EVENT

Unleashing the Power of Splunk Cloud on AWS – Now in the UAE

Thursday, 27 November, 2025 | 9:00–14:00 GST | TODA, Madinat Jumeirah

With Splunk Cloud now available on AWS in the UAE, the path to secure, optimized, and compliant cloud operations has never been clearer. Join senior technology and business leaders for an exclusive event designed to help you unlock the full value of your data, strengthen digital resilience, and confidently drive innovation — all within the region’s regulatory framework.

Event Highlights:

Strategic advantages of Splunk Cloud now available in the UAE
Building resilience through unified security and observability across cloud environments
Unlocking real-time value from your most critical data

Together, Splunk and AWS empower you to build a more agile, secure, and resilient future — right here in the UAE, to stay ahead in the dynamic digital landscape.

Join us at TODA — where tradition meets innovation — to explore the next chapter of secure, data-driven resilience in the UAE.

Registration is now Closed

Agenda

Time	Topics
09:00 - 09:45	Wecome Registration
09:45 - 10:00	Welcome Address
10:00 - 10:15	Welcome Note: Splunk Cloud in the UAE: Digital Resilience in the AI Era Speaker: Hadi Aref, Area Vice President UAE, NG & NALE \| Splunk Learn More A forward-looking address framing the strategic importance of Splunk Cloud’s arrival in the UAE. Explore how AI-driven log analytics, unified security, and observability are driving digital resilience for local organizations—enabling predictive insights, real-time threat detection, and operational agility in the face of evolving threats and digital transformation.
10:15 - 10:35	Keynote by AWS: Build a More Secure and Compliant Tomorrow Speaker: Ahmed Abdel Hamid, Principal Security Strategist \|AWS
10:35 - 11:05	Unlocking the power of Splunk Platform for the Cloud: Whats new, Whats possible Speaker: Elias Haddad, Head of SE Org. MEA TRC \| Splunk Learn More Dive into the freshly launched features and capabilities of Splunk Cloud running on AWS in the UAE. Topics include local deployment benefits like reduced latency, compliance with regional regulations, enhanced performance—and the expanded potential unlocked for IT, DevOps, and security teams by combining Splunk’s platform strengths with a localized AWS environment
11:05 - 11:35	Coffee Break
11:35 - 12:05	From Noise to Action: Cloud-Powered TDIR with Splunk Speaker: Caglar Dogan , Security Strategic Advisor EMEA Emerging \| Splunk Learn More This session Focuses on how Splunk enables effective Threat Detection, Investigation, and Response (TDIR) in modern cloud environments. Examine how AI-powered analytics cut through alert noise, automate threat correlation, and accelerate response workflows—turning oceans of operational data into actionable insights that strengthen incident response capabilities.
12:05 - 12:35	Full-Stack Visibility in the Cloud: Observability at Scale with Splunk Speaker: Fernando Sebastián, Observability Strategic Advisor South EMEA \| Splunk Learn More Explore how Splunk delivers end-to-end visibility across infrastructure and applications in cloud-native environments. This session will cover how organizations can unify logs, metrics, and traces into cohesive observability pipelines—empowering teams to monitor performance, diagnose issues rapidly, and scale system visibility as cloud environments grow.
12:35 - 13:05	Fireside Chat: Security, Scale, and Visibility: A Former CISO’s Journey to Splunk Cloud Speaker: Moderated by Dimitris Vergos , Area Vice President Solutions Engineering \| Splunk Tom Gamali, CTO MEA TRC \| Splunk Learn More What does it really take to move from on-prem to the cloud? In this fireside chat, Tom Gamali, former CISO and now CTO at Splunk MEA TRC, joins Dimitris Vergos, AVP Solutions Engineering EMEA, to share first-hand lessons from a cloud transformation journey. Drawing on first-hand experience, Tom will share the strategic drivers behind moving to the cloud, the challenges of operating across diverse multi-cloud and on-prem infrastructures, and the lessons learned along the way — from strengthening cloud security posture to building business value that secured C-level buy-in. This fireside chat goes beyond security, highlighting how Splunk accelerated deployment, supported hybrid workloads, and ultimately delivered end-to-end visibility and measurable business outcomes.
13:05 - 13:15	Wrap up
13:15 - 14:00	Networking Lunch