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Opening Keynote |
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10.30 |
Meeting Arab Economic Development Challenges with Mobile Technologies by Increasing Government, Telecom, and Service Provider Cooperation |
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- Arab participation in the UN Global Compact and regional CSR initiatives
- Best practices in the developing world we can learn from
- Effective models of collaboration for the Arab World
- Measuring social and business return on investment (ROI)
Walid Aradi and Wesley Schwalje, Independent International Development Strategists Focusing on the Arab World |
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11.00 |
Best Practices in Government Unified Messaging: Opportunities and Challenges for the Abu Dhabi Government |
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- Government Unified Messaging: What is it?
- Worldwide Government Case Studies: Successes and Failures
- Opportunities and Challenges for the Abu Dhabi Government
Firas Sleiman, Senior Enterprise Architect, Musanada (Abu Dhabi General Services), UAE |
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11.30 |
Office Communications Server 2007: R2 Overview and New Features: |
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 Gain an insight into the new features and benefits of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2
- How end user communications can be streamlined
- Increase operational flexibility and control for IT administrators
- Creating an extensible communications platform for developers.
Sameh Hablas, ICT Advisor, Government of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE |
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12.00 |
Enterprise Communications Market Drivers and Restraints in the Public Sector |
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- Services Most used in this sector
- Benefits to the Government sector and the population
- Advice for Governments - (case studies of successful installations etc)
- Advice for Vendors
- Future of Enterprise Communications in Middle East
Lindsey Mc Donald, Consultant, ICT, MENA, Frost and Sullivan |
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12.30 |
Green-Government |
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 Ms Najla Al Mutawa, Business Development Manager – Business Solutions, Etisalat, UAE
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| Nationwide Implementation Case Study |
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1.00 |
Transport as an Application for City Wireless Broadband Networks |
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- Delivering passenger internet access in public transport vehicles
- Providing real time arrival information and asset tracking
- Enabling live CCTV in public transport vehicles
Dr Spencer Dando, Regional Director, Nomad Digital, UAE |
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1.30 |
Mobile Location Intelligence In The Fight Against Terrorism and Crime |
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- Invisible location determination using mobile networks
- Real-time tracking to monitor and detect suspicious movements
- Identify and analyze patterns
Amalendu Parasnis, CEO, Mobilaris, Sweden |
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2.00 |
Building Intelligence into the Enterprise Infrastructure |
- Reduce costs on network infrastructure while optimising performance
- Security and high availability features
- Increase mobility and productivity
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| Yarob Sakhnini, Systems Engineering Manager, Brocade, CEMA |
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2.30 |
Next Generation Data Centers |
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 Energy Efficiency is one of the biggest problems facing the world right now.
This presentation will thus focus specifically on cooling and power for the 'Next Generation Data Centre' - giving consideration to such technologies as: HAC; CAC and controls.
Giving consideration to Data Centre power, we will look at energy efficient UPS technologies and the impact of the IT loads on the UPS efficiency.
We will also be looking at energy efficient metrics for the data centre and how they are impacted by the changes in power and cooling technologies that support the new IT infrastructures.
Mohammed Shehata, Global Technical Authority – Data Centres, PTS Consulting |
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3.15 |
Topic TBC |
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 Tariq El Sadiq, Director of Consulting, Shift Technologies, UAE
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3.45 |
TBC |
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Tarek Abbas, Systems Engineering Director, Middle East & Africa. |
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4.15 |
Enterasys Solutions - Increased Security And Lower Operational Cost |
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- NAC as secure cost saver
- NAC in combination with Virtual Datacenter
- SIEM increases security
Markus Nispel, Vice President Solutions Architecture, Enterasys Siemens |
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