JEDDAH — The two-day “Saudi Arabia CIO Summit 2012” kicks off today (Tuesday) at Hilton Hotel Jeddah, with more than 100 of the most influential information technology experts in the Kingdom participating, including, including Saudi Telecom Co. (STC). Running under the theme “Driving the Agenda for Business Success”, the hugely popular Summit returns to the region for the second consecutive year and will bring together the region's top CIOs and present first-hand visions and experiences of pioneering thought leaders from the world's premier ICT organizations. The summit will discuss the latest developments in the Kingdom's information technology industry, the new directions in the telecommunication industry and the effectiveness of collaborative tools, and will focus primarily on the role that IT management can play to enhance the operational efficiency and to identify priorities in IT projects. The conference will also showcase aspects related to the management of information centers and business continuity, and the data recovery process in the event of a disaster. STC participates in the summit as the telecom company with the largest network in the Middle East, empowering the company to provide many services and innovative solutions to the enterprise sector, in addition to providing the latest information technologies, application, and innovations, including the Cloud Computing service, which the company had the lead in introducing for the first time in the Saudi market. STC is participating in the summit as a premium partner, for the second consecutive year, in cooperation with IDC, the organizer of the summit. The Saudi Arabia CIO Summit is a widely recognized ICT-focused event where CIOs, CTOs, businesses, and IT executives acquire distilled and compact insights into IT strategies, emerging technologies, and best practices that have direct implications for their business. Valuable, high-level executive insights are shared in tightly regulated sessions where fresh new ideas, both disruptive and exciting, are shared so as to help IT and business professionals implement winning changes that need to be made to their existing IT strategies. The IDC event will illuminate the many leading minds in attendance with cutting-edge industry best practices and engages vendors as they outline their new product blueprints and demonstrate practical solutions. – SG
