Digital Shield Summit Announces Partnership with Emirates Identity Authority

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EIDA Group Director to inaugurate summit, speaker lineup unveiled; including Dubai Customs, aeCERT, Emirates Group, Emirates NBD and Meraas Holding,

Dubai, United Arab Emirates., February 18, 2013 - (PressReleasePoint) -

Ideanomics today officially announced the Emirates Identity Authorities involvement with Digital Shield Summit 2013. H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Emirates ID Director General will be the Chief Guest of Honour and will be inaugurating the summit to be held on the 21^st and 22^nd of April in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The summit primarily tackles problems relating to digital security and digital infrastructure. The main objective is to see how to develop and manage information resources and deal with challenges such as delivering a robust information and compliance framework, streamlining models for digital, information management, collaboration and social networking

Along with H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri the Advisory Board also consists of Tariq Al Hawi, Director of aeCERT, Guruswamy Periyasamy, Head of IT Security and Innovation at Emirates Group and Naveed Ahmed, Head of IT Security for Dubai Customs. Ajay Rathi, Head of IT for Meraas Holding, Amit Bhatia, Group Risk Management and IT Security Manager for Emirates NBD, will also be in attendance and will be speaking at the summit.

“In a knowledge based economy, with governments and businesses continuing to invest heavily in critical technology deployments, utilities companies looking at forming utility grids allowing them to virtualize and scale their resources at record pace and end users adopting the latest technology devices, a growing concern remains on the underlying threat of digital security to new technology adoption and the increasing channels of communication that have been created to communicate with it.” says Savio Coutinho, CEO at Ideanomics, “The Digital Security Summit will provide a unique platform for various verticals to come together to discuss and address key challenges faced with growing data and look at the role both government and service providers can take, in protecting its critical data and users at large.”
 
 
Emirates Identity Authority (EIDA) is an independent federal authority established by virtue of the federal decree No. (2) of 2004. The decree has empowered the Authority with ultimate powers required for the execution of the Population Register and the ID card program.

Established in 2012, Ideanomics Global has opened operations in several key countries which support the roll out of our events globally. Based in Dubai, our offices organize and conceptualize Conferences and Summits, Trainings and Live Events. 

For further queries on Digital Shield Middle East please contact Eric Wang on  +9714 4232868 or email on info@ie2global.com
 


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