Wissam Saadeddine

Regional Manager, ME | Infoblox

Wissam has been with Infoblox since 2015 helping customers enable their digital transformation strategy and working closely with our channel partners to empower our business and growth strategy across the region. Managed also to expand our team footprint across the middle east countries to be locally present and closer to our customers and partners.

Virag Thakkar

Head of IT, Risk and Governance - Agoda Thailand

Vijay Babber

Senior Channel Manager, MEA Gigamon

Vijay Babber is Senior Channel Manager for Middle East and Africa for Gigamon and has worked for Gigamon for 10 years. With more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry Vijay has extensive technical knowledge gained in his time working as a Senior Sales Engineer as well as a proven track record of successful selling of high technology products in a Channel model. He now successfully manages Gigamon’s Channel relationships and focus partners across the region, breaking new markets and developing the Channel partnerships through maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, strategic growth, and Channel enablement.

Tareque Choudhury

Vice President, Technology Risk & Enterprise Architecture | Risk Management Architecture & Governance, Dubai Airports

Syed Mohammad Ali Naqvi

Head of AI, Data and Analytics Al Hilal Bank

Siddhartha Murthinty

Chief Solutions Architect | Spire Solutions

Siddhartha Murthinty, Chief Solutions Architect, at Spire Solutions provides cybersecurity thought-leadership, advisory, expertise on complex initiatives to enterprises in the Middle East & Africa. As the Head of Cyber Security Solutions & Services, he currently helps his clients with Crisis preparedness and response, Digital-security transformation, and Defensive Cyber Operations. Prior to working with Spire Solutions, he was employed by the world’s largest consulting firm as a Risk Advisor.

Siddhartha has more than 14 years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Security Operations and Solution Architecting, spanning Digital Risk Management, Threat Intelligence, IoT & OT Security, Dynamic Deception, Vulnerability Risk Management, Penetration Testing, Breach & Attack Simulation, Application Security, Security Orchestration & Automation, Information Security Audits, Third-Party Risk & Managed Security Services & VAPT. He also had the opportunity to speak at prestigious events to serve the cybersecurity community with his share of experiences advocating solutions for risk-based management practices, Building cybersecurity for future resilience, Attack surface reduction et al.

Sheeba Hasnain

Head of IT Operations, Confidential

Rohit Bhargava

Business Unit Head | CloudBox

Prashant Nair

Group Head of Operational Risk and Control Network International

Nicolai Solling

Chief Technology Officer, Help AG

Mr. Anil Bhandari

Chief Mentor & Thought Leader | ARCON

Anil Bhandari is an inspired innovator, technologist, and thought leader in Information Risk Management. He serves as a Mentor & Thought Leader and provides his invaluable insights for the future growth and development of ARCON. He mentors the product technology roadmap with his insightful knowledge in the areas of Risk Management, Internal Audits, and Regulatory Compliances.

Anil brings his expert domain knowledge in areas of Banking, Financial Services, and Telecommunication. He is also an internationally recognized Thought Leader in the subject of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC).

Thanks to his in-depth experience of assessing risks for data centers, networks, varied technology platforms, and core IT processes, Anil possesses intensive knowledge in the
Information Security and GRC domains. The knowledge acquired over the years has helped him to consult large enterprises looking to implement cutting edge solutions in Cyber Security and the best practices for critical functions such as BCP/DR.

He has persistently contributed to several Associations and Forums and has been a part of various national and International Committees that focus on technology risk management and Internal Audit.

Having contributed as an honorary advisor to Regulators on matters pertaining to Risk and Compliance, Anil is now internationally regarded as an innovator, technologist and a thought leader in the Information Risk Management, Internal Audits, Regulatory Compliances, Frauds, Forensic, and IT/Cyber Security space. Now he also invests in high-growth technologies. As an investor and mentor, he works in tandem with an array of early-stage technology companies that focus on mitigating Information technology-related risks. In his spare time, he particularly enjoys reading up on the Internet of Things (IoT).

He is also a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, and a Certified Information Systems Auditor besides academically inclined he also serves as an honorary advisor to several regulatory authorities on the matter of Enterprise Risk Management. Further, he has also contributed to several standards being on the Advanced Technology Committee of the IIA, Inc USA.

Mohieddin Kharnoub

Chief Revenue Officer | Spire Solutions

Jean-Michel Briffaut

Rail OT Cybersecurity Manager | Serco Dubai Metro

Hariprasad Chede

Chief Information Security Officer | National Bank of Fujairah

Dr Hoda Alkhzaimi

Director of Center of Cyber Security, New York University Abu Dhabi & President | Emirates Digital Association for Women (EDAW)

Bilal Ahmad

Head Information Security & Business Continuity | Union Cooperative Society

Ashish Khanna

Information Security Professional, Dubai Government Entity

Ashish Khanna is a seasoned Information Security expert working for an esteemed Dubai Government entity, a position he has held since 2015.

He is an experienced information security strategist, who has managed a portfolio of mission critical projects. He has over 14 years of proven track record for successfully completing highly complex enterprise-wide, state-of-the-art Information Security, Digital transformation and Governance projects, managing, multi-disciplined & cross-functional teams.

Arun Shankar

Editor, GEC Media

Arun Shankar is a well experienced technology journalist and editor in the region. He is the Editor of Enterprise Channels MEA and Business Transformation brands published by GEC Media Group. As part of GEC Media Group, he continues to moderate webinars, round table discussions, and panel discussions.

Overall, Arun has been a high-level content writer and content provider, covering business, technology and financial industries. He has experience of managing online business based on high value content, social media engagement, integrated reader experience through text, images, videos. He is well experienced in content workflow models, online sales strategies, online business development, online pricing, online marketing outreach.
He has a wide base-line of working in the print publishing and print journalism business and has worked in multiple African, GCC countries, and India. He has experience in marketing communication, media relations, public relations, event management, point of sales. He is a graduate in physical sciences with post graduate diploma in advertising, and management of technology.

Arun has over twenty-five years of work experience, across multiple Middle East, Africa, and India in the area of digital content, journalism, business analysis, marketing communication, public relations, sales, account management, supplier management.

Anas Elsadig Eltahir

Senior Information Security Specialist | The Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department