Why attend?
The COVID-19 pandemic delivered an abrupt shock to organizations across the Middle East and the whole world. The ever-changing pressures of lockdown have emphasized the criticality of areas including remote working, business agility and digital customer engagement.
We invite you to join this year's Cloud and AI Forum by IBM, an online event showcasing how businesses can adapt and evolve to new ways of doing business in challenging times. Alongside your fellow peers and industry experts, you will learn how to adopt a holistic hybrid cloud architecture with IBM and Red Hat. Helping you to more easily build and modernise your applications and deploy AI throughout your business.
Three major shifts
Modernization
The modernization of critical workloads to build scalable applications at speed
Kubernetes
The adoption of Kubernetes to orchestrate applications flexibly across any environment
AI and edge
The growing use of operational AI and edge applications to create data-driven insights that shape business outcomes
IBM and Red Hat
Unlock the full potential of Cloud and AI with IBM and Red Hat
We invite you to see for yourself how we’ve architected our hybrid multicloud and public cloud offerings with modularity, open source standards, and secure distributed cloud management fit for the enterprise. We will show you how to adopt a holistic, hybrid multicloud architecture, where you can more easily build and modernize applications and deploy AI throughout your business. With IBM and Red Hat, you can unlock the potential of cloud and AI. Deploy on the most open and secure public cloud for business, modernize applications to reduce costs and achieve digital readiness, ensure business continuity while accelerating transformation, and scale the value of your data and accelerate the journey to AI.

Cloud and AI Forum – Unlock the full potential of Cloud and AI
Welcome Note Hossam Seif El-Din, General Manager, Middle East & Pakistan |
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Building Smarter Business with IBM Hybrid Cloud Miguel Vega, Technology Leader, Middle East and Africa |
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The Future of Financial services | The Future of Telecommunication | The Future of Government | Future of Retail and Manufacturing | |
Essentials for the post-pandemic bank – Why extreme digitization is a must for financial services Kiran Kannambadi, Cloud Advisory Leader, MEA |
Telecommunication solutions for network and digital transformation Karthik Raman, Industry Key Market Lead, Telco & Media, MEA |
Roadmap for IT modernization in the public sector Willem Clappaert, Goverment Industry Solutions Leader IBM MEA |
Retail technology for the evolving consumer landscape Owen Farrow, Retail & Consumer Industry Leader, MEA |
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Meezan Bank Interview Jawad Raza, Senior Vice President & Head, Data Analytics Ahmad Diab, Sales Manager –IBM Data & AI |
STCS Interview Mohammed K. Balobaid, General Manager, Digital Platforms Solutions by stc Karthik Raman, Industry Key Market Lead, Telco & Media, MEA |
Grubtech, El Grocer, Agthia interview Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO Grubtech Raed Hafez, CEO El Grocer Alan Smith , CEO Agthia Owen Farrow, Retail & Consumer Industry Leader, MEA |
Featured speakers

Hossam Seif El-Din
General Manager, Middle East & Pakistan

Miguel Vega
Technology Leader, Middle East and Africa

Kiran Kannambadi
Cloud Advisory Leader, MEA

Karthik Raman
Industry Key Market Lead, Telco & Media, MEA

Willem Clappaert
Goverment Industry Solutions Leader IBM MEA

Owen Farrow
Retail & Consumer Industry Leader, MEA