Speakers
"Speakers - Updated Periodically"
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Ahmad Almulla
CIO, DUBAL
Almulla has an extensive experience in the field of IT for over 19 years. He has received Bachelor of Science from The University of Arizona in Computer Engineering in the year 1987 and completed his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Australia in the year 1993. Almulla has been working in all the areas in Information Technology department such as Application Development, Information Security, Architecture Designing and Networking, Process Control, etc. He started his career as a Programmer in 1988 in Dubai Aluminium Company Limited, and is currently Chief Information Officer of Dubai Aluminium Company Limited. He is also a member of the Executive Management Committee in DUBAL.
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Fadi Hindi
Head of Strategic IT Planning and EA, Dubai Customs
Fadi Hindi is the Head of Strategic IT Planning & Enterprise Architecture for Dubai Customs. Formerly he was the Acting IT manager for Dubai eGovernment and prior to that he was the director of integration at a management consulting firm in the United States. Hindi has seventeen years of consulting experience in implementing large scale projects across multiple business units in different industries. Hindi is one of the founders of the Integration Consortium (www.integrationconsortium.org) and is the Middle-East Vice-Chair for the consortium. Among other responsibilities at the Consortium, he chairs the Business Value Realization (BVR) committee and is actively involved in assisting industries realize how business integration can assist them in reaching their business objectives.
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John Fitzgerald
CEO, Beyond Encryption Technologies
John is a well-known and recognized security expert and a Harvard University Alumni. In his previous role he was the Managing Director EMEA at SANS and was instrumental in building SANS' profile and business across Europe and the Middle East with the objective being to create a cooperative community-driven educational environment for Information Security professionals and organisations in this region similar to that which SANS has been successful at establishing in the USA.
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Lance Spitzner
President, HoneyTech
Lance Spitzner, President of HoneyTech, a security consultancy specialising in the strategic issues of information risk. Spitzner has presented in over twenty different countries, published several books, is keynote speaker at numerous events and a recognised leader in information security training, awareness and threat analysis.
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Benvir Padda
Director of Information Technology, Legatum
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Mohammed Shah
Chief Technology Officer, Knowledge Economic City, Saudi Arabia
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Tariq Y. Elsadik
Chief Information Officer, Al Fahim
Tariq Y. Elsadik is the Chief Information Officer at Alfahim, a multi-faceted conglomerate with numerous business lines and an array of growth avenues with primary interest in the Automotive, Real Estate, Oil & Gas, Hospitality and the Travel industries.
Elsadik is also a member of the UAE Information systems Audit and control association, and is a certified Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Award (SKEA) & European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Assessor.
He frequently lectures on Information Systems Management and has presented in numerous domestic and international IT & business events.
Mr. Elsadik has over 16 years of experience in IT management focusing on:
- Business & IT Alignment
- IT Governance Frameworks & Execution practices
- Performance Measurement
- Program Management & Control
