SPEAKERS 2021
Samuel Amanor
CEO of BlueSPACE AFRICA
Khalid Jalal
Senior Group ICT Manager, GARMCO
Munir Ahmad
Executive Director/CIO at The United Insurance Company of Pakistan Ltd
Anil Menon
Head Of Information Technology at Lulu Group India Pvt Ltd
Nitin Bhargava
COO at Emirates Investment Bank PJSC
Ahmed Farid
Territory Account Manager, Infoblox
Iftikhar Arif
General Manager Information Technology & E-commerce at Muller & Phipps Pakistan (Private) Limited
Ahmad AlAbbadi
Regional Sales Manager, Infoblox
Nezar Edwan
Territory Account Manager, Infoblox
Shibu Abraham
Head of IT and Logistics, Bahrain Duty Free
Abdullah Al Othman
CIO, Ministry of Investment, KSA
Mushtaq Khan
Digital Transformation Manager, National Water Company KSA
Rajiv Arora
Global CIO, Siemens
Sanjeev Madavi
Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Khimji Ramdas LLC
Ahmed Mohamed Buhazza
Vice Chairman, Bahrain ICT Society
Bernard Rono
Head of ICT, Kenya Tea Packers
Yasser El Masha
Cyber Security Specialist, F5
Hussain AlNakkas
CIO, National Assembly of Kuwait
Andy Malone
MVP, MCT
Zubair Elahi
Head IT, Apna Microfinance Bank Ltd Pakistan
Dr. Sunil Kr Pandey
Institute of technology and science, Ghaziabad INDIA
Umesh Moolchandani
Bin Dasmal Group UAE
Praful Thummar
Jazeera Airways KUWAIT
Srihari Moningi
Territory Account Manager, Infoblox
Khaled Ben Driss
CTO Wevioo TUNISIA
Mohamed Hamed
CIO, Ceramica Platino Group
Dr.-Ing. Imen Hbiri
CTO at RoboCare TUNISIA
Syed Aun M. Bukhari
Chief Executive Officer, Apollo Telecom Pvt. Ltd.
Kamran Nishat
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer - Muller & Phipps Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
Jawad Khalid Mirza
Chief Information Security Officer - Askari Bank Chairman Cyber Security Forum - Pakistan Banking Association
Abdul Rahim Ahmad
Chief Information Officer, Special technology zones authority (STZA)
Syed Abdul Qadir
Director - Technology Consulting and Risk Assurance, A. F. Ferguson & Co. (A Member Firm of the PwC Network)
Faisal Anwar
Chief Information Officer, United Bank Limited
Shakeel Ahmed
GM - Head of IT, Utility Stores Corporation of Pakistan
Muzzamil Athar
Business Head (IT & Data Business), Muller & Phipps (Pakistan).
Vincent Nuwamanya
Enterprise Account Manager – Veritas
Shimelis Legesse
CIO, Dashen Bank
Wissam Al Adany
Group CIO, GB Auto Group
Kgomotso Mantu
Infrastructure Manager, CEDA
Mohamed Youssef
Presales Manager, Egypt, Veritas Technologies LLC
Yogesh Bissoondyal
Commercial & Channel Manager Central Africa and Indian Ocean Islands Veritas Technologies LLC
Olatunji Kehinde
Country Manager, Veritas Technologies
Nitish Rucktooa
Country Manager - Indian Ocean Islands and Central Africa Veritas
Arul Vigin
Head of Information Technology DIFC Courts
Ichwan Peryana
Chief Technology Officer Pinjam Modal (PT Finansial Integrasi Teknologi)
Jayakumar Mohanachandran
Group CIO Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group
Sergio Garcia
CIO, AENOR
Qusai Almeqdadi
Senior Manager - Digital and Emerging Technologies EY
Vinit Goenka
Member, Governing Council, Centre for Railway Information System, Ministry of Railways
Dr. Sandeep Marwah
Founder Noida Film City, President Marwah Studios, & Chancellor AAFT University
Manjoj Kohli
Country Head - Softbank India, Softbank Group International
Ektaa Sibal
Inner-self Transformation Specialist
Prakash Kumar
CEO, Wadhwani Institute of Technology & Policy
Richard Rekhy
Board Member – KPMG Dubai & Former CEO, KPMG India
Dr. Amit Kapoor
Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness
Dipankar Ghosh
Partner & Leader – Sustainability, Climate Change & ESG, Thinkthrough Consulting
Abhishek Singh
President & CEO, National e-Governance Division
Hilal Khan
VP & Operating Head-IT, Honda Cars India Ltd
Dr. Deepak Kalambkar
VP Infosec, Paygate India Pvt. Ltd
Neeti Wahi
Group Chief Information & Digital Officer, Sterlite Power
Jai Mrug
Founder, M76 Analytics and Votersmood Research (VMR)
Tanmoy Chakrabarty
Group Government Affairs Officer, Tata Sons Private Limited
Pramod Agrawal
CTO, Automation Anywhere
Golok K Simili
CTO, PSP Division, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Ramkumar Mohan
CIO, Air Works India Engineering Pvt Ltd
Dr. Sushil Kumar Meher
Head - IT, AIIMS
Ronak Samantaray
CEO - GEC Media Group
Arun Shankar
Chief Editor, GEC Media Group
SPEAKERS 2020
Andrew Bryant
Founder of Self Leadership International.
