StarLink Roadshow 2026 Kicks Off Across 7 Middle East Cities — AI vs AI Takes Centre Stage

The StarLink Roadshow 2026 is not coming. It is here.

Having opened in Riyadh yesterday, the Middle East's most anticipated multi-city cybersecurity series is now live — and today it moves to Jeddah. For security leaders across Saudi Arabia who missed the Riyadh opener, today is your last chance in-kingdom before the roadshow heads north and west across the region.

Organised by StarLink, an Infinigate Group company and one of the GCC's most established value-added distributors in cybersecurity, the 2026 edition arrives with a theme that reflects exactly where enterprise security is headed — and what is already keeping CISOs up at night.

"AI vs AI: The Silent Battle."

This Is Not a Marketing Theme. It Is the Reality Your SOC Is Already Facing.

Cyber adversaries are no longer relying on human ingenuity alone. They are deploying AI to launch attacks that are faster, more adaptive, and far more difficult to detect through conventional security tooling. At the same time, the organisations best positioned to defend against these threats are the ones deploying AI on their own side of the equation — in detection, response, and threat hunting.

Nidal Othman, CEO at StarLink, put it directly: new and unified AI security platforms are emerging to manage these evolving risks, and securing AI itself is now a critical priority for CISOs across the region. The 2026 roadshow is built around this reality — not as a future warning, but as an operational conversation for security leaders who are managing it today.

What You Will Find on the Floor

The roadshow brings together more than 20 global technology vendors, each presenting AI-powered defence solutions across expert-led keynotes, live demonstrations, and interactive thought leadership sessions. This is not a passive conference — it is a working environment designed for security decision-makers to evaluate, compare, and engage directly with the platforms defending enterprises across the region.

Vendors participating across the city stops include:

• Palo Alto Networks — AI-driven network and cloud security
• BeyondTrust — Privileged access and identity security
• Tenable — Exposure management and vulnerability intelligence
• Forescout — Network visibility and automated threat response
• Google Cloud Security — Cloud-native security at scale
• Akamai — Edge security and DDoS protection
• SailPoint — AI-powered identity governance
• Nozomi Networks — OT and IoT security
• Forcepoint, LinkShadow, Anomali, FireMon, Infoblox, Keysight Technologies, Nutanix, OpenText, Progress, Riverbed, Saviynt, Skyhigh Security, Trend AI, and Versa Networks

Why GCC Security Leaders Should Be in the Room

The convergence of AI and cybersecurity is an active operational challenge for enterprises across the Gulf. Regulators including SAMA, NESA, and the UAE Cybersecurity Council are raising expectations around cyber resilience, and the threat actors targeting GCC infrastructure are not waiting for organisations to catch up.

Events like this roadshow matter because they compress the gap between what vendors are building and what security teams can actually deploy. For organisations tracking Saudi Arabia's cybersecurity evolution under Vision 2030, or following AI and technology developments shaping the Gulf, this roadshow sits at a direct intersection of both.

Attendance is open to enterprise security professionals, CISOs, IT leaders, and technology decision-makers across all remaining cities. Register for the StarLink Roadshow 2026