Showcasing a future-ready AI ecosystem at GITEX Global 2025, Hitachi Vantara’s Gulf leadership highlights how advanced infrastructure, responsible AI, and strong industry partnerships are shaping the region’s digital transformation.


Showcasing a future-ready AI ecosystem at GITEX Global 2025, Hitachi Vantara’s Gulf leadership highlights how advanced infrastructure, responsible AI, and strong industry partnerships are shaping the region’s digital transformation.

How are regional companies best using AI to deliver a more personalised customer interface? What are organisations doing to balance innovation with ethical AI use and data privacy? To get the answers first-hand, Veronica Martin spoke to Suliman Gaouda, Regional Vice President – MEA, at Sitecore.

Nokia is playing an important role in enabling 5G adoption and digital transformation across industries in the Middle East and Africa region, said Mikko Lavanti, Senior Vice President of Mobile Networks, Middle East and Africa, Nokia. On the sidelines of the GITEX 2025, he spoke about how emerging technologies such as AI and edge computing are shaping the next phase of connectivity.

At GITEX 2025, Tim Pfaelzer, Senior Vice President & General Manager – EMEA, Veeam, told Veronica Martin how the company proritises the region’s key markets and industries, always ensuring enterprise-scale data resilience, and leveraging AI to strengthen security and compliance.

As cyber threats continue to grow in scale and sophistication, organisations in the Middle East region are ramping up the adoption of intelligent security and governance technologies. At the show, Praneeth Vanteru, Technical Evangelist at ManageEngine, shed light on the company’s role in strengthening digital resilience for regional enterprises and their latest innovations.

Fissal Oubida, General Manager – Middle East, Africa and India, Lexar, spoke to Veronica Martin about the firm’s key innovations, and how Lexar is strengthening its raft of solutions to optimise customer experience – at all times ensuring resilience and a portfolio of ‘safety first’ solutions.

Shailesh Bhatia, Senior Manager, CyberArk, speaks to Veronica Martin about the raft of cyber threats that the company consistently highlights – and how its solutions are best-placed to build resilience, strong governance and trust.

Axis Communications appoints Loubna Imenchal as Regional Director for the Middle East and Africa.

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Powered by the introduction of the new Silicon One P200 chip, Cisco’s groundbreaking 8223 routing systems redefine secure, efficient AI networking – enabling seamless ‘scale-across’ architectures that connect AI clusters across multiple data centers.

These figures highlight the rapid adoption of AI-powered tools in reshaping how users engage with digital asset trading.

CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Madeline Hung, General Manager of ASUS Europe, during GITEX Global 2025, to learn how the group is expanding their operations to the Middle East, and how their suite of technologies are empowering educators to harness the capabilities of cutting-edge technologies like AI.

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