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Implementing Enterprise Architecture for IT Elements.
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Khaleel Ibraheem
Deputy Managing Director – Information Technology, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Information Technology department implemented an
enterprise architecture project to achieve comprehensive description of all key
elements and relationships that make up the IT organization, and to help achieve
business- IT alignment. We used Zachman framework to describe the elements of
the enterprise architecture. The topic will present the architecture, and
reflect on the effort and benefits achieved by implementing the project. KPC has
implemented the architecture using a software program that captures the elements
of the architecture and present it using a portal.
Khaleel Ibraheem is the Deputy Managing Director for Information Technology at
Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. He hold a Masters Degree in Computer science, and
has over 26 years experience in systems development, and IT management. He was
one of the main players in organizing and structuring of IT function in KPC.
Major projects involved in are the implementation of Oracle ERP system at KPC,
and Performance management system. He heads KPC corporate IT steering committee
responsible for setting up IT strategies and long term development plans.
HP’s Green Business Technology Initiative
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Ali Tamimi
Director-Technology Solutions Group(TSG), Hewlett-Packard Company
This session will offer an overview and business outlook on HP’s Green Business
technology. The topics discussed will include HP’s approach by building a
business case; an overview on saving resources and energy in the workplace
through using HP’s Green Technology and Data Centre Energy efficiency. HP’s best
practices will be presented as examples. Finally, the presentation will be
concluded with “where do we go from here” which will demonstrate HP’s approach
on the next steps.
Ali plays a leading role in driving HP’s enterprise business in the enterprise
domain leveraging HP’s broad portfolio of products and services offering
solutions to customers that deliver on business needs to achieve the required
outcomes.Ali is a seasoned leader and has been in various leadership roles in
HP, before moving to his current role, Ali was Director for the Technology
Services Business Unit in the Middle East, and he also served as Director of
Servers and Storage in Ebttikar and before that in Al-Faisaliah Group as Country
Service Manager in Saudi. Ali holds a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering
from NED University.
IT Governance and Compliance – the cost of this
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Thomas Kelman
Director, AUPEC Limited
To give insights/key points from 25 E&P operating companies around the globe
that participated in the Upstream Study in 2009. No company will be identified
and it would be based on a global and a Middle East evaluation. Not only are you
given insights in to the costs of these topics you will also see the types of
structures (e.g. centralised vs. de-centralised), main priorities and effects of
how the money is spent (effectiveness & efficiency) as well as showing trends in
these areas.
Tom has over 40 years experience in the Oil & Gas, with the last eight years
working as a consultant for AUPEC, specifically in the area of financial
economics within the Information Technology Environment. During this time Tom
has evaluated more than 30 oil companies in the area of IT, in regard to spend
(operational & investment), structures (people, locations, deliver of services),
strategies (investment, people, applications, infrastructure and governance),
priorities (what’s important) and benefits (adding value).
Developing an eProcurement model for economic
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Gary Gribben
BAPCO eProcurement Project Leader
In order to meet the challenges of the Government Vision 2030, Bahrain requires
a vibrant local marketplace, with world class business processes and state of
the art infrastructure. BAPCO will explain the steps they are taking, in
conjunction with Tender Board, Tamkeen and industry leaders in Bahrain, to lay
the foundations for a collaborative, sustainable eprocurement framework which
will provide benefits to local companies and create opportunities for small,
medium enterprises (SMEs) to compete effectively in the new e-marketplace.
Gary has over 30 years experience in project development in Banking,
Manufacturing, Business Consultancy and Oil & Gas in Europe and Middle East and
as University lecturer in UK. He is currently leading the BAPCO eProcurement
development and working with Tamkeen and several major Bahrain companies to
develop a local eProcurement solution. He is a regular speaker in Europe and the
Gulf on eProcurement, is a PMP Professional, Prince2 Practitioner and is
completing an MSC from Aberdeen University UK.
