Smarter Business Virtual Exchange

As our businesses and society face these uncertain times, leadership and ingenuity are required like never before. The most resilient among us are built for change – organizations that strategically align their trusted information to business decision-making.

Join our Smarter Business Virtual Exchange: a free LIVE event designed for leaders to accelerate business transformation, define new ways of working, strengthen supply chain resiliency and enhance customer loyalty.

U.A.E.
11 AM (local time)

11:00 - 11:10 AM Opening and welcome message by Vivek Pai – IBM Services Managing Partner, Middle East & Pakistan

11:10 - 11:25 AM IDC session: Digital Transformation as a catalyst to navigate towards Smarter Recovery by Wilson Xavier

11:25 - 11:50 AM Fireside chat: Building a Smarter Business.
Pascale Salamani, IBM iX Leader, IBM Services, MEA & Matt Candy, Global Managing Partner, IBM iX, IBM Services

11:50 - 12:05 PM Customer experiences delivered with flexibility by Janahan Tharmaratnam, MEA Enterprise Strategy Leader, IBM Services & Dylan Titherley, Partner Manager at Adobe International

12:05 - 12:30 PM Realize Value out of your Cloud investments by Sandeep Halli, Cloud Application Innovation Leader, Middle East & Africa

Saudi Arabia
1 PM (local time)

1:00 - 1:05 PM Opening and welcome message - Dina Abo-Onoq, Managing Partner, Saudi Arabia, GBS Country Lead

1:05 - 1:30 PM Fireside chat: IBM Services, your Digital Reinvention partner.
Pascale Salamani, IBM iX Leader, IBM Services, MEA
Matt Candy, Global Managing Partner, IBM iX, IBM Services

1:30 - 1:50 PM Emerging Stronger on the Oil & Gas industry - Abdulmajid Shaikh, Partner Chemical & Petroleum Industry MEA, IBM Services

1:50 - 2:10 PM Transforming into a Cognitive Bank - Faisal Khaliq, Partner, MEA Experience and Process Transformation, IBM Services

2:10 - 2:35 PM Clients panel: Paving the way towards a holistic transformation.

Moderator: Hamza Naqshbandi – Regional Director, IDC Saudi Arabia
Panelists: 
Ahmed Al Sahhaf – GM of Consumer Marketing - STC
Salam Siddiqui - Head of Enterprise Risk Management, Risk Architecture and Strategy - Bank Al Jazeera
Abdullah Albelaihed - General Manager HR & IT – Sipchem

Pakistan
4 PM (local time)

4:00 – 4:15 PM – Opening & Welcome by Ghazanfar Ali,  Country General Manager, IBM Pakistan,
Naveed Siddiqui, GBS Country Leader, IBM Pakistan

4:15 – 4:45 PM – Reinventing Business with Technology, Fireside chat 
Saad Waraich, Chief Technology & Information Officer, PTCL 
Ghazanfar Ali, Country General Manager, IBM Pakistan

4:45 – 5:00 PM – Q/A & closing by IBM Pakistan Team