Khaleej Times, DG Business join hands for latest edition of CIO Meet, Dubai

The meet is designed to bring prominent technology leaders together, while being focused on improving business resilience by leveraging modern technologies.

DG Business, a division of Sharaf DG, has joined hands with Khaleej Times to bring you the latest edition of the CIO Meet in Dubai. Catering to a wide range of organisations in the UAE, from small and medium-sized businesses to government and enterprise level customers, CIO Meet aims to address some of the challenges that CIOs face with regards to IT infrastructure and process transformation.

Many organisations have begun to restructure their business model in order to improve productivity and reduce cost to the organization. With rapidly changing industry dynamics and technological advancements, CIOs are required to consider how their current technology platform is affecting their business. The CIOs need to consider how technology can be leveraged to automate their business, while ensuring that they are able to invest in relevant technology using subscription based models. With the aptly chosen theme of 'Move to Modern', this CIO Meet is specially designed to bring prominent technology leaders together to develop a community of like-minded technology leaders, while being focused on improving business resilience by leveraging modern technologies.

Speaking about this latest edition of the CIO Meet, Vicky Kapur, Executive Editor, Khaleej Times, said: "With emerging technologies extensively and exhaustively transforming the way businesses operate, the role of the CIO continues to undergo an unprecedented level of transition. The CIO's remit is no longer digital transformation - it is how to leverage the digitised organisation for gains in an era of constant change. Having already conducted a number of successful CIO Meets in the past, Khaleej Times firmly believes that bringing CIOs together under one roof to discuss, deliberate and draw on each other's knowledge network will ultimately help the industry leaders generate revenue and drive value."

Commenting on the collaboration, AS Pillai, General Manager, DG Business stated: "With a trusted partner like Sharaf DG on board to manage and transform existing IT infrastructures, customers can now focus on their core business. Offering its customers' businesses resilient consumption models based on subscription services, organizations can make their IT investments predictable in line with their respective business growth. Sharaf DG also brings industry standard tools and processes to automate the customer's workplace to improve employee productivity and reduce organizational cost. Through this networking platform, our customers will have the opportunity to meet our technology partners and other industry leaders as well."

In addition, Shishir Kapadia, Senior Vice-President (Finance & Operations), Khaleej Times, stated, "In today's fast-paced work dynamics, if employees do not have access to the latest tech-offering in the market, you cannot expect to stay above your competition. When you consider things like next generation devices and data security, one does immediately think about the cost involved, among other factors. However, DG Business along with its expert panel of keynote speakers intend to share their industry-wide knowledge and explain how seamless this transition can be. Companies that can put technology front and center will be best prepared to face the challenges ahead."

To be a part of the CIO Meet or other KT Connect Programs, e-mail marketing@cio-meet.com.

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