WOMEN ON GULF INFORMATION SECURITY CONFERENCE

Being an empowered female leader within marketing... provides me with the support and encouragement to drive change. Balancing communications, commercial imperatives and customer demands... keeps me busy, but I wouldn’t have it any other way Hana Ibrahim, Head of marketing, ME marketing and communications at Cisco

a skilled IT professional can succeed only with a strong technical acumen by having a specific area of expertise, strong networking connections, empathy for end-user problems, understanding of IT business and, of course, always staying tuned with new trends Svitlana Voznyuk, Managing director at DigiRobotics

Women are breaking the glass ceiling in the IT industry but there is still a lot of work to be done... In the IT industry we, as women, appreciate when employers offer flexible working models to encourage us to be better, multi-task and maintain the right work-life balance without letting the ball drop Sandra Mehchi, Marketing lead, data centre group for META at Lenovo MEA

I believe that everyone should do what he/ she knows well... I feel comfortable and confident in the IT market. In my team, focused on development of corporate cyber-security solutions, there are professionals and like-minded people. This allows the [us] to achieve high results Natalya Kaspersky, President of InfoWatch Group