“The BIGGEST

Digital
Transformation
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19th & 20th November 2019

Prince Sultan Grand Hall, Al Faisaliah Hotel
Riyadh, KSA

www.digitalsaudi2030.com

COLLECTIVE BUYING POWER OF SAUDI ARABIA’S MARKET EXCEEDS

$33 Billion+
FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
DELIVERING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
The 3rd Annual Digital Saudi 2030 has become the biggest and most comprehensive platform for digital
transformation in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosting over 500 C-Level executives to understand, create,
develop and enhance human knowledge to achieve digitalization as an enterprise, government and as
a nation. Through a series of keynote presentations, panel sessions, workshops and exhibition of digital
transformation products and services you will gain ideas, strategies, leadership skills, gain insights and forge
partnerships to become a growth leader to deliver the future for your organization.

Our aim is to help you

“CREATE THE ORGANIZATIONS OF THE FUTURE”

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500+ 100+ 40+ 7

Attendees Speakers Sponsors Tracks

Event Focus Tracks

Future
Digital Data &
Cities & AI & RPA
Transformation Analytics
Gov

Future Innovation
Digital
Enterprise Finnovation Live
Security
Exhibition
Who you will meet:
Feedback from
• Ministers, Deputies and Under Secretaries 2018 Attendees
• Chairman, Presidents, CEO, MD, GM
• COO / Head /Director Business operations

93%
• CIO / CTO
• Chief/ Head/ SVP / VP /Director of Digital Transformation
• Chief /Head/ VP / Director / Manager Data Management of the attendees
& Analysis felt that the information provided
• Head/ VP / Director / Manager Data Sciences at the event was relevant to them
• Head / Director / Manager Data Centre & IT Infrastructure

88%
• Head / Chief / SVP /VP / Director of Customer Experience
/ Marketing
• Head / Chief / Director / Manager Information security of the attendees
• Head of product development felt that they would be using the
• Project Smart Services Managers
• Members of Councils, Parliamentary and council Board
information they learnt in the
Members future

65%
• Police and Armed Forces Decision Makers and Executives
• ICT Project Decision Makers and Executives
• Strategic Planning and Performance Executives of the attendees
• Project VP/ Director/ Managers have stated that they would like
• Directors/ VP/ GM in Customer Service us to organize the same event
• Strategic Planning and Performance
• Others
in different cities around the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

94% of the attendees 86% of the

attendees felt that all the
would like to attend the next
edition of the event presentations were interesting

Why they will attend?

Achieve digital Experience the latest Learn about the latest

transformation goals technologies and technology trends and
applications implementation strategies

Network and forge Benchmark their digital

partnerships with innovative transformation progress and
solution providers network with their industry
peers and competitors
 Our 2019 Sponsors
National Transformation Partner

National Digital Transformation Unit

Powered By Lead Sponsor

Future Cities & Gov

Knowledge Sponsor Sponsor

Gold Sponsor Data & Analytics Sponsor

AI & RPA Sponsor Digital Security Sponsor

Bronze Sponsor
NEW VECTOR

Netway Solutions
Way to Mobility
 2019 Speakers – Sneak Peek
Eng. Faisal Ahmed Bakhashwain Bander Awad Al-Shahrani

Deputy Minister of Digital Director, ICT Applications,

Transformation, Ma’aden
Ministry of Civil Service

Talal A. Alsubaie Faisal Sulaiman AlRashoudi

CIO & Governor Advisor, Vice President and Head of

Saudi Food & Drug Authority Digitalization & Automation Division,
Bank AlJazira

Dr. Sultan Altukhaim Adly Khairy Al-Sharif

Director, Information Security, General Advisor for Information

Capital Market Authority (CMA) Technology,Technical and Vocational
Training Corporation (TVTC)

Samer Abdallah, PhD Sultan Abukoshaim

Head of Digital Transformation, CIO and Governor’s Advisor,

KPMG in Saudi Arabia SASO

Saad A. Alhuzami Khalid Alhokail

Data and Analytics Director, Group CIO,

Tatweer For Education Technologies Alamar Foods
(TETCO)

Osama Ghoul Zubair Timol

Group Executive Vice President. VP & Partner,

Founder of Devoteam Middle East Meltwater

Laila Mousa Ilker Tasdemir

Strategy & Business Development Director of Business Development,

Director, Meltwater MDSap

Sultan Morished Eyad Cadura

Heading the Cyber Security and Head of Digital Transformation,

Business Continuity, SAPTCO
Red Sea Development Company

AMIT ROY Eng. Abdullah M. Alshamrani

EVP and Regional Head Of EMEA , Director of CyberSecurity Administration,

Paladion King Fahad Medical City

Nowaf Almutiri

Corporate Analytics & Data

Governance GM,
Saudi Telecom Company (STC)
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Don’t take Al Rajhi Takaful Capital Market Authority

It has been a pleasure meeting you, this The event was good, we met a lot of
our word for is one of the most successful events, good companies and a lot of old friends

it!
well organized, with just the right crowd
speakers and participants, I loved the
2018 Reviews experience and definitely it won’t be the
last.
actually from different sectors, so it was
a very good networking opportunity for
us. We enjoyed it and the organization
was very good, actually it was
outstanding.

Al Hokair Group JSC Al Jomaih Automotive Ministry of Education

Digital Saudi this year was phenomenal
and insightful. The amount of
information and updates exceeded
all expectation and the caliber of
attendees as well as exhibitors was
perfectly matching.
The event was very very impressive in
terms of combining people coming from
solution providers and industry leaders
and decision makers. It was a very good
event, we learnt a lot out of interacting
with such a good crowd.
It was really a great event, I have really
enjoyed it. I have enjoyed sharing with
the people. The coordination and the
organizers were very gentle and very
supportive. It was really a very very good
experience for me.

Madinah Cardiac Centre Olaya Medical Complex Al Rajhi Holding

It’s a nice event, it’s one of the best
I can see that you have done a great
job. Getting all the people in this
field and sharing the knowledge and
information, this is what we are lacking
of, you make it real. I would give the
event a warm and a big 10 on 10!
The event overall and the presentations
were great. I am really very happy, I
would rate the event as 10 because of
the sponsors at the event which is really
amazing.
It was one of the best events that we
have attended. The organization, the
communication, overall out of a 100 I can
give the event 99. This event is a smaller
GITEX, the conference here is focused
more based on the requirements that
Saudi Arabia is looking for. We came here
to see the exact solutions that we are
looking for.
 Digital Transformation Which Industries will attend?

Summit – Main Stage

• Ministries & Government Bodies
• Manufacturing
• Energy & Utilities
About: • Health & Pharma
• Automotive
The main Keynote presentation stage for the Digital • Engineering /Construction
Saudi 2030 show brings over 500+ C Level Executives • Business Conglomerates
to this session. The agenda of the session is focused • Family offices
on Digital Transformation. • Retail & FMCG
• Infrastructure
The sessions are aimed at showcasing the latest • Transport & Logistics
in business transformation strategies, Leadership • Financial / Insurance Services
thinking, culture change, product and service • Media & Communication
innovation and digitization whilst providing engaging • Cities & Public Sector
and practical ideas. Following, the Mainstage and • Telecom
high-profile networking sessions. We are hosting • Tourism &Hospitality
three focused digital labs to help the leadership • Consumer Goods
understand and learn the latest in RPA & AI, IOT and • Food Industry
Big Data • Education & Research

Day – 1 Digital Transformation Summit

Working Agenda

9:00 – 9:15 Saudi market technology trends and • Achieving business efficiency from digital
insights - Analyst keynote transformation

9:15 – 9:30 Government Keynote on Vision 2030
Journey, Mile Stones and way forward
9:35 – 10:00 Success or Failure – your enterprise
Transformation
• Why digital may fail in your organization
• Driving Digital Leadership
• What does it take to succeed in going digital?
• Early adopters will lead and what technologies to
lead with?
10:00 – 10:20 The cloud Enterprise – the new
playbook
• The digital first company
• The new competencies for the new game
• Think Digital, Think Big and Think Data Analytics
• The new business dashboard and insights
10: 50 – 11:10 RPA & AI for Enterprise
• The catalyst for digital transformation
• Automate everything or what is possible
• Modernize Applications and personalize user
engagement
11:15 – 11:35 Open Source Vs Proprietary Software
• Is open source fueling digital transformation in
organizations
• Open Source in enterprise - challenges and
opportunities.
• Advantage of Open Source Vs proprietary software
• Open source on premise or open source cloud what
works best for you
11:40 – 12:15 – Networking coffee break

10:25 – 10: 45 Going Digital, Content & Data

Mordernization
• Moving to next gen enterprise applications by
modernizing legacy content
• Examining ways process automation can help with
legacy systems
• Migrating to the cloud
Day - 1 Which Industries will attend?

Track – 1 Future Enterprise • Manufacturing

• Retail & FMCG Consumer Goods
• Food Industry
• Automotive
About: • Consumer goods
The only focused programme delivering on the latest in • Family offices
enterprise transformation with over 150 senior executives • Business Conglomerates
from across the Private sector getting insights on Emerging • Media & Communication
technologies like AI & RPA, Enterprise infrastructure, IOT, • Health & Pharma
Enterprise Content Management and Big Data. • Tourism & Hospitality
• Education & Research
• Telecom

Track
Track––11Future
FutureEnterprise
Enterprise
Working Agenda

12:20 – 13:00 Emerging tech impact This is our second year

• Impact of Industry 4.0 on the future of work as the power sponsor,
• Is there a place for block chain in the enterprise and how soon? I have noticed that
• Addressing skill gap with RPA, is it possible? the kind of caliber
• Elephant in the room – losing jobs to automation of people that have
joined this year is
13:00 – 13:20 On Premise Vs the Cloud Vs Hyper Converged
• Evolution of the data center much more improved
• Moving from legacy – what fits for your organization than last year. The type
• Key considerations for infrastructure for your digital business needs of discussions and
engagements we had
13:25 – 13:45 Connected enterprise – IOT Enterprise with them through
• Why enterprises need to implement IOT Solutions?
our representation on
• What are the top challenges to IOT adoption in enterprises?
• Benefits of IOT analytics for the enterprise? the show floor was
• How to build and execute a clear strategy for applying IOT solutions? really overwhelming.
I would give the event
13:50 – 14: 10 Managing ECM and Big Data 10 out of 10 without
• Gathering unstructured data any hesitation. SAP
• Driving better analytics from unstructured and structured data
is always going to be
• Automating and optimizing work flow
• Information governance of Enterprise Content the power sponsor,
no doubt it. So don’t
14:10 - 15:10 Networking Luncheons look anywhere else, ‘‘
SAP is always there for
you.
Day-1
Track 2 - Future Cities & Gov
About: Which Industries will attend?
This unique platform hosts over 100+ senior level
decision makers to share, discuss, learn and implement • Ministries & Government Bodies
the latest strategies and new technologies for digital • Cities &Public Sector
transformation. Aimed at creating collaboration • Engineering /Construction
and partnerships between government bodies, • Energy & Utilities
authorities and the world’s best innovators, it gives • Infrastructure
you the opportunity to find new ways in delivering
world class citizen services.

Track
Track22--Future
FutureCities
Cities&&Gov
Gov
Working Agenda

12:20 – 13:00 Saudi Cities & Gov Panel

• Impact of Industry 4.0 on future cities and Government
• The future digital citizen ID and connected citizen services
• AI and the future of governments
• Policy, regulations and collaboration for seamless government and city services

13:00 – 13:20 Building your future cities framework

• Driving economic development, enabling local businesses and enriching citizen’s experience
• Building guidelines to measure your smart cities project and identify what is needed to produce a desired
outcome
• Developing operational assets like business analysts and cybersecurity strategies

13:25 – 13:45 Connected Cities - IoT Readiness – Preparing City IT for IoT
• The development of Framework, architecture, and deployment types
• Having the goal of ensuring that operational staff are ready to support the growth of IoT
• Training, principles and conceptual models (proof of concepts)
• Intake and boarding of solutions, support and growth

13:50 – 14:10 The Power of Data Sharing: Aggregate, Analyze and Optimize Data
• Managing and sharing data between government authorities, government services, departments
• Create the right Data governance strategy for cities
• Leverage different technologies to increase the efficiency for data

14:10 - 15:10 Networking Luncheons ‘‘

I think we are very pleased with the kind of profiles we met, we have seen many CXO levels,
government officials all interested in digital transformation and the topic of the conference. It
was a very good networking exercise, and we are very pleased with our participation. You will
see us next year with you.
Day- 1
Track 3 - Finnovation
About: Which Industries will attend?
One of a kind platform to meet, connect and Interact • Banks
with 100+ senior decision makers from the BFSI • Financial Services
sector to discuss omnichannel experience, digital • Insurance Companies
transformation, mobile banking, product innovation, • Investment Companies
RPA, AI, Cloud Computing, big data analytics and
Machine learning.

Track
Track33--Finnovation
Finnovation
Working Agenda

12:20 – 13:00 The next big thing for financial services in 2020
• Helping financial services approach an omni channel experience – What technology can do for you.
• A more efficient operating model can achieve better customer experience – the know how
• Digital financial services – is mobile banking able to lead the digital banking agenda?

