Taking the lead as a Platinum Sponsor for the World CIO 200 Summit Grand Finale, Office Line will present its AI and Microsoft portfolio of services. Other than AI in action, this includes cloud adoption, managed services, power platforms, modern workplace solutions, cybersecurity, AI deployment and integration that drive tangible business outcomes.
After an extraordinary 50-country roadshow celebrating the world’s most influential technology leaders, the World CIO 200 Summit arrives at its Grand Finale in Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. It is scheduled to take place from 14th to 18th September 2025. This edition brings together global CIOs, technology innovators, government leaders, and global change-makers for a celebration of technology excellence.
Loukas Tzitzis, General Manager Office Line and Panagiotis Kouris, CEO Office Line, share pre-event insights about their go-to market at the event and further into GCC-Middle East and Africa.
Please describe your planned activities at the CIO 200 finale?
As a Platinum Sponsor of the World CIO 200 Grand Finale in Egypt, Office Line is honoured to stand alongside the region’s most visionary technology leaders. Our participation reflects our commitment to empowering organisations across the GCC and Africa with secure, future-ready digital transformation.
At the event, our presence will focus on meaningful engagement: delivering our “AI in action” keynote, connecting with CIOs, partners, and decision-makers to exchange perspectives, share real-world success stories, and explore pathways for collaboration based on our 28-year-old experience of helping governments and enterprises.
Through our dedicated interactions, we aim to highlight proven strategies in cloud adoption, managed services, power platforms, modern workplace solutions, cybersecurity, and AI deployment & integration that drive tangible business outcomes.
We see the Grand Finale not only as a celebration of leadership but as a platform to forge long-term partnerships. By listening closely to regional priorities and aligning with national digital agendas, our objective is to support organisations in de-risking transformation, accelerating modernisation, and achieving sustainable growth.
Office Line is proud to contribute to this global stage, where ambition meets action, and where we can shape the next chapter of digital innovation for the region together.
Which executives from Office line will be participating and what are their keynote at the event?
As a Platinum Sponsor of the World CIO 200 Grand Finale in Egypt, Office Line proudly joins the region’s most influential digital leaders to share a vision of secure, AI-enabled transformation. Our participation is led by a distinguished delegation of executives who embody our international growth strategy.
Panagiotis Kouris, CEO, will inspire with a keynote on the “AI in action”, demonstrating how enterprises in the GCC and Africa can accelerate digital agendas while ensuring compliance, sovereignty, and measurable business impact.
Loukas Tzitzis, General Manager, an award-winning global business executive with a 25+ year career across multiple regions and powerhouses such as Tech Mahindra, Gentrack, British Telecom and other Tier 1 & SME, brings his decades of global leadership experience to highlight Office Line’s pragmatic approach to transformation.
This enables organisations to move swiftly from pilots to scaled outcomes through partnership-based business models, cloud migration, pragmatic utilisation of AI capabilities, and cybersecurity built for regulated industries.
Leonidas Papadopoulos, a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree, will showcase how AI-powered digital clone technologies augment talent and unlock productivity, helping enterprises embrace the future of work with agility.
Together, this leadership team reflects Office Line’s commitment to building trusted partnerships across the region. Our mission is clear: to de-risk transformation, accelerate innovation, and empower organisations to turn bold digital ambition into tangible, sustainable growth.
What are the solutions and services that Office line plans to launch regionally in GCC- Middle East and Africa?
Office Line’s portfolio is already closely aligned with the priorities of both the GCC and Africa, combining secure cloud transformation, modern workplace innovation, and services that respond to the requirements of enterprises and governments.
In the GCC and Middle East, we are strengthening advanced cloud and hybrid infrastructure programs, supported by managed security and compliance services that meet national regulations. We are introducing the Microsoft Power Platform to help organisations and public institutions build applications, automate processes, and harness insights with speed and precision.
Our Modern Workplace solutions, delivered through Microsoft 365, will support the region’s drive for secure collaboration and high-performance productivity. Most important perhaps of all, we will also introduce advanced AI services through the Yotric platform, enabling enterprises to leverage digital clones, intelligent automation, and augmented productivity tools that redefine how workforces operate.
In Africa, our approach emphasises building sustainable digital foundations. We will expand managed services for reliable support, accelerate secure cloud adoption, and deliver Modern Workplace solutions adapted to varying connectivity conditions. With Yotric AI, we will further empower organisations to leapfrog constraints, using automation and digital augmentation to improve service delivery, governance, and business agility.
Through this portfolio, Office Line combines proven global expertise with locally tailored innovation to accelerate transformation across the region.
How does Office line plan to differentiate from competitors and position itself in GCC- Middle East and Africa?
Office Line will differentiate and position its offerings, grounded in what regional governments and enterprises are asking for and in what we already do at scale.
GCC, Middle East
Clients need secure-by-design cloud and AI, strong compliance and data sovereignty, and measurable cost control. Regional studies show cyber-resilience, data protection, and GenAI risk management topping C-suite agendas; governments emphasise local, sovereign cloud and regulated workloads.
How we stand out:
- Proven Azure transformation at global scale, example INTRALOT’s multi-country migration, not just PoCs.
- Compliance-first architectures aligned to local regulations and sovereign cloud options; we design for “in-country by default” where available, example local Azure regions and certifications referenced for the UAE.
- Operational excellence via Managed Services and Modern Workplace programmes that deliver security, uptime, and cost efficiency, competing head-to-head with large regional MSPs by being more specialised, faster to value, and Microsoft-deep.
- Pragmatic AI adoption through Yotric-powered augmentation and automation, tied to KPIs and governance. Where others “demo AI,” we “productionise” it with controls.
Positioning:
A specialist Azure and security partner that combines enterprise-grade controls with rapid time-to-value, complementing, not duplicating, telco- and conglomerate-led integrators.
Africa
Clients need foundational cloud, resilient connectivity and security, local hosting where possible, skilling, and cost-aware operating models. Investment and policy signals point to accelerating data-centre capacity and digital public infrastructure, but constraints vary by country.
How we stand out:
- Foundations first blueprint: landing zones, hybrid patterns, and Managed Security tailored to variable infrastructure and budgets, delivering reliability before sophistication.
- Local enablement: skills transfer, Power Platform low-code factories, and Modern Workplace tuned for bandwidth variability to unlock quick wins in public sector and regulated industries.
- AI where it matters: Yotric-driven automation to improve service delivery and citizen, employee productivity, implemented with clear ROI guardrails.
Positioning:
A trusted execution partner for sustainable modernisation, pairing global expertise with local capacity building so programs survive budget and connectivity realities.
Recap
Across both regions, we differentiate by combining large-scale Azure credibility, regulated-market security and sovereignty, outcome-based Managed Services, Modern Workplace and Power Platform acceleration, and production-grade AI that is precisely mapped to GCC compliance intensity and Africa’s build-the-basics momentum.
