Opening Remarks by Conference Chairman

Mr. Joe Clabby

Vice President

CLABBY ANALYTICS USA & Datamatix International Advisor

Agile Platform for the Delivery of e-Services

Organizations are facing new and growing challenges that seriously affect the timeliness, efficiency, and effectiveness of their electronic services or systems. The constant and far-reaching changes in the legal, institutional, economic, and market environments call for an Agile Platform for e-Services. An Agile Platform responds flexibly to a complex environment, allows the Management of the Lifecycle of Services, and provides the framework for an effective use of SOA’s (Service Oriented Architectures

Dr. Tomás Orozco La Roche

Director

EDS, USA

Where CIOs and IT managers are heading to: The Need for Agility—Growing Fast and Changing Faster ·

• Emerging Trends, Reviewing the economics and delivery of IT in search of agility, from a Middle East perspective.
• Are IT partners providing us with products and dozens of other offerings that lack any true business value?
• Are IT developments creating more distractions rather than facilitating business and government organizations?
• How does the need for agility affect the role of IT management?
• What skill sets are needed in the future?

Mr. Adel Ouederni

Executive Partner

Korail Integrated Solutions, France

Coffee

What's Hot & What’s Not for the CIOs & IT Managers –What are the Next Generation IT Development Strategies?

• IT solutions and technology with promise and is a must buy
• Identifying IT solutions and technology which you should never choose
• A true story which can help your corporate IT master plan
• IT Spending, Project Management
• IT Management: Help Desk, Outsourcing and ROI
• CRM / ERP/Supply Chain
• Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Data Warehouse
• Web Site Management  

The leading CIOs & IT Manager’s Vision for 2010 - IT Master Plan & Services Transformation via Innovation

• What are the existing and expected challenges faced by region’s CIOs and IT managers?
• What will regional government and business organizations look like in 2010?
• What technologies should be used to get there?

Dr. Zahra AL-Rawahi

Computer & Information Technology Chairperson

Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) – College of Medicine & Health Sciences. Oman

Coffee

• The Broadband Wireless, mobile and telecom developments impact?

 Innovative Approach to Wireless Technology Creating a Digital Infrastructure for Open-Air Internet Access in the region

• The impact on government organisations with the non-stop development of wireless technology
• Why Middle East organizations need to include wireless technology products and solutions in its IT budgets and development plans?
• Why wireless solutions and services are winning the hearts of business and government users today?
• Which of your services should go mobile?
• How does your organization choose amongst wireless technology providers and solutions?
• How do we balance existing technology and wireless technology?
• What is the strategy to effectively go wireless and still meet an organization’s business and operational goals?  

Mr. Shahid Khan

Partner

Interactive Broadband Consulting Group, LLC (IBB), USA

What to do when your organization’s resources are limited, but IT requirements are unlimited?

• Balancing IT Budgets with Staffing and Sourcing Demands
• What to do when lack of resources threaten mission-critical projects?
• Latest sourcing trends and staffing practices for midsized companies.  

Mr. Theo Forbath

Chief Strategist

Wipro Technologies

Lunch and visiting the Gitex Exhibition

Top Ten IT Project Management Challenges for the Region’s CIO and IT Managers

• Why and How CIOs and IT managers are mismanaging IT and software projects?
• How IT project management can avoid defective software development that results in lost productivity?
• Using IT project management to avoiding software bugs and thus computer downtime
• How CIOs and IT Manager should avoid canceled or over budget projects by better project management practices?
• Avoiding revisions, re-designs and re-work by better project management practices

Mr. Ibrahim Tayfour

Director

Al Hasseb, UAE

Consolidation, Virtualization, and Provisioning: What the Rest of the World Is Doing With Their Information Systems

Mr. Joe Clabby

Vice President

CLABBY ANALYTICS USA & Datamatix International Advisor

Coffee

How CIOs and IT Managers are Re-architecting IT for Business Growth and Service Excellence?

• What does it take to create a dynamic IT organization that can support and help grow your company?
• What do CIOs need to know and what changes are ahead those will impact the business?
• What will happen in outsourcing and off shoring, and how will the IT that stays in-house change?
• How will the vendor landscape evolve?

And what does it all mean for the IT manager?

Mr. Roman Konovalov

Managing Director

Aroma Software L.L.C, UAE

Managing user centred IT design projects

• Why IT systems often fail to deliver the expected business benefits
• Making usability a key part of the business strategy
• Setting measurable business-oriented usability objectives
• Delivering quality IT systems that work for the users and the business

Mr. Tom Stewart

Joint Managing Director

System Concepts, UK

Coffee

Insights on the Next-Generation Information Technology Products for CIOs and IT Managers

• Operating Systems, Mainframe OS, Unix, Windows, Linux, Macintosh
• Data Management, Data Center, Databases
• Networking, Firewalls, Network OS
• Mobile & Wireless, Handhelds, Laptops
• .Net, Java, Web Development, Web Services, XML
• Security, Encryption, Disaster Recovery, Hacking, Privacy, VPN
• Hardware, Handhelds, Desktops, Grid Computing, Laptops, Mainframes, Server
• Software, Applications, E-mail/Groupware, Graphics/Multimedia

Dr Paul Judge

Chief Technology Officer

CipherTrust

Lunch and visiting the Gitex Exhibition

Window vs. Linux – What should IT leaders look for while choosing their Operating systems 

• A Closer Look at Linux and Windows
• What is Microsoft's "Vista" all about?
• What is Novell's Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise all about?
• What are hypervisors?
• What is going on in systems/storage/network virtualization?
• What is going on in open source and multi-source?

