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Dubai, UAE – 14 October 2008
Leaders of international and regional organizations will converge on Dubai’s Atlantis, Palm Jumeirah on the 19th October 2008 to share their expertise and vision at the annual IBM CIO Conference. Speakers from around the world including Forrester Research vice president and research director Connie Moore, United Bank of Switzerland’s member of the group managing board Rolf Olmesdah and senior executive teams from IBM’s EMEA and worldwide operations will be focusing on best practices, case studies and innovations that outline a truly strategic forward path for business processes and requirements.

“Emerging standards-based technologies; a way of viewing business processes as a set of linked services via an open standards approach are increasingly paramount to a companies success; making a company’s business operations more efficient, effective and collaborative said Takreem El Tohamy, General Manager IBM Middle East and North Africa. “Alongside global and regional industry leaders, we will be sharing the future technology strategies that enable businesses to take advantage of these opportunities which are essential moving forwards.”

The IBM CEO Global study, titled “The Enterprise of the Future” will also be shared and discussed during the conference. Resulting from face-to-face interviews with 1,130 CEOs across 40 nations in 32 industries, the study was designed to capture insights on how the challenges CEOs face today will impact the future of business.

Alongside this, a variety of topics including creativity, innovation and emerging technologies will be tackled by industry leaders from Banking and Healthcare to Telecommunications, Public Sector and Chemicals & Petroleum through the discussion sessions, presentations and research findings delivered to influential executives from across the region.

“The IBM Middle East CIO Conference case studies and sessions represent some really advanced, pioneering work by some of the region’s leading corporate and government entities. The mixture of previous unique technology deployments and forward vision will inspire and challenge our conference audience and drive strong debate during the sessions.” continued El Tohamy. “IBM has invested significantly to ensure that enterprise technology users can truly engage with industry experts and peers to elucidate solutions to their strategic business challenges.”