Speakers

H.E. Dr. Amin Hussain Al Amiri

Asst. Undersecretary of Health Policy and License

Ministry of Health and Prevention - UAE

His Excellency Dr. Amin Hussain Al Amiri is the Asst. Undersecretary of Public Health Policy & Licensing Sector in UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention. Dr. Amin is also responsible for Drug Dept., Empowerment & Health Compliance Dept. and Organization, Licenses& Advertisement Dept.

H.E. Major General Kamel Al Suwaidi

Head of Operations Department

Dubai Police

Dr. Hamed Al Hashemi

Director ERM and Corporate Performance, Director of Strategy

Department of Health - Abu Dhabi

Dr. Hamed Ali Al-Hashemi is currently a Director of Strategy at the Department of Health (Abu Dhabi) overseeing the strategic planning and performance monitoring of healthcare strategies, programs and operations.

Dr. Nahed Monsef

Director of Strategy and Governance Department

Dubai Health Authority

Dr. Nahed is responsible for identifying DHA strategic directions for innovation activities and initiatives. She also supervises and ensures the development and implementation of innovation policy and strategy is in line with DHA vision & mission and the UAE vision. She oversees the policy and institutional measures supporting the implementation of the DHA strategy in cooperation with the concerned authorities and their approval by the Director General.

Her key role is in preparing an institutional framework to manage the relationship with all stakeholders and partners in cooperation with relevant entities inside and outside the organization to ensure the achievement of the DHA strategy and the Dubai Plan Strategy.

Dr. Farida Al Hosany

Official Spokesperson, UAE Health Sector and Department Manager - Communicable Disease

Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre

Michel Kareis

Deputy Director of the Technology Scouting and Transition Division

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Ayesha Habeeb Bilal Al Mutawa

Director of Strategy and Corporate Excellence

Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services

Dr. Ayesha Habeeb Bilal Al Mutawa is currently the Director of Strategy & Corporate Excellence at Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services. She manages the strategy planning and institutional excellence department which was established to regulate all activities related to the strategy plan, development of government services and implement the standards of quality program and government excellence.

Dr. Marwa Salman Salah

Consultant for Scientific Research and AI

Satellite Broadcasting Cooperation

Ayesha Al Falahi

Senior Director – Professional Licensing

Dubai Healthcare City Regulatory

Ayesha Al Falahi is currently working as a Senior Director – Professional Licensing, Dubai Healthcare City Regulatory and has over 12 years of experience in the health industry. She has her degree in health sciences.

Laila Al Hadhrami

Director of Building, Capacity - Oman Smart City Platform

Ministry of Technology and Communication – Oman

Laila Al Hadhrami is the Director of Building Capacity and Awareness in Oman Smart City Platform and Digital Transformation Senior Executive in Ministry of Transport and Communications and Information Technology MTCIT in Oman. She is currently leading national projects in Oman related to digital transformation in addition to the Government Innovation strategies in emerging technologies and the Smart Ambassadors initiative in Oman that won recently the award of ITU Innovation Challenges Winning ideas from the Ecosystem best practice challenge category 2020

Laila Al Hadhrami has over 15 years of extensive experience in different fields which include Government Innovation; Change Management, UX, Re-process engineering, Business Analysis, Project Management and Knowledge Management to name a few. She is also a very well versed with both digital and social media and the founder of @oman_traveler, the first tourism account in Oman with more than 200K followers.

Ahmed Al Zahrani

Director Healthcare Technology Development

Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (KSA)

Ahmed AlZahrani, Director of Healthcare Technology Development - Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs in Saudi Arabia, he works closely with multidisciplinary team of healthcare providers to address their challenges, and transform it to an improvement opportunity, towards digitizing and automation the processes into to an innovative business model.

First Lt. Mohammed Omar Al Muhairi

Head of UASC Section

Dubai Police

First Lt. Mohammed Omar Almuhairi is currently the Head of UASC Section at Dubai Police and manages all aspects of unmanned systems

Peter Jamieson

Chief Technology Officer

Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi

Peter Jamieson is the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of Culture and Tourism. Peter is responsible for the digital transformation and technology delivery to the organization and its stakeholders.

Dongyue Ou Yang

Managing Director

Huawei UAE Enterprise Business Group

Don’s experience ranges from business development, solution presales, Industry Solutions, Profession Services, Channel & Eco-system across organizations. His familiarity with ICT domain technologies including Digital Transformation, Cloud & AI is notable and he has immense experience witin national projects of governments, educations, public safety, transportation, energy industries.

Josef Kutschi

Managing Director

Frequentis Middle East

Josef has worked in the Middle East for the last 10 years, in various management positions for satellite communication and ATM industries. Josef joined the Frequentis Group in 2019 as ATM Sales Director, Frequentis Middle East, and was appointed Managing Director for the region in January 2020.

Omar Akar

Regional Vice President, Cloud and AI Business Group

Huawei Middle East, Huawei UAE Enterprise Business Group

Experienced regional sales manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in IT, Digital, Security and end-user Transformation with solid experience in Multi-Cloud, modern infrastructure, data protection, modern applications and business intelligence

Alain Sanchez

EMEA CISO, Senior Evangelist

Fortinet

Alain Sanchez has 20 years of executive engagement experience in the Network and Telecommunications domain, advising the board of Tier 1 Service Providers and Fortune 500 Companies on the Cyber Security implications of their Digital Innovation strategies.

Simone Vernacchia

Digital and Technology Consulting Equity Partner

PwC

Tarek Abbas

Systems Engineering Director, Middle East and Africa

Palo Alto Networks

Tarek Abbas is the Systems Engineering Director at Palo Alto Networks, Middle East and Africa (MEA). In his leadership capacity, he oversees the Company’s technical team and manages the field engagement with key clients and partners across the region. He joined the organisation in 2015 and has more than 20 years of experience within the information and cyber security sector. He has worked with leading organisations such as Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems and Siemens AG, where he gained strong

Faisal Ameer Malik

Chief Technical Officer

Huawei Enterprise Business Group

Faisal has more than 19 years of experience in the ICT sector and working for various organization from satellite communication to broadband operators, Faisal holds expertise in technology domains of IP Networks, Transmission, Wireless & Wireline Broadband, Unified Communication Systems, Surveillance & Security networks, IT & DC solutions. Faisal led numerous ICT transformation projects of national scale in different industry verticals.

Hany Badawy

Systems Engineer

Fortinet

Hany Badawy Fortinet Systems Engineer III and has over 16 years of experience in Cyber, Network and cloud Security. He has brought wide and deep architectural knowledge in building an enterprises security Platform including Email, Web, Endpoint, Cloud Security.

Dr. Anwar Hamim

General Manager

The Higher Innovation Centre

Dr Anwar Hamim is an international consultant and lecturer in human development. He is specialised in creativity, innovation and foresight. He is currently the General Manager at the Higher Innovation Centre for training and consulting. He is an active member of the VR/AR Association and has been the guest of honour for several TV channels for more than seven countries. He is also a writer for several newspapers and magazines in the Middle East. He has been honoured as one of the top 100 influential leaders.

Ayal Vogel

VP International Sales

Verint

Ayal Vogel has over 28 years of experience in Homeland Security Industry, and currently serves as Vice President of International Sales at Verint SIS Division, In this role, he has helped companies penetrate the U.S. market, assist in channel strategy and develop a program for the needs of architects/engineers and security consultants in the physical security and IT industries.

Dr. Jassim Haji

President

Artificial Intelligence Society - Bahrain

Dr Jassim Haji has management and executive experience in Aviation, Hospitality, Technology and Telecommunications for over 30 years. He has served on the board of directors of a leading hosp Farouq Migdady itality and tourism technology provider in the Middle East and on SITA Council representing Middle East and North Africa.

Dr. Mark Salter

Consultant in Global Health and Senior Medical Advisor

Public Health England

Dr Salter has over 40 years of experience of working on global health security issues. He currently works for Public Health England (PHE) establishing bilateral and multilateral links with partners as well as strengthening public health capacities and capabilities and moving towards the establishment of Public Health Institutes.

