Protecting the systems
that power the Kingdom.

Opening address: Saudi Arabia's national OT security mandate — Vision 2030

The government's strategic direction for securing critical national infrastructure, what the mandate requires, what it signals, and what industry must do now.

Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling: How Saudi Arabia's oil & gas sector is implementing the government mandates on OT Security?

A major national oil company shares its OTCC compliance journey — asset inventory, risk assessment, network segmentation, and building an OT-aware security operations capability.

GCC & Global Collaboration on OT Security. What Are the World's Leading Industrial Nations Doing and What Can Saudi Arabia Learn?

• Badar Al Salehi, Director General, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology Oman
• Ali Abdulla Hasan Alsadadi, Chief of Information Technology, Ministry of Oil & Environment Bahrain
• Hamoud Almohaya, Head of GRC Cybersecurity, Confidential Government
• Dr. Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Senior Advisor and CISO, Confidential Government
• Eng. Huda Ahmed Mohsen, Chief Of Information Technology, Ministry of Information Bahrain
• Abdulrahman Al-Nimari, VP, Cyber Security, Confidential Organization (Moderator)

10:45 – 10:55

Reserved for Gold Sponsor SWIDCH

10:55 – 11:05

Reserved for Gold Sponsor Yokogawa

Mohammed Shoukat Ali, GM & Head Global Cybersecurity CoE, Yokogawa

Under attack: Incident response, threat detection, and OT resilience across Kingdom's industrial corridor

• Aamir Khalid Pirzada, Chief Information Officer, National Metal Manufacturing and Casting Company (Maadaniyah)
• Alaa Khalid, Director, Cybersecurity Operations & GRC, Confidential
• Ahmed Al Saleh, Head of Digital & OT Cybersecurity Initiatives, Aramco
• Wael A. Rahman, Lead ICS/OT Security Engineer, Petroleum Development Oman
• Ammad Baig, VP, Digital Solutions and OT Cybersecurity, INTECH Automation and Intelligence
• Dr. Hussain Aldawood, Director of Cybersecurity Consulting, EY (Moderator)

11:45 – 11:55

Your AI Has Never Seen Your Plant

Building industrial intelligence below Level 3.5. Speaker: Tahir Saleem, Chief Innovation Officer, SIS Industrial Cybersecurity.

11:55 – 12:05

Reserved for Gold Sponsor (Schneider Electric)

Standards, procurement & supply chain: How do we build OT security into the fabric of Saudi industrial operations?

• Javed A. Akbar, Chief Governance, Risk (GRC), Insurance & Data Officer, TASNEE
• Saad AlGarni, Head of Cybersecurity, Saudi Global Ports
• Ali Alrushaid, Chief Information Security Officer, ASMO
• Redha Alahmad, Senior Manager, Cybersecurity (OT/ICS), EY (Moderator)

AI, digital twins & predictive security: The next frontier of OT protection for Saudi Arabia's industrial sector

How AI-driven anomaly detection, digital twin-based threat simulation, and predictive analytics are being deployed in oil & gas and petrochemical environments — and what the Kingdom's operators need to do to stay ahead.

AI Beyond the Pilot: Building Secure and Resilient AI for Critical Infrastructure

Ahmed T Alawami, Head of AI & Digital Transformation (Energy & Utilities), Saudi Energy

The KSA Dialogue: What must Saudi Arabia's oil & gas, petrochemical, and government sectors commit to in the next 12 months?

• Sultan Alshammari, Cyber Security Director, National Infrastructure Fund (Infra)
• Mohammed Alangari, Vice President of Enterprise Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Chief Information Security Officer, Saudi Tourism Authority
• Irtiza Arain, Director, Cybersecurity, EY MENA (Moderator)