EC News DeskGEC Media Group, publishers of Business Transformation, Enterprise Channels MEA, The Titans and Cyber Sentinels announced the BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition in Dubai, an in-person event on 8th September 2021. The event will be held at Grand Ballroom, Conrad Dubai, Sheikh Zayed Road.
The half-day event on 8th September was hosted at the GEC Media Virtual Arena. The title sponsors of BTX Roadshow were Aruba HPE, Riverbed, Pure Storage, Veeam, Logicom, Netapp, Western Digital, Arcon, Veritas, SilverPeak, Alcatel-Lucent enterprise, SecureNet, Synology, Finesse, CORK information technology, International Group of Artificial Intelligence – IGOAI, Global CISO Forum, Business Transformation, and Enterprise Channels MEA.
The face to face event will start with the registration of all attendees and proceed with lunch and networking. The event will announce the winners of the BTX Top Executive Awards, BTX Enterprise Awards, BTX Solution Awards, as part of the BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition.
Highlights of BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition:
- Half-day hybrid event with C-suite conclave and awards
- Face to face session with attendees
- Select vendor transformation road maps for business decision-makers
- Regional end users present transformation success stories
- Panel discussion between vendors and end-users on experience sharing
- Recognition and awards for transformation executive champions
- Recognition and awards for solution implementation
- Recognition and awards for enterprise success stories and use cases
BTX Road Show South Gulf 2021 speakers include:
| Topic | Speaker |
| Digitisation of Government Services: Network and Telecom Transformation | Lt Col Dr Hamad Khalifa Al NUAIMI, Co-Founder of Digital Barza and Telecommunications Specialist and Telecom Division Manager, Abu Dhabi Police |
| Technology Keynote: Impact of Culture on Business and Digital Transformation | Sandrine El Khodry, Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise |
| Digital and business transformation initiatives in Tabreed | Ahmad Hilmi Lutfi Al Obaidi, Manager Capital Plant Performance & Investment, O&M Support, National Central Cooling Company |
| Healthcare Transformation and Digitisation | Faisal Syed, Digital Transformation Program Manager, Abu Dhabi Health Services – SEHA |
| Technology Keynote: Maximising visibility and performance for the hybrid enterprise | Salman Ali, Technical Channel Manager, Riverbed Technology |
| Smart technologies and sustainability in urban landscapes | Eng Mohammed Ahmed Alrayees, Director of Sewage Treatment Plants and Drainage Network Department Dubai Municipality |
| Success and failures of business and digital transformation | Dr Corrie Block, CEO, Paragon Consulting |
BTX Road Show South Gulf 2021 Panel discussion:
| Topic | Panelists |
| How is digital transformation, innovation, technology, making businesses in Abu Dhabi and UAE more resilient and efficient
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Arun Shankar, Editor GEC Media Group- Moderator, Pankaj Bajaj, Head of IT, Capital Health | Javeria Eijaz, Director IT, Farnek Services | Abdul Rahman Jaroudi, Group Head of IT, Mawarid Holding | Mohamad Rizk, Senior Regional Technical Director for Middle East, Russia, and CIS, Veeam |
| Threat actors and challenges for regional CISOs
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Dr Hoda Alkhzaimi, Director of Center of Cyber Security, New York University Abu Dhabi, President, Emirates Digital Association for Women – Moderator | Shafiullah Ismail, VP and Head, Information Security and Risk – Mubadala Capital | Jacob Mathew, IT Consultant, (IT Governance, Architecture, Services, Security, Infrastructure and Operations) Government of Abu Dhabi | Mohammed Shakeel Ahmed, Aviation Cyber Security Advisor, Abu Dhabhi Aviation |
During the event, BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition will be recognising solutions for transformation. This award ceremony will recognise the leading, exemplary, heroic efforts by vendors, channel partners, integrators, consultants to manage the challenges of the end user community through the lockdowns of the pandemic. This part of the information technology industry helped the end user community to successfully pivot their business models by using digital technologies and create a sustainable business through the pandemic and ahead, amongst others.
The pandemic of 2020 disrupted every industry and nation. Citizens, social fabrics, businesses, supply chains, trade, communication, value systems, workplaces, leisure, entertainment, decision making, almost everything conceivable had to adapt and change and survive. Information technology and business applications and strategic decision making around how to support everyday life through technology, has also had to adapt.
This has prompted the need to relook at business and the information technology organisation, the executives, operations, survival mantras, decision making, and finally outlook and forward-looking vision. The meaning of business continuity, disaster recovery, collaboration, virtual meetings, remote workforce, cloud, security, have overnight changed from esoteric into everyday work life meanings.
BTX Road Show 2021 South Gulf edition will be organised with all the safety guidelines announced by the Emirates of Dubai.
The first leg of the BTX Road Show 2021 North Gulf edition was focused on digital and business transformation with the overlying theme – The Change.
BTX North Gulf video link: https://www.btxshow.com/north-gulf/
The fourth and last leg of BTX Road Show 2021 Africa will be held on 27th September.
