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00:00My name is Ahmed Issa, I'm the regional VP for Cloudera in Saudi Arabia.
00:24Cloudera is the de facto for data, so if you have data you need Cloudera, I'm bragging
00:31about it.
00:32Cloudera is a true hybrid cloud company that helps you convert your data into actionable
00:42insights.
00:44You can apply AI, generative AI analytics, so that you can take meaningful decisions
00:52and you can analyze and read your data differently.
00:57So whether you are an enterprise, an organization, a small company, Cloudera is a hybrid cloud
01:06company that can help you generate the most out of your data.
01:10This is an objective and we're here to serve you in this manner.
01:14We're here in Leeb for the fourth year.
01:17Last year we had a booth, the first two years we participated through our partners.
01:22So a manner that we have our own booth, our own meeting room and area to discuss with
01:30our customers, to showcase our products, our services, our value proposition.
01:37This is the event of the year for Saudi, it's like a giant export to Dubai, and this is
01:44part of the Vision 2030, you know, the expo, the World Cup coming.
01:50Saudi is aiming to be the AI hub, you know, at the worldwide level, with the project Transcence,
01:56you know, and the investment.
01:59They have announced 100 billion USD in the AI arena.
02:03So this is the event focused mainly in AI, and by the way, it is being planned with SADAYA,
02:10Saudi Data and AI, Artificial Intelligence Agency.
02:15So it's all about data, it's all about AI.
02:18It's all about, if we go back to the vision, to diversify Saudi economy, data is the new oil.
02:25So they're walking away from the traditional oil to the new oil, which is data.
02:30So it is the event of the year, we are proud that we are here, we are participating with
02:35our experts, with our marketing team, with our sales team, so that we can present our
02:40services and we can have those discussions and MOUs and agreements during the event.
02:47I advise them to take baby steps, first to know what to do with their data, to organize it,
02:54to get the most out of it, and to start with simple use cases, not too big, like mountain ambitions,
03:01because it will fail, it will fail if you go in big leaps.
03:05So I advise them to go baby steps, to take it one step at a time, to have, let's say,
03:12quick wins every time, to get more encouragement and to have the ammunition to do more.
03:18So we're here to help them, you know, to thrive in the AI economy, in the new data economy.
03:25But again, the key word is to go in phases, to go step by step, and to go with our experts,
03:33so that they plan that journey, it's a journey, and they shouldn't go that journey alone.
03:40They need to have someone who can trust to give them, you know, a secure, scalable
03:48platform that can help them for now and for the future.
03:51So they need to invest ahead of the curve. It is happening, as I mentioned earlier,
03:56it's a necessity, it's not a luxury anymore. So if they want to survive, you don't want to
04:02find a new Nokia now, that there will be, or a Blackberry.
04:06So the technology is moving very fast. You have to cope with it, you have to read the trends,
04:11and you have to think fast, you have to invest ahead of the curve. So yeah, it is not a commodity,
04:18or it's not a luxury anymore. It will be your survival, your growth, and your existence in
04:24the future. In the cloud era, we are committed to invest in the region, we are committed to invest
04:31as per the Saudi 2030 vision, which is all about the survival, the economy, and about the data.
04:40So we're investing more in local trends, we're investing more in our support, in our services,
04:49in partners. We have a huge network of local partners and international partners,
04:56that they are helping us, you know, to go and see the opportunity with our customers,
05:02to help them, to prepare them for the future. So we are committed to invest,
05:07and to bring more presence to the region.