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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration & Networking Coffee |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome Note
Zafir Junaid, Regional Manager, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Pakistan, SAS |
| 09:15-10:00 | Keynote: : Data is the New Oil
Cenk Serdar, Senior Vice President, Consumer (Chief Consumer Officer), STC |
| 10:00-10:30 | How AI and IOT helps Organizations in Digital Transformations
Alex Kwiatkowski, Senior Industry Consultant, Global Banking Practice, SAS |
| 10:30-11:00 | Enterprise Analytics – Accelerating Your Path to Value with an Open Analytics Platform
Muhammad Asif Abbasi, Principal Solutions Architect | Analytical Ecosystem and Hadoop, SAS |
| 11:00-11:30 | Networking Coffee Break & Demos |
| 11:30-12:30 | Panel Discussion: AI and Machine Learning Adoption in the Middle East: Opportunity or a Challenge?
- Taha Tkito, Head of Technology and CX - Panda Retail Company
- Ali Omran, DGM, Technology Services - Arab National Bank
- Dr. Adnan Albar, Information Technology Consultant - Cabinet of Ministers, KSA
- Hazem M. Sonbol, AVP Direct Sale - SAUDIA Airlines
- Yigit Karabag, Regional Director, Business Solutions - SAS
Moderator: Celal Kavuklu, Head of Pre-sales, Middle East & Turkey, SAS
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| 12:30-12:50 | Prayer Break
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| 12:50-13:20 | How AI improves the Customer Experience
Celal Kavuklu, Head of Pre-sales, Middle East & Turkey, SAS |
| 13:20-13:40 | Paradise Found, with Machine Learning: Find Your Best City to Live
Badshah Mukherjee, Data Scientist / Advanced Analytics lead, SAS |
| 13:40-14:00 | Looking ahead: the role of Analytics in Blockchain, Machine Learning and IoT
Yigit Karabag, Regional Director, Business Solutions - Middle East & Eastern Europe, SAS |
| 14:00-14:10 | Closing Remarks |
| 14:10 - onwards | Buffet Lunch |
