Cairo – Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and International Data
Corporation (IDC) are delighted to announce that His Excellency Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and
Information Technology, will deliver an honorary keynote address at the upcoming IDC Egypt CIO Summit 2019.
Taking place on June 18th at Marriott Hotel Zamalek, the event will host 300 of the region's most influential
ICT leaders as they gather to discuss strategies for succeeding in an era of multiplied innovation and
automation.
Combining a varied mix of informative presentations, discussions, and workshops, the CIO Summit's
agenda for 2019 has been designed to help the region's CIOs rethink the way they leverage information, harness
emerging ICT solutions, and facilitate organization-wide innovation, with the aim of making their enterprises more
agile, efficient, and productive than ever before.
Commenting on this, ITIDA actin CEO, Hala El-Gohary, said,
“In a new twist for 2019, ITIDA in collaboration with IDC will be hosting a Tech Startup Zone on the sidelines of
the Summit to showcase the region's facilities and Egypt’s commitment for incubating digital startups, in the
areas of AI, IoT, Market Place and Security”.
"As digital transformation continues to reshape the global
economy, innovation will multiply, platform wars will intensify, and data will increasingly be used for competitive
advantage," says Jyoti Lalchandani, IDC's group vice president and regional managing director for the
Middle East, Africa, and Turkey.
"And with market leadership ranks being disrupted, a new ICT world order
is taking shape, built around innovative technology offerings, evolving business models, and emerging DX use cases.
Given this unprecedented disruption, it's imperative that organizations make the right decisions today to ensure
they remain competitive tomorrow.", Jyoti added.
The event will also play host to the 'IDC CIO
Excellence Awards 2019' as IDC honors those IT leaders that have excelled in conceptualizing and delivering
game-changing digital transformation initiatives for their organizations. With a focus on the tangible benefits
brought about by such initiatives, awards will be handed out in the following categories:
CISO of the Year
CIO of the Year
IDC's valued partners for the Egypt CIO Summit 2019 include ITIDA as strategic sponsor;
Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, VMware and Automation Anywhere & First Gulf Solutions as Summit Partners; SAP and Oracle
as Breakfast Session Partners; IBM, Fortinet, Barq Salic & Uipath, HPE & Click ITS, Manage Engine and
Genesys as Gold Session Partners; IBM, Nexthink, SAP, Oracle, Dell Technologies & Intel, Nutanix and SAS as
Focus Group Partners; and FreshWorks as Exhibit Partners.
To learn more about the IDC Egypt’s CIO Summit 2019,
please visit
https://idcciosummit.com/cairo/. You can also find all the latest news
about the Summit by using the hashtag #IDCMECIO.