ICT Strategies that Stretch Scarce $$$
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Richard Arthur
IT Quality Assurance Consultant & Business Systems Leader, Kuwait Oil Company
In a tumbling economy, decision-makers can be paralyzed by fear and vision-free
when it comes to addressing their investment portfolios. It’s easy to keep your
head down, focus on fire-fighting and hope things get better. But this is
actually the best time to harness innovative strategies in ICT to optimize
shrinking project portfolios, reduce risk, boost productivity of existing
organizations, and cut development costs. Many techniques can be leveraged, bold
approaches that make good business sense and yield measureable results.
Eng. Richard Arthur, PMP, MBA is IT Quality Assurance Consultant and Business
Systems Leader at Kuwait Oil Company. Mr. Arthur is a Fellow of the Institution
of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineers, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior
Member of the American Society for Quality and a Member of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers. His 25+ years of professional management experience spans
the US, Canada, UK, EU, Middle-East, South Asia and Australia.
10 Top CIO Priorities for 2010
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Kamran Iqbal
Managing Director, Experton Group
As expected, cost-cutting goals have expanded, but it’s not the whole ball game
in 2010. Process improvements, business alignment & service levels are still top
of mind for IT leaders. Following are few Top CIO priorities will be discussed
during this session:
• Effective services delivery
• Ensuring compliance of key regulations
• Managing complexity and cost of your IT operations
• Key Project initiatives
• Leveraging your human resources optimally
Kamran brings to Experton Group over 23year’s of IT industry experience in
management, sales, marketing & business development. Also he takes on the
Country Director Position at META Group Inc. directly from his position as Sales
Director at ASP Gulf based in Dubai.Prior to the ASPGulf; Kamran held country
manager position at Microsoft corporation Inc; responsible for the overall
business operations. He was also the founder of Microsoft in Pakistan.
Saudi Aramco RTOC, Collaborative, Safe and Effective
Delivery of Wells from Start to Finish
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Musab Al Khudiri
Saudi Aramco Petroleum Engineering System Analyst
In January 2008, Saudi Aramco opened the Drilling & Workover Real Time Operation
Center (D&WO RTOC), a state-of-the-art well visualization and real-time
monitoring command center, to plan, drill and complete wells in the safest,
efficient and cost effective manner. RTOC involves three critical components:
People, Process, and Technology. The objective of this paper is to discuss Saudi
Aramco Drilling RTOC experience in developing personnel, establishing process
workflow and acquiring technologies to deliver wells safely and effectively.
Musab has more than ten years of experience in the oil/gas industry. He received
his BSc in Electrical Engineering from KFUPM in 1999 and MS in Petroleum
Engineering in 2008. His work experience is focused on Drilling software
technologies such as remote monitoring & controlling and drilling optimization
systems. He was involved in major projects, such as establishment of Saudi
Aramco Drilling & Workover Operation Center (D&WO RTOC) and the implementation
of Saudi Aramco Data Architecture of Real Time Drilling & Completion
Information. Since 2006, Musab has been assigned as Drilling Real Time Systems
Support Group Leader to support Saudi Aramco RTOC.
IT role in remote areas operation locations
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Abdulla Al Qadi
Director, Exploration & Production, Crescent Pretroleum
Exploration and production of oil and gas is critical when operating in remote
and unstable regions that lack the proper infrastructure. Crescent Petroleum and
its affiliate company Dana Gas were awarded a service contract to explore and
produce oil and gas from two gas field in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) back in mid
of 2007. Environmental issues are a significant component of every energy
industry endeavor, and environment in Kurdistan was extremely challenging in
many aspects like while setting up the communication infrastructure. The session
will shed lights on Crescent’s experience and show how they managed to obtain
outstanding results despite all the challenges”
Abdulla is a graduate of New Mexico School of Mining & Technology in USA. Mr.
Al-Qadi is a petroleum engineer by education with extensive and diversified
experience in exploration and development operations, mainly in petroleum
development, drilling and production. Prior to joining Crescent Petroleum, Mr.
Al-Qadi has had a highly successful career for over 17 years with ADNOC group,
most recently as the Offshore & Onshore Drilling Manager. Afterwards he joined
Crescent Petroleum Company as Director, E & P managing all the company
Exploration and Production Operations inside and outside UAE. He also manages
New Business Development.
