Dr. Marwan Alzarouni
Director of Information Services at Dubai Electronic Security Center
Dr. Marwan Alzarouni is the Director of Information Services at Dubai Electronic Security Center. He is also a keynote speaker and advisor to Dubai Government where he sets on a number of Councils and Committees in the fields of Cyber Security, Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence. He is highly respected world-wide when it comes to blockchain technology usage by governments and businesses.
Dr. Marwan is one of UAE’s earliest adopters of Internet technology. Years before it was formally introduced in the country. He started web development and domain name trading business in the early 1990s where he started investing in domain names and setting up a number of well-known websites at the time. He has owned 1000s of domain names throughout the years and continues to invest in them to date.
He has written a number of academic papers and presented in a number of highly regarded Cyber Security Conferences as the GITEX, GISEC, HITB, OPCDE, Australian Information Warfare & Security Conference, the Australian Computer, Network & Information Forensics Conference and the Australian Information Security Management Conference. Dr. Alzarouni has written a number of well-regarded publications in academia and commercially. This includes but is not limited to papers in cyber security, mobile phone forensics, information superiority and blockchain technology. Dr. Marwan is a regular on TV, radio, podcasts and YouTube. He provides his expert opinions to the media when it comes to expert commentary on news and events related to Cyber Security, Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI).