12 February 2026 | 9:00 – 16:00
Al Ula Ballroom
Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences
6623 Eastern Ring Road, Ghirnatah,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Join us at Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on February 12th 2026 as we usher in a new era of cyber resilience - cloud-native, cyber-ready, and ready for Agentic AI. Experience a transformational event that will redefine how businesses recover, secure, and scale across all clouds.
This exclusive event brings together global cyber leaders, the Commvault executive team, and top industry experts together.
If you're building the future of secure AI, multi-cloud operations, or enterprise resilience - this is your place.
Why Attend?
SHIFT Riyadh is where visionaries, decision-makers, and innovators come to shape what’s next. Whether you’re a CISO preparing your defenses for AI-driven attacks, an IT leader architecting multi-cloud continuity, or a strategic partner elevating customer resilience - you’ll walk away with:
- A clear, actionable understanding of emerging AI-related threats
- A roadmap to building modern, automated, cloud-ready resilience
- Insights from global experts who are setting the standards for cyber recovery
- The strategies, tools, and best practices needed to stay ahead - across every cloud, every workload, every risk
Featured Topics
- AI Governance & Security
- Business Growth & Communication
- Cyber Resilience & Recovery
- Security Strategy & Governance
- Threat Intelligence & Operations
Register now and be part of the community shaping the future of cyber resilience across Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Registrations are now closed. For more details, please reach out to Sajjad Petkar – [email protected]
Agenda
Time
Agenda
09:00 – 09:50
Arrival and Registrations
09:50 – 10:00
Saudi National Heritage Welcome Dance
10:00 – 10:05
Welcome Note
Dr. Mazen H Abduljabbar, Country Manager – Riyadh HQ, Saudi Arabia, Commvault
10:05 – 10:30
Keynote: The AI Imperative - Resilience Reimagined
Richard Gadd, Senior Vice President, EMEA, Commvault
10:30 – 11:00
The Next Standard of Resilience
Ravi Baldev, Senior Director, Sales Engineering – Emerging Markets CEE, CIS & META, Commvault
11:00 – 11:20
AWS Session
Faisal Mohammed, Senior Solution Architect, AWS
11:20 – 11:35
Net Zero Session
Dr. Mohammed Alshaikh, President and Co-Founder, Net Zero
11:35 – 11:50
Coffee Break
11:50 – 12:05
Next Level Cyber Resilience of Commvault with Microsoft,
Tamer Elhamy, Executive Director, Microsoft Middle East & Africa
12:05 – 12:25
Continuous Business, Bassam Hemdan, AVP - SaaS, EMEAI & APAC, Commvault
12:25 – 12:40
Cyber Resilience in the Hybrid Cloud Era: A Practical Blueprint for Modern Organisations
Muhammad Ali Imran, Sr. Solutions Architect, HPE
12:40 – 12:50
Prayer Break
12:50 – 13:05
SHAMS Revamp: Our Measurable Modernization Objectives
Hamzah Mahafzah, Acting Enterprise Architect Director, Najm
13:05 – 13:30
From Security To Resilience - The Emergence of ResOps
Darren Thomson – Vice President & Field CTO, EMEA&I Region, Commvault
13:30 – 13:50
Mind Over Momentum: Building Resilience Through Discipline and Balance
Nouf Marwaai, President of Asian Yogasana Sports Federation and Arab Yoga Committee and Founder of Nouf Sports Academy
13:50 – 14:00
Break
14:00 – 14:15
From Days to Minutes: Accelerating Cyber Recovery in a Zero-Trust World
Umair Riaz, Field Solutions Architect, Pure Storage
14:15 – 14:45
Fireside Chat
Industry Insights – Exploring Emerging Trends, Unlocking Potential, and Defending Against Threats
•Mohammed Almulhim, IT Infrastructure and Cloud, ASMO
•Khurram Durrani, CIO, Salam Telecom
•Tamer Elhamy, Executive Director, Microsoft Middle East & Africa
•Ravi Baldev, Senior Director, Sales Engineering – Emerging Markets CEE, CIS & META, Commvault
14:45 – 14:50
Closing Notes
Fady Richmany, Corporate Vice President Emerging Markets CEE, CIS & META, Commvault
14:50 – 16:00
Lunch & Networking
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