threats
- PayPal case study
Mr. Neil Batstone
General Manager, Middle East
VeriSign
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| 10:00 AM |
Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) - the Web 2.0 response to CRM
Mr. Graham D Sadd
Founder, Chairman and CEO
PAOGA, USA
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| 10:45 AM |
Coffee and Networking
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| 11:15 AM |
Implementing a BCMS (Business Continuity Management System) - "System in this context being the process not a piece of software!"
Mr. Richard Jones
Principal BCM Consultant, Professional Services
SunGard Availability Services (UK) Limited
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| 12:00 PM |
Panel Discussion :
Information Security Plan Development
Best Practices in Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Moderator: Mr. Neil Batstone, General Manager, VeriSign Middle East
Panelist:
- Mr. Richard Jones, Principal BCM Consultant, SunGard Availability Services, UK
- Mr. Graham D Sadd, Founder, Chairman & CEO, PAOGA USA
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| 1:00 PM |
Lunch and End of the Day
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