13:00 – 13:20 The new workforce in financial Services

• Robotic process automation
• Can chatbots really improve customer experience for your clients
• How can RPA be applied in your organization
• How cognitive and RPA can support the future of work in your organization.

13:25 – 13:45 Cloud computing, Big Data and Analytics

• Evolution of the data center
• Moving from legacy – what fits for your organization
• Key considerations for modernizing infrastructure for your digital business needs
• Managing Data lakes and driving intelligence through analytics

13:50 – 14: 10 AI and Machine Learning for in BFSI

• How is intelligent automation disrupting the financial services industry?
• Can incorporating AI in our banking systems bring down the proportion of financial fraud & crimes?
• Personalizing customer service in a digital-centric banking environment
• Automating credit worthiness analysis & improving the lending process to the deserving segment of
customers

14:10 - 15:10 Networking Luncheons ‘‘

It was a well-organized invitation, I am so grateful for this. I have seen various solutions from
the people and there are some really good solutions that I will be considering. I am getting
hooked with them and we’ll be seeing each other right after this. I am expecting to go with 2
of the solution providers we met here at least.
 DAY 2
Track 1 – Data & Analytics
About:
The session will share, learn and discover from the
most insightful presentations and discussions around
data and analytics for the new digital economy. In
these sessions, you will hear from some of the most
influential technology innovators and leaders on the
evolution of data analytics and how your organization
can leverage these new strategies and technologies
to gain competitive advantage and deliver critical
insights for driving business decisions.
Track 11 –– Data
Track Data && Analytics
Analytics
Working Agenda
9:00 – 9:40 Straight to business - Innovation
disruption or just hype
• Is Machine learning, AI and new technologies just a
hype or do they deliver business value?
• Trends and aspects of data and analytics
• Business impact of advanced data and business
analytics
9:45 – 10:05 The new playbook for analytics
• Building a modern data analytics architecture
• Big data and IOT
• Key characteristics of modern data architecture
10:10 – 10:30 Real time Analytics and machine
learning
• Understanding time series forecasting
• Machine learning models for time series forecasting
• How to implement the models using open source
libraries
10: 35 – 10:55 Predictive Analytics today
• What is possible, who is doing it and how
• Relation between AI & Machine learning for
predictive analytics
• AI driven analytics to operate smarter, move faster
and outpace your competition
Who will Attend:
• CIO / CTO
• Chief/ Head/ SVP / VP /Director of Digital
Transformation
• Chief /Head/ VP / Director / Manager Data
Management & Analysis
• Head/ VP / Director / Manager Data Sciences
• Head / Chief / SVP /VP / Director of
Customer Experience / Marketing
• Head of product development
• Strategic Planning and Performance Executives
• Directors/ VP/ GM in Customer Service
11:00 – 11:20 New frontiers – Moving from Business
Intelligence to Mobile business intelligence
• Effective implementation of Mobile BI as a key driver
for growth and profitability
• Efficient use of data lakes thorough cloud adoption
• Dynamic dashboards for Mobile business intelligence
11:25 – 12:15 – Networking coffee break
12:15 – 12:55 Data for strategy
• Evolving role of data teams from data management
to business drivers
• Influence of data analytics and strategy to achieve
organizational goals
• Use of data strategy to compete with known players
as well as future disruptors
• Data strategies for hybrid and multi-cloud world
13:00 – 13:20 Creating, deploying and executing your
data strategy
• Assessing your data strategy position
• Developing data management culture on an
organizational level
• Data governance and data analytics
13:25 – 13:45 Data Governance and Digital Asset
Management
13:50 – 14:50 Networking Luncheon
 DAY 2
Track 2 – AI & RPA
About:
This session gives business stakeholders and
technology leaders from leading organizations in
Saudi Arabia an opportunity to understand, discover,
learn, implement and benefit from various cognitive
and automation technologies for smart utilization
of these break though technologies to maximize
business capabilities, scalabilities and create business
growth. We created the perfect opportunity for you
to create future success, deliver real result
Track 22 –– AI
Track AI && RPA
RPA
Working Agenda
9:00 – 9:40 Business automated – Understanding
RPA and AI
• Unlocking business value and benefitting from
intelligent automation and AI
• Where do we apply RPA and AI in business and how
are businesses really using it?
• Building your digital strategy – The three pillars
customer, asset and people
• How to implement stable automation and AI in
continuous improvement environment?
