Iliass Melgou

Solution Engineering Team Lead, Middle East, Turkey and Africa

Iliass Melgou is a solution engineering team lead at AvePoint for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, working on data governance, information management and the controls organisations need before opening their content estates to AI assistants. His focus areas are AI governance and data management, helping organisations keep their environments secure, compliant and ready to scale as they adopt Microsoft Copilot and other agentic AI tools. He is a regular contributor to technical publications and webinars on data governance and zero trust, on the evolution of cyber attacks in the age of AI, and on preventing the data risks that surface when AI enters the enterprise, and he has demonstrated data loss prevention scenarios on the Microsoft Power Platform. He has spoken at industry events including Cloud Expo Europe in Paris.