The day one of Future IT Summit 2016 was a splendid one. The day was dedicated to analyzing the cloud situation. Topics like maturity of cloud, infrastructure readiness: storage and computing, cloud security were covered. Future IT landscapes of promising nations like United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and India were focused upon.
The speaker list included Mr Mohammed Sayed, Cloud services leader IBM, MEA and Pakistan; Mr Omar Akhtar, Regional Channel Manager, ME & SAARC, Veeam; Mr Loay Ahmed AlNakhal, IT Project Manager, Dubai Municipality; Mr Hussam Juma, Director of Enterprise Architecture and Business Process, Dubai Customs; Mr Kevin Ashby, Senior Product Manager Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft; Dr Mansour. A Aldajani, CIO, Electricity and Co-Generation Regulatory Authority, Riyadh, KSA; Dr Vivek Mansingh, Chairman AxisCades.
The audience gained meaningful insights from the case studies and presentations. The panel discussion was an intellectual platform with experts like Mr Loay Ahmed AlNakhal, Project Manager, Dubai Municipality; Mr Mubarik Hussain, Head of IT Petroserv; Mr Faidy Sleiman, CIO, Waha Capital; an Mr Muhammad Salman, Head of Managed Services, Emitac Enterprise Solutions; Omar Akhtar Regional channel manager ME and SAARC at Veeam; and Tony Zabaneh, Channel Systems Engineer at Fortinet who held a discussion on Challenges and Opportunities- A Reality Check.
The participants for the day included various vendors, top C level executives and government officials across GCC who especially flew down to Dubai for this grand IT event.
The sponsors for The Future IT Summit 2016 are; Platinum sponsor— DELL; Gold sponsor— Veeam. Government supporting partners— Consulate General of India, Dubai Municipality, University of Ha’il, Ministry of Community Development-UAE. Networking sponsors— Intertec, HP; Official Airline Partner— Gulf Air. Event Partners— Microsoft, Rittal, Aruba Networks, Emitac, Pure Storage, Oxygen, VCE, Finesse, OMA Emirates, Spectrami, Unify.