Sunando Choudhari
Senior Information Technology Advisor, ADNEC
Will Alexander
CIO, Benevis
Fabia Tetteroo-Bueno
Senior Vice President and General Manager Philips Latin America
Faisil Syed
Digital Transformation Project Manager, SEHA
Santosh Nair
Regional Head of IT User Engagement & Partner Management,(Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa), Siemens
Dr. Mohammed Khaled
Abu Dhabi Government
Richard Farmer
Partner, The MitchelLake Group
Roger Lee
Director of the Singapore Institute of Materials Management and the Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Logistics Federation
Abubakar Arshad
Director of Cybersecurity, BNET
Amjad Boka
Senior Systems Engineer, Pure Storage
Saket Gore
CEO, APAC, The Himalaya Drug Company
Tharwat Soliman
IT Manager, Audio Technology
Dr. Deep Bali
Chairman & Co-founder Recalibrate | CEO & Co-founder Boma India
Gitanjali JP
Founding CEO, Himalayan Institute of Alternatives
Sivan Umapathy
CIO, Telekom Malaysia Malaysia
Khuong Tran
CIO TTCSugar, Vietnam
Ravi Shrivastava
President & CEO, TechnePlus
Krishnan Gopi
GEMS Education, UAE
Erdal Ozkaya
Regional CISO, Standard Chartered Bank UAE
Dr. Jassim Haji
President, AI Society Bahrain
Sheikh Khalid Al Khalifa
Supreme Council of Health
Kashif Rana
Gourmet Pak CIO Pakistan
Ektaa Sibal
International Speaker & Counselor Inner - Self Transformation Specialist
Piyush Kumar Chowhan
CIO, Lulu Group UAE
Saiful Bakhtiar Osman
Head ICT, Malaysian Aviation Commission Malaysia
Abdul Rahim Ahmad
CIO, SECP Pakistan
Ashish Khanna
Deputy Vice President - IT, Oberoi Hotels and Resorts India
Aladdin Saqer
Head of Information Technology, McDonald's Qatar
Ajay Rathi
CIO, Damac Properties UAE
Nelson Da Seglah
Cheif Enabling Officer, Halges
Mohamed Hamed
CIO, Ceramica Platino Group
Keyur Desai
CIO, Essar Ports & Shipping, Head InfoSecurity - Essar Group
Faisil Syed
Group Digital Transformation Program Manager, SEHA Abu Dhabi Health Services Co
Mohammed Al Tamimi
Regional Sales Director - Rubrik
Otema Yirenkyi
Vice President, Global Engagement PMI Africa region
Dr Samuel Senyo Okae
Head of IT - The Ghana Deposit Protection Corporation
Abdul Rehman Tariq Butt
Regional Sales Director, MEA
Aliasgar Bohari
Director IT, Zulekha Hospitals
Mohammed Mahnashi
ICT Consultant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Khalid Jalal
Senior Group ICT Manager, GARMCO
Nikhil Nigam
Associate Director - Technologies, Amity Education Group
Sadiq Rowther
CIO, Vice President IT, LEVI STRAUSS Asia Pacific
Ujjal Kumar
Global CIO, Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company (AG&P) Manila Inc.
Venkatesh Mahadevan
CIO, Dubai Investments
Ethel Cofie
CEO and Founder of EDEL Technology Consulting
Yousef Mhana
Principal Systems Engineer, Pure Storage
Abdullah Albaz
Sales Manager, Pure Storage KSA
Fabia Tetteroo-Bueno
Senior Vice President and General Manager Philips Latin America
Manoj Saxena
Chairman, RosettaNet Singapore GS1, Global Advisory Board, Global CIO Forum
Loh Sin Yong
Director, Trade Sectoral Transformation Group Infocomm Media development Authority (IMDA)
Anil Menon
General Manager IT Innovation, Tata Starbucks Pvt Ltd
Arul Jesuvivek Chinnappan
Director, UBS AG
Manju Jalali
VP & CIO IMIT, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Dr Sekar, Jaganathan
Director - Digital Strategy, Kenanga Investment Bank
Thirumal Raj C
Group IT Director, Elite Digital Logistics
Nithyanandan Anthony
Chief Solutions Officer, SealNet Sdn Bhd
Rajesh Chandramohan
IT Director Tamimi Markets
Abdelmajed Fadol
Cyber Security GRC Manager- A/CISO
Dr. Zahra Rashid Al Rawahi
Director of Innovation Capacity Building & Support Act. Director of Information & Communication Technology Research Ministry of Higher Education, Research & Innovation, Oman
Samir Chopra
Founder & CEO RNS Technology Services
Emmanuel R Goffi
Philosophe de l'IA | Directeur de l'Observatoire Éthique & Intelligence Artificielle, de l'Institut Sapiens | Professeur d'éthique de l'IA à aivancity, School for Technology, Business & Society Paris, Île-de-France, France
Mr. Horst W. Gonska
Managing Partner - Evidence-Based Interaction, Germany
Dr. Sanjay Tyagi
Director STPI, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. Of India
Adam Lalani
Westminster City Council EUC Manager United Kingdom
Nirupam Das
Director Global Digital Transformation, Liberty Mutual
Juliana Chua
Regional Director and Head, Digital Transformation, Essilor
NG Chee Keong (CK)
Vice President, Global eTrade Services (GeTS)
Ramesh Munamarty
Group CIO, NTUC Enterprise
Winnie Rebancos
Chief Information Officer, Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc.
Matthew Burns
Seeburger, Senior Business Development Manager, United Kingdom
Nishchay Chadha
CEO, Ace Recycling Singapore
Arivuvel Ramu
Group CTO, TONIK Bank
Bhaskar Vetrimani
Head, Business Development, APAC, LINGARO
Saket Sarda
Head Enterprise Sales, C2FO APAC
Mohamed Amin Soody
Territory Account Manager at Pulse Secure
Mariam Agyeman Buahin
Brand,Marketing and Fintech Professional
Wissam Al Adany
Chief Information Officer – Ghabbour Auto India
Anand Sinha
CIO & Director IT – OCS Group India) & Mauritius
Ashokraj, Vadivelu
CEO, Intelizest Consulting
Vinay Sharma
Group IT Director, Gulftainer
Samer Semaan
Channel Manager Middle East, Pure Storage
Dr. Sahibzada Ali Mahmud
Managing Director, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board
Muhammad Faisal Anwar
Chief Information Officer, United Bank Limited
Mubashir Amjad Hussain
Group CIO, The IBL Group
Syed Abu Tufail
Chief Information Officer & Senior Executive Vice President, Habib Metropolitan Bank
Faizan Mustafa
Chief Information Officer, Toyota Indus Motors
Syed Asif Shah
Chief Information Officer, Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited
Osman Nasir
Managing Director, Pakistan Software Export Board
Iftikar Arif
GM, Information Technology Muller & Phillips Pakistan
Ronak Samantaray
CEO - GEC Media Group
Anushree Dixit
Global Head - Content and strategic Alliances
Malavika Shanker
President, GEC Media Group
Arun Shankar
Editor, GEC Media
Kwaku Asare Ofosuhene
Digital Transformation and Business Development, GEC Media Group