Khaleej Times organized Digital Boardroom Meet with top Oil & Gas Companies in association with Nutanix & Alpha Data
Published: Wed 10 Feb 2021, 12:14 PM
Last updated: Wed 10 Feb 2021, 3:43 PM
Khaleej Times, UAE's first English daily, in association with the leader in private cloud, hybrid, and multicloud computing, along with Alpha Data, a highly superior outsourced IT services and Information technologies solutions provider held the Digital Boardroom Meet on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021. The Digital Boardroom was a strategic meet was specially designed to keep in mind the challenges IT Leaders face with their cloud journey, security, remote working and IT Infrastructure. Top IT & Technology Leaders from companies like Petrofac International, Adyard Abu Dhabi, Polarcus, ENOC - Emirates National Oil Company, Emirates Industrial Gases, Petronash, Dubai Petroleum, SNOC - Sharjah National Oil Corporation and many more convened at the virtual meet to discuss the importance of digital transition in the Oil & Gas industry along with its associated challenges. With economies around the world striving to stay afloat in the face of pandemic, the virtual meet touched upon best practices on aligning stakeholders with investments in digitalization and investing in the skill development of current workforces. All the top IT & Technology leaders highlighted their evolving role in the post pandemic digital era. During this crucial discussion, Mr. Bassel Kassem, Regional Manager - South Gulf & Pakistan at Nutanix said, "Oil and Gas industry facing uncertainty and global pressure must maintain a delicate balance between budget restrictions and their journey for their digital transition. With Khaleej times we gathered with the decision makers of this industry and had a very fruitful discussion in terms of how to accomplish their goals, and their needs and how Nutanix can support them providing predictable economics and scalability benefits of web-scale IT. We look forward to continuing these discussions and deepening our engagement with them in the future" Oil & Gas sector in the UAE has a great vision where Digital Transformation roots every single Strategic Ambition to make their businesses and economies better, more efficient and people centric. Though organizations in the region have started their cloud journey, most of them have stayed ahead with their technology efforts. The Boardroom specially designed for the Oil & Gas sector of UAE market ended with a note - Digital transformation requires a deep focus on technology, services, security, policies, and culture-placing IT & Technology Leaders at the center of accelerated transformation efforts.