Speakers
Ranjit Rajan
Vice President, Research (META)
IDC
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Ranjit Rajan
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.
Thursday, November 27 2025 9:05 am | Location:
IDC Keynote: AI-Fueled Public Sector Transformation: Strategies for Technology Leaders in Saudi Arabia
Governments are investing in critical capabilities to drive AI-fueled digital transformation across the public sector, revolutionizing citizen services and operational processes, across public administration, healthcare, education and others. Enhancing data-readiness is essential for AI success. As we enter the agentic AI era, public sector organizations must implement robust guardrails for responsible AI adoption. Sovereignty concerns will influence cloud deployment models as they look to scale digital. This session will provide key takeaways and strategic guidance for public sector CIOs navigating this evolving landscape.
Thursday, November 27 2025 9:00 am | Location:
IDC Welcome Address
Yashovardhan Chauhan
Senior Manager, Events
IDC
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Yashovardhan Chauhan
Mamoun Masood
Regional Director, Saudi & Northern Gulf
Nintex
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Mamoun Masood
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 9:20 am | Location:
From Vision to National Impact:AI, Orchestration and the Digital Future
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Government transformation is rapidly advancing toward a fully integrated digital future. The diverse interconnected government platforms have ensured simplified citizen interactions, streamlined service delivery, and transparent communication. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has made remarkable progress in unifying various government platforms, providing great ease of access and ultra-fast services to both citizens and residents while maintaining the highest standards of integrity. As part of Vision 2030, ongoing initiatives aim to further this journey, ensuring that a unified digital ecosystem delivers a cohesive, efficient, and accessible public service experience that meets the evolving demands of modern society. |
Tarik Al-Turki
Solutions Engineer Director
Cisco Saudi Arabia
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Tarik Al-Turki
Tarik Al-Turki is the Director of Solutions Engineering at Cisco Saudi Arabia, where he leads technical strategy, innovation, and customer engagement across the Kingdom. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida. With deep expertise in digital transformation, networking, and technology management, Tarik empowers organizations to leverage Cisco solutions for business growth and operational excellence. He is recognized for building high-performing teams, driving complex projects, and fostering partnerships that advance Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure and Vision 2030 objectives.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 9:40 am | Location:
Building the AI-Ready Public Sector: A Vision for Agentic National Infrastructure
As generative AI accelerates digital transformation in government, public sector institutions must rethink how their infrastructure supports this new era of agentic, autonomous systems. This keynote explores how next-generation innovations including AgenticOps, the AI Canvas, and advanced cloud governance are transforming government technology foundations from reactive to proactive, intelligent, and secure.
Attendees will learn how AI-optimized platforms for networking, security, data management, and observability are empowering government entities to scale AI responsibly, strengthen service delivery, improve operational resilience, and advance national readiness, driving the realization of Vision 2030 and enabling smarter, more efficient digital governance.
Yaman Hakmi
Director of Solutions Engineering
Splunk
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Yaman Hakmi
Yaman Hakmi is a strategic technology leader driving innovation and transformation across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. As Director of Solutions Engineering at Splunk, he leads regional efforts to empower organizations in advancing their digital resilience through observability, cybersecurity, and cloud-driven strategies.
His leadership focuses on shaping digital strategies, fostering design thinking, and delivering measurable outcomes that enable customers to thrive in this AI-driven era.
Yaman is also a co-founder of a digital trust non-profit organization that advocates for advancing cybersecurity and digital literacy across the Middle East.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 10:00 am | Location:
Building Digital Resilience in the Age of AI
This session explores how government agencies can build a digitally resilient strategy by combining AI-driven insights with unified security and observability capabilities. Attendees will learn how a digital resiliency helps organizations detect and respond to emerging risks faster, modernize legacy environments, and confidently deliver reliable, citizen-facing services in an agentic-first world.
Mohamed Shaaban
Senior Account Executive
OutSystems
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Mohamed Shaaban
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 10:15 am | Location:
The Role of Low Code and Agentic AI in Enhancing Citizen Services
Public agencies can utilize the capabilities of low code and agentic AI to improve the quality of citizen services and streamline operations. The introduction of agentic AI presents an unprecedented opportunity for government entities to achieve even better outcomes through the adoption of low-code technologies. It comes as a natural next step in supporting the development of enterprise applications that offer a unique differentiator in public service offering — helping organizations build custom web and mobile apps faster, and with the right architecture to support scalability, agility, and high performance — while utilizing AI agents to enhance communication with citizens and optimize back-office operations.
Ahmed Rashad
GPT & AI Specialist, EMEA
Nutanix
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Ahmed Rashad
Loay Jaber
Director, Middle East Partners
Appian
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Loay Jaber
Loay Jaber serves as Appian’s director of Middle East partners. He has over 25 years of experience in sales, strategic alliances, and business development across the Middle East and Africa, with a proven track record of leading technology companies such as Nintex, Oracle, SAP, and Gartner. He has led account management and business development initiatives, built high-impact partner ecosystems, driven regional go-to-market strategies, and executed large-scale digital transformation projects across both public and private sectors. Passionate about process automation, AI, data management and data warehousing, analytics, and cloud solutions, he helps organizations grow their businesses while maintaining long-lasting client relationships.
