Sakkeer Hussain, Director – Sales and Marketing at D-Link Middle East & Africa, tells CNME Editor Mark Forker, that its ability to be agile, adaptable and to innovate in new areas has been central to their 35-year career in the market.


Sakkeer Hussain, Director – Sales and Marketing at D-Link Middle East & Africa, tells CNME Editor Mark Forker, that its ability to be agile, adaptable and to innovate in new areas has been central to their 35-year career in the market.

Phil Lewis, Senior Vice President, Solution Consulting International, EMEA & APJ, sat down for a candid conversation with CNME Editor Mark Forker during GITEX Global 2025. Lewis highlighted the impact its Velocity Suite is having in terms of making process innovation easy.

Vinay, Polurouthu, Product Management Director at Zscaler, told CNME Editor Mark Forker that enterprises have to adopt a policy of Zero Trust Everywhere to ensure secure scalability and remove the complexity of IT operations.

CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Den Sullivan, SVP of International Markets at Citrix, who outlined how the company is more than just a leader in VDI solutions, and outlined how they are leveraging AI to ensure they deliver secure collaboration for their customers.

Laurent Delattre, VP Sales EMEA, at SolarWinds, highlighted the significance of the launch of its new product and the importance of finding the right channel partners in the Middle East

Thomas Rizkallah, Regional Director MENA, at Cloud Software Group, explains to CNME Editor Mark Forker how Citrix is repositioning itself in the market and said that investors need to lower expectations when it comes to AI.

The Future Enterprise Awards 2025 is designed to celebrate both IT leaders and enterprises that have demonstrated excellence over the last 12 months in their respective fields.

Field CISO John Shier discusses Sophos’ new UAE Data Centre, emerging adversary tactics, and the growing need for a people-centric security culture that blends human resilience with advanced AI defences to ensure long-term cybersecurity sustainability.

François Van Deventer, Director & CTO – Emerging Markets – Eastern Europe, Turkey, MENA, Africa at Citrix, spoke during GITEX Global 2025 on how AI has moved from experimentation to execution, rising risk of agentic AI as an insider threat, and how Citrix is helping organisations build secure and intelligent workplaces.

CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to K. Giridhar, General Manager – Sales at Almoayyed Computers, about their presence at GITEX Global 2025, their strategy to continue their expansion across the region – and what role they will play in helping to build the AI infrastructure needed to fuel the AI era.

Dinakar Munagala, Chief Executive Officer of Blaize, shares insights on the company’s sustainable, low-power edge AI solutions and how its programmable platform is driving innovation across smart cities, defense, and education sectors in the Middle East.

Nathan Coutinho, Global Head of Strategic Partner Relations and Market Inisights, at Logitech, spoke to CNME Editor Mark Forker during GITEX 2025, to highlight how their product portfolio is driving better experiences in the workplace.

Abdelilah Nejjari, Managing Director – Gulf Region at Cisco, spoke to CNME Editor Mark Forker, in which he highlighted their three-pillar strategy for success in enabling AI-ready datacentres, future workspaces, and delivering digital resilience for their customers, whilst he also reinforced Cisco’s commitment to making AI work for their customers.

CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Mikhail Vink, VP of Business Development at JetBrains, to learn more about how their Junie AI coding platform is completely reimagining the way the global developer community works and dispels the myth that AI will replace developers.