Mark has extensive experience of public health systems development, disease control, emergency planning, resilience and response and CBRNe having worked during outbreaks and incidents in: Central America (dengue haemorrhagic fever, measles, and cholera), Africa (Lassa, SARS, EVD, post-conflict) and Asia (MERS, SARS, H5N1, and flooding response). In In the last 5 years he has worked across the EMR to enhance capabilities and capacities to respond to CBRN events, especially in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and the Gulf States.  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 he has been supporting the development and implementation of public health measures in England and across the EMR.

Mark has worked on elements mass gathering medicine for more than 10 years and was one of the initiators of the first WHO collaborating Centre for mass gatherings at PHE. He has recently been appointed by the WHO, Director General to sit on the Review Committee on the Functioning of the IHR during the COVID-19 Response and chairs the Alert subcommittee.

Furqan Asrar

Senior E Health PMO Officer

Ministry of Health - KSA

Furqan has over 16 years of experience building Corporate Strategies and managing them through execution for Public and Private sector organizations. For the past 6 years he has been involved with the eHealth and IT Department within the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Fatma Lari

Future Foresight Specialist

Department of Municipalities and Transportation – Abu Dhabi

Fatma Lari holds a PhD in Future Foresight, Public Policy-Making, and Foresight certifications from Huston University in USA and Oxford university in UK. She is an accredited Foresight trainer with the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, as well as, an assessor in Excellence Awards in future foresight. She is trainer in American University in emirates and Abu-Dhabi Government Collage in future foresight field. She was awarded with First Class of Excellence, and the Commander-in-Chief medals for three consecutive years.

Fatemah Al Ghadheeb

Chief of Transformation

AlMoosa Specialist Hospital - KSA

Fatimah Anwar Alghadheeb, Chief of Transformation  at Almoosa Specialist Hospital in Alhasa, Saudi Arabia and is an active member of multiple hospital projects such as Planetree, HIS and ERP implementation, GE Patient Journey, and King Abdulaziz Quality Award , She won the MIT Hacking Medicine 2018 in the Human Centered Design care track 

Tarek Shahawy

Senior Director Technology and Cloud Solutions

Oracle

Tarek has been with Oracle and in the region for more than 20 years. Tarek leads the Technology & Cloud Solutions team in Oracle across the Gulf. Tarek and his team help customers in their digital transformation journey while adopting the latest in Technology such as Cloud, Data Management, AI, ML, IoT, Data Science, and Analytics. Tarek has been responsible for many regional roles with Oracle in ECEMEA covering Industries like Public Services, Telecom, Oil & Gas, and Aviation. In these roles, Tarek provided Business Advisory and Technology Consulting to many high profile customers across the region

Scott Andrew

Healthcare Industry Director MERAT

Dell Technologies

Scott Andrew is responsible for the execution of Dell’s Healthcare Strategy for the Middle East, Russia, Africa & Turkey

Through a strong and diverse network of C level executives in healthcare, he delivers on key targeted campaigns. Coupled with his ability to establish strong relationships with healthcare executives, he drives strategic partnerships utilising Dell Technologies global brand and demonstrable healthcare solutions.

Haitham Alzghaibi

Assistant Professor in Health Informatics (Head of Health Informatics Department)

Qassim University

Dr. Nikolaos Chatziilias

EMEA Data Innovation and Analytics, Industry Director Public Sector and Healthcare

Oracle

Nikos is the data innovation & analytics industry director for Public Sector and Healthcare in EMEA. He works at the intersection of technology and business, helping government agencies drive innovation, develop growth and convert data insights into successful mission strategies. His focus is in applying AI-driven analytical technologies to public sector and healthcare challenges and advice government bodies on how to make a difference at scale.

Dr. Pelin Ozbozkurt

Big Data Analytics Business Development Manager - ME

Oracle

Lina Shadid

Health Industries Lead Partner

PwC

Lina has over 25 years of consulting experience and is currently the Health Industries Lead Partner at PwC, Middle East. Lina has worked with a number of Healthcare providers, payers and regulators in the Middle East and globally

Amin Haj Salem

Business Development Manager – Government and Public Sector

Axis Communications Middle East

Amin is the Business Development Manager for the Government and Public Sector for Axis Communications in the Middle East.  He has been with Axis for over five years with various roles in sales and business development.

In his role Amin is responsible for building relationships with key government bodies and supporting the collective visions towards smart and safer nations. He drives top line conversatios on Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Smart Cities and Infrastructure development.

Glen Thomas

Technology and Cyber Practice Partner

Grant Thornton

Glen is the Technology and Cyber practice Partner at Grant Thornton UAE leading the Grant Thornton team to deliver Digital and Cyber Transformation projects across the UAE and GCC. Glen has over 20 years’ experience in delivering Information Security/Cyber and Risk projects for Government, Energy, Telco and Finance Sectors, leading transformation and cyber establishment projects at a national level. 

Khaled Mostafa

Sales Consulting Senior Manager - Business Analytics

Oracle

Ernesto Damiani

Senior Director - Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute

Khalifa University

Ernesto Damiani is a  Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano, Senior Director at Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute and Director of Center at the Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within the Khalifa University, leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center, and President of the Consortium of Italian Computer Science Universities (CINI). He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Ammar Fayoumi

Senior Technology Consultant

Cloudera

Ammar Fayoumi is a Senior Solutions Engineer with Cloudera for the last 6 years. Since the start of Cloudera operations in Middle East, Ammar has headed technical practices for Big Data, Analytics, Modern Data warehousing, machine learning - and recently Cloudera on cloud - across different industries with specialization in Travel/Transportation and government sectors.

With more than 16 years of experience between software and hardware fields, he comprised a hybrid expertise in business requirements mapping, designing complex solutions and conducting cost ownership analysis

Noelle Homsy

Associate Director

Grant Thornton

Noelle is an associate director, at Grant Thornton UAE. Noelle has 11 years of experience across multiple industries, functions and geographies. Noelle highly contributed to the growth of the company in the Middle East, North Africa, and South-East Asia, particularly in the experiential lodging segment.

Dr. Mohammad Khaled

Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation Expert, Co-Founder

AcceleratorsX

Dr. Mohammad Khaled, A seasoned IT leader with 19+ years track record of transformation Technology, Information, Cybder Security, Projects, building from the ground up IT departments in startup organizations, and delivering complex and challenging IT Solutions and projects covering all the aspects from digital transformations to cybersecurity. Dr. Mohammad Served multiple very large government organizations with their technology needs and help them to align with business needs to accelerate the future and to help shape the future government.

Hassan El-Banna

Business Development Manager

Genetec

Hassan El Banna is the Business Development Manager – META region responsible for Cities & Infrastructure & National Government Verticals. His role includes working closely with end users and working very closely with them in developing opportunities and work with them on solutions that meet their requirements and challenges.

Lawrie Elder

Head of Public Sector - EMEA and AP - Fraud & Security Intelligence Division

SAS

Lawrie heads the EMEA & APAC Government team ins SAS's Fraud and Security Intelligence Division. This team provides domain and application expertise ensuring that solutions are tailored to suit customer needs across the governmental spectrum: Tax, Revenue and Public Security

Ashraf Al-Dabbas

Sr. Systems Engineer

Dell Technologies

Ashraf is a Sr. Systems Engineer at Dell Technologies helping customers in the Defense and Security sector on their digital and IT transformational journey. Ashraf has 15+ years of diverse experience.

Muzzamil Al Bashir

Senior Representative

Fortinet

Muzzamil Al Bashir  is the Senior Information Security, Professional with a solid business and technical background and a highly analytical mind. Muzzamil  have been involved within the information security field for the last 20+  Muzzamil worked between business and the technical levels using deep technical knowledge as well as strategic and tactical insights to see multiple steps ahead, oversee consequences and ultimately provide the best solution combining key elements from the information security, privacy and IT risk management fields

Nadim Abdulrahim

Global Government Industry Scientist - Enterprise Business Group

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

Stephen Craig

Principal Systems Engineer

SAS

Liran Stein

Business Development Director

Verint

Steven Allan

Senior Product Manager

SAS

Steven Allan’s main focus is on real-time analytics, data processing and machine learning.

He is a Senior Product Manager in the Internet of Things division at SAS, with the aim of combining the best of technology with intuitive designs, to deliver successful products and solutions.

Niraj Bhargava

CEO

NuEnergy