Date

October 16, 2016

Judges

4 Industry experts

Location

Conrad Hotel, Dubai, UAE

Judging

Ghazi AtallahCEO, neXgen Advisory Group

Ghazi has over 20 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry. He is the CEO of NexGen Group, a Smart City services provider and technology consulting company focused on helping Telecom and Smart City customers realize business value out of technology investments.

He takes an active role in projects with leading customers in the MENA region to develop next generation business Models, technology strategy and Go-To-Market strategies as well as within key regional government entities to develop Smart City and National ICT/Digital strategies.

Ghazi Received the Telecom leadership award at the 8th Arab Internet and Telecom conference in May 2006. He was also named among most influential ME IT leaders in Al Idari magazine’s special issue of TOP 100 ME business leaders in Feb 2006. Ghazi is also a Partner at Liveroute, the first true Cloud/SAAS Service Provider in the Middle East delivering Cloud based Collaboration, Infrastructure, CRM and ERP solutions to enterprises in the ME.

Ian WakefordMD, DW Consultants

Ian Wakeford is the MD of DW Consultants with over 20 years of business and IT experience in various senior management roles. His strengths lie in quickly analyzing, understanding and delivering viable and cost effect solutions. Ian has strong technical knowledge in IT and all related practices from mainframe to mobile, and has managed numerous projects in the IT, distribution and commercial environments.

Javed AbbasiPrincipal Consultant, GISBA

Jaed Abbasi is the Principal Consultant and Founder at GISBA, which currently serves three continents and has clients from Switzerland, Middle East, Nigeria and South Africa with a focus on banking, telecom and certification against international IT standards. Since founding GISBA seven years ago, Abbasi has dedicated himself to helping organisations achieve the highest IT standard certifications.

MN ChaturvediDirector of IT, Oasis Investment Co.

MN Chaturvedi is the director of IT for Oasis Investment Co. (holding company of Al Shirawi Group), which employs over 6000 people. He set up the IT division of the group with a clear mandate from the board to provide IT services to 30 companies under the group, and help CEOs of these companies to leverage IT to create support excellence. He has also set up a software development support centre company, Oasis TechnoSoft in India, which is a technical excellence centre and technical wing to develop and implement ERP applications.

Event Location

ICT Achievement Awards
Conrad Hotel,
Dubai, UAE

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