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Nicolai Solling is the Chief Technology Officer at  Help  AG,  the  cybersecurity  arm  of  Etisalat Digital. He  is  responsible  for  overseeing  Help AG’s professional services, support services, and technical   vendor   management   across   the region. Additionally,   he   is   also   involved   in coordinating  the  enablement  of  teams  and making  sure  they  are  good  at  delivering  the technologies Help AG takes to market. Since  joining  the  company  in  2008,  he  has successfully grown the technical team by more than 200% and has been heavily involved in the design,  deployment,  and  operation  of  some  of  the  most  challenging  network  and  security  infrastructures  for enterprise customers across a variety of industry sectors. Solling has been in the IT and network industry for over 20 years. He is one of the most well-known names in the industry thanks to his in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity technologies combined with his vast experience in security solutions, integration as well pre-sales and design. Prior to joining Help AG, Solling worked as a Systems Engineering Manager for Juniper Networks in the Nordic region. He has also worked with Cygate Denmark and Cisco earlier. 

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Hesham Saad is a Sr. Regional Cybersecurity Technical Specialist in Microsoft part of the global Cyber Defence team unit and focusing on SOC Operations, Threat Management and Hunting, DFIR, Advanced Analytics & SIEM management with more than 15 years of IT & Cyber experience and a multi-national Cyber speaker. (39) Hesham Saad | LinkedIn  

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Prasanth is an experienced Business Unit leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Data Center industry. Skilled in Breach and Attack Simulations, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, DAST, Privilege and Identity Access Management, Data Protection, Storage Area Network (SAN), Blade Technology, Storage, Data Analytics, AI, Data Lake and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Strong business development professional with experience in handling large projects and customers.

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As an industry leader in government and public safety industry, Mr. Abdulrahim is a Global Government Industry Scientist at Huawei on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enable governments, emergency services, city authorities and other government organizations to prevent, detect, respond and recover quickly and effectively from changing economic environments and threats to public safety. He is a well sought after solution specialist, using his vast design experience to digitally transform challenging customer requirements into workable mission critical solutions that can be utilized to make communities and cities safe.
 
With his extensive hands-on experience in delivering turnkey integrated mission critical command & control solutions for multiple government and private agencies, Mr. Abdulrahim is a natural expert to assist public safety, security and customs agencies realize the solutions that satisfy their end-to-end functional and operational requirements today and in the future, apply best practices to achieve project management excellence during delivery and respective maintenance and lifecycle transformation requirements to assure continued 24/7 operation and evolution, in addition to setting up essential training requirements.
 
With over 32 years of experience in the Safety and Security industry, Mr. Abdulrahim started as a consultant with Dar Al Handash in London in 1987. He has held multiple positions in design, sales, project management to executive management in multi-cultural environments in Europe and the Middle East, specializing in delivering large scale turnkey integrated security solutions.
 
Prior to joining Huawei, Mr. Abdulrahim was Regional Director [CEO] for Siemens Enterprise Security in the GCC region and Head of the Center of Competence (CoC) for Middle East and Asia. Mr. Abdulrahim spent 15 years at Siemens, joining in 2001 as a Regional Sales Manager to establish the security offering in the region. Under his leadership, Siemens became a market leader in command and control solutions for public safety in the GCC with prestigious C3 references including Dubai Police, Abu Dhabi Police, Palm Island, Qatar Pearl, Qatar NCC, Qatar Asian Games 2006, CICPA, RGO among others.
 
Over the years, Mr. Abdulrahim has specialized in ICT solutions, Integrated Security Solutions (PSIM, CCTV, Access Control, Intrusion Detection), Command & Control and Crisis Management operational and functional planning, Integrated Call Center Mission Critical Communication (Telephony, Tetra, LTE, Intercom), Computer Aided Dispatch, GIS (2D/3D), Customs and Border solutions, Education solutions, Smart City and Safe City E2E roll-out, Intelligent Traffic Sysytems, Critical Infrastructure and Smart Campus solutions, Video Surveillance with Analytics, Sovereign Cloud and Data Centers solutions, PA & Sound Reinforcement, Acoustics, A/V & Video Wall, Control Room Design, Wireless Transmission, Risk & Threat Analysis, Fire Detection and Protection, in addition to assisting with setting up SOP’s for client procedures.

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Award Winning  cybersecurity professional at one of the Big Four accounting firms.

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Sion brings to Pentera’s team over 20 years of experience in product, project management, sales, pre-sales, and technical roles.

Sion began his career in Cyber Security in the IDF and prior to Pentera, worked at companies like Cronus Cyber Technologies, Cybonet, Matrix, and others.

Sion is also the author of the book: Hands-On Dark Web Analysis.

After performing various roles at Pentera, Sion is now Head of Technical Channel Enablement for EMEA & APAC.

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Harshit Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Appknox is a tech enthusiast. A serial entrepreneur, Harshit is one of the very few early members and moderators of India's largest startup group, Bangalore Startups.His eight years of startup and technological experience set the way for him to co-found Appknox in 2013.

Harshit has worked with over 300+ enterprises, ranging from top financial institutions to Fortune 500 companies, to establish security standards that assist organizations in securing their mobile applications and shortening the time required for security testing.

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Nuno is a software group manager at Checkmarx, where he manages and contributes to the development of SAST products.

His expertise in parsing and compilers helped improve Checkmarx’ static analysis in the past few years.

Nuno has a PhD in Computer Science and is a regular invited lecturer in Portuguese universities with teaching and supervision duties.

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Barak Hadad is the Head of Research at Armis Labs, responsible for hunting zero days and reverse engineering. Formerly an embedded R&D team lead in the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence, his current focus is unraveling the mysteries of various embedded devices.

While breaking a factory production line is Barak's idea of fun at work, in his free time Barak enjoys gaining as many hobbies as possible, including windsurfing, volleyball, skiing, water-ski, volley-ski, ball-water-ski, and of course his favorite, wind-ball-surf-volley-ski.

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CEO at UBIRCH, Entrepreneur & Thought Leader Digital Transformation & Media

Since the early 90's, Karim has been an entrepreneur and business angel in the digital economy. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and his passion is the establishment and development of new markets based on digital transformation of existing business models through application and constant innovation of technology.

Karim has created and successfully grown companies from the ground as well as held senior international positions in enterprises like DENTSU AEGIS and Deutsche Post DHL.

He helps shaping the industry by taking leadership in trade associations and JICs like the IAB or BVDW as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences.

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Mitun has a wealth of experience in DevSecOps architecture, development and management. Currently working with Global Enterprise Organisations, Mitun helps protect Enterprise company software by remediating risk and preventing vulnerable software components entering your software supply chain.

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Mark has 30 years experience building strategies to help organisations leverage the latest technologies to grow their business, increase customer revenue, expand Global presence and improve the customer journey.  

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Experienced Information Security and Information Technology leader with a track record across different industries and transformation programs. Proud to led effective teams and deliver on missions serving national objectives. Strong leadership, vision, and execution capabilities. Highly driven and goal oriented, leveraging knowledge, insight, and purpose.

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Yasmine is a Cybersecurity Programme Officer in the cybersecurity division of ITU's Bureau for Development, focusing on capacity development and inclusion in cybersecurity.

Notably, she is the global coordinator for the Women in Cyber programme, a project aiming to help overcome the digital gender divide and to increase the number of women leaders in cybersecurity.

As a member of ITU's Youth Task Force, she also leads Youth4Cyber, an initiative to expose young people to the cybersecurity field and encourage them to take on the cybersecurity challenges of tomorrow. She also assists on activities related to Child Online Protection, notably training development for national policymakers, educators, parents and children.

She holds a Master's degree from the University of Geneva in International and European Governance, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane.

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Bahaa has over 20 years’ experience in IT and over 16 years specializing in the area of IT security. Bahaa has held multiple positions with security and mobility vendors both Technical and sales roles. Throughout his career, Bahaa has acquired multiple vendor and security industry certifications including CISSP certification while holding leading positions with companies such as McAfee and MobileIron. Bahaa also has unique Mobile and Cloud Security expertise in the META region and has helped multiple customers with their mobility strategies and needs.

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Duo Account Executive, Nizar leads Cisco Secure Access by Duo Line of business in the Middle East and Africa, He is an SME with more than 13 years of experience in various Cybersecurity Domains particularly access management, Security monitoring and Zero Trust.

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Sheik Abideen is a veteran in the Cyber Security industry with 20+ years of experience, mainly in the Middle East Market. He joined Securonix in 2019 as Regional Director and has been credited with driving the overall business in the region.

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Based in Dubai (UAE), Apollinaire is in charge of developing Fortinet’s Public Cloud business in the International Emerging Markets. He has extensive experience in Cloud, having worked on Cloud-based PBXs as early as 2003.

 Previous to Fortinet, Apollinaire worked for Tata Communications where he led a team of Solutions Architects covering the company’s full portfolio of managed services, including Security, Hybrid Clouds,  Networking and Unified Communications.

Other experience includes several years with Cisco in the Emerging Markets, where Apollinaire occupied various roles in the area of Collaboration technologies: Sr Manager Consulting Systems Engineers, Regional CTO and Sales Lead. He has a solid experience in Communications Technologies, after 11 years at Nortel Networks, where he was a Partner Manager, a Systems Engineer and a Senior Systems Engineer Manager.

 Apollinaire holds a Masters in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. 

He is fully adapted to the desert climate of Dubai, and with his wife and daughter, he enjoys the many activities that this city has to offer - his favourites are Scuba Diving, Desert Camping and Triathlon.

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Gilles LORIDON has worked as an IT Consultant for 28 years and specialized in Cyber Security for more than 23 years. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Strategic Security, as a Senior Security Consultant and later on, took the position of CEO of Global Security Network, its Middle East branch. Gilles has been leading and implementing successful Cyber Security projects for Security Agencies, Military Departments, Nuclear & Electricity companies and Oil & Gas corporations in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles has been conducting Cyber Security Audits & VA/PT, ISA 62443 CSMS implementations, Risk Assessments and Awareness Training in the Energy and Governmental sectors. Gilles is certified ISA/IEC 62443 Cyber Security Fundamentals Specialist and an elected leader of ISA UAE Section. Gilles is a Senior Consultant for more than 22 years in InfoSec and for 27 years in IT. He has been leading and implementing InfoSec projects for Security Agencies and Energy companies in EMEA. As prime consultant, Gilles has been conducting, InfoSec Audits, ICS CSMS implementations and Awareness Training. As Senior Nuclear Security & Safety Consultant, Gilles worked for 8 years on the Safety Analysis Reports for CLA and OLA. He was the principal consultant on the Cyber Security Plan, Chapter 19.3 AIA and Chapter 19.4 LOLA. Gilles LORIDON, MSc in Computer Science from French IT Engineering school, IIE, has worked as IT Consultant for more than twenty-three years and in the Cyber Security field for more than eighteen years.   Gilles started his career in 1994 as a Military Engineer for the CEA, the French Nuclear Energy agency, in the Nuclear Emergency Response Team. This team is part of the first responders in case of a nuclear accident. In 1997, he moved to the USA and worked for the US government as a project leader for the development of innovative Economic Intelligence System. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Economic Intelligence, CEIS, as a Project Leader and later, took the responsibility of its Middle East Branch. During the last eighteen years as CEO of Global Security Network, he has been leading and implementing successful cyber security projects for governmental Agencies, Critical infrastructure companies and Military Departments in Europe, Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles’ main role is to the Subject Matter Expert on ICS/SCADA Cyber Security and on the relevant standards (ISO 27001, IEC 62443, ISF IRAM) and regulations (US NRC 5.71, UAE NESA, NEI, etc…). Gilles is ISA certified ISA 84/IEC 61511 SIS Fundamentals Specialist. Gilles is participating to many conferences in the MENA region presenting, peer reviewed, DataDiode cases studies and ISC/SCADA cyber security related subjects. Gilles conducted many Information Security Awareness sessions in the Oil & Gas and the Nuclear sectors for hundreds of employees with a focus on ICS/SCADA users. Gilles developed and delivered Safety and Security training for the UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation including the APR 1400 Safety Systems and the Safety Assessors Training.