Farid Sharipov
Head of Performance, Cloud, SRE Engineering
Test Crew
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Farid Sharipov
Saeed Alzahrani
General Manager, Saudi Arabia
NetApp
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Saeed Alzahrani
Muhammad Ebraheem
Chief Data Scientist
Mozn
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Muhammad Ebraheem
Muhammad is an AI Research Scientist at Mozn, focused on developing ethical, socially aligned and human compatible AI technologies and solutions. Before joining Mozn, Muhammad led Google Deepmind’s research in applying AI to renewable energy and climate change. Safe and aligned application of AI is a thread that strides through Muhammad’d entire career. From space sciences to healthcare to macroeconomics, his main focus throughout 25 years of applying AI has always been the safe alignment of AI with social good and wellbeing. At Mozn, Muhammad develops mission-critical AI assistants. GenAI trustworthiness pales in comparison to its scalability and predictive power. At the other end of the spectrum of AI is Symbolic AI, whose scalability pales in comparison to its high levels of trustworthiness.
Ahmed Tarek
Director, Sales Engineering, EMEA
Incorta
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Ahmed Tarek
Ahmed Tarek is a data and analytics leader with strong experience helping organizations get real value from their data. He currently leads the Sales Engineering function at Incorta across the Middle East, working closely with major enterprises in sectors such as government, telecom, finance, and insurance.
Ahmed focuses on modern data architecture, operational analytics, and practical applications of AI. He has played a key role in supporting organizations in Saudi Arabia with their digital transformation and compliance with national data regulations, while accelerating time-to-insight for business teams.
With a background that combines business understanding and technical expertise, Ahmed is passionate about simplifying complex data challenges and turning them into clear business outcomes. He works directly with executives and data leaders to design strategies that improve visibility, performance, and decision-making.
Sivakumar Seshadri
Head of Digital
Confidential Government
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Sivakumar Seshadri
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.
Faisal Khan
IT Director
ALNASSR Club Company
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Faisal Khan
Faisal Khan is a Senior Technology Executive and Harvard Certified IT Leader with over 15 years of experience in digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning. As a forward-thinking leader, Faisal has consistently demonstrated his ability to spearhead strategic initiatives that enable organizations to evolve with cutting-edge technologies and technical solutions.
Throughout his career, Faisal has proven his expertise in conceptualizing business visions and translating them into actionable goals. He has established practices that deliver innovative solutions to complex business problems. Faisal completed the Digital Transformation program from IMD Business School, further enhancing his leadership and strategic capabilities.
Faisal has led the development of AI-driven hyper-personalization strategies for customer engagement and spearheaded AI initiatives in digital advertising, resulting in a remarkable 300% efficiency boost. His contributions have been instrumental in integrating AI and digital transformation within the sports, finance, and retail industries. Faisal’s initiatives have played a crucial role in driving technological advancements and maintaining a competitive edge in these sectors.
Faisal’s exceptional leadership and contributions have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Global 200 CIO Award, the IDC CIO Excellence Award, and numerous others, such as the KSA Cybersecurity and AI Champion of the Year, the ICT Leadership Award, the Catalyst CIO Award, and the Top 25 Exceptional Leaders in AI.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.
Nawaf Alghamdi
Data & Artificial Intelligence Director
Council of Health Insurance
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Nawaf Alghamdi
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.
Hazem Jarrar
Chief Technology Officer
King Faisal Foundation
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Hazem Jarrar
A recognized technology leader with 35+ progressive experience, known for crafting the requisite strategic vision to achieve business goals, offering a unique blend of executive acumen, global team building, and technology solutions development credited with strong ROI and operational improvement.
A highly creative thinker and analytical problem solver with demonstrated ability to manage technology projects from planning through execution/completion under pressure of fast-paced time-sensitive environments.
As the Chief Technology Officer at the King Faisal Foundation, Hazem has significantly contributed to the building of a responsive technology structure that consistently delivers results by aligning technology initiatives with strategic business goals; with substantial improvement to service delivery, standardization, and business/systems performance.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.
Muhannad Abughosh
Chief Technology Officer
Confidential
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Muhannad Abughosh
As the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with more than 17 years of experience in the government and private sectors, specializing in AI, digital transformation, and enterprise system delivery. My background spans Oracle and SAP environments, service delivery management, and full lifecycle project leadership. I lead multidisciplinary teams, resolve reliability issues, insuring seamless, high-quality services. I work closely with stakeholders to enhance system performance, improve processes, and elevate the overall user experience while driving innovation and supporting organizational goals.
Event Sessions
Thursday, November 27 2025 11:45 am | Location:
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of AI to Reshape Public Governance
As AI continues to transform industries, its role in enhancing governmental processes, policymaking, and public engagement will become increasingly significant. The integration of AI into government functions not only promises to streamline operations but also presents profound ethical considerations around data privacy, bias, and decision-making transparency. Saudi Arabia’s ambitious AI agenda, aiming to integrate this technology into governance, is fostering discussions on how AI can better serve citizens and drive more effective, inclusive policies. This session will explore how AI is revolutionizing public sector operations — from optimizing service delivery to transforming policymaking and fostering deeper citizen engagement. Through AI-driven analytics, governments are now empowered to anticipate trends, derive actionable insights, and craft data-backed and citizen-centric policies.