Join this strategic conversation with leaders from Omantel and Google Cloud for a strategic dialogue on their AI partnership. They will discuss how Omantel is leveraging Google AI to transform Omantel's core internal operations, deliver new innovative services to Omani businesses, and cultivate the nation's startup ecosystem

Mr. Talal Al Mamari, CEO of Omantel 

Hosted by: Ghassan Kosta, Regional General Manager, Google Cloud

This session provides a introductory overview of Google Cloud's foundational infrastructure, detailing the core components that power its global services. We explore the architecture of Google's network, which includes a vast global footprint of regions and zones connected by a private, high-performance network, ensuring low latency and high availability for applications worldwide. The deck breaks down the essential pillars of the infrastructure, pointing out ket differentiators that sets Google Cloud infrastructure apart.

Omar Alayli, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud • Global Business

In this session, we’ll dive into how modern cloud infrastructure and AI technologies are transforming businesses in the cryptocurrency and retail sectors. From migrating to Google Cloud for better scalability and performance, to leveraging AI for automating realistic image and text generation, these innovations are solving real-world problems, improving efficiency, and unlocking new opportunities. Discover how businesses in the crypto and fashion industries can create smarter solutions by adopting cloud and AI-driven approaches. Join us to explore the challenges faced, the solutions implemented, and the impact these technologies are having on today’s dynamic business landscape.

Ömer Faruk Kurt, CEO, Oredata

This session provides an overview of the latest enhancements to Google Cloud's BigQuery, along with a sneak peek at upcoming features. The presentation will also detail how the latest advancements in AI, leveraging Gemini and BigQuery, are being integrated into data lakes and data warehouses to unlock new analytical capabilities.

Diaa Eldin Ali, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud • Global Business

Hussain Al Muscati, Head of Customer Engineering • Global Business

Eng. Maqbool Al Wahaibi, Oman-ODP, CEO

As the Sultanate of Oman strides confidently towards its Vision 2040 goals, the adoption of Artificial Intelligence is not just an option, but a national imperative. Google Cloud’s planned collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) is at the heart of this transformation, designed to build and accelerate a thriving, AI-powered digital economy.

This exclusive fireside chat brings together senior leaders from MTCIT and Google Cloud to explore the vision and practical execution of Oman's National AI Strategy

His Excellency Dr. Ali Al Shidhani, Undersecretary of Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology. 

Host : Ghassan Kosta Regional General Manager, Google Cloud

The session will cover the rapid Growth of LLMs/GenAI, and some of the challenges with GenAI scaling, How Agentic AI expands this. The challenges with governance and adoption.

The critical success factors for adopting AI and the AI readiness and an integrated approach to delivering this

Clifford Foster, Partner - Engineering, AI & Data, Deloitte

This session explores how higher education organizations are leveraging AI to transform education, research, and student outcomes. Leaders from public sector and higher education institutions will share strategies for harnessing AI to educate the next generation of leaders, while addressing data privacy, security, and ethical considerations.

Tim Paolini, Special Projects, APAC & EMEA • Global Business

Discover strategies for transforming your data and AI landscape by making governance a competitive advantage. Learn from industry executives on how to establish robust governance frameworks, ensuring confidence and control in your data and AI initiatives, and gain actionable insights to position your organization for successful AI-driven innovation.

Chawki Tawbi, Data Analytics and AI Sales Specialist • Global Business - Sales EMEA

Discover how Google Cloud empowers businesses to turn ideas into intelligent applications with ease. This session highlights Vertex AI, Google’s unified platform for building and deploying powerful Gen AI models like Gemini, and how it accelerates innovation with minimal complexity. We'll also explore Google Agentspace, which connects to multiple enterprise data sources to deliver smart search and action-driven agents. Learn how GCP makes AI development faster, scalable, and enterprise-ready.

Yahya Zakir Sait, General Manager, Oman-Gulf Infotech

This presentation abstract outlines the key best practices for leveraging Google Cloud Compute Engine to build efficient, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure. The session will guide attendees through a series of actionable strategies designed to optimize their virtual machine deployments. By adopting these best practices, you can maximize the value of Google Cloud Compute Engine and build a resilient, cost-effective, and high-performing foundation for your applications.

Omar Alayli Customer Engineer, Google Cloud • Global Business

This session is a step-by-step guide to building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) using Firebase Studio.

Mahmoud Al Nafei, Google Developer Expert and Co Founder & CEO, InvoSpark

Staying ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape requires a new approach to security. In this session we will explore how to transition from legacy Security Operations (SecOps) to a more proactive, intelligence-driven model. Learn how Google Cloud's applied threat intelligence helps organizations overcome the challenges of traditional threat intelligence and SIEM, enabling them to gain unmatched visibility into threats, prioritize findings effectively, and leverage curated, high-fidelity detections to secure their environments.

Emre Özpek, Public Sector & CyberShield Security Engineer • Global Business