Belal Al-Hafnawi is currently a commissioner – Member of the Board at Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) of Jordan since Dec 2019. He worked for the last 20years in various leadership, management and strategy roles in the telecommunications and information technology sector in the middle east and in the Gulf region.

H.E Eng.Belal Hafnawi

Commissioner - Board Member,

Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC-Jordan)

Maj. Dr Hamad joined the AD Police and started working as a Network technician. His accomplishments include a higher diploma degree at CNET and from the HCT AlAin, as well a bachelor degree in computer networking.

Lt. Col. Dr. HAMAD KHALIFA AL NUAIMI

Head of Telecom,

Abu Dhabi Police GHQ

UAE

Dr Salim Al- Shuaili is an energetic and enthusiastic person who enjoys a challenge and achieving personal goals. Currently, he works within digital Transformation strategical program on AI & AT, eGovernment strategic planning and business development.

DR SALIM AL-SHUAILI

Expert in Digital Transformation, AI, and Emerging Technologies,

Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technology

Oman

Faisal comes with more than 22 years of experience in the ICT sector and has worked for various organization from satellite communication, broadband operators and technology vendors. Faisal has led numerous ICT transformation projects of enterprise and national scale across Middle East ranging from smart city, safe city, large scale data centers and enterprise ICT transformation projects.

FAISAL AMEER MALIK

Chief Technical Officer,

Huawei Enterprise Business Group

Solution architect with 25 years of experience in IT, both the customer as vendor side, based in Dubai for the last 8 1/2 years, out of which he worked for Huawei for 5 1/2 years. ​Over 9 years of experience in Cisco in different roles, covering Netherlands, EMEA region as lead for Enterprise networking.​

Lars Van Der Zande

Solution Architect, Huawei Enterprise Business Group,

Huawei

​Stefano is responsible for Cisco’s SD-WAN business in EMEAR. During his IT career of over 20 years, he has held positions in engineering, product management, business development and international sales, with a focus on innovation in Software Defined, Cloud and Application Delivery.

Stefano Testa

Director of Sales, SD-WAN EMEAR,

Cisco

Ahmad has served several critical high-level positions topped with serving the Irish Government Trade Agency “Enterprise Ireland”. He is based in Dubai as a Senior Market Adviser and has achieved verifiable metrics of over 180 Million Euros worth of contracts.

Ahmad Altarawneh

Senior Strategic Consultant,

Dubai Police General HQ

UAE

Sujit Nair is working as Director of Cloud & Digital Products for Morohub (a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of DEWA). Sujit has 17 years of Diversified Industry Experience in Cloud, Cloud Security, Managed Cloud Services and Emerging Digital Technologies.

Sujit Nair

Director of Cloud & Digital Products,

Moro Hub

Sheeba Hasnain received the prestigious award of “The CISO Award 2021" & "The CIO Award 2021“ for her contribution in IT, Digital Transformation and Security. Her interest lies in learning and innovating with the pace of technology in Emerging Technology (AI, IoT, ML, Blockchain, Cloud Computing) among others.

Sheeba Hasnain

Senior IT and Digital Transformation Specialist,

Government Entity

UAE

She graduated from an American academic for special studies with DBA in aviation management as well as from Coventry University with an MBA in aviation management and also holds a degree in aerospace engineering from Hertfordshire University along with Bachelor’s degree in aviation management.

Dr. Eng. SUAAD ALSHAMSI

Senior Program Manager [ Orat Leader ],

Etihad Airways

Muhammad Badar Faroog has rich experience in Telecom and Enterprise ICT industry. He currently is responsible for developing and extending Huawei networking business in the Middle East as Senior Solution Architect and Subject Matter Expert in SDN data centers.

Muhammad Badar Farooq

Senior Solution Architect/ SDN SME,

Huawei Enterprise Business Group

Jouhayna Al Mheiri is an Air Traffic Control Officer and on-the-job training instructor at the Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Center. She is passionate about training the next generation of Air Traffic Control Officers. She has a bachelors degree in Air Transport Management from Coventry University and is passionate about Artificial Intelligence.

Jouhayna AlMheiri

Air Traffic Control Officer,

Sheikh Zayed Air Navigation Center

Dr. May El Barachi is an Associate Dean of Research & Head of Industry Outreach and Executive Learning at University of Wollongong in Dubai. An Egyptian Canadian Computer Scientist, and Smart Technology Expert with degrees in Telecom. Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science.

