Summit Agenda

MC OPENS

Welcome Address by the Guest of Honor

H.E. Mohammad Hassan, Executive Director - National Statistics and Data Sector, Federal Competitiveness & Statistics Authority

Welcome Address by Platinum Sponsor

Sameer Areff, Chief Operating Officer, ME South, SAP

Data & AI at Scale – Building an Immersive Data Function

• Delivering business value with data-driven solutions
• Improving processes with new methods, technologies and quality data
• Empowering the organization with relevant knowledge and skills

Walid Mehanna, Head - Data & Analytics, Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler AG

The Opportunity Behind Data-driven New Business Models

• Thriving and even surviving in the age of digital economy requires organizations to reimagine new ways of doing business
• Utilizing the proliferation of data combined with new technologies such as AI, ML, IoT, predictive analytics and cloud
• Companies use such technology to build new cross-industry business models that leverage value networks and multi-channel access to address complete new markets and secure future revenues

Dr. Hichem Maya, Head - Industries Digital Transformation - EMEA, SAP

Smart Data in the Age of Blockchain

• Blockchain can improve data quality and provide crowd wisdom and predictive analytics
• Derisking of platforms by taking back control of personal data
• Personalizing data without compromising user experience or privacy

Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, Chief Executive Officer, Dubai Blockchain Center

Surviving the Half Life of the Enterprise

• Describing the data challenges organizations face
• Challenging the technologies available to win in digital transformation
• Techniques for building a data and analytics culture

Dean Stoecker, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Alteryx

Panel Discussion: Power of Personalization: Key to a Successful Business

• Personalizing data leads to increase in customer engagement, how can marketers leverage this information?
• Personalization- where to stop?
• Building trust with customers to ensure data security

Dikdyuti Sen, Chief Marketing Officer, Talabat
Flavio Leoni, VP Global Sales - Middle East & Africa, AccorHotels
Mats Carrgard, SVP Business Performance - MEA, Virgin Mobile
Namrata Balwani, Head - Digital Marketing & Analytics, Landmark Group
Rich Cullen, Director, Solutions Architecture – EMEA, MongoDB
Safiuddin Syed, Director - Digital Marketing, Hyatt Hotels Dubai
Sofiane Haddadi, Data Director and Media, L’Oréal Middle East

Are you ready for Artificial Intelligence?

• Explore all the factors involved in the architecture of a deep learning pipeline, focusing on data management and the hybrid cloud approach
• Future-proof AI infrastructure that can span from the edge to the core to the cloud – with enterprise level data management features combined with GPU compute power
• Performance & scalability capabilities observed from experimental tests performed in a multi-GPU flash storage-based environment

Hoseb Dermanilian, Industry Solutions Manager AI/ML & Big Data Analytics, EMEA, NetApp

Using Knowledge Graphs to predict Customer Needs, Improve Product Quality and Save Costs

• Knowledge Graph represents the single highly connected source of truth for the entire organization
• Knowledge Graph adds "context" to AI and Machine Learning
• Knowledge Graph can evolve accordingly to the mutating needs of the company

Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist, GraphAware

Your Path to Enterprise AI

• Why an Enterprise AI strategy is a necessity for many companies
• The journey to implementing this strategy
• A maturity model gathered from experiences ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups

Hylke Visser, Director - Sales and Business Development, Dataiku

The Enterprise Data Cloud - From the Edge to AI

Bruno Mandic, Solutions Engineering, Middle East & Turkey, Cloudera

Panel Discussion: Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics: The best fit for the retail industry

• 2017 was predicted as a retail apocalypse: impact of digital transformation to transform the industry
• To overcome obstacles - adopting newer technologies to increase growth of the sector?
• Role of analytics in determining customer engagement and profit margins

Budoor AlAmoudi, Director - Business Intelligence, Jumeirah Group
Dr. Ehsan Ullah Warriach, Chief Data Specialist, Roads and Transport Authority
Guillaume Thfoin, Head - Analytics, Majid Al Futtaim Holding
Ilkka Kivelä, Managing Director - Digital Transformation, Protiviti Middle East
Rajshekhar K, Head - Database & BI, Dubai Duty Free
Saurabh Kapoor, Director - Customer Insights & Analytics, Emaar
Taneesha Mohandas , Head - Strategy and Business Intelligence, Eyewa

Foundational Transformation: A People and Data Centric Approach

Digitally transforming your organization with a people and data centric culture and ensuring long-term success

Ali Shabdar, Business Development Director - MEA, Zoho Corporation

Panel Discussion: Cyber Security and Breaches: Inevitable?

