Energy Digitalisation Sessions
The Digital Theatre at Middle East Energy will showcase cutting-edge content from those at the very forefront of the industry’s digital revolution. The seminar series is split into three distinct themed days. Smart Building and Office Workspace; Digital Grids and Digital Future Cities.
Attendance will provide show visitors with insights and access to key players from across the full industry value chain (including relevant Government Related Entities, Utility Providers, Developers, Investors, Manufacturers, Automation Providers, Academics, R&D specialists and Engineers).
Smart Buildings and Office Workspace
Outlining the role that smart buildings can play in the regional transition to a decarbonised energy system
13:30 - 14:30
Panel session: Smart Buildings in action: outlining the business case for developing and building more digitally advanced buildings
Phillipa Grant, Head of Sustainability, AESG
Tolga Candan, Head of Strategic Business Development - Facilities Management & Energy Optimisation,
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technology
Stuart Harrison, CEO, Emrill
Markus Strohmeier, Senior Executive Vice President, Regions Solutions and Services, Smart Infrastructure,
Siemens Middle East
14:45 - 15:15
Presentation: Energy Opimisation : The hidden “treasure” in our facilities
Tolga Candan, Head of Strategic Business Development - Facilities Management & Energy Optimisation, Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technology
15:15 - 15:45
Digital technology case-study presentation: Smart building in action
Marc Helfter, Disruptive Innovation Director, Corporate Strategy – Innovation & Business Development, Hager Group
15:45 - 16:15
Enhancing workplace wellness through the office environment
Katherine Bruce, Senior Sustainability Consultant, AESG
16:30 - 17:30
Panel session: Adopting technologies that can drive energy efficiency, optimization, and occupant health and productivity
Tolga Candan, Head of Strategic Business Development - Facilities Management & Energy Optimisation, Al-Futtaim
Engineering & Technology
Rachid Hamida, Director – Technology & Performance, Enova
Ahmad El-Mani, BIM Manager, KEO
Trevor Stott-Briggs, Managing Director, Energy Institute - Middle East Branch
Henrique Pereira, Senior Manager, Energy Services, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office, RAK
Municipality
17:30
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DIGITAL Grids
Assessing the technologies required to develop next-generation power networks
12:00 - 12:50
Data science and machine learning in the energy industry
Marielle Akoury, Senior Consultant, DNV GL
Theo Borst, Business Director and Principal Consultant Energy,
DNV GL - Digital Solutions
13:00 - 13:40
Digital grid: the AI / ML imperative for data driven decisioning
Satyajit Dwivedi, Director - Advisory, Global IoT, SAS
Ozcan Cavus, Projects, Architecture and Business Intelligence Director, Enerjisa
13:40 - 14:20
Digital technology case-study: Predictive maintenance
Senior Representative, Siemens
14:20 - 15:00
LVDC MicroGrid opportunities and challenges: value engineering perspective
Mohamed Ahmed AlEmam, Business Development Manager, AlMashariq Co
15:00 - 15:40
Digital technology case-study: Renewable energy integration
Roberto Cimadevilla, Manager, Application Engineering Department, ZIV Automation
15:40 - 16:20
Outlining innovative digital solutions to the long-term future of energy storage & energy management
Waseem Ashraf Qureshi, Founder and CEO, Infusion Solar Energy Systems
16:20 - 17:10
Panel session: Protecting the network asset in a digital world: robust management of cyber security threats to the grid
Rami AlDamati, Lead Solution Architect, Kaspersky
Dr. Fadi Aloul, Professor & Department Head, Computer Science & Engineering and Director, HP Institute, American University of Sharjah (AUS)
17:10 - 17:30
Integral role of digital automation in delivering enhanced grid performance, reliability & resilience
Chen Jun, Vice President, Sheng Ye Electric Co
Dr. Zhao Dongyuan, Energy Internet Research Institute, Tsinghua
17:30
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DIGITAL Future Cities
Technologies supporting the digitally enabled transformation of the full lifecycle of the built environment
12:00 - 12:40
Presentation: Hyperloop—Vision to Reality: delivering the world’s most energy efficient mass transportation system
Harj Dhaliwal, Managing Director, Middle East & India, Virgin Hyperloop One
13:00 - 14:00
Panel session: Infrastructure Outlook 2050… trend analysis on how urban and built environment infrastructure is evolving
Dr. Sabih G Khisaf, Head of Engineering, Hyperloop TT
Martin Tillman, Director - Strategic Planning and Advisory, AECOM
Paolo Testolini, Principal, Woods Bagot
Anvita Arora, Program Director (Transport & Infrastructure), KAPSARC
14:00 - 14:40
Digital technology case-study: Machine learning / AI
14:10 - 14:50
Digital technology case-study: Data analytics
15:00 - 15:40
Panel session: Using big data and IoT analytics to make cities across the region smarter and citizens lives better
16:00
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