Name: MarketsandMarkets Middle East District Cooling Stakeholders Conclave
Start: 2019-12-04
End: 2019-12-05
Location: Radisson Blu Hotel, Dubai Waterfront

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Registration	08:00 - 08:50
Welcome note from Markets and Markets	08:50 - 08:55
Opening Remarks	08:55 - 09:00
Knowledge store Rajat Kumar, Chief Knowledge Officer , MarketsandMarkets	09:00 - 09:25
Promoting Sustainability, Abu Dhabi’s District Cooling Regulatory Framework Khadija Bin Braik, Director of Water Pricing and Tariffs, Department of Energy Abu Dhabi	09:25 - 09:55
Operations & Design
The District Cooling Provider to the Tallest Building in the World Fares Ahmed, General Manager, Emaar District Cooling	09:55 - 10:30
Morning Refreshments and Poster Presentation One-to-one Networking Meetings	10:30 - 11:20
Delta T syndrome and challenges Raed Al Ahmed, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) LLC	11:20 - 11:50
Case Study: The District Cooling Operations & Maintenance (O&M) market in Kingdom of Saudi Abdulsalam Al Mobayed , CEO , Saudi Tabreed Operation & Maintenance, Saudi Arabi	11:50 - 12:20
Government Regulations & Finance
Panel Discussion: The Government support and guidelines in Middle East countries	12:20 - 12:50
Prayer Break \| Lunch \| Networking break	12:50 - 14:10
Clean Development Mechanism (cdm) in district cooling – “Environmental Finance Thomas Bosse , Head of Programmes , Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence, U.A.E	14:10 - 14:40
Use of TSE as sustainable alternative to fresh water for district cooling Mohammed AbdulAziz Najem, Senior Director – Sewage Treatment and Irrigation Projects, Dubai Municipality, U.A.E	14:40 - 15:10
Sustainability & Energy Storage
Encaspuslated Ice Thermal Storage in DC application Hassan Chahboune, Export Sales Manager, Cryogel	15:10 - 15:40
Afternoon refreshments \| Networking break	15:40 - 16:30
Rising Expectations with District Cooling- An Exploration for further Optimization Sarfraz Dairkee, Board Secretary, EmiratesGBC	16:30 - 17:00
Sea Water Cooling Application Ahmed A. Ghani , Chairman , Allied Consultants Ltd., U.A.E	17:00 - 17:30
Closing remarks	17:30 - 17:35
Reception & Networking session	17:35 - 17:40

Registration	08:15 - 08:50
Welcome note from Markets and Markets	08:50 - 08:55
Opening Remarks	08:55 - 09:00
Advanced Control Systems
Smart HVAC Retrofit Solution H.E. Ali Al Jassim, CEO, Etihad Energy Services	09:00 - 09:30
District Cooling facing Heat Omnia Halawani, Managing Partner, Griffin Consultants, U.A.E	09:30 - 10:00
Morning Refreshments and Poster Presentation \| Networking Meetings	10:30 - 11:30
Artificial Intelligence for radical optimization of District Cooling Systems Kevin Miller, Digital Practice Leader, Middle East, Aurecon	14:10 - 14:40
Energy Storage
Case Study –District cooling overview from Egypt Tarek Zorba , General Manager , The Egyptian company for Energy & Cooling projects	11:30 - 12:00
Green Building Sustainable design considerations Deepthy K B , Regional Director , GBCI, LEED AP (BD+C), U.A.E	12:00 - 12:30
Case study – Successful implementation of ice thermal storage	12:30 - 13:00
Lunch \| Poster presentation \| Networking break	13:00 - 14:00
Future Technologies & Solutions
Panel Discussion: Challenges of DC from consumer viewpoint	14:00 - 14:30
Enhancing plant operations, audit systems by application of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence	14:30 - 15:00
Case Study – Energy efficiency system applied in Europe countries	15:00 - 15:30
Closing Remarks from Chairperson	15:30 - 15:45
End of Conference	15:45 - 15:50