Speakers

He is the founder and chairman of the Saudi Cloud Computing Association. He was recognized as one of the top 5 technology excellence leaders in Digital Innovation at CIO Summit Saudi Arabia. He has more than 17 years of experience in the field of technology, banking, and operations.

ENG. FAHAD A. ALHAMED

Chairman of the board,

Saudi Cloud Computing Association

KSA

For over 25 years, Dr. Basma Albuhairan has created, led, and advised innovative and ambitious initiatives in Saudi Arabia, across domains including clinical operations, health technology adoption, business transformation, education, and investment. She is an accomplished leader with a distinguished track record spanning strategy, development, and transformation across diverse industries.

Dr. Basma Albuhairan

Managing Director,

WEF Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution KSA

KSA

He is a specialist in Information Management for mega events and Smart Cities. For the last eight years, he has led a series of complex knowledge management projects, including the installation and management of IoT systems for London 2012, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and Expo 2020, Dubai.

Simon-Timmis

Director of City Technology,

The Red Sea Development Company

KSA

Hani holds an extensive experience of more than 14 years in IT including a solid IT security background. IT management, operation, and planning. Currently managing Networking, Security, System Administration development, and helpdesk groups. IT assessment and gap analysis are part of his job delivered to ISU / KACST customers as a consultation service.

Hani Al Thubaiti

CIO,

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST)

KSA

More than 25 years exposure to the world’s digitally advanced technologies has left Fabio Fontana uniquely placed as Chief Growth Officer Executive Director and Head of Technology and Digital Compute & Innovation at NEOM. Fontana’s work is fundamental to the successful delivery of NEOM’s next generation Hyperscale Hybrid Data Center.

Fabio Fontana

CEO, ZeroPoint DC, Tonomus Chief Growth Officer & Executive Director – Compute,

NEOM

KSA

Fahad Bedaiwi has 19 years of professional experience overall and uniquely positioned – with an executive-level facilities management role. Specific strengths include: strong expertise in cost optimization, skilled at developing strategies to manage and reduce costs across multiple facilities while ensuring full compliance with industry and national standards.

Fahad Bedaiwi

Executive Vice President , Head, Facilities Management & Engineering,

Saudi National Bank

KSA

He is an insightful, results-driven IT professional with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT security initiatives while participating in the planning, analyzing, and implementation of solutions in support of business objectives. Excels at providing comprehensive secure network design, systems analysis, and full life cycle project management.

Mashari AlMusad

Chief Information Officer,

Saudi Olympic & Paralympic Committee

KSA

Proactive, dynamic sustainability professional with over 13 years’ expertise in sustainable strategy development, strategic communications, change management, consulting, and project management across the academic, land development, fashion, and sustainability sectors. Works as the CSO of MBL and is carrying sustainability consulting for key organizations including MOC.

Maryam Telmesani

Chair Board, CSO, Sustainability Consultant,

UNGC Local Network Saudi Arabia, MBL, Moc

KSA

Ali Alghamdi has worked on multiple digital transformation journeys for Saudi Aramco with focus on delivering value. Ali has led deployments for Data Lake, Content Management solutions and advanced analytics use-cases. With over 7 years of experience, he has worked on the data platforms, information lifecycle management and corporate data strategies.

Ali Alghamdi

Data Management Specialist,

Saudi Aramco

KSA

Eng. Essam has 23 years of experience in international and national companies in IT, communications and commerce. Expert in business development, agreements, and partnerships, commercial relations, and investment strategies in new tech. Started managing the first Internet project for (AT&T), after which he held executive positions in STC, NTC, and Mobily.

Eng. Essam Saeed Al Ghamdi

Head of Commercial Affairs,

Royal Commission of Riyadh City

KSA

Amjad is currently leading the development and implementation of a strategy to introduce autonomous technologies and construction robots at NEOM’s construction sites. She has worked on the OXAGON project in the port infrastructure and in the international manufacturing outreach. She is also a Board Member in the Saudi Women Engineers Platform.

Amjad Alamri

Senior Specialist, Autonomous Construction Equipment & Robotics, Design & Construction ,

NEOM

KSA

Eng. Abdullah Faisal Biary is the Chief Information Security Officer for United Cooperative Assurance. Abdullah received his master’s degree from Washington D.C. at the well-recognized George Washington University majoring in Cyber Security. He has also been a key speaker in large events and has received awards recognized globally.

Eng. Abdullah Biary

CISO,

United Cooperative Insurance

KSA

He holds a PhD in Statistics, and my research revolves around genetic statistics, big data and complex statistical modeling. Interested in developing and building statistical methods to find scientific solutions using mathematics and statistics. Also interested in statistical programming and advanced data science.

Dr. Mohammed Nasser Alshahrani

Statistician and Data Science Expert,

Prince Sattam University

KSA

Ibrahim embarked on his journey as a Cloud Engineer with a Cloud Service Provider, he is highly passionate about Cybersecurity. Has obtained certificates in cloud engineering, architecture, and security such as AWS-SAA, COA, CCSK, GCLD, and forensics GCFE, JNCIP-SEC in Cybersecurity. He articulates that securing data is a journey that never ends.

Ibrahim Bin Asaker

CSA Saudi Chapter Leader,

Cloud Security Alliance

KSA

Fahad has more than 18 years of experience in Analytics, AI&ML, and big data. He has a Bachelor of Quantitative Methods and a Master of Statistics. Fahad has worked in several government and private entities, mostly in executing projects related to building big data platforms and building enterprise AI&ML products.