Next Generation Data Centre
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Feras Sarraj, Business Critical Systems (BCS) Manager
Hewlett-Packard Company
This session will explore the IT challenges and market needs that create
obstacles for businesses today and then provide an overview of HP Next
generation Data Center and the difference that HP brings to the business.
Feras Sarraj is a veteran with more than 18 years in the IT market. Feras
participated in various kind of IT projects. During his last 12 years in HP he
assisted many organizations planning and executing the shift from classical IT
into future BT (business Technology)
IT Project Failures – Reasons & Mitigation
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Hilal Nasser Al-Habsy
Manager, Business Information Management Systems
Oman Refineries & Petrochemical Co.
The Standish Group's report, "CHAOS Summary 2009," indicates that only 32% of
all IT projects are delivered on time, budget, with required features and
functions. The situation is considered worse in the gulf where in many
organizations IT is not seen as strategic to the businesses and general
awareness is still low. The presentation looks at the reasons behind such high
failure rates and discusses what it takes to achieve success and proposes steps
to be taken to increase the chances of success.
Hilal Nasser Al-Habsy has over 25 years experience in IT and mostly in the Oil &
Gas sector and is currently Manager - Business Information Management Systems,
Oman Refineries & Petrochemical Co. He is presently overseeing a major multi-org
implementation of an ERP system. Before this he was IT Manager at ORPC
responsible for formulation of IT strategies and developing corporate IT plans
.His previous jobs were as Network Manager in Petroleum Development Oman, Muscat
and at Shell UK in Manchester.
Better decision making in real time ( Download )
Arthur Farmer
Regional Sales Manager, MEA and APAC - UC4 Software
Business processes are fluid and interdependent. The sheer volume of information
generated makes it impractical to completely understand how process variations
might impact overall business operations. As process interdependencies
constantly change decision-making criteria, it is often difficult to standardize
and prioritize event responses across an organization. Businesses lack the
capability to quickly identify opportunities or error patterns, determine their
origin, and either exploit an opportunity or prevent the reoccurrence of an
error, this session will shed light on Complex Event Processing (CEP) platform
and how it help organizations to collect all relevant events, interpret and
analyze it, and automatically trigger suitable actions in real-time.
Arthur Farmer is the Regional Sales Manager for MEA and APAC at UC4. Arthur has
broad business experience and has usefully worked over 15 years in international
sales and Marketing positions in the Telecommunications and IT industries.
The new series of satellite telecom applications for
the Oil and Gas sector
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Tariq Al Suwaidi, Manager Marketing and Sales Middle East
Thuraya
Thuraya provides satellite communications over their two satellites which 2/3 of
the world. Main Thuraya services were voice,SMS and Data on a handheld terminal
for the areas of no telecom in fra structure. Thuraya has developed more telecom
products which can serve corporate clients such as oil and gas companies, were
all types of communication means can be provided using Thuraya compact products
which only needs minutes to deploy and use.
Tariq holds a bachelor degree on telecom electronics from Etisalat College of
Engineering. Started career as engineer user terminal within Thuraya Telecom
company. And became responsible for developing Thuraya products and services as
a Senior engineer products development. Joined Marketing and Sales in 2007 as a
Senior country manager and currently responsible for sales of Thuraya products
and services in the middle east.
Case Management for Document Based Processes
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Toni G. Azzi, Executive Manager
EVER TEAM MEA
People, Processes and Technology play an important role today in the success of
Business Process projects. Three pillars apparently isolated but in reality
intricately related by an essentially balanced equation conditioning the success
or failure of all related projects; considerable Business Process Re-engineering
as opposed to considerable change management.
“KISS: Keep It Simple and Small”. Is Case Management an alternative to
document-based Business Process Management?
By means of 18+ years of experience in the ICT sphere in the academic, public
and private business sectors, Toni Azzi has started his journey into Enterprise
Content Management in 2000. In early 2006, Toni Azzi has played a pivotal role
in the entrepreneurial initiative pertaining to the creation of EVER KSA
subsidiary, through consistent constant business development activities. He was
promoted into Executive Manager of EVER Team Middle East by 2008, where he
currently foresees all activities pertaining to EverSuite business development
within the Region.
