Stephen Fernandes, Chief Growth Officer and Head of Middle East at Planview, shares insights on the company’s regional investments, the evolution of GITEX, and how AI and localisation are shaping customer success.


Stephen Fernandes, Chief Growth Officer and Head of Middle East at Planview, shares insights on the company’s regional investments, the evolution of GITEX, and how AI and localisation are shaping customer success.

Fadi Sharaf, Chief Revenue Officer, LinkShadow, discusses bringing unified intelligence to meet the challenges of an evolving threat landscape and showcasing their new CybermeshX platform at GITEX 2025.

Vishal Dhawan, Managing Director and President – Asia Pacific & Middle East at Planview, shares how the company is driving digital transformation across the region through AI-powered connected work platforms, strategic alliances, and a strong local presence.

Focusing on collaboration and scalability, Hitachi Vantara outlines how its channel-first approach, new partner programmes, and AI-ready infrastructure are driving enterprise transformation across the Middle East.

Chief Growth Officer & Head Middle East, Stephen Fernandes, shares his vision for Planview’s regional journey—focusing on partnerships, execution, and AI-powered transformation to help enterprises connect strategy with action.

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.

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.

Khalid Aljamed is driving strategic growth and regional expansion as General Manager across the Middle East and Africa region. Riyadh …

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.

Rogier Egberink, VP, Sales, Quest and Paul Virgili, VP, Sales, Quest, outline the value of AI as a driver of economic diversification and the $350 million commitment made to their own platform in this exclusive interview.

ASUS looks to empower the Middle East region via its AI Factory architecture in combination with NVIDIA-accelerated computing.
CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Fissal Oubida, General Manager – Middle East, Africa and India, at Lexar, to learn …

Dubai is once again at the epicentre of global innovation as GITEX GLOBAL 2025 prepares to open its doors from …

Cyber resilience has become the ultimate measure of business survival in a digital-first world. For the UAE—driving ambitious transformation and …

As the Kingdom continues its digital transformation journey under Vision 2030, it is setting a new benchmark for the effective integration of AI, data, and performance management in enterprise environments.

Presenting new cutting-edge solutions engineered to accelerate AI adoption and reinforce the Middle East’s digital leadership.

Visitors to experience key advancements in AI, networking, and hybrid cloud and learn more HPE’s leading AI solutions, the industry’s first 100% direct liquid cooling systems architecture, AI-native and secure networking solutions, and more – all under a bold new brand.

With 150 years of legacy and a strong focus on sustainability, Toshiba accelerates growth in the UAE and Saudi Arabia …

Nvidia backs UAE AI initiatives with a new robotics lab.