Agenda

09:00 - 09:50

REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

09:50 - 10:00

INAUGURATION CEREMONY

10:00 - 10:15

Pioneering Vision 2030: Transforming Saudi Arabia’s Digital Infrastructure for a Thriving Future

  • Accelerating economic diversification with nationwide digital infrastructure development
  • Highlighting key government policies and initiatives for driving innovation with data centers and cloud infrastructure
  • Advancing technology-driven innovation by fostering strategic partnerships with academia and startups

10:15 - 10:30

Harmonizing Data Compliance and Innovation: Charting a Secure Path for Digital Growth

  • Enhancing Data Governance to ensure compliance while maintaining operational flexibility
  • Integrating Security into Innovation to support seamless digital transformation
  • Aligning national data policies with international standards for global interoperability

10:30 - 10:50

Where Vision Meets Opportunity: Empowering Investors to Join Saudi Arabia’s Tech Transformation

  • Promoting multinational technology companies to establish operations in Saudi Arabia through incentivization
  • Offering tax incentives, regulatory support, and streamlined procedures for establishing data centers and cloud services in the Kingdom
  • Investing in Tomorrow: Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Push to Create a Global Tech Hub

10:50 - 11:10

Cloud-Powered Transformation: Redefining Collaboration, Decision-Making, and Competitive Advantage in the Digital Era

  • Balancing Security and Agility: Unlocking Operational Efficiency as a Strategic Advantage
  • Navigating Compliance and Data Localization: Building a Future-Ready Framework
  • Fortifying Cloud Security: Proactive Strategies for a Resilient Digital Future

11:10 - 11:30

Advancing Saudi Arabia’s Next-Gen Data Centers with AI-Powered Infrastructure

  • I-Driven Insights: Leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance data security and enable smarter, data-driven decision-making for organizations in Saudi Arabia.
  • AI-Driven Network Observability : Enhancing Data Center Intelligence and Performance
  • Future-Proofing IT Operations: Transforming data centers with AI-driven automation, paving the way for self-sustaining and adaptive IT environments.

11:30 - 12:00

Panel Discussion

Accelerating Digital Transformation and Empowering Technological Evolution through Advanced Digital Infrastructures

  • Catalyzing Innovation: Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and energy-efficient systems to drive breakthrough innovation and operational excellence.
  • Seamless Sustainability Integration: Embedding sustainable practices into digital infrastructures to promote eco-friendly progress and technological advancement.
  • Building Future-Ready Resilience: Designing scalable, adaptable, and resilient infrastructures to meet dynamic demands and support long-term sustainable development.

12:00 - 12:30

PRAYER BREAK & VISIT TO EXHIBITOR LOUNGE

12:30 - 12:50

Building a Secure & Intelligent Future: Unleashing Innovation with Next-Gen Cybersecurity and Cloud Solutions

  • Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI): Simplifying Complexity, Accelerating Digital Agility
  • Cybersecurity Redefined: From Perimeter Defense to AI-Driven Threat Prevention
  • Empowering Trust in the AI Era: Ethical Innovation

13:00 - 13:20

AI-Driven Datacentres – From Automation to Autonomy

  • Applying AI/ML for predictive operations, thermal efficiency, and workload orchestration.
  • Transforming datacentre performance through real-time analytics and smart resource allocation.
  • Preparing for the next wave of self-healing and self-optimizing infrastructure.

13:20 - 13:50

Panel Discussion

Strengthening Saudi Arabia’s Digital Fortress: Enhancing Cybersecurity and Cloud Security Resilience

  • AI-Driven Cyber Defense & Threat Intelligence to enhance real-time threat detection, predictive analytics, and automated incident response.
  • Strengthening cybersecurity governance and promoting sovereign cloud strategies to ensure data sovereignty and national security.
  • Implementing Zero Trust Architecture and next-gen cloud security solutions to safeguard critical infrastructure and sensitive data.

13:50 – 14:00

Pioneering Web 3.0 Infrastructure for a Secure, Transparent, and User-Centric Digital Future

  • Adopting web3.0 technologies and mechanisms to bolster security within digital infrastructures
  • Fostering transparency through decentralized ledger technologies to enable immutable records and audit trails that build trust among users and stakeholders
  • Empowering user-centric experiences where individuals have greater control over their data and digital identities

14:00 - 15:00

LUNCH BREAK & VISIT TO EXHIBITOR LOUNGE

15:00 - 15:15

Designing Green Datacentres for the Net-Zero Era

  • Pioneering sustainable datacentre designs to optimize energy efficiency and operational resilience.
  • Integrating renewable energy and intelligent cooling systems to achieve carbon neutrality goals.
  • Regional success stories in deploying sustainable infrastructure at scale.

15:15 - 15:30

Reengineering Data Architecture: Embracing Cloud-Native Computing while Maintaining Competitive Edge in Dynamic Business Environments

  • Striking a balance between fostering innovation through cloud-native computing for maintaining stability and reliability of critical business operations
  • Recognizing the imperative to evolve data architecture towards cloud-native computing for agility and scalability
  • Leveraging automation and scalability to minimize operational expenses while maximizing the utilization of cloud resources

15:30 - 16:00

Ensuring Maximum Data Center Uptime and Protecting IT Infrastructure with Essential Power Infrastructure

  • Boosting Uptime: Implementing redundancy measures to reduce downtime and enhance data center reliability
  • Preventing Outages: Using DCIM software to avoid unexpected outages that could lead to significant losses and disrupt business operations
  • Maintaining Operations: Ensuring continuous operation and protection of critical electronics during power disruptions in large data centers

16:00 Onwards

CLOSING SPEECH AND VISIT TO EXHIBITOR LOUNGE

09:00 - 10:00

REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS

10:00 -10:15

Reimagining the Cloud Frontier – Saudi Arabia’s Role in Shaping the Global Digital Economy

  • Decoding the next wave of cloud innovation: sovereign clouds, AI-native platforms, and hyperscale convergence
  • Positioning the Kingdom as a regional hub for digital infrastructure and cross-border data services.
  • Aligning cloud investments with Vision 2030’s industrial and government transformation pillars

10:15 - 10:30

Role of Hyperconverged Infrastructure in Government Cloud Transformation

  • Unifying compute, storage, and network in high-trust environments
  • Results from national projects leveraging HCI for digital agility and security
  • Lessons from large-scale public sector deployments

10:30 - 10:50

DevSecOps: Embedding Security for Critical Infrastructures and Applications

  • Integrating Security from the Start: Incorporate security measures throughout the entire development lifecycle, rather than as a final step
  • Automate Security Practices: Utilize automated tools and processes to continuously monitor and protect infrastructure against vulnerabilities
  • Foster Collaboration Across Teams: Encourage close collaboration between development, security, and operations teams to ensure a cohesive approach to security

10:50 – 11:10

Architecting Multi-Cloud Environments for Agility, Control, and Innovation

  • Building enterprise-grade architectures that unify public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
  • Best practices in workload mobility, cost optimization, and vendor-neutral orchestration
  • Ensuring regulatory alignment and risk mitigation across multi-cloud ecosystems

11:10 – 11:50

Panel Discussion

Sustainable and Green Datacenters for a Digital Saudi Arabia

  • Implementing energy-efficient practices in data center operations to reduce carbon footprint
  • Investing in renewable energy sources like solar and wind to power data centers
  • Promoting sustainable business practices among tech companies and encouraging the adoption of green technologies

11:50 - 12:20

PRAYER BREAK & VISIT TO EXHIBITOR LOUNGE

12:20 - 12:40

Revolutionizing Data Center Cooling: Innovations for a Sustainable Future

  • The Future of Liquid Cooling: Advancing thermal management systems to enhance efficiency and sustainability
  • Optimizing Data Center Cooling: Strategies to keep IT infrastructure cooler and more energy-efficient
  • Hybrid Cooling Solutions: Exploring the integration of air and liquid cooling systems for next-generation data centers

12:40 - 13:00

Empowering Data Center Operations with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Applications:

  • Optimizing Performance: Enhancing capacity planning and performance optimization using DCIM tools and solutions
  • Addressing CIO Challenges: How modern DCIM solutions tackle management issues in distributed and hybrid IT environments
  • Proactive Monitoring: Leveraging built-in alert systems to monitor critical infrastructure, DC Operators to proactively address potential failures before they impact users and services

13:00 - 13:15

Ensuring Reliable Power Backup Solutions for Modern Datacenters

  • Redundancy Planning: Developing effective redundancy plans to ensure uninterrupted operations
  • Cost Management: Balancing cost-effectiveness with reliability in power backup solutions
  • Innovative Backup Technologies: Exploring the latest advancements in power backup systems and their implementation in datacenters

13:15 – 13:30

Enabling Real-Time Decisioning through Edge Compute in Saudi Enterprises

  • How leading organizations are leveraging edge for latency-sensitive, data-intensive applications
  • Infrastructure models and ROI from edge-enabled digital transformation
  • Key lessons from sector-specific deployments

13:30 Onwards

LUNCH BREAK & VISIT TO EXHIBITOR LOUNGE

*The above is a running agenda and is subject to change