• How to deliver on the strategy? Building blocks for
success.
9:45 – 10:05 AI Powered Digital Transformation
• What are the areas where AI fits now?
• How to begin your AI Journey?
• Building AI into your road map: Key considerations
10:10 – 10:30 Cognitive enterprise
• The next generation business model
• Redesigning your company workflow
• Leveraging AI to improve your operations
10: 35 – 10:55 RPA Scalability and implementation
• Truths & Myths
• What’s critical for success
• How to set up your RPA practice and scale
Who will Attend:
• Chairman, Presidents, CEO, MD, GM
• COO / Head /Director Business operations
• CIO / CTO
• Chief/ Head/ SVP / VP /Director of Digital
Transformation
• Head / Chief / SVP /VP / Director of Customer
Experience / Marketing
• Project Smart Services Managers
• Strategic Planning and Performance
11:00 – 11:20 Automating Document processing
through RPA and AI
• What results to when using RPA and AI to automate
documents processing
• OCR and Cognitive Document Automation
• Impact of automation on document-based tasks
11:25 – 12:15 – Networking coffee break
12:15 – 12:55 AI for Marketing
• Generating content
• Promoting and propagating content
• Content Intelligence – understand your customer
through AI
13:00 – 13:20 AI for customer experience
• AI Enabled personalization
• Building trust and loyalty
• Driving innovation through CX intelligence
• Providing new customer profile insights to deliver
better products
13:25 – 13:45 Putting AI to work
• Exploring successful strategies to get AI applications
working for you
• What are the organization barrier to adopting AI
• What risks should business consider before
implementing AI
• How to adopt AI
13:50 – 14:50 Networking Luncheon
 Day - 2
Track 3 - Digital Security
About:
A must attend for CISO and Information security
professionals from leading organizations that
are looking to or currently undergoing digital
transformation. This session gives insights to security
leaders on how to communicate effective digital
security strategy to the boardroom, how to create
a better security culture in the organization and
further delves deeper in to the digital security trends,
aspects, challenges and strategies.
Track
Track 33 –– Digital
Digital Security
Security
Working Agenda
9:00 – 9:40 Embedding Security in your Digital
Transformation
• Quick tips to securing digital transformation and
innovation
• Ways in which security leaders can be involved in
ensuring compliance in transformation projects from
the very beginning?
• How to bring security to senior management and
board room when discussing digital transformation?
9:45 – 10:05 Organization wide engagement to create
better security culture
• Learn how to democratize responsibility to ensure
security belongs to everyone
• How to create and deliver effective learning to
implement security culture
• Introducing constant and open line company wide
security awareness and communication
10:10 – 10:30 The emergence of socially engineered
security threats to the enterprise
• How can we prepare our employees against evolving
risks?
• How can you implement frameworks to mitigate the
worst effects of social engineering?
• What are some ways you can test and measure
defenses?
10: 35 – 10:55 Detecting intrusions and threats
• Coping with networking traffic volume and velocity
for analysis
• Find attackers and detect when incidents are taking
place
Who will Attend:
• Head / Chief / Director / Manager Information
security
• ICT Project Decision Makers and Executives
• Head / Director / Manager Data Centre & IT
Infrastructure
• CIO / CTO
• Chief/ Head/ SVP / VP /Director of Digital
Transformation
11:00 – 11:20 Responding to widespread threats by
building and boosting infrastructure resilience
• Turnaround timeframes to restoring your
infrastructure if your systems are seriously
compromised
• Learn how to improve your own IT resilience through
improved risk management frameworks, classification
of essential services and comprehensive drills.
11:25 – 12:15 – Networking coffee break
12:15 – 13:00 Evolving risk landscape require
innovative defenses
• Securing new enterprise IT architectures and
complex industrial systems
• Understanding risk through hunting and threat
intelligence
• Incident risk and DIFR
• Improving infrastructure resilience
13:00 – 13:20 What are the challenges to overcome
for securing ICS/SCADA
• Vulnerability management, and managing updates
in systems that cannot be taken down
• Improving intruder detection and response
• Incorporating redundancies into systems
13:25 – 13:45 Implementing continuous security in
your development lifecycle
• How you can introduce continuous security in your
development process
• Explore the ways you can ensure the risk is
understood in at every stage of development
• How to instill good practices around security
• Learn to create a framework that automates aspects
of continuous security programme.
13:50 – 14:50 Networking Luncheon
 19th & 20th November 2019
Prince Sultan’s Grand Hall, Al Faisaliah Hotel
Riyadh, KSA
www.digitalsaudi2030.com