CXO50 Awards and Conclave 2025
19 Feb, 2025
About
Redefining Resilience and Cyber Leadership
Across the region, digital transformation is accelerating at pace — cloud expansion, AI deployment, connected infrastructure and data-driven operations are reshaping enterprise architecture. At the same time, the threat landscape is evolving with equal intensity. The Middle East’s most senior cybersecurity leaders are now confronting one defining question: how do organisations secure at scale as digital ambition accelerates?
The Cyber Strategists Summit & Awards 2026, organised by Insight Media & Publishing and CXO Insight Middle East, brings together the region’s leading CISOs, CIOs and cyber risk executives for a focused, executive-level forum on governance, resilience and operational accountability.
As the region’s digital ambitions advance, so too must the standards of cyber leadership. Join us in setting that benchmark — by taking part in the dialogue, putting forward the leaders shaping resilience, and standing alongside peers who are defining the next chapter of cybersecurity in the Middle East.
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Agenda
Agenda 2026
May, 2026
06:00 p.m. – 07:00 p.m.
Registration & Networking
07:00 p.m. – 07:05 p.m.
Welcome Address
07:05 p.m. – 07:25 p.m.
Keynote: Redefining Resilience and Cyber Leadership
A strategic address examining how cybersecurity leadership is evolving as AI scales, regulatory scrutiny intensifies and enterprise risk becomes board-level currency.
07:25 p.m. – 07:45 p.m.
Executive Presentation: Securing AI-Driven Enterprises
Exploring governance models, detection maturity, explainability in AI-enabled SOCs and maintaining operational control at speed.
07:45 p.m. – 08:25 p.m.
CISO Panel Discussion: Governing at Scale
Accountability in AI-enabled environments Identity, automation and the modern attack surface Measuring resilience beyond compliance Translating cyber risk into business language for boards
08:25 p.m. – 09:15 p.m.
Cyber Strategists Awards Ceremony 2026
09:15 p.m.
Dinner & Networking
Who Should Attend
- ✤ Chief Information Security Officers
- ✤ Chief Information Officers
- ✤ Heads of Cyber Risk and Digital Resilience
- ✤ Governance and compliance leaders
- ✤ Senior security architects and transformation executives
Why You Should Attend
- ✤ Engage with peers operating at a similar level of responsibility
- ✤ Take part in focused, senior-level discussion on leadership priorities
- ✤ Exchange practical perspectives shaped by real organisational experience
- ✤ Be part of a trusted regional CXO community
Speakers
2025 Speakers
Mohammed H. AlAbbadi
Group CISO, Fertiglobe
Osama AlZoubi
VP for Phosphorus Cybersecurity
Meriam ElOuazzani
Regional Sales Director – META, SentinelOne
Daljeet Singh
Co-Founder & Director of Business Development, iConnect
Aliasgar Dohadwala
Founder and CEO, Visiontech
Ram Narayanan
Country Manager at Check Point Software Technologies, Middle East
Huda AlBloushi
CISO, Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation
Sponsorship Packages
Why Sponsor Cyber Strategists Awards and Summit
- ✤ Direct engagement with senior cybersecurity decision-makers
- ✤ Align with a trusted regional leadership platform
- ✤ Build credibility through peer-level recognition
- ✤ Support high-value executive dialogue
- ✤ Extend visibility across CXO Insight Middle East channels
- ✤ Positioning alongside governance, resilience and enterprise-scale execution
Platinum Partners
$15,000
Gold Partners
$10,000
Silver Partner
$7,500
FAQs
Cyber Strategists Awards nominations are open to:
- ✤ Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and equivalent senior cybersecurity leaders
- ✤ CIOs and executive leaders with direct accountability for cyber risk and digital resilience
- ✤ Security, risk and governance heads across enterprise, government and regulated sectors
Nominations may be submitted by individuals, organisations, or peers.
All nominations are reviewed and evaluated by CXO Insight Middle East through a structured assessment process. The selection focuses on the nominee’s leadership scope, strategic influence, and evidence of sustained execution, rather than individual projects or promotional activity.
Final award recipients are determined solely by CXO Insight Middle East, based on the information provided and the overall leadership impact demonstrated in each submission.
To support a thorough evaluation, nominations should include:
- ✤ Clear details of the nominee’s role and responsibilities
- ✤ Context on organisational scale and complexity
- ✤ Examples that demonstrate leadership impact and measurable outcomes
- ✤ Information reflecting the nominee’s leadership over the past year
All submissions are treated confidentially.
- ✤ There is no fee to submit a nomination
- ✤ Multiple nominations may be submitted
- ✤ Shortlisted nominees may be contacted for clarification
- ✤ Winners will be announced at the Cyber Strategists Summit and Awards evening
2025 Sponsors
Gold partners
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