EMPOWEREDx25-Agenda-Riyadh

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

Riyadh

November 19, 2025

Agenda

Time

Schedule

Haven't registered yet?

Join us for a day of insightful keynotes, immersive breakout sessions, and collaboration with the Riverbed customer community. No matter where you are on your digital experience journey, we’re ready to help get you there faster — with confidence. Hope to see you there!

9:00 AM

Registration, Breakfast, & Networking

Location

Event Info

Hilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences

6623 Eastern Ring Rd, Ghirnatah, Riyadh 13241, Saudi Arabia

November 19, 2025

9:00 AM – 5:20 PM

Back to Home

Speakers

Meraj Mohammed SME, Observability & AIOps, Riverbed Technology

Unlock the Future of Network Intelligence: Edge to Data Center to Cloud

Location

In today's AI-powered, hybrid environments, even brief network disruptions can ripple across productivity, security, and user satisfaction. This session offers a practical look at how forward-thinking organizations are transforming network observability with Riverbed. We'll explore innovations like Unified Agent-based UC monitoring, on-demand packet capture, intelligent synthetic testing, and more. You'll learn how to gain real-time insights into traditionally hard-to-monitor areas—like Zero Trust architectures, remote work environments, and the cloud—so you can stay ahead of issues, accelerate resolution, and deliver consistently strong digital experiences.

2025 EMPOWEREDx

0:00 AM/PM XXX

Opening Keynote

Session Title

Location

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipiscing elit. Ex sapien vitae pellentesque sem placerat in id. Pretium tellus duis convallis tempus leo eu aenean. Urna tempor pulvinar vivamus fringilla lacus nec metus. Iaculis massa nisl malesuada lacinia integer nunc posuere. Semper vel class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora. Conubia nostra inceptos himenaeos orci varius natoque penatibus. Dis parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus donec rhoncus. Nulla molestie mattis scelerisque maximus eget fermentum odio. Purus est efficitur laoreet mauris pharetra vestibulum fusce.

10:00 AM

Welcome Remarks

Location

10:10 AM

Keynote

The Future of Digital Experience Starts Here

Location

Join Riverbed CEO Dave Donatelli for a keynote that provides you with a clear path to staying ahead in today’s fast-moving AI landscape. You’ll gain insights into the future of digital experience—powered by Riverbed innovations delivered at record speed, practical AI that drives measurable ROI, and the significant benefits of a unified platform that increases visibility and performance across the enterprise. Discover practical strategies you can apply right away—including consolidating tools, modernizing and automating IT operations, and lowering overall costs—while positioning your organization to lead in the era of AI.

11:30 AM

Panel

Customer Panel: Observability, Insights, Controls, State of AI

Location

12:00 PM

Coffee Break

Location

1:30 PM

Lunch Break

Location

2:05 PM

Riverbed Demo Experience Zone

3:30 PM AST

Break

Location

10:50 AM

Keynote

Agentic AI: The Future of Automation and Orchestration

Location

Step into the future of IT performance with Riverbed’s latest AI-powered Observability innovations. In this dynamic session, you’ll get a firsthand look at how our groundbreaking features – like IQ Assist (Generative AI), Predictive AI, and Agentic AI automation are transforming how organizations detect, diagnose, and resolve issues across complex environments. Explore enhanced visibility across Unified Communications, network packets, and device-level telemetry, and see how AI is eliminating blind spots, accelerating root cause analysis, and delivering proactive insights like never before. Don’t miss this opportunity to reimagine observability and unlock the full potential of your digital experience.

4:15 PM AST

Guest Speaker

Ignite Your Inner Power: Leading Fearlessly in the Age of AI

Location

The world is shifting — faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before — driven by the unstoppable force of Artificial Intelligence. In this transformative session, discover how AI is reshaping industries, rewriting the rules of success, and opening doors for those bold enough to step through them. Learn how to harness the power of AI not as a replacement, but as a revolutionary partner in your growth, creativity, and leadership.

12:05 PM

Riverbed Demo Experience Zone

4:35 PM

Networking & Refreshments

Location

7:00 PM

End of EMPOWEREDx

Move the Needle: DEX Innovations that Deliver Immediate Value

Join us to explore how Riverbed Aternity empowers IT and business leaders to drive real value through better performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility...

Unlock the Future of Network Intelligence: Edge to Data Center to Cloud

In today's AI-powered, hybrid environments, even brief network disruptions can ripple across productivity, security, and user satisfaction. This session offers a...

Achieve Real AI-Driven Results: The Future of AI-Powered Observability

Step into the future of IT performance with Riverbed's latest AI-powered Observability innovations. In this dynamic breakout session, you'll get a firsthand...

Comprehensive Visibility: Better Data, Fewer Tools, Improved Decisions

Data is key for fast and effective decision making that drives outcomes. Data collection and utilization performed at a significant scale separates leaders from...

Speaker Name Speaker Title, Speaker Dept, Company

Charbel Khneisser Senior VP, Global Solutions Engineering, Riverbed Technology

Speakers

Join us to explore how Riverbed Aternity empowers IT and business leaders to drive real value through better performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility. Learn how Cost Management identifies underused software and eliminates license waste, while Mobile Experience Monitoring provides critical visibility into app and device performance to support a productive hybrid workforce. Plus, see how Aternity streamlines Mergers & Acquisitions by accelerating integration, uncovering gaps, and ensuring a smooth user experience throughout. Turn digital experience data into action that reduces costs, improves mobility, and simplifies transformation.

Location

Move the Needle: DEX Innovations that Deliver Immediate Value

Speaker Name Speaker Title, Speaker Dept, Company

Meraj Mohammed SME, Observability & AIOps, Riverbed Technology

Speakers

Data is key to fast and effective decision making that drives outcomes. Data collection and utilization performed at a significant scale separates leaders from followers. In this session, see Riverbed's latest innovations that help you collect visibility data from comprehensive sources across your IT environment for AI-driven analysis or openly share your data using the Riverbed data store. Our experts will showcase how Riverbed's platform delivers complete visibility into your data and supports open standards that allow organizations to fully utilize their data for desired business outcomes.

Location

Comprehensive Visibility: Better Data, Fewer Tools, Improved Decisions

Speaker Name Speaker Title, Speaker Dept, Company

Speakers

Step into the future of IT performance with Riverbed’s latest AI-powered Observability innovations. In this dynamic breakout session, you’ll get a firsthand look at how our groundbreaking features—like IQ Assist (Generative AI), Predictive AI, and Agentic AI automation—are transforming how organizations detect, diagnose, and resolve issues across complex environments. Explore enhanced visibility across Unified Communications, network packets, and device-level telemetry, and see how AI is eliminating blind spots, accelerating root cause analysis, and delivering proactive insights like never before. Don’t miss this opportunity to reimagine observability and unlock the full potential of your digital experience.

Location

Achieve Real AI-Driven Results: The Future of AI-Powered Observability

Taming the Data Tsunami: Move Your AI Data Across Edge, Data Center and Clouds with an Intelligent Data Fabric

As AI reshapes the enterprise, organizations are looking to unlock new value...

Speaker Name Speaker Title, Speaker Dept, Company

Chalan Aras SVP/GM Acceleration, Riverbed Technology

Speakers

As AI reshapes the enterprise, organizations are looking to unlock new value through smarter innovation—and data is the fuel that powers it. The challenge is data is moving that data from where it resides to where it needs to be, and to do that rapidly, securely and economically at scale with the agility to meet rapidly-changing business needs. In this session, we will cover Riverbed’s most recent Acceleration innovations for hybrid multi-cloud data fabrics, and our plans for flexible consumption, new outcome-based dashboards and AI-powered service management.

Location

Taming the Data Tsunami: Move Your AI Data Across Edge, Data Center and Clouds with an Intelligent Data Fabric

12:45 PM

Breakout

Resilient Networking for AI

Location

Organizations’ data movement needs are evolving rapidly with the surge in AI workloads and ever-growing data volumes. To unlock business value, timely access to data is critical. In this session, we’ll explore Riverbed’s latest innovations in accelerating hybrid multi-cloud data fabrics, flexible consumption models, new outcome-based dashboards, and AI-powered service management. You’ll gain a clear view of how to seamlessly move data, from where it resides to where it’s needed, to keep pace with rapidly changing business demands.

