Founder & President

Imed Ammar is the founder and president of Hydatis, a Franco-Tunisian IT outsourcing and software engineering company. Over more than 25 years, he has built and led technology organizations spanning software engineering, digital transformation and applied AI — always from the same conviction: that durable technology companies are built on engineering rigor and long-term trust, not short-term wins.

His Path

Imed founded Cynapsys Software Engineering, which grew into one of Tunisia’s recognized technology firms before its acquisition by the French group GFI (now Inetum) in 2018. He went on to lead Inetum Tunisia (formerly GFI Tunisie) as CEO, then headed Get’IT, before founding Hydatis in 2020 to build a new kind of technology company — one built on international delivery, AI-driven engineering, and long-term partnerships with the institutions it serves.

What He Brings

  • International delivery and service center leadership
  • Digital transformation strategy and execution
  • Applied artificial intelligence
  • Cloud architecture and governance
  • Information systems governance
  • Technology entrepreneurship

His Vision

Imed believes artificial intelligence should strengthen human capability, not replace it — technology is a means to make people and institutions more capable, not a substitute for judgment and expertise. He is equally driven by questions of digital sovereignty: the conviction that African and Tunisian institutions should build and control their own critical technology, rather than depend entirely on external platforms. Beyond Hydatis, he remains engaged in the broader technology entrepreneurship ecosystem — supporting the next generation of founders navigating the same path he took.

“Innovation creates possibilities. Entrepreneurship transforms them into reality.”

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