Mr. Joe Clabby

Vice President

CLABBY ANALYTICS USA & Datamatix International Advisor

Strategies for Mobile Government Services

Innovative utilisation of ICT tools in delivering mobile government services: an overview of the current path-finding research and practice in the field including case studies.

• Opportunities, challenges (infrastructure, costs and security) and possible scenarios ahead bearing in mind the diverse regional telecom indicators
• Mobile applications suitable for regional governments based on practical realities
• Strategies to adopt and pitfalls to avoid with mobile e-government solutions, including promotion of citizens’ mobile learning

Mr. Nader Alyani

London Knowledge Lab

University of London

What’s the future of open-source software, utility computing, application services and software license practices?

• Stuff you should know before implementing open source in your organization

Mr. Mazin Abusin

National Advisor for Project Management

Government of Sudan

Major Challenges on the Way to an eGovernment Culture - A User-Centric View

eGovernment has long been perceived as being essentially a technical project. Meanwhile it is understood that without streamlining administrative processes and simplifying inter-ministry co-operation, acceptance of eGov services is slow. This user-focused presentation develops the major non-technical challenges eGovernment Leaders and IT Managers are facing on their way to creating an eGov culture.

Dr. Heinz Schrey

Director, Business Consulting,

NavLink Inc., Geneva/ Switzerland

The Ultimate Solution for the Arabic Search - TAMA:

taya it Arabic Morphological Analyzer

Dr. Khaled Wahba

Director

Taya IT, Egypt

CRM, ERP and web applications for leading corporates

• What CIOs & IT Managers should look for before making buying decisions?
• What's Hot and What's Not.

Mr. R. Shankar

Vice President

Ramco Systems

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Managing government interrelationship and process integration in e-business implementation  

Dr. Fahad Al-Twaijry

IT Specialist & Virtual Society Consultant (VSC), KSA

Arabic-English Cross-Language Search - TAMA: taya it Arabic Morphological
Analyzer

Dr. Khaled Wahba

Director

Taya IT, Egypt

Delivering Business Agility – The Tesco.com Story

Qusai Sarraf, CEO of e-business pioneer IVIS Group will explain how Sonetto, the company’s Business Rules solution, has been used to maximise market-share and reduce cost by capturing and harnessing business knowledge at Tesco.com.

This case study will examine how the world’s most successful online grocery retailer has adopted user-driven business rules to deal with an explosion in product and commercial information, business processes, online sales channels and collaborative relationships. Tesco.com has employed a semantic web paradigm to bypass the limitations of traditional rigid processes, workflows, data definitions and schemas. The requirement to remain agile in the competitive and dynamic retail market has led to the creation of an e-business infrastructure that meets the needs of customers, employees and partners by bridging the gap between business users and IT

Mr. Qusai Sarraf

Founder and CEO

IVIS Group

Coffee

Security Implications for Converged Communications Networks

• Current state of device, application and network security standards
• IP security threats for mobile service providers
• What do security-savvy businesses and consumers expect from service providers?
• The three myths of wireless security
• Telecommunications case study
• Enterprise case study
• Government case study

Mr. Robert Higgins

Managing Director

Motorola Wireless Security Services Division

Coffee 

Designing Websites and Portals that work

• Accessibility and Usability considerations
• Technical, business and legal considerations

Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris

Senior Lecturer

Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City University , UK

Customizing IT Products and Solutions

• Who should control the customizations process? You or the external consultants?
• How CIOs and IT Managers should measure the exact requirements?
• What are benefits and where you can go wrong? Where you should look for help

Mr. Asif Kabbani

CEO & President,

Kabani Consulting, Pakistan

Lunch and visiting the Gitex Exhibition

Keynote Address

Looking at Short and Long Term Impacts of VoIP and Internet Telephony on Middle East Government and Business Operations

Mr. Shahid Khan

Partner

Interactive Broadband Consulting Group, LLC (IBB), USA

Coffee

Strategies for maintaining information value in a changing IT environment

This presentation sets out strategies which can be adopted to preserve the value of information in an IT environment which is constantly evolving.

It will consider:

• Structuring information gathering and storage processes to maximise information life spans
• Adopting appropriate standards for data IT management strategies necessary to ensure information longevity
• Controlling storage and preservation costs over time
• The relevance of international standards such as OAIS (ISO 14721:2003)
• Pitfalls to avoid

Mr. Philip Lord

Director

Digital Archiving Consultancy Ltd.

Restoring walls to Wi-Fi  - 802.11 Location Tracking

Mr. Sherif Hazzaa

CEO

ISnSC USA

Case Studies