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Experienced business professional with 25+ years experience in ICT Solution business development, Industry Solutions ,Technology Services and consultancy across multinational organizations across the globe.

In-depth knowledge in the ICT environment in regard to technology Solutions like Cloud, BCDR, Data Warehousing and ICT transformation Solutions across various Industries.

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Seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience in the industrial control systems, enterprise software, cybersecurity and services. He has helped several organizations with their cybersecurity journey.

At Honeywell, Pranav leads the Cybersecurity practice for Middle East and Africa comprising of Sales and Technical Solution consultants for Honeywell Connected Cyber, enabling customers with their cybersecurity programs in various verticals like Energy, Utilities, Metals and mining.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and control and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business.

He is a certified GICSP and helps to drive cybersecurity awareness and education into industrial control system communities in the region and India.

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Muhammad Rehan has more than 16 years of experience in Infrastructure, Security and NOC/SOC solutions. He currently is the Director of Infrastructure Management Solutions at Spire Solutions with key Focus on NSOC Solutions and Security Consulting Services. His responsibilities include consultation on designs, configuration, and implementation.

He has proven skills and success in providing strategic solutions for client business applications, security operations management, incident response, OT and IT infrastructure management.

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Syed Abid Ali is the Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of PhishRod, the fastest growing security awareness & automated phishing incident response platform across Middle East, North Africa & APAC region.

Realizing the need for human centric cyber security, he founded PhishRod and provides leadership for product development, sales operations & expansion across the regions through partner network.

Prior to PhishRod he served as Country Manager for McAfee and his areas of interest include Enterprise Security Awareness Frameworks, Automated Phishing Incident Response & Integrated Threat Intelligence

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Brian Egenrieder is a veteran sales strategist and executive leader with over 30 years of enterprise software experience. His expertise in sales, sales management, business / channel development, marketing and executive leadership, gives Brian a unique perspective in helping early-stage companies build from the ground up and in also helping established companies hone their strategies and processes to consistently increase revenue while controlling costs. He has vast experience in selling into the Fortune 500 / Global 2000 as well as the SMB markets, experience in both commercial and government sectors, and experience in working in both domestic and foreign markets. He has been employed at a multitude of Software companies with a wide array of technology solutions, including IBM, webMethods, Deltek, Sterling Commerce, and others, giving Brian a broad spectrum of knowledge in high tech enterprise sales and marketing. He currently holds the position of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for the rapidly growing Mobile Security company SyncDog. He is helping them to continually increase their global footprint and change the way the world goes about getting work done on their mobile devices.

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Seasoned cyber security sales specialist with over 19 year of experience in the Middle East region. Currently heading the corporate security division of Bulwark Technologies having a successful track record of driving large enterprise sales, selling Information security solutions – hardware, software, cloud and hybrid, across the whole of Middle East, Levant and the Indian Sub-continent to all verticals that include Telcos & Service Providers, Oil & Gas, Banking Sector, Ministries, Utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education and other corporate institutions.

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Nicolai Solling is the Chief Technology Officer at  Help  AG,  the  cybersecurity  arm  of  Etisalat Digital. He  is  responsible  for  overseeing  Help AG’s professional services, support services, and technical   vendor   management   across   the region. Additionally,   he   is   also   involved   in coordinating  the  enablement  of  teams  and making  sure  they  are  good  at  delivering  the technologies Help AG takes to market. Since  joining  the  company  in  2008,  he  has successfully grown the technical team by more than 200% and has been heavily involved in the design,  deployment,  and  operation  of  some  of  the  most  challenging  network  and  security  infrastructures  for enterprise customers across a variety of industry sectors. Solling has been in the IT and network industry for over 20 years. He is one of the most well-known names in the industry thanks to his in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity technologies combined with his vast experience in security solutions, integration as well pre-sales and design. Prior to joining Help AG, Solling worked as a Systems Engineering Manager for Juniper Networks in the Nordic region. He has also worked with Cygate Denmark and Cisco earlier. 

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Hesham Saad is a Sr. Regional Cybersecurity Technical Specialist in Microsoft part of the global Cyber Defence team unit and focusing on SOC Operations, Threat Management and Hunting, DFIR, Advanced Analytics & SIEM management with more than 15 years of IT & Cyber experience and a multi-national Cyber speaker. (39) Hesham Saad | LinkedIn  

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Prasanth is an experienced Business Unit leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Data Center industry. Skilled in Breach and Attack Simulations, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, DAST, Privilege and Identity Access Management, Data Protection, Storage Area Network (SAN), Blade Technology, Storage, Data Analytics, AI, Data Lake and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Strong business development professional with experience in handling large projects and customers.

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As an industry leader in government and public safety industry, Mr. Abdulrahim is a Global Government Industry Scientist at Huawei on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enable governments, emergency services, city authorities and other government organizations to prevent, detect, respond and recover quickly and effectively from changing economic environments and threats to public safety. He is a well sought after solution specialist, using his vast design experience to digitally transform challenging customer requirements into workable mission critical solutions that can be utilized to make communities and cities safe.
 