• Complexity of hacks witnessed in UAE over the years
• Ethical & Unethical hacks: Companies preparedness to cope with them
• Policies governed to regulate cyber security

Amit Mehta, Director - Regional Head - Security, Mastercard
Barry Cook, Privacy & Group Data Protection Officer, VFS Global
Brian Byagaba, Senior Manager Information Security, Commercial Bank International
Nadine Samra, VP – Digital Business, Zee Entertainment
Noora Al Ahbabi, Chief Information Security Officer, Ministry of Economy
Shailesh Mani, Head - IT, Flemingo International
Venu Sriraj, Chief Information Security Officer, UAE Exchange

MC OPENS

Using Data to Make Smarter Marketing Decisions

• The biggest challenge today is quality of data.
• Collecting data and looking at how marketers can make smarter marketing decision using better measurement methodologies

Tony Evans, Marketing Science Director - Middle East and Africa and Gaming, Facebook

Data Availability for the AI Driven Economy

• Accelerate your AI projects by converging data from all silos using open standards without data movement
• Enable augmented intelligence across your organization with human and machine knowledge
• Unlock enterprise knowledge to all business stakeholders

Soufyen Ben Harzallah, Regional Sales Manager - Emerging Markets, Gemini Data

Using Causal Inference to Answer the most Crucial Business Queries

• Does marketing increase customer engagement? What is the impact of a product change on user experience? How did a regulatory change influence the marketplace?
• Many of the most important business questions, such as the ones above, are causal
• Machine learning and AI have so far not focused on causal questions, but are now catching up very rapidly

Totte Harinen, Senior Data Scientist, Uber – EMEA

Metadata Management: How to Provide Valuable Data for Successful Decisions

• Data lineage is central to understanding your information ecosystem
• It helps your business quickly make data-driven decisions for greater success.
• Get valuable insights on their data assets – what data do you have, how is it defined, where did it come from, how is the quality of the data and where is the data being used.
• Enable GDRP and BCBS 239 compliance

Kaushik Bagchi, Vice President - Information Management, ASG Technologies

Data Driven Organization: Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Data

• The data-driven organization puts data and analytics front and center in its business strategy throughout all echelons
• It differentiates itself from competition by making driven optimization, decision and enhances the engagement of its customers
• The growth of such organization does happen exponentially. This is what data brings from operation efficiency and enhancement of ROI

Maha Muraish, VP – Data Monetization and Digital Channels, Etisalat

Panel Discussion: Predictive Analytics driving the E-commerce market

• E-commerce in the region is set to be worth $48bn by 2022- What is the contribution of predictive analytics in the growth of the industry?
• How has data insights and consumer behavior lead to developing strategies to grow business?
• Big Data detects payment laundering; that helps in creating a secured online payment platform

Abhijat Shukla, Founder, ThinkBumblebee Analytics
Akram Assaf, Co - Founder and CTO, Bayt.com
Antonello Supino, Director - Business Intelligence - AMEA, OLX Group
Hasib Khan, CEO and Founder, Udrive
Luca Bozzano, Head - Digital & E-commerce, Wojooh - Chalhoub Group
Nader Amiri, Founder & CEO, el Grocer
Ulugbek Yuldashev, Founder and CEO, AWOK.com

Here Come the Robots: How Automation and AI are Re-shaping the Jobs of the Future

• The impact of technology and how different industries are being disrupted
• The implications for learning and how we prepare youth for the future
• How organizations are adapting to attract and retain the talent they need

Ross Maclean, Group Chief Digital Officer, GEMS Education

Panel Discussion: A Fluid Data Strategy

• The reason for advancement in data – Business Drivers & Tech Enablers?
• Influence of data analytics and strategy to achieve organizational goals
• Use of data strategy to compete with known players as well as future disruptors

Hussain Al Fardan, Head - Innovation Centre & Strategy, Dubai Customs
Kenan Atalay, Head - Digital Analytics, Al Tayer
Mike Vessey, Head - Data Governance, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Rahul Arya, Managing Partner, MENA - Strategy Consulting, Data Science and AI, Artefact
Richard Dib, Head - Data Science Activation, Smart Dubai
Tejasvi Addagada, Deputy Vice President – Data Management & Governance, Axis Bank

Achieving Data Maturity – A Roadmap to Data Management & Governance Maturity

Tejasvi Addagada, Deputy Vice President – Data Management & Governance, Axis Bank

Future Knowledge Partner Address

Dr. Sanjay Modak, Chair of Graduate Programs and Research, Rochester Institute of Technology – Dubai