RIYADH – AWAL, the leading IT services provider and a subsidiary of Saudi Telecom Group, has announced its participation as the official sponsor in Cisco Connect Saudi Arabia 2013, which will be held on Feb. 4-5 at the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh at Kingdom Centre. Through this sponsorship, AWAL reaffirms its strategic commitment to support Saudi Arabia's IT services sector, as the event spots light on major developments and new trends in IT solutions and services fields. Furthermore, AWAL is set to highlight its portfolio of leading products and technical services in the cloud computing (AWAL Cloud) field during its participation, targeting a wide array of sectors including health sector through AWAL Health service, education sector through AWAL Education service and tele-work sector. The event is considered a leading initiative aiming to serve the information technology industry in the Kingdom through bringing together technology professionals and business decision makers under one roof, and opening up broad prospects to make personal connections. The Cisco Connect Conference 2013 will highlight the latest trends in the ICT industry and showcase most recently developed technologies, products and solutions, in addition to providing an important platform for gathering international and local expertise through hosting over 1800 ICT experts. The conference will discuss several major subjects including Internet, cloud computing, cooperation through network communication, video services, virtual services and unlimited networks. AWAL offers a range of services including system integration, managed services, professional services, AWAL Cloud. — SG