With his extensive hands-on experience in delivering turnkey integrated mission critical command & control solutions for multiple government and private agencies, Mr. Abdulrahim is a natural expert to assist public safety, security and customs agencies realize the solutions that satisfy their end-to-end functional and operational requirements today and in the future, apply best practices to achieve project management excellence during delivery and respective maintenance and lifecycle transformation requirements to assure continued 24/7 operation and evolution, in addition to setting up essential training requirements.
 
With over 32 years of experience in the Safety and Security industry, Mr. Abdulrahim started as a consultant with Dar Al Handash in London in 1987. He has held multiple positions in design, sales, project management to executive management in multi-cultural environments in Europe and the Middle East, specializing in delivering large scale turnkey integrated security solutions.
 
Prior to joining Huawei, Mr. Abdulrahim was Regional Director [CEO] for Siemens Enterprise Security in the GCC region and Head of the Center of Competence (CoC) for Middle East and Asia. Mr. Abdulrahim spent 15 years at Siemens, joining in 2001 as a Regional Sales Manager to establish the security offering in the region. Under his leadership, Siemens became a market leader in command and control solutions for public safety in the GCC with prestigious C3 references including Dubai Police, Abu Dhabi Police, Palm Island, Qatar Pearl, Qatar NCC, Qatar Asian Games 2006, CICPA, RGO among others.
 
Over the years, Mr. Abdulrahim has specialized in ICT solutions, Integrated Security Solutions (PSIM, CCTV, Access Control, Intrusion Detection), Command & Control and Crisis Management operational and functional planning, Integrated Call Center Mission Critical Communication (Telephony, Tetra, LTE, Intercom), Computer Aided Dispatch, GIS (2D/3D), Customs and Border solutions, Education solutions, Smart City and Safe City E2E roll-out, Intelligent Traffic Sysytems, Critical Infrastructure and Smart Campus solutions, Video Surveillance with Analytics, Sovereign Cloud and Data Centers solutions, PA & Sound Reinforcement, Acoustics, A/V & Video Wall, Control Room Design, Wireless Transmission, Risk & Threat Analysis, Fire Detection and Protection, in addition to assisting with setting up SOP’s for client procedures.

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Award Winning  cybersecurity professional at one of the Big Four accounting firms.

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Sion brings to Pentera’s team over 20 years of experience in product, project management, sales, pre-sales, and technical roles.

Sion began his career in Cyber Security in the IDF and prior to Pentera, worked at companies like Cronus Cyber Technologies, Cybonet, Matrix, and others.

Sion is also the author of the book: Hands-On Dark Web Analysis.

After performing various roles at Pentera, Sion is now Head of Technical Channel Enablement for EMEA & APAC.

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Harshit Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Appknox is a tech enthusiast. A serial entrepreneur, Harshit is one of the very few early members and moderators of India's largest startup group, Bangalore Startups.His eight years of startup and technological experience set the way for him to co-found Appknox in 2013.

Harshit has worked with over 300+ enterprises, ranging from top financial institutions to Fortune 500 companies, to establish security standards that assist organizations in securing their mobile applications and shortening the time required for security testing.

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Nuno is a software group manager at Checkmarx, where he manages and contributes to the development of SAST products.

His expertise in parsing and compilers helped improve Checkmarx’ static analysis in the past few years.

Nuno has a PhD in Computer Science and is a regular invited lecturer in Portuguese universities with teaching and supervision duties.

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Barak Hadad is the Head of Research at Armis Labs, responsible for hunting zero days and reverse engineering. Formerly an embedded R&D team lead in the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence, his current focus is unraveling the mysteries of various embedded devices.

While breaking a factory production line is Barak's idea of fun at work, in his free time Barak enjoys gaining as many hobbies as possible, including windsurfing, volleyball, skiing, water-ski, volley-ski, ball-water-ski, and of course his favorite, wind-ball-surf-volley-ski.

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CEO at UBIRCH, Entrepreneur & Thought Leader Digital Transformation & Media

Since the early 90's, Karim has been an entrepreneur and business angel in the digital economy. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and his passion is the establishment and development of new markets based on digital transformation of existing business models through application and constant innovation of technology.

Karim has created and successfully grown companies from the ground as well as held senior international positions in enterprises like DENTSU AEGIS and Deutsche Post DHL.

He helps shaping the industry by taking leadership in trade associations and JICs like the IAB or BVDW as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences.

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Mitun has a wealth of experience in DevSecOps architecture, development and management. Currently working with Global Enterprise Organisations, Mitun helps protect Enterprise company software by remediating risk and preventing vulnerable software components entering your software supply chain.

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Mark has 30 years experience building strategies to help organisations leverage the latest technologies to grow their business, increase customer revenue, expand Global presence and improve the customer journey.  

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Experienced Information Security and Information Technology leader with a track record across different industries and transformation programs. Proud to led effective teams and deliver on missions serving national objectives. Strong leadership, vision, and execution capabilities. Highly driven and goal oriented, leveraging knowledge, insight, and purpose.

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Yasmine is a Cybersecurity Programme Officer in the cybersecurity division of ITU's Bureau for Development, focusing on capacity development and inclusion in cybersecurity.

Notably, she is the global coordinator for the Women in Cyber programme, a project aiming to help overcome the digital gender divide and to increase the number of women leaders in cybersecurity.

As a member of ITU's Youth Task Force, she also leads Youth4Cyber, an initiative to expose young people to the cybersecurity field and encourage them to take on the cybersecurity challenges of tomorrow. She also assists on activities related to Child Online Protection, notably training development for national policymakers, educators, parents and children.

She holds a Master's degree from the University of Geneva in International and European Governance, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane.

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Bahaa has over 20 years’ experience in IT and over 16 years specializing in the area of IT security. Bahaa has held multiple positions with security and mobility vendors both Technical and sales roles. Throughout his career, Bahaa has acquired multiple vendor and security industry certifications including CISSP certification while holding leading positions with companies such as McAfee and MobileIron. Bahaa also has unique Mobile and Cloud Security expertise in the META region and has helped multiple customers with their mobility strategies and needs.

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Duo Account Executive, Nizar leads Cisco Secure Access by Duo Line of business in the Middle East and Africa, He is an SME with more than 13 years of experience in various Cybersecurity Domains particularly access management, Security monitoring and Zero Trust.

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Sheik Abideen is a veteran in the Cyber Security industry with 20+ years of experience, mainly in the Middle East Market. He joined Securonix in 2019 as Regional Director and has been credited with driving the overall business in the region.

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Based in Dubai (UAE), Apollinaire is in charge of developing Fortinet’s Public Cloud business in the International Emerging Markets. He has extensive experience in Cloud, having worked on Cloud-based PBXs as early as 2003.

 Previous to Fortinet, Apollinaire worked for Tata Communications where he led a team of Solutions Architects covering the company’s full portfolio of managed services, including Security, Hybrid Clouds,  Networking and Unified Communications.

Other experience includes several years with Cisco in the Emerging Markets, where Apollinaire occupied various roles in the area of Collaboration technologies: Sr Manager Consulting Systems Engineers, Regional CTO and Sales Lead. He has a solid experience in Communications Technologies, after 11 years at Nortel Networks, where he was a Partner Manager, a Systems Engineer and a Senior Systems Engineer Manager.

 Apollinaire holds a Masters in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. 

He is fully adapted to the desert climate of Dubai, and with his wife and daughter, he enjoys the many activities that this city has to offer - his favourites are Scuba Diving, Desert Camping and Triathlon.

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Gilles LORIDON has worked as an IT Consultant for 28 years and specialized in Cyber Security for more than 23 years. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Strategic Security, as a Senior Security Consultant and later on, took the position of CEO of Global Security Network, its Middle East branch. Gilles has been leading and implementing successful Cyber Security projects for Security Agencies, Military Departments, Nuclear & Electricity companies and Oil & Gas corporations in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles has been conducting Cyber Security Audits & VA/PT, ISA 62443 CSMS implementations, Risk Assessments and Awareness Training in the Energy and Governmental sectors. Gilles is certified ISA/IEC 62443 Cyber Security Fundamentals Specialist and an elected leader of ISA UAE Section. Gilles is a Senior Consultant for more than 22 years in InfoSec and for 27 years in IT. He has been leading and implementing InfoSec projects for Security Agencies and Energy companies in EMEA. As prime consultant, Gilles has been conducting, InfoSec Audits, ICS CSMS implementations and Awareness Training. As Senior Nuclear Security & Safety Consultant, Gilles worked for 8 years on the Safety Analysis Reports for CLA and OLA. He was the principal consultant on the Cyber Security Plan, Chapter 19.3 AIA and Chapter 19.4 LOLA. Gilles LORIDON, MSc in Computer Science from French IT Engineering school, IIE, has worked as IT Consultant for more than twenty-three years and in the Cyber Security field for more than eighteen years.   Gilles started his career in 1994 as a Military Engineer for the CEA, the French Nuclear Energy agency, in the Nuclear Emergency Response Team. This team is part of the first responders in case of a nuclear accident. In 1997, he moved to the USA and worked for the US government as a project leader for the development of innovative Economic Intelligence System. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Economic Intelligence, CEIS, as a Project Leader and later, took the responsibility of its Middle East Branch. During the last eighteen years as CEO of Global Security Network, he has been leading and implementing successful cyber security projects for governmental Agencies, Critical infrastructure companies and Military Departments in Europe, Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles’ main role is to the Subject Matter Expert on ICS/SCADA Cyber Security and on the relevant standards (ISO 27001, IEC 62443, ISF IRAM) and regulations (US NRC 5.71, UAE NESA, NEI, etc…). Gilles is ISA certified ISA 84/IEC 61511 SIS Fundamentals Specialist. Gilles is participating to many conferences in the MENA region presenting, peer reviewed, DataDiode cases studies and ISC/SCADA cyber security related subjects. Gilles conducted many Information Security Awareness sessions in the Oil & Gas and the Nuclear sectors for hundreds of employees with a focus on ICS/SCADA users. Gilles developed and delivered Safety and Security training for the UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation including the APR 1400 Safety Systems and the Safety Assessors Training.

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Experienced business professional with 25+ years experience in ICT Solution business development, Industry Solutions ,Technology Services and consultancy across multinational organizations across the globe.

In-depth knowledge in the ICT environment in regard to technology Solutions like Cloud, BCDR, Data Warehousing and ICT transformation Solutions across various Industries.

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Seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience in the industrial control systems, enterprise software, cybersecurity and services. He has helped several organizations with their cybersecurity journey.

At Honeywell, Pranav leads the Cybersecurity practice for Middle East and Africa comprising of Sales and Technical Solution consultants for Honeywell Connected Cyber, enabling customers with their cybersecurity programs in various verticals like Energy, Utilities, Metals and mining.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and control and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business.

He is a certified GICSP and helps to drive cybersecurity awareness and education into industrial control system communities in the region and India.

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Muhammad Rehan has more than 16 years of experience in Infrastructure, Security and NOC/SOC solutions. He currently is the Director of Infrastructure Management Solutions at Spire Solutions with key Focus on NSOC Solutions and Security Consulting Services. His responsibilities include consultation on designs, configuration, and implementation.

He has proven skills and success in providing strategic solutions for client business applications, security operations management, incident response, OT and IT infrastructure management.

