
Agenda
*Agenda subject to change.
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration, Welcome & Light Breakfast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Executive welcome and keynote
George Schembri, Vice President, Middle East, OpenText
Mohammed Alhomidan, Sales Director Saudi Arabia, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | New Frontiers for Secure Information Management Dive into how secure information becomes a ‘secret weapon’ critical to transforming into a data-driven, AI-enabled organization. This session will highlight real-world use cases showcasing secure information management platforms, compliance controls, and scalability can be tailored for the enterprise of the future.
Karim Rizkallah, Regional Vice President, Solution Consulting Emerging Markets, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | Innovation showcase Explore live demonstrations of OpenText technologies, from content management to cybersecurity, analytics, DevOps, and service management. These demos will illustrate how agentic AI and intelligent automation elevate people by freeing them from mundane tasks.
Rob Renna, Senior Principal Solutions Consultant, OpenText
Karim Bounid, Regional Director, Solution Consulting Middle East, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Panel Discussion Stories of excellence in business transformation Hear compelling customer success stories that spotlight AI-driven business transformation. Speakers will share how organisations are reimagining their workforce as a collaborative ecosystem of humans and AI, turning information into action.
Mohamed Alhomidan, Country Manager Saudi Arabia, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:30 AM - 11:50 AM | The OpenText AI story + Business Value Consulting Learn about OpenText’s evolution aligns with its global vision, "Secure information management” turned into a strategic asset. Learn about our consulting frameworks that guide organisations to translate technology into value and architect systems that scale confidently, underpinned by data integrity and unified governance.
Karim Bounid, Regional Director, Solution Consulting Middle East, OpenText
Garen Yacoubian, Regional Vice President, Business Value Consulting, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM | Lightning Talks, coffee break and the opening of the Show Floor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM | The Agent Era: How AI is Rewriting Secure Software Delivery This session delves into the rise of agentic AI in DevSecOps, self-managing AI agents that revolutionise development pipelines and delivery workflows. These intelligent agents free up teams to focus on innovation while ensuring secure, compliant software release cycles.
Ahmed Abdelnabi, Principal Solution Consultant, Solutions Consulting, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12:50 PM - 1:10 PM | Powering Smart, Scalable Customer Experience in Uncertain Times Discover how organisations deliver exceptional, tailored customer experiences using a unified layer of information. This entails harnessing content, analytics, and AI capabilities securely, onshore or across sovereign clouds, to stay agile amid volatility.
Vimal Patel, Principal Solution Consultant, Solutions Consulting, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:10 PM - 1:30 PM | Redefining ITOps: Where Observability Meets Service Management Explore how intelligent automation redefines IT operations, moving them from reactive to proactive. This session emphasizes modern ITOps empowered by AI and analytics, delivering predictive insights and eliminating limitations of traditional systems.
Ahmed Salama, Principal Solution Consultant, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | Unlocking Digital Knowledge Workers for the Limitless Enterprise Focuses on empowering knowledge workers with AI-driven digital assistants. This session will explore how “digital knowledge workers” blending human expertise and AI to boost creativity, problem-solving, and decision-making at scale.
Huda Al Anazy, Lead Solutions Consultant, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1:50 PM - 2:05 PM | Coffee break and Lightning Talks at the Show Floor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:05 PM - 2:25 PM | AI Unification with the Opentext AI Data Platform This keynote introduces the OpenText AI Data Platform, a foundation for building an AI-first enterprise. Discover how the platform integrates structured and unstructured data across silos, enabling secure, compliant, and scalable AI-driven insights. Learn how organizations can leverage agentic AI, advanced analytics, and automation to transform information into action, accelerating innovation, improving decision-making, and driving competitive advantage.
Shaymaa Mousa, Lead Solutions Consultant, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:25 PM - 2:45 PM | Operate with confidence in an unpredictable world This session explores how AI‑driven cybersecurity transforms protection across applications, data, and identity into a unified, intelligent defense layer. Learn how OpenText leverages behavioral analytics, automated threat detection, and zero‑trust principles to secure critical assets while enabling agility, so your organization can operate with confidence, even in the face of unpredictability.
Ahmed Fouda, Lead Solutions Consultant, OpenText | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Customer awards, sponsor recognition and mega raffle draw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Networking lunch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||









