IDC CIO Summit to gather Saudi CIOs, government leaders, and technology innovators from across healthcare, energy, finance, aviation, real estate, and government.
Saudi Arabia’s CIOs are set to gather in Riyadh for IDC’s 16th CIO Summit on November 17–18, as enterprises across the Kingdom continue to expand their use of AI and digital technologies.
According to IDC, AI spending across the META region is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 34% between 2024 and 2028, reaching $14.6 billion from $4.5 billion. Saudi Arabia’s ICT spending reached $37.4 billion in 2024, with government investment and major development projects continuing to drive technology adoption.
Under the theme ‘The Rise of Agentic Systems,’ this year’s summit to focuses on how much decision-making authority should autonomous AI actually be given?
The summit draws CIOs, digital government leaders, and technology innovators from across healthcare, energy, finance, aviation, real estate, and government. Advisory council members and speakers represent organizations including the Ministry of Health, the Communications, Space & Technology Commission, ROSHN, Saudi Airlines, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, King Saud University, Princess Nourah University, Fakeeh Care Group, and Almarai.
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IDC CIO Summit Saudi: Agenda highlights
Panel sessions and technology focus groups run across six themes:
- Enterprise AI Deployment at Scale: Moving Agentic AI from Pilot to Production
- Agentic Systems in Practice: Governance, Trust, and Measurable ROI
- Modernizing the Core: Legacy Transformation for an AI-Ready Enterprise
- Building the Data Foundation: Fueling Agentic and GenAI Workloads
- Closing the Skills Gap: Developing Saudi Arabia’s AI-Ready Workforce
- Digital Sovereignty: Aligning Innovation with National Priorities
Supporting Partners
Brands supporting this year’s summit, include Cisco, NTT DATA, ServiceNow, Red Hat, Dataiku, Qlik, Boomi, Cloudflare, Splunk, Veeam, Commvault, and Rubrik, among others.
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