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Syed Abid Ali is the Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of PhishRod, the fastest growing security awareness & automated phishing incident response platform across Middle East, North Africa & APAC region.

Realizing the need for human centric cyber security, he founded PhishRod and provides leadership for product development, sales operations & expansion across the regions through partner network.

Prior to PhishRod he served as Country Manager for McAfee and his areas of interest include Enterprise Security Awareness Frameworks, Automated Phishing Incident Response & Integrated Threat Intelligence

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Brian Egenrieder is a veteran sales strategist and executive leader with over 30 years of enterprise software experience. His expertise in sales, sales management, business / channel development, marketing and executive leadership, gives Brian a unique perspective in helping early-stage companies build from the ground up and in also helping established companies hone their strategies and processes to consistently increase revenue while controlling costs. He has vast experience in selling into the Fortune 500 / Global 2000 as well as the SMB markets, experience in both commercial and government sectors, and experience in working in both domestic and foreign markets. He has been employed at a multitude of Software companies with a wide array of technology solutions, including IBM, webMethods, Deltek, Sterling Commerce, and others, giving Brian a broad spectrum of knowledge in high tech enterprise sales and marketing. He currently holds the position of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for the rapidly growing Mobile Security company SyncDog. He is helping them to continually increase their global footprint and change the way the world goes about getting work done on their mobile devices.

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Seasoned cyber security sales specialist with over 19 year of experience in the Middle East region. Currently heading the corporate security division of Bulwark Technologies having a successful track record of driving large enterprise sales, selling Information security solutions – hardware, software, cloud and hybrid, across the whole of Middle East, Levant and the Indian Sub-continent to all verticals that include Telcos & Service Providers, Oil & Gas, Banking Sector, Ministries, Utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education and other corporate institutions.

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Nicolai Solling is the Chief Technology Officer at  Help  AG,  the  cybersecurity  arm  of  Etisalat Digital. He  is  responsible  for  overseeing  Help AG’s professional services, support services, and technical   vendor   management   across   the region. Additionally,   he   is   also   involved   in coordinating  the  enablement  of  teams  and making  sure  they  are  good  at  delivering  the technologies Help AG takes to market. Since  joining  the  company  in  2008,  he  has successfully grown the technical team by more than 200% and has been heavily involved in the design,  deployment,  and  operation  of  some  of  the  most  challenging  network  and  security  infrastructures  for enterprise customers across a variety of industry sectors. Solling has been in the IT and network industry for over 20 years. He is one of the most well-known names in the industry thanks to his in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity technologies combined with his vast experience in security solutions, integration as well pre-sales and design. Prior to joining Help AG, Solling worked as a Systems Engineering Manager for Juniper Networks in the Nordic region. He has also worked with Cygate Denmark and Cisco earlier. 

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Hesham Saad is a Sr. Regional Cybersecurity Technical Specialist in Microsoft part of the global Cyber Defence team unit and focusing on SOC Operations, Threat Management and Hunting, DFIR, Advanced Analytics & SIEM management with more than 15 years of IT & Cyber experience and a multi-national Cyber speaker. (39) Hesham Saad | LinkedIn  

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Prasanth is an experienced Business Unit leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Data Center industry. Skilled in Breach and Attack Simulations, SIEM, Vulnerability Management, Penetration Testing, DAST, Privilege and Identity Access Management, Data Protection, Storage Area Network (SAN), Blade Technology, Storage, Data Analytics, AI, Data Lake and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Strong business development professional with experience in handling large projects and customers.

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As an industry leader in government and public safety industry, Mr. Abdulrahim is a Global Government Industry Scientist at Huawei on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enable governments, emergency services, city authorities and other government organizations to prevent, detect, respond and recover quickly and effectively from changing economic environments and threats to public safety. He is a well sought after solution specialist, using his vast design experience to digitally transform challenging customer requirements into workable mission critical solutions that can be utilized to make communities and cities safe.
 
With his extensive hands-on experience in delivering turnkey integrated mission critical command & control solutions for multiple government and private agencies, Mr. Abdulrahim is a natural expert to assist public safety, security and customs agencies realize the solutions that satisfy their end-to-end functional and operational requirements today and in the future, apply best practices to achieve project management excellence during delivery and respective maintenance and lifecycle transformation requirements to assure continued 24/7 operation and evolution, in addition to setting up essential training requirements.
 
With over 32 years of experience in the Safety and Security industry, Mr. Abdulrahim started as a consultant with Dar Al Handash in London in 1987. He has held multiple positions in design, sales, project management to executive management in multi-cultural environments in Europe and the Middle East, specializing in delivering large scale turnkey integrated security solutions.
 
Prior to joining Huawei, Mr. Abdulrahim was Regional Director [CEO] for Siemens Enterprise Security in the GCC region and Head of the Center of Competence (CoC) for Middle East and Asia. Mr. Abdulrahim spent 15 years at Siemens, joining in 2001 as a Regional Sales Manager to establish the security offering in the region. Under his leadership, Siemens became a market leader in command and control solutions for public safety in the GCC with prestigious C3 references including Dubai Police, Abu Dhabi Police, Palm Island, Qatar Pearl, Qatar NCC, Qatar Asian Games 2006, CICPA, RGO among others.
 
Over the years, Mr. Abdulrahim has specialized in ICT solutions, Integrated Security Solutions (PSIM, CCTV, Access Control, Intrusion Detection), Command & Control and Crisis Management operational and functional planning, Integrated Call Center Mission Critical Communication (Telephony, Tetra, LTE, Intercom), Computer Aided Dispatch, GIS (2D/3D), Customs and Border solutions, Education solutions, Smart City and Safe City E2E roll-out, Intelligent Traffic Sysytems, Critical Infrastructure and Smart Campus solutions, Video Surveillance with Analytics, Sovereign Cloud and Data Centers solutions, PA & Sound Reinforcement, Acoustics, A/V & Video Wall, Control Room Design, Wireless Transmission, Risk & Threat Analysis, Fire Detection and Protection, in addition to assisting with setting up SOP’s for client procedures.

