EXHIBITION
180+ global exhibitors will come together to showcase the latest technologies and innovations driving progress and shaping the future of power and water utilities.
The World Utilities Congress, scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi from 16 - 18 September 2024, serves as the global platform that brings together global energy leaders, policymakers, innovators, and industry professionals from across the power & water utilities value chain to discuss the major trends and challenges shaping the industry as utilities worldwide work to deliver secure, sustainable, and affordable energy.
The World Utilities Congress 2024 will act as a catalyst, uniting energy, water, power generation, transmission, distribution, and district cooling to collaborate, innovate, and co-create a secure and clean energy future.
Join us alongside 12,000+ attendees from across the globe, 180+ exhibitors showcasing groundbreaking innovations, and 280+ global speakers including ministers, CEOs, experts, and innovators. Explore 110+ conference sessions with strategic and technical insights, and connect with 1,400+ conference delegates exploring new solutions and business models.
EXPLORE CUTTING-EDGE INNOVATIONS FROM 180+ GLOBAL INDUSTRY LEADERS INCLUDING
H.E. Suhail Bin Mohamed Al Mazrouei
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure
United Arab Emirates
H.E. Yaser bin Ebrahim Humaidan
Minister of Electricity and Water Affairs
Kingdom of Bahrain
H.E. Prof Hani Sewilam
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation
Egypt
H.E. Dr. Aun Dheyab Abdulla
Minister of Water Resources
Iraq
Dr. The Hon. William F. Duguid, J.P., M.P.
Senior Minister for Infrastructure
Barbados
H.E. Madam Chengqing ZHU
Vice Minister, Ministry of Water Resources
China
H.E. Dr. Sao-Kpato Hannah Isatta Max-Kyne
Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation
Sierra Leone
Dr. Adrian Băzăvan
Foreign affairs adviser, Ministry of Energy
Romania
Jasim Thabet
Group CEO & MD
TAQA
Francesco La Camera
Director General
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
H.E. Eng Mohamed Al Hammadi
Managing Director and CEO
Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC)
H.E. Mahmoud Abu-Zeid
President
Arab Water Council
Luc Rémont
Chairman & CEO
EDF
Fabrizio Fabbri
CEO
Ansaldo Energia SpA
Alistair Phillips-Davies
CEO
SSE
Eng. Khaled Alqureshi
CEO
SWPC
Yousif Al Ali
CEO
Etihad Water & Electricity
Izumi Kai
CEO, JERA Asia Pte. Ltd, Head of Platform Business Division
JERA
Anders Lindberg
President, Energy, Executive Vice President
Wärtsilä Corporation
Khalid Al Marzooqi
CEO
Tabreed
Ben Backwell
CEO
Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC)
Deepak Ravindran
CEO
Kraken Utilities
Daniela Gentile
CEO
Ansaldo Nucleare SpA
Atsushi Suzuki
President & CEO
Marubeni Middle East Africa Power
Sabrina Soussan
Chairman & CEO
SUEZ
David Landon
CEO
MoltexFLEX
James Humfrey
CEO, Morocco – UK Power Project
Xlinks
Saeed Khalfan Al Ghafri
CEO
Emirates Steel
Farid Al Awlaqi
CEO Generation
TAQA
Dr. Afif Al Yafei
CEO
TRANSCO
Philippe Bourdeaux
CEO - Africa, Near and Middle East
Veolia
Shannon McCarthy
Secretary General
International Desalination And Reuse Association (IDRA)
Omar Al Hashmi
Chief Executive Officer, Transmission & Distribution
TAQA
Charles-Edouard Mellagui
CEO, Cable Business Unit
Ducab
Steve Lemoine
CEO, Middle East
Dalkia
Eng. Ahmed Al Shamsi
Managing Director & CEO
SWS
Joe Mastrangelo
CEO
Eos Energy Storage
Helmut von Struve
CEO
Siemens Middle East
Yasser S. Alshahrani
VP of Trading
Saudi Power Procurement Company
Sophie Borgne
Global Segment President Water and Wastewater
Schneider Electric
Lina Osman
Managing Director & Head – Sustainable Finance, West
Standard Chartered
Ingo Kleinschmidt
CFO
ACX (AirCarbon Exchange)
Otmane Benamar
CTO EMEA, Gas Power
GE Vernova
Prof. Phil Hart
Chief Researcher, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research Center
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Santiago Bañales López
Managing Director
Iberdrola Innovation Middle East
Gavin van Tonder
Managing Director - Water
NEOM
Sulaiman Turki
Chief Strategy & Development Officer
SWPC
Marcus Stewart
Lead Green Grids Initiative, International Energy Transition
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, UK
Laura Thomson
General Counsel
Emirates Water & Electricity Company
Roberto Bocca
Head, Centre for Energy and Materials
World Economic Forum
Jon Ball
President - eVinci Microreactor Business
Westinghouse Electric Company
Tomaz Guadagnin
AMEA Managing Director and GCC Country Manager
Engie
Khaldoun Bouacida
MD & Country Cluster Head Arabian Peninsula
BASF Middle East LLC
Manish Dabkara
Chairman & MD
EKI Energy Services Ltd
Hebah Abbas
Chairwoman
Kuwait Water Association
Angela Homsi
Founder & President
Ignite Power
Bernard Dagher
Chief Strategy Officer
GE Vernova
Benjamin Tam
CEO
Isle Utilities
Laurent Longuet
CEO
SirajPower, a Positive Zero company
Antonio Di Cecca
Chief Operating Officer
Tabreed
Siddharth Malik
CEO
Vulcan Green Energy
Mark Blackwell
CEO
Apex Investments
Robin Mills
CEO
Qamar Energy
Luqman Niazi
Global Managing Partner, Industries & Assets
IBM
Tony Oehm
CEO & Co-Founder
ZeroEx
Adam Ridgway
Founder & CEO
One Moto
Andrew Gilmour
Co-Founder & CEO
Laconic
Dr. Yousif Al Hammadi
Chief Asset Management Officer
Tabreed
Ezzeddine Jradi
Chief Transformation & Business Excellence Officer
Emicool
Wim Alen
Chief Strategy and BD Officer Flex Generation & Retail and Deputy VP Battery Energy Storage System
Engie
Rizwan Rizaq
CTO, Smart PV
Huawei Middle East
Salih Merghani
VP of Energy Services
Olayan Financing Company
Nirupa Chander
VP Power Systems - Middle East & Africa Region
Schneider Electric
Nawal Alhanaee
Director of Future Energy Department
Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, UAE
Ashish Sethia
Global Head of Commodities, Energy & Environmental Markets
BloombergNEF
Semih Ozkan
Executive Director, EMEA - Energy, Power, Renewables, Metals & Mining
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
Cornelius Matthes
CEO
Dii Desert Energy
Dr. Fahad Al Yafei
CTO - Middle East and Head of Innovation Center, Abu Dhabi
Siemens Energy
Maurizio De Stefano
Senior Vice President
Minsait
Frank Wouters
Chairman, MENA Hydrogen Alliance and Director
MED-GEM Network
Nauman Afsar
Regional VP - MEA & Turkey
Oracle Utilities
Karim Megherbi
Founder & Executive Director, Orisun Invest, and Board Member
Global Solar Alliance
Bruce Smith
Strategy and Planning Executive Director
EWEC
Sara Al Saadi
Nuclear Safety Director
Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation
Ali Al Marzooqi
Head of Mobility
Positive Zero
Dr. Jan Haizmann
Secretary General
Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA)
Dr. Malcolm Cook
SVP, Chemicals & Process Technologies – Middle East & Turkey
thyssenkrupp AG
Dr. Amro Elshurafa
Executive Director - Utilities and Renewables Department
KASPSARC
Tim Rembold
Vice President - Petrochemicals
SLB
Dr. Tarifa Al Zaabi
Director General
International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
Ferdinand Varga
MD & Senior Partner
BCG
Chris Larsen
Senior Director, Clean Energy
Dynapower Company LLC
Nawied Jabarkhyl
Director - Head of International Media Relations
APCO Worldwide
Dr. Yacine Addad
Associate Professor, Associate Chair Nuclear Engineering & Deputy Director ENTC Nuclear Engineering
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Daniel Hacki
Head of Energy Transition
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
Yasin Kasirga
Decarbonisation Leader, Carbon Solutions - Middle East & Africa
GE Vernova
Vijay Jaswal
CTO
IFS
Sherif Ghaleb
Head of Industry Value Advisory, Middle East & Africa South
SAP
Tamer Obied
MD & Senior Partner
BCG
Stephen Tudhope
Partner - Power, Water & Environment
PwC
Diego Hernandez Diaz
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Rachid Majiti
Senior Partner, Dubai
McKinsey & Company
Mohammad Ayub
Partner
McKinsey & Company
Cristiano Rizzi
MD & Senior Partner
BCG
Abhay Bhargava
Associate Partner & Regional Leader – Energy & Environment
Frost & Sulivan
Dr. Shihab Elborai
Partner
Strategy&
Waseem Ashraf Qureshi
CEO and Inventor
Enercap Energy Holdings Limited
Prof. Lois Fauchon
President
World Water Council
Alessandra Pasini
Co-Founder & President
Zhero
Mucha Hazel Nyandoro
Chief of Professionals Tribe & MC
World Utilities Congress
Noel Aoun
Chief Strategy Officer
TAQA
Eng. Abdulla Al Khemeiri
COO
Etihad Water & Electricity
Mohammed AlRayees
Director Waste Strategy and Projects
Dubai Municipality
Gunjan Shroff
Partner, People & Organization
KPMG Lower Gulf
EVENT OVERVIEW
EXHIBITION
STRATEGIC CONFERENCE
STRATEGIC CONFERENCE
Hear from government ministers, policymakers and industry leaders on the latest market trends and future strategies driving growth and innovation across the utilities value chain.
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Gain unprecedented access to the latest industry knowledge and research findings, technical expertise, new project developments, state of the art technologies and industry best practices.
UTILITIES CLUB
UTILITIES CLUB
An invitation only VIP club for government officials, policymakers, C-level executives, and business leaders offering networking opportunities within a relaxed environment.
CLEANTECH INNOVATION THEATRE
CLEANTECH INNOVATION THEATRE
Discover the latest projects, innovation, and research and development in clean technology solutions that will help deliver clean value and supply chains across the power, water, and district cooling utilities
POWER GEN INNOVATION THEATRE
POWER GEN INNOVATION THEATRE
A platform for power producