Building on massive regional broadband and access initiatives, individuals and organizations now have ample opportunities to access a continuously growing variety of online services that are based on cloud computing:

• How “cloudy” is the MENA region, and what opportunities are companies missing out on by not adopting this trend?

• Considering privacy and confidentiality issues, should they even be considering cloud computing as an alternative?

• Why are so many MENA companies using hosted space and services that are provided by US companies? What is the region lacking to capture market share?

"Reality and the Cloud, PartI" Session is moderated by: Wajih Halawa

 

Speakers of the "Reality and the Cloud, PartI" Session:
Dr. Werner Vogels, VP & CTO- Amazon.com
Mr. Walid Abu-Hadba, CVP of Microsoft's Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) group
Mr. Robert Fogel, Intel's World Ahead Program Principal Education Architect, VP of the Open Grid Forum
Mr. Sachin Duggal, CEO- Nivio
Mr. Mohammed Amin, VP and GM of Middle East and North West East Central Africa and Turkey- EMC

"Reality and the Cloud, PartII" Session is moderated by: Scott Shuster

 

Speakers of the "Reality and the Cloud, PartII" Session:
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, CEO- Zensar
Mr. Anthony Vonsee, Managing Director, North AFrica and Levant- Cisco
Mr. Darshan Chandarana, Director- Oracle’s Cloud Computing Specialists Group for EMEA
Mr. Mike Baldok, Executive IT Consultant- IBM Middle East
Mr. Osama Ghoul, Founder and Managing Partner- Devoteam Middle East