2:20 PM

Breakout

360º Digital Experience

Location

IT and business leaders face constant pressure to deliver exceptional digital experiences, while balancing performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility. But achieving this with incomplete visibility is difficult. In this session, we’ll explore how Riverbed Aternity’s 360° Digital Experience helps leaders achieve better business outcomes such as enabling driving cost efficiency, streamlining M&A transitions, and enabling a productive mobile workforce. Discover how to transform digital experience data into actionable insights that deliver measurable results.

3:05 PM

Breakout

Intelligent Network Observability

Location

In today’s AI-powered, hybrid environments, even brief network disruptions can undermine productivity, security, and user satisfaction. Traditional monitoring and observability are no longer enough. In this session, we’ll show how forward-thinking organizations are transforming network observability with Riverbed Intelligent Network Observability. Discover how to gain real-time visibility into traditionally hard-to-monitor area such as Zero Trust architectures, remote work environments, and the cloud, so you can proactively prevent issues, speed resolution, and consistently deliver exceptional digital experiences.

3:50 PM

Breakout

The Power of Unified Visibility

Location

Data is the foundation of fast, effective decision-making that drives real business outcomes. The ability to collect and leverage comprehensive data at scale is what separates leaders from followers. In this session, we’ll showcase Riverbed’s latest innovations that empower you to capture visibility data from across your entire IT environment. Whether analyzing with our AI-driven platform or openly sharing through the Riverbed Data Store, you’ll see how our platform delivers complete visibility, supports open standards, and enables you to unlock the full potential of your data to achieve your business goals.

Time

CEO

Dave Donatelli

Dave Donatelli was appointed CEO of Riverbed Technology in July 2023. Donatelli brings to Riverbed deep knowledge and extensive leadership experience driving growth at scaled technology businesses, including Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, and EMC. Donatelli previously served as Executive Vice President of the Cloud Business Group at Oracle Corporation. Earlier, he served as Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Group at Hewlett-Packard leading the $30 billion division and overseeing storage, server, networking, and converged infrastructure solutions. Donatelli began his career at EMC Corporation, serving in multiple leadership roles, including President of the EMC Storage Division. He most recently served as the lead independent director of MarkLogic, a leading data mangement and data integration solutions provider and Vector Capital portfolio company. Donatelli holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Chief Executive Officier Riverbed Technology

Dave Donatelli

Meraj Mohammed SME - Observability & AIOps, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Salman Ali Senior Manager - Solutions Engineering GCC, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Meraj Mohammed SME - Observability & AIOps, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Chalan Aras SVP / GM Acceleration, Riverbed Technology

Speakers

Charbel Khneisser SVP, Global Solutions Engineering, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Moueen Zahreddine Sr. Regional Director, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Dave Donatelli Chief Executive Officer, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Location

Opening Performance

9:50 AM

Charbel Khneisser SVP, Global Solutions Engineering, Riverbed Technology

Speaker

Organizations everywhere are racing to harness the power of AI, driven by its tremendous potential to unlock innovation, make IT operations efficient, and deliver business value. In this session, we’ll showcase how Riverbed is applying AI in transformative ways, delivering real-world results at scale using generative, predictive, and agentic AI. Discover how AI-powered observability is already eliminating blind spots, accelerating root cause analysis, providing proactive insights, and enabling automated remediations across the Riverbed platform. Plus, get a glimpse of what’s next.

Location

Practical AI at Scale

Breakout

12:15 PM

Srivathsa Dangety VP Development Engineering, Acceleration, Riverbed Technology

Dr. Abdulrhman Al-Khnaifer CIO, King Saud University

Daud Aboabaah IT Director, King Salman Park

Speakers

Salman Ali (Moderator) Senior Manager - Solutions Engineering GCC, Riverbed Technology

Eng Abdulaziz Almuayther CIO, King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language

Dr. Abdulrhman Al-Khnaifer CIO, King Saud University