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East . The achievements of innovative Middle East enterprises and exemplary industry executives were recognised at the Intelligent ICT Awards in October . Regional innovators were recognised by a jury panel , applauded and awarded at the event .

The event , part of the ongoing Intelligent ICT Awards road show , was held in partnership with headline sponsor Ooredoo Business , and took place at Lock , Stock & Barrell , Renaissance by Marriott Business Bay , and showcased IT success stories from across the region , recognising CIOs , CISOs , data centre teams , channel chiefs and business leaders .

The awards , also supported by Fortinet , AmiViz , HP , Proofpoint and HPE Aruba Networking , featured six categories that celebrated the achievements of regional enterprises across market verticals . The nominations received for the awards were further reviewed and scored by an independent jury panel , which shortlisted the winners .

Amongst the top regional enterprises recognised were e & enterprise , du , Pearson , W Hotels with IRIS , Emirates Health Services , DMCC , First Abu Dhabi Bank , RAK Ceramics , Dhaka International Airport , Kawar Energy , Ajman Transport Authority , King ’ s College Hospital London – UAE , Wio Bank , Knight Frank , among others .

Dr Mubaraka Ibrahim , Acting CIO , Emirates Health Services ; and ICT Team of the Year awarded to Sidra .

For this year ’ s Intelligent ICT Awards Middle East 2024 , there were close to 200 attendees , 150 + nominations were received , and 47 winners recognised and awarded . There were 100,000 + aggregated social media impressions .

The Intelligent ICT Awards road show continues next year at Katy ’ s Palace , Johannesburg , on May 8 , 2025 and includes a Golf Day and Round Table .

Turn these pages to read more about the adoption of digital and business transformation across leading regional enterprises .

In this month ’ s Editor ’ s Question , as enterprises move towards multi-cloud architectures for managing their applications , industry executives were invited to describe an agile and cost-effective strategy for managing data storage across cloud platforms and on-premises storage systems . Executives from Cloud Box , Denodo , Qlik , Pure Storage , Seagate , shared their perspectives .

As we move out of the summer months into the season of business and technology events , we wish you the best of success in months ahead .

The prestigious regional awards included CISO of the Year awarded to Ali H AlKhami , CISO , Raya Financing , Dammam ; CIO of the Year awarded to Her Excellency

Arun Shankar Managing Editor arun @ lynchpinmedia . com

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