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Award Winning  cybersecurity professional at one of the Big Four accounting firms.

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Sion brings to Pentera’s team over 20 years of experience in product, project management, sales, pre-sales, and technical roles.

Sion began his career in Cyber Security in the IDF and prior to Pentera, worked at companies like Cronus Cyber Technologies, Cybonet, Matrix, and others.

Sion is also the author of the book: Hands-On Dark Web Analysis.

After performing various roles at Pentera, Sion is now Head of Technical Channel Enablement for EMEA & APAC.

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Harshit Agarwal, Co-Founder and CEO at Appknox is a tech enthusiast. A serial entrepreneur, Harshit is one of the very few early members and moderators of India's largest startup group, Bangalore Startups.His eight years of startup and technological experience set the way for him to co-found Appknox in 2013.

Harshit has worked with over 300+ enterprises, ranging from top financial institutions to Fortune 500 companies, to establish security standards that assist organizations in securing their mobile applications and shortening the time required for security testing.

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Nuno is a software group manager at Checkmarx, where he manages and contributes to the development of SAST products.

His expertise in parsing and compilers helped improve Checkmarx’ static analysis in the past few years.

Nuno has a PhD in Computer Science and is a regular invited lecturer in Portuguese universities with teaching and supervision duties.

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Barak Hadad is the Head of Research at Armis Labs, responsible for hunting zero days and reverse engineering. Formerly an embedded R&D team lead in the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence, his current focus is unraveling the mysteries of various embedded devices.

While breaking a factory production line is Barak's idea of fun at work, in his free time Barak enjoys gaining as many hobbies as possible, including windsurfing, volleyball, skiing, water-ski, volley-ski, ball-water-ski, and of course his favorite, wind-ball-surf-volley-ski.

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CEO at UBIRCH, Entrepreneur & Thought Leader Digital Transformation & Media

Since the early 90's, Karim has been an entrepreneur and business angel in the digital economy. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and his passion is the establishment and development of new markets based on digital transformation of existing business models through application and constant innovation of technology.

Karim has created and successfully grown companies from the ground as well as held senior international positions in enterprises like DENTSU AEGIS and Deutsche Post DHL.

He helps shaping the industry by taking leadership in trade associations and JICs like the IAB or BVDW as well as being a frequent speaker at conferences.

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Mitun has a wealth of experience in DevSecOps architecture, development and management. Currently working with Global Enterprise Organisations, Mitun helps protect Enterprise company software by remediating risk and preventing vulnerable software components entering your software supply chain.

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Mark has 30 years experience building strategies to help organisations leverage the latest technologies to grow their business, increase customer revenue, expand Global presence and improve the customer journey.  

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Experienced Information Security and Information Technology leader with a track record across different industries and transformation programs. Proud to led effective teams and deliver on missions serving national objectives. Strong leadership, vision, and execution capabilities. Highly driven and goal oriented, leveraging knowledge, insight, and purpose.

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Yasmine is a Cybersecurity Programme Officer in the cybersecurity division of ITU's Bureau for Development, focusing on capacity development and inclusion in cybersecurity.

Notably, she is the global coordinator for the Women in Cyber programme, a project aiming to help overcome the digital gender divide and to increase the number of women leaders in cybersecurity.

As a member of ITU's Youth Task Force, she also leads Youth4Cyber, an initiative to expose young people to the cybersecurity field and encourage them to take on the cybersecurity challenges of tomorrow. She also assists on activities related to Child Online Protection, notably training development for national policymakers, educators, parents and children.

She holds a Master's degree from the University of Geneva in International and European Governance, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane.

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Bahaa has over 20 years’ experience in IT and over 16 years specializing in the area of IT security. Bahaa has held multiple positions with security and mobility vendors both Technical and sales roles. Throughout his career, Bahaa has acquired multiple vendor and security industry certifications including CISSP certification while holding leading positions with companies such as McAfee and MobileIron. Bahaa also has unique Mobile and Cloud Security expertise in the META region and has helped multiple customers with their mobility strategies and needs.

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Duo Account Executive, Nizar leads Cisco Secure Access by Duo Line of business in the Middle East and Africa, He is an SME with more than 13 years of experience in various Cybersecurity Domains particularly access management, Security monitoring and Zero Trust.

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Sheik Abideen is a veteran in the Cyber Security industry with 20+ years of experience, mainly in the Middle East Market. He joined Securonix in 2019 as Regional Director and has been credited with driving the overall business in the region.

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Based in Dubai (UAE), Apollinaire is in charge of developing Fortinet’s Public Cloud business in the International Emerging Markets. He has extensive experience in Cloud, having worked on Cloud-based PBXs as early as 2003.

 Previous to Fortinet, Apollinaire worked for Tata Communications where he led a team of Solutions Architects covering the company’s full portfolio of managed services, including Security, Hybrid Clouds,  Networking and Unified Communications.

Other experience includes several years with Cisco in the Emerging Markets, where Apollinaire occupied various roles in the area of Collaboration technologies: Sr Manager Consulting Systems Engineers, Regional CTO and Sales Lead. He has a solid experience in Communications Technologies, after 11 years at Nortel Networks, where he was a Partner Manager, a Systems Engineer and a Senior Systems Engineer Manager.

 Apollinaire holds a Masters in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. 

He is fully adapted to the desert climate of Dubai, and with his wife and daughter, he enjoys the many activities that this city has to offer - his favourites are Scuba Diving, Desert Camping and Triathlon.