Dr. May El Barachi

Associate Dean of Research & Head of Industry Outreach and Executive Learning,

University of Wollongong

Dubai

Mr. Khan has more than 22 years working with some of the top Tech Firms in the region in the capacity of Program/Project Manager, Transformation and Transition Lead, Head of PMO & Service Delivery. He has been involved in the establishment of PMOs, development and implementation of governance frameworks across different industry verticals.

Abdul Mobeen Khan

Strategy Execution, Program Management, ITSM, Cybersecurity & Governance Practitioner and Trainer,

United Arab Emirates

Currently working as Head IT and Automation at Aster Hospitals – UAE. Has over 15 years Healthcare Technology Work Experience, MBA In Innovation and Change Management, Pursuing PhD in Innovation and Change management, Certified C# , Ms SQL & Ms Azure Developer Cloud Computing and Healthcare technology Use Cases Researcher.

Padam Sundar Kafle

Head IT & Automation,

Aster Hospitals

UAE

Ahmed is a customer and market-focused solution manager with business leadership proficiency and strong ICT technical skills. He has acquired an ability to lead project teams successfully to deliver agreed-upon solutions of the highest quality, often in complex and challenging customer environments.

AHMED MOSTAFA AHMED HASSAN DEABES

Regional Channel Solution Manager,

Huawei Enterprise Business Group

Experienced Investigator with a demonstrated history of working in law enforcement, especially in criminal investigation and cyber crimes investigation. He is skilled in Teaching & Training in the field of Cybercrimes investigation, Law Enforcement Criminal investigation.

DR Hossam Elshenraki

Associate Professor,

Dubai Police HQ

A seasoned CEO, CTO, CISO, Advisor and International speaker, with experience in Blockchain, DeFi, NFT, Asset Tokenization, Cyber Security, AI, IoT, 5G, Digital Twin (Meta Verse) Cloud, Disaster Recovery, Bigdata, & Managed Services.

Jorge Sebastiao

CTO,

Advisor, Confidential Senior Advisory Board Member, Trescon

Mohamed G. Abdalmksoud is a top-performing IT director with over 20 years of experience managing business applications, Digital solutions, networks, Datacentre, IT security, and services management. He has a proven record of managing different industries IT systems such as Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality, Oil and Gas, investment.

Mohamed G Abdalmksoud

IT director,

United Eastern Medical Services

UAE

Saaim moved to Dubai in 2018 where he took a Technology Strategy lead role at Seera Group, a leading travel and tourism group in the middle east market. Saaim has played a leading advisory role at Fortune 500 companies during his consulting time, with focus on enabling their Data Architecture, Technology Strategy, Solutions Landscape and the Enterprise ecosystem.

Saaim Aslam

Director IT,

Seera Group

UAE

Nader is an IT executive focused on the HealthCare industry. He is well-versed in adapting and implementing IT frameworks and utilizing different methodologies to ensure an effective and optimized IT.

Nader Ayoub

Director of IT,

Malaffi

UAE

A Business-driven IT professional and leader driving the continued growth and development of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment throughout the Group and its 25+ entities spanning multiple industry verticals (Manufacturing, Construction, Contracting, Trading, Medical Services, Oil & Gas Services etc).

Gigi Mathew Thomas

Group Head IT & Digital Transformation,

Ittihad International Investment

Shadi Dawi has over 25 years of experience in major industries like Technology media, Investment's management, digital marketing, Protocol & hospitality and Tourism. He also has appeared on most international & local TV channels. He was nominated among top 10 Technology influencers in UAE for the year 2021.

SHADI DAWI

Chief Program Director,

TECHx Media

UAE

Sunando Chaudhuri is an experienced Technology professional with over 22 years in the IT industry working in Technology Strategy, Consulting & Services delivery globally with leading companies like IBM, KPMG & HP and is currently heading the IT Department for ADNEC Group.

Sunando Chaudhuri

Head of Information Technology Department,

Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC)

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

With over 14 years of UAE experience, he has worked for a wide variety of businesses and ownership models. Positioning organizations for scale has been Jitesh's single-minded focus over the past decade. A commercially astute enterprise architect, he has extensive experience aligning business and IT strategies by preparing Data, Applications and Technical architecture based on the business architecture/strategy.

Jitesh Goradia

Regional Head of IT,

London Business School

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Shah E Room Khan comes with 15 years of professional experience in the IT industry of which he has educational technology experience in higher education and also has experience working as an Information Technology Manager.

Shah E Room Khan

Head of IT, CIO Education,

Emirates College of Technology

Abu Dhabi