CONFERENCE AGENDA DAY ONE
SESSION 1 – Overview of the data-driven government and its role in improving decision making and performance in the region
➤ Executive panel discussion 1 – Vision and strategy for data and its role in the MENA region
- Overview of vision and strategy plans of government authorities on the optimization and usage of data in the region.
- Discussing goal setting, benchmarking, and establishing a reference point to measure your progress.
- Recognizing the transformative potential of data analytics and its role in innovating
smart services and improve quality of life for citizens and residents.
- Leveraging data analytics to unlock key information, improve transparency and
efficiency in citizen management.
- Identifying and providing the necessary and accurate data for the private sector to
support economic development.
- Addressing different regulatory frameworks to manage risks and optime data usage and potential in the region.
➤ Technology innovation sessions
These sessions will highlight latest technologies in advanced data management and analysis. The session consists of 10-minute back-to-back presentations from experts in the industry who will provide insights and case studies on the successful application of a variety of advanced data management and analytics innovations.
➤ Panel discussion 2 – Adopting a data-driven government strategy to improve decision making and performance
- Understanding data sharing capacity from a national data platform perspective to provide effective and easy user access to all available resources.
- Overcoming data silos to build and empower cross-functional teams.
- Utilizing data to validate a course of action before decision making.
- Identifying the right combination of data solutions to make data-driven decisions and create excellent citizen experiences.
- Unlocking the value of location data insights using visualization and other geospatial technologies.
➤ Presentation 1 - Data science: smart implementation of machine learning and AI
- Discussing the best models in Machine Learning to be applied on collected data to optimize government smart services.
- Exploring latest AI techniques to extract insights and new patterns from new data to enable predictive analysis.
- Classifying the algorithms utilized to update the probabilities after the initial data analysis is generated.
SESSION 2 – Embracing intelligent technologies in a data-driven environment
➤ Panel discussion 3 - Building a high-performing analytics ecosystem to achieve excellence towards 4.0 transformation
- Exploring intelligent technologies (ML, AI, RPA, blockchain, augmented analytics, etc.) to understand and achieve operational excellence.
- Leveraging full potential of data virtualization to maximize advanced analytics in
modern data architectures.
- Deriving insights with cognitive and predictive analytics to accomplish set goals.
- Aggregating and analyzing data in real time to align critical processes, manpower and technologies.
- Evaluating IIoT technologies to automate and process data which will help optimize decision making and enable transformation
➤ Presentation 2 – Integrating 2D & 3D geospatial data analytics technology in the public sector
- Utilizing spatial data analytics to solve complex geo-based problems and fact-based decision making.
- Leveraging advanced spatial analytics to effectively examine large data sets and eliminate errors.
- Looking at the analysis of visuals of 2D and 3D spatial technology to understand the corresponding properties and implications.
- Reviewing state-of-the-art technology of spatial modelling to identify key achievements and challenges.
CONFERENCE AGENDA DAY TWO
SESSION 3 – Adopting an operational approach to build a robust data environment
➤ Keynote session – The road to establish a strong compliance framework
- Understanding data sovereignty framework of the region and discovering data law challenges.
- Discussing data analytics regulatory framework to ensure optimization of data usage.
- Addressing the need for a data-driven strategy to establish regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Identifying new and emerging risks to data privacy and security and the right policies to prevent them.
➤ Panel Discussion 1 – Reviewing the region’s cyber security capabilities and identifying challenges
- Exploring key data security challenges related to infrastructure, connectivity, manpower, and technology lag.
- Addressing data governance as a key to manage the security and privacy of data and citizen information.
- Identifying data security controls that can support the quality and accuracy of data
insights.
- Implementing most efficient techniques of information privacy on regional data
platforms to ensure trust among citizens and residents.
➤ Technology innovation sessions
These sessions will highlight latest technologies in advanced data management and
analysis. The session consists of 10-minute back-to-back presentations from experts in the industry who will provide insights and case studies on the successful application of a variety of advanced data management and analytics innovations.
➤ Presentation 1 - Data processing and statistical models: The role of imputation for missing data value in detecting fraudulent reports
- Understanding the interplay of statistics and computation to measure the impact of missing data value.
- Discussing latest imputation methods and their implementation in different stages.
- Classifying data exploration and mining, and handling missing values by applying
detection techniques to data sets.
- Exploring successful use of predictive analytics in optimizing information interpretation and data organization.
➤ Presentation 2 – Data security data privacy: Best practices in the MENA region
- Looking at the best practices in data security and privacy to understand the levels of violation and security failure.
- Understanding the common regulations in compliance for data security and privacy.
- Exploring tokenization to virtually eliminate the risk of data theft in both data security and privacy spectrums.
- Identifying different measures to ensure data security that will lead to sensitive information privacy.
➤ Presentation 3 – Cloud and Data Adoption in KSA
- Driving innovations in enterprise data management to enable advanced analytics.
- Exploring the key dimensions of the hybrid environment to understand the hybrid data analytics process (internal and external data, operational data, self-service access and exploration, data lake, and cloud and on-premises etc.)
- Leveraging the power of hybrid data to overcome key challenges related to on-premise and cloud storage.
➤ Panel discussion 2 - Exploring upcoming trends to better understand the future of data in the government sector
- Exploring data monetization strategies to drive process improvement and financial returns.
- Adopting augmented data management performance as the key function to boost
productivity and efficiency.
- Exploring self-service tools to manage data assets effectively and efficiently without requiring specific technical expertise or training.
- Upgrading your visualization techniques to convert data into stories and convey the importance of the analyzed information.
- Adopting blockchain and distributed ledger technology to increase transaction
security
➤ Presentation 4 – Overview of current and upcoming data integration strategies
- Connecting applications to reduce human effort and error, and improve data quality and value.
- Evolving towards cloud integration for a flexible and scalable infrastructure.
- Understanding the planning for metadata management to increase the value of
granular data integration.
- Leveraging and combining more data types while analyzing datasets to generate useful insights for integration.