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Gilles LORIDON has worked as an IT Consultant for 28 years and specialized in Cyber Security for more than 23 years. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Strategic Security, as a Senior Security Consultant and later on, took the position of CEO of Global Security Network, its Middle East branch. Gilles has been leading and implementing successful Cyber Security projects for Security Agencies, Military Departments, Nuclear & Electricity companies and Oil & Gas corporations in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles has been conducting Cyber Security Audits & VA/PT, ISA 62443 CSMS implementations, Risk Assessments and Awareness Training in the Energy and Governmental sectors. Gilles is certified ISA/IEC 62443 Cyber Security Fundamentals Specialist and an elected leader of ISA UAE Section. Gilles is a Senior Consultant for more than 22 years in InfoSec and for 27 years in IT. He has been leading and implementing InfoSec projects for Security Agencies and Energy companies in EMEA. As prime consultant, Gilles has been conducting, InfoSec Audits, ICS CSMS implementations and Awareness Training. As Senior Nuclear Security & Safety Consultant, Gilles worked for 8 years on the Safety Analysis Reports for CLA and OLA. He was the principal consultant on the Cyber Security Plan, Chapter 19.3 AIA and Chapter 19.4 LOLA. Gilles LORIDON, MSc in Computer Science from French IT Engineering school, IIE, has worked as IT Consultant for more than twenty-three years and in the Cyber Security field for more than eighteen years.   Gilles started his career in 1994 as a Military Engineer for the CEA, the French Nuclear Energy agency, in the Nuclear Emergency Response Team. This team is part of the first responders in case of a nuclear accident. In 1997, he moved to the USA and worked for the US government as a project leader for the development of innovative Economic Intelligence System. In 1999, Gilles joined the European Leader in Economic Intelligence, CEIS, as a Project Leader and later, took the responsibility of its Middle East Branch. During the last eighteen years as CEO of Global Security Network, he has been leading and implementing successful cyber security projects for governmental Agencies, Critical infrastructure companies and Military Departments in Europe, Africa, as well as in the Middle East. Gilles’ main role is to the Subject Matter Expert on ICS/SCADA Cyber Security and on the relevant standards (ISO 27001, IEC 62443, ISF IRAM) and regulations (US NRC 5.71, UAE NESA, NEI, etc…). Gilles is ISA certified ISA 84/IEC 61511 SIS Fundamentals Specialist. Gilles is participating to many conferences in the MENA region presenting, peer reviewed, DataDiode cases studies and ISC/SCADA cyber security related subjects. Gilles conducted many Information Security Awareness sessions in the Oil & Gas and the Nuclear sectors for hundreds of employees with a focus on ICS/SCADA users. Gilles developed and delivered Safety and Security training for the UAE Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation including the APR 1400 Safety Systems and the Safety Assessors Training.

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Experienced business professional with 25+ years experience in ICT Solution business development, Industry Solutions ,Technology Services and consultancy across multinational organizations across the globe.

In-depth knowledge in the ICT environment in regard to technology Solutions like Cloud, BCDR, Data Warehousing and ICT transformation Solutions across various Industries.

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Seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience in the industrial control systems, enterprise software, cybersecurity and services. He has helped several organizations with their cybersecurity journey.

At Honeywell, Pranav leads the Cybersecurity practice for Middle East and Africa comprising of Sales and Technical Solution consultants for Honeywell Connected Cyber, enabling customers with their cybersecurity programs in various verticals like Energy, Utilities, Metals and mining.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation and control and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in International Business.

He is a certified GICSP and helps to drive cybersecurity awareness and education into industrial control system communities in the region and India.

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Muhammad Rehan has more than 16 years of experience in Infrastructure, Security and NOC/SOC solutions. He currently is the Director of Infrastructure Management Solutions at Spire Solutions with key Focus on NSOC Solutions and Security Consulting Services. His responsibilities include consultation on designs, configuration, and implementation.

He has proven skills and success in providing strategic solutions for client business applications, security operations management, incident response, OT and IT infrastructure management.

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Syed Abid Ali is the Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of PhishRod, the fastest growing security awareness & automated phishing incident response platform across Middle East, North Africa & APAC region.

Realizing the need for human centric cyber security, he founded PhishRod and provides leadership for product development, sales operations & expansion across the regions through partner network.

Prior to PhishRod he served as Country Manager for McAfee and his areas of interest include Enterprise Security Awareness Frameworks, Automated Phishing Incident Response & Integrated Threat Intelligence

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Brian Egenrieder is a veteran sales strategist and executive leader with over 30 years of enterprise software experience. His expertise in sales, sales management, business / channel development, marketing and executive leadership, gives Brian a unique perspective in helping early-stage companies build from the ground up and in also helping established companies hone their strategies and processes to consistently increase revenue while controlling costs. He has vast experience in selling into the Fortune 500 / Global 2000 as well as the SMB markets, experience in both commercial and government sectors, and experience in working in both domestic and foreign markets. He has been employed at a multitude of Software companies with a wide array of technology solutions, including IBM, webMethods, Deltek, Sterling Commerce, and others, giving Brian a broad spectrum of knowledge in high tech enterprise sales and marketing. He currently holds the position of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for the rapidly growing Mobile Security company SyncDog. He is helping them to continually increase their global footprint and change the way the world goes about getting work done on their mobile devices.

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Seasoned cyber security sales specialist with over 19 year of experience in the Middle East region. Currently heading the corporate security division of Bulwark Technologies having a successful track record of driving large enterprise sales, selling Information security solutions – hardware, software, cloud and hybrid, across the whole of Middle East, Levant and the Indian Sub-continent to all verticals that include Telcos & Service Providers, Oil & Gas, Banking Sector, Ministries, Utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education and other corporate institutions.