Move, Protect, Recover and more flexibly Run Critical
IT ( Download )
Wouter Vancoppenolle
Senior Sales and Business Development Manager Middle East & Africa, Double-Take
Software
Downtime –whether planned or unplanned – causes disruption and loss of
productivity for employees as well as tedious and time-consuming processes for
IT managers. Double-Take software protects more than 160 000 servers and is the
solution of choice for more than 19,000 customers worldwide. Double-Take will
present the latest Solutions to easily run Critical IT Workloads via its 4
solutions:
Double-Take Move Double-Take Backup Double-Take Availability Double-Take Flex
Graduated of KHBO Oostende Belgium as Master in Electronics/Informatics, Wouter
has been working in the Storage and Data Protection industry for more than 9
years. Initially he worked as a support and installation engineer for the first
five years for the EMEA region. Now he is responsible for the development of
business and sales for the Middle East and Africa regions. By finding the right
partners in every country Wouter and the team are able to grow the business of
Double-Take Software.
Broadband WIFI Technology- New Perspective for offshore
Oil & Gas Applications
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Mohammed A. Al-Jaroudi
Communications Engineer, Saudi Aramco Company, Saudi Arabia
Broadband WIFI (Wireless Fidelity) communications is becoming a key element to
support the offshore Oil and Gas real time data applications and operations and
provides means of communications with their centralized operation centers. These
days, WIFI systems have enabled the Marine Oil and Gas targets to perform online
applications that couldn't be achieved in the past. This presentation highlights
the benefits of the WIFI technology used by Marine operations to provide the
required connectivity to increase the safety measures and perform Marine daily
operations.
Mohammed Al-Jaroudi is a communications engineer and a satellite specialist
working with Saudi Aramco Company. He holds a B. S in electrical engineering
from King Fahad University, Saudi Arabia. Currently, Mohammed is leading the
VSAT requirements and activities within his Company.
Towards Automation Excellence
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Mohamed AlJneibi
Senior Database Administrator, Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd (GASCO), UAE
GASCO in it's continual journey towards quality and better management of IT
resources and systems, strives to ensure for a fully efficient and automated
experience to be delivered to the GASCO Business and the key stakeholders. With
various co-coordinated internal initiatives between the IT Division and the
various corporate stakeholders in the company. This in turn creates both a
general awareness of the IT Services available, and helps in streamlining
business as a whole.
Senior Database Administrator with GASCO, and has been both Project Lead and
member in various GASCO projects.Has worked as Technical Lead for the Oracle ERP
Implementation within GASCO, and also participated various other projects such
as the GASCO Data warehouse initiative,Automated Corporate KPI system,
Electronic Documentation System and other in house based applications integrated
to GASCO's ERP systems. Also, Mohamed is a certified ITIL practitioner and is
also involved in other IT policies and procedures development with emphasis
towards Change Management.
The High Tech Learning Solution ( Download )
Maximilian Jaber
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, COMCAVE AG
In today’s high-tech business environment, a skilled workforce is indispensible.
Increasingly important, practice-oriented learning concepts, present an enormous
challenge for modern technology-supported learning environments. With GECS
(GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATION SYSTEM), COMCAVE combines diverse learning
technologies (Learning Management System, Virtual Classrooms, e-Labs, etc.) to a
new, state of the art, high-tech method mix. GECS links synchronous with
asynchronous learning methods and combines these with practical learning
sequences within an e-Lab. The tutor is in constant contact with the
participants within the virtual classroom. With GECS COMCAVE offers
practice-oriented courses as complete distance learning solutions.
Maximilian A. Jaber founded COMCAVE AG – IT & Management Consulting in Dortmund,
Germany in the year 2002. He is now CEO and Chairman of the COMCAVE.GROUP, which
encompasses expertise in the areas of system integration, hardware- and software
network services, training and further education.In cooperation with the Federal
Labor Ministry, European Union and other regional authorities, the head of
COMCAVE.GROUP develops and implements strategic approaches to qualify and train
job seekers and specialists and therewith promotes regional cohesion and
competiveness.
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