IDC Renews Strategic collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space, and Technology Commission By CIOTechOutlook Team

IDC Renews Strategic collaboration with Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space, and Technology Commission

CIOTechOutlook Team | Monday, 06 March 2023, 04:09 IST

International Data Corporation (IDC) is delighted to announce its partnership with Saudi Arabia's Communications, Space, and Technology Commission (CST) for the annual ICT Indicators Forum 2023 that will take place at the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh on Wednesday, March 8.

This key event will include IDC's renowned "IDC Directions 2023 Saudi Arabia" industry discussion on its itinerary for the second consecutive year. A distinguished speaker lineup, including senior local and worldwide management from IDC, leaders of ICT-enabled public sector organisations from around the Kingdom, and representatives of well-known telecom carriers and ICT vendors, to name a few, will be featured in the captivating programme.

The forum will incorporate presentations, panel discussions, and actual use cases to give participants a comprehensive understanding of the state of the market. By showing how government measures have impacted the ability for digital transformation to occur across all sectors of the Kingdom's economy, it will provide light on Saudi Arabia's journey towards becoming a digital economy.

"The Saudi government has been at the forefront of embedding digital transformation initiatives into its transformation journey and the results are there for all to see," says Hamza Naqshbandi, IDC’s associate vice president for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. "As the execution phase of Vision 2030 approaches, the impetus on revamping and implementing digital strategies will be a key priority for Saudi organizations.

"For the last eight years, IDC Directions has provided an essential platform for executives from across the ICT ecosystem to converge and discover IDC's outlook and predictions for the Kingdom's technology markets. It is our pleasure to collaborate with CST once again as we showcase the true value of effective public-private partnerships."

Naqshbandi and IDC's group vice president and regional managing director for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, Jyoti Lalchandani, will deliver a keynote address as the centrepiece of their participation. In a session titled "Navigating the Storms of Disruption in 2023 and Beyond," they will discuss IDC's technology market prognosis for Saudi Arabia. Salman A. Faqeeh, Managing Director, Saudi Arabia, Cisco; Thamer AlHarbi, President, Microsoft ArabiaEng; Majed Abdulaziz AlOtaibi, Chief Business Officer, Mobily; and Othman Alhokail, Founding Partner, Merak Capital will participate in a fascinating panel discussion on the topic of "Scaling the Digital Business to Support the Digital Economy Aspirations of Saudi Arabia" under the direction of Lalchandani.

The ICT Indicators Forum 2023 will look at the advancements made in boosting the effectiveness of Saudi Arabia's digital infrastructure and reiterate the significance of scaling digital enterprises to support the Kingdom's objectives for a digital economy. It will examine the current trends influencing Saudi Arabia's ICT markets, analyse the industry's financial performance, and present key findings from the most recent "Saudi Internet" report, which aims to stimulate the development of the digital economy by offering accurate statistics on the Kingdom's Internet infrastructure and usage.