INTELLIGENT CIO TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE AWARDS, 2016
EMBRACING EXCELLENCE
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s CIOs are increasingly required to demonstrate
the business value of their projects and embrace
the strategic benefits their businesses are
striving to achieve. Against this backdrop, there is also
a growing need for IT plans to include strong business
justifications alongside the well-worn IT metrics that
typically examine application delivery in isolation.
Intelligent CIO strives to bridge this gap between the
traditional role of the CIO and the new-age demands
weighing in on this pivotal business role.
Spreading our resources across print, digital and
events, Intelligent CIO endeavours to guide CIOs of the
Middle East with thought leadership, industry expertise,
knowledge sharing and practical platforms from which
to better understand the voice of the IT industry,
encompassing the voice of vendors, distibutors and
resellers, right down to you, the end-user.
Organisations playing a pivotal role in the
development of the ICT sector in the Middle East came
together to attend the iconic Intelligent CIO Technology
Excellence Awards 2016, hosted by Lynchpin Media and
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sponsored by CNet Training, Fortinet, ITSec, Citrix and
Equinix. This ceremony, being the first of its kind in the
region, marked the beginning of celebrating industry
experts and companies who work tirelessly to push the
margins of excellence and implement best practices
across the technology spectrum.
The award ceremony took place at the Westin
Hotel in Al Habtoor City, Dubai, on May 11, 2016, and
honoured companies and end-user individuals that
have shown outstanding examples of IT implementation
excellence and pioneering spirit in their chosen field of
specialisation in the past year.
A nomination process was put into place to identify
candidates for various categories, thereafter, a
prestigious panel of judges convened to select winners.
The panel consisted of Eliot Beer, a regional industry
expert who has worked across some of the region’s most
respected IT publications; Ivan Kraemer, former regional
leader of HP and Potential and Chris Moore, former
consultant and regional expert for numerous companies
(including Trend Micro).
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