Fahad AlSaawi

Chief Data Officer,

Lean Business Services

KSA

Abdullah holds 10+ years of experience in network administration, with proven expertise in implementing cyber security measures, troubleshooting network infrastructures, setting up the network for 50+ health sites, implementing tele-medicines, setting policies to provide the highest level of protection across different health organizations, headed the project of installing and implementing firewalls.

Abdullah Marghalany

Cyber Security Chief Officer,

Madinah Health Cluster (MoH)

KSA

Aseel, the founder of Bayan Academy is an experienced Data Scientist with an excellent record in Data Science, AI/ML contributions to research, publications, and trainings as well as coaching and mentoring. Dr. Aseel participated in several journal and conference publications around Ontology, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Prediction Modelling.

Dr. Aseel Addawood

Founder,

Bayan Academy

KSA

Marc Dacier is a professor of Computer Science (CS) and the associate director of the Resilience Computing and Cybersecurity research Center (RC3) at King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Ph.D. from INPT in 1994 from his work done at LAAS, CNRS, in Toulouse (France).

Marc Dacier

Professor, Associate Director of the Resilience Computing and Cybersecurity Research Center (RC3),

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

KSA

Prof. Tanzila Saba has over 20 years of experience in academia, ten years of which involve holding a senior administrative position at Prince Sultan University. She earned her PhD in document information security and management from the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, in 2012.

PROF. TANZILA SABA

Associate Chair, Information Systems Dept., Research Professor, AIDA Lab Leader,

Prince Sultan University/CCIS College

KSA

Dr Ahmad is a hands-on IT professional in AI and IT. With over 13 years of experience in IT, Ahmad has undertaken increasingly responsible assignments that include management and development of challenging international and local projects from inception to completion in both private and public sectors.

DR. AHMAD ALNAFESSAH

AI and Big Data Lead,

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)

KSA

Ali is a Cyber Security Analyst at Tasheel Finance, which specializes in providing Shari’ah-compliant financing solutions. Ali has done his major in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics, and is Certified in ethical hacking and web PenTest, Apex One and Deep Security Certified Professional.

Ali Alkhamis

Cybersecurity Analyst,

Tasheel Finance

KSA

Abdelmuhaimn is an information security expert with more than 14 years in the field. He has been working for many years implementing information security standards, governance frameworks, and best practices. He has successfully implemented ISMS/ISO 27001 projects as well as achieving the cyber security compliance for many of his clients. He successfully managed the SDLC on a national governmental project that serve 60K+ users.

Abdelmuhaimn Mohamed

Head of Information Security,

Rawabi Holding

KSA

With 25+ years of experience in IT with emphasis on Information Security, Imran is a versatile IT and Cyber Security professional with a keen eye on latest trends. He has strong experience in IT Infrastructure Management, Cloud, Service Delivery, Messaging, Storage, System/Network Administration and Information Systems Audit, among others.

Imran Hashim

IT Director,

Medgulf Saudi Arabia

KSA

Kamal is a skilled digital executive with a proven record of building, managing and growing technology departments and companies, trusted by business leaders on strategy, development, and execution to meet evolving customer needs, customer excellence and commercial outcomes. Having initiated start-ups, Kamal has led technology organizations through full lifecycles of growth.

Kamal Farag

Chief Technology Officer,

Speedi

KSA

Abdulbary joined Zamil Industrial in January 2019 and has been working since then in developing & executing ZI digital transformation plan towards Industry 4.0 including major ERP and business applications' consolidation into Oracle Cloud, plus many other initiatives addressing cyber security, infrastructure, engineering applications, mobility and others.

Abdulbary Atassi

Chief Information Technology Officer,

Zamil Industrial

KSA

Maha holds a substantial role as Director of the Microdata Center covering Data Management, governance, standards, and principles in the restricted data domains. She aspires to obtain an executive position that will combine her business acumen and experience in technology in contributing to the growth and success of an organization.

Maha AlQahtani

Director of Microdata,

General Authority of Statistics (GASTAT)

KSA

Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan is a global thought leader and influencer in cybersecurity. He is a Professor of Cybersecurity at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the founder and CEO of the "Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research", an independent and non-partisan cybersecurity think-tank in Washington, D.C., USA.

Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan

Founder & CEO,Professor of Cybersecurity,

Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research (USA),Center of Excellence in Information Assurance(KSA)

KSA

He is the founder of the OneDay Cloud Platform, the world's first zero-code platform. He has more than 16 years of experience in IT and cloud projects strategic planning, project and business development and management in many enterprises and companies, and more than 5 years of experience in AWS cloud data centers.

Mohamad Albakri

Founder,

OneDay Cloud

KSA

With a proven track record of working in the ICT and Military industry, Hussain is a seasoned academic researcher skilled in Analytical Thinking, Computer Science, Project Management and Leadership, and has deep specialization in Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Big Data and Space and Defence.

Dr. Hussain AlJahdali

Advisor,

Government Entity

KSA

Dr. Mohammed earned his Master's and PhD degrees in Electrical Power Systems from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. His research and experience contribute to enabling future power networks and smart grids. He was one of the top ten young professionals in the UK in CIGRE's Smart Energy competition in 2020. He is in charge of the joint project between KFU and King Salman Energy Park (SPARK).

Dr. Mohammed AlAqil

Director of MSc in Electrical Engineering, Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department,

College of Engineering, King Faisal University

KSA

In his extensive career spanning 25 years of experience in advancing strategic growth and profitability through technological transformations, leveraging advanced analytics, automation, and user experience, he has executed more than 100 complex transformation engagements and engineered more than 50 smart solutions that have been recognized by the United Nations and other prestigious forums. He has solid experience using emerging technology to help sustainability, net-zero carbon emissions, and the energy transition.

Saqib Mahmood

Executive Director - Digital Transformation & Innovation,

National Water Company (NWC)

KSA