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SPEAKERS

chairman & keynote speaker

Ed Sleiman

Head of Special Projects

(Former CISO)
KAUST

Event Speakers

Ali Abdulla Al Sadadi

Chief of Information Technology

Ministry of Oil and Environment - Bahrain

Dr. Shaheela Banu Abdul Majeed

Chief Information Security Officer

Kuwait Gulf Oil Company

Ali Al Janadebah

IT Deputy Director and Director of E-Services

Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs Al Baha

Alaa K Falimban

Manager, Cyber Security Operations

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (MA'ADEN)

Shaker Al Hashlan

OT/ ICS Cybersecurity Advisor

GCC’s Leading Electricity Company

Obay Al Jerian

Cybersecurity Advisor

Confidential

Dr. Hussain Al Wasly

Director of Information Technology

NEOM Green Hydrogen Company

Adeel Agha

Senior Analyst Cyber Security

Al Ittefaq Steel Production Co.

Danah Almajid

Business System Analyst

GCC Lab

Sara AlJbli

Information Protection Analyst

Sadara Chemical Company

Mohammed Alobaid

Cybersecurity Head

Confidential

Uduak J. Daniels

ICS Cybersecurity Consultant

Saudi Aramco

Aamir Khalid Pirzada

CIO

National Metal Manufacturing and Casting Company (Maadaniyah)

Mohammed Alkorbi

OT/ICS Cybersecurity Specialist

Tasnee

Dr. Fatimah Alakeel

Assistant Professor

King Saud University

Mazen Qasim

CISO

John Hopkins Aramco Healthcare

Aiman Al-Ghamdi

Manager, Cybersecurity GRC

Ma'aden

Darweesh Al Buainain

CISO

Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP)

Sufiyan M. Bharde

Cybersecurity Consultant

Ali Zaid Al-Quraishi & Brothers

Khalid Adnan Alissa

CIO

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Dr. Abdulwahid Al Abdulwahid

Cybersecurity Expert, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity

Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu

Bushra Al Sulayyim

Lecturer at the College of Computing and Informatics / Cybersecurity Consultant

Saudi Electronic University

Sara H. Alghamdi

Cybersecurity Compliance Manager

Eastern Province Amana

Granville Collins

Founder & CEO

EMME Advisory Service

Heyaze Bargi

VP of Advisory Services CIPHER

Ahmed Abdelhamid

Senior regional solution consultant IMETA region

LogRhythm

Saeed Ahmad

Business Unit Manager

OneIdentity By Quest

Gwendal Azous

OT Specialist

Wallix

Werno Gevers

Sales Director

Mimecast

Andrey Strelkov

Head of Industrial Cybersecurity Product Line

Kaspersky

Song Haibin

Chief Security Officer

Huawei Cloud Europe

Dr. Aloysius Cheang

President & Chief Security Officer

Huawei Middle East & Central Asia

Abdul Rehman Tariq

Regional Director – Middle East

Solarwinds

Saleh Bin Muhaysin

Senior Advisor Incident Response

Netwitness

Dr. Bilal Al Sabbagh

Head of Cybersecurity

OIVAN

Eduardo Giancristofaro

Channel Partner Director – OT

SSH

Tarek Akrama

Cybersecurity Business Leader

Honeywell Building Technologies – Service; Middle East, Turkey and Africa

Dr. Hussain Al Dawood

Director of Cybersecurity Innovation

NEOM

Yasser Gamaan AlGhamdi

Chief Security Officer

Huawei Saudi

Ehab Al Dubbeh

Senior Systems Engineer

Palo Alto

Norah AlKhathlan

OT Cybersecurity Analyst

Saudi Aramco

Alexandra Topalian

Master of Ceremonies and Moderator

Arundhathi Mohandas

Senior Conference Producer and Moderator

CYSEC Global

Abdullah Gumaijan

Director of Cybersecurity Operations

Government Entity, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

As the Director of Cybersecurity Operations in the Ministry of Energy, Abdullah Algumaijan is leading a team of talents responsible for monitoring the Ministry’s assets, responding to cybersecurity incidents, evaluating the security posture of the ministry and implementing security controls aims to protect the Ministry’s digital infrastructure. Prior to this role he specialized in offensive security in STC Solutions and Saudi Aramco.

Abdullah is interested in delivering training for ethical hacking courses, he published online courses in multiple learning platforms and marketplaces. He also collaborates with non-profit organizations to deliver public awareness sessions in cybersecurity.