Events

Turn Information into Insight

Learn what's new - Explore the latest advances in Information Management, Business Analytics and Enterprise Content Management
Get best practices - Hear from industry leaders who are leveraging information and applying analytics to realize and build competitive advantage in today’s economic environment
Networking - Interact with your peers, industry experts, Business Partners and IBM executives who share your interests and challenges
Take action - Make an immediate impact on your organization with actionable next steps to improve business performance through Business Analytics and Optimization

Dates and Locations:

• 13th February 2012 - Four Seasons Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 15th February 2012 - Ritz Carlton, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai, UAE

System Storage Roadshow - Saudi Arabia

Organizations of all sizes continue to struggle with the explosive growth of information, rising storage costs, flat IT and storage budgets, and increasing user expectations. To meet these challenges – to store and consistently extract business value from all of this data – a new approach to storage is needed.

You need to manage costs, improve efficiency and keep up with your competitors. You need storage systems designed to deliver consistently higher performance and support higher disk utilization — without complexity. IBM delivers storage systems that can help your business analyze, adapt to, and improve application performance with unmatched ease of use.

Come see how you can store more data with what's on the floor so you make sure you get the most out of your storage investments, move data to the right place to help you balance cost and performance, & protect and manage your data without disrupting daily operations

Join IBM and GBM and see how IBM Storage Solutions help you take advantage of the breakthrough economics of Smarter Computing with an IT infrastructure that is Designed for Data, Tuned to the Task, and Managed in the Cloud'

Dates and Locations:

• 19th February 2012 - Le Meridian Hotel, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
• 20th February 2012 - Park Hyatt Hotel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 21st February 2012 - Marriott Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

IDC CIO Summit 2012

The Middle East CIO Summit is a widely recognized ICT-focused event where CIOs, CTOs, businesses, and IT executives acquire distilled and compact insights into IT strategies, emerging technologies, and best practices that have direct implications for their business. Valuable, high-level executive insights are shared in tightly regulated sessions where fresh new ideas, both disruptive and exciting, are shared so as to help IT and business professionals implement winning changes that need to be made to their existing IT strategies. Each year, this IDC event illuminates the many leading minds in attendance with cutting-edge industry best practices and engages vendors as they outline their new product blueprints and demonstrate practical solutions. For the 2012 edition, minds will be stretched as new ideas grow.
IBM is a summit partner of the CIO Summit and will present latest insights and address chalenges that CIO's curretly face and will come accross in future.

Dates and Location:

• 20th and 21st February 2012 - Le Meridien, Fujairah, UAE

Business Get Social Roadshow - Saudi Arabia

Being a social business allows forward thinking organizations to reap great benefits by deepening their customer relationships, driving operational efficiencies and optimising the workforce - position your organization for a productive and "social" year. Attend the IBM 'Business Gets Social Roadshow' and get to learn about real-world solutions and real-world results from other companies who are well on their way on their social business journey.

Dates and Locations:

• 27th February 2012 - Marriott Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 28th February 2012 - Marriott Hotel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• 29th February 2012 - Movenpick Hotel, Khobar, Saudi Arabia

QITCOM 2012

QITCOM 2012 will be held on March 5-7 at the Qatar National Convention Center. The second edition of Qatar's only ICT-industry focused Conference & Exhibition will attract leading global companies and local organizations looking to showcase their products, services and projects.
Just like last year IBM is supporting this event, coming as Gold Sponsor. Join us to find out how our sucess stories can help growing economy of Qatar reach its goals.

Dates and Location:

• 5th to 7th March 2012 - Qatar National Convention Center, Doha, Qatar

DataCenterDynamics

DatacenterDynamics Converged pulls together the people, processes and technology necessary to execute a world class data center strategy under one roof. Come and join IBM to find out the latest insights and effective solutions

Date and Location:

• 18th March 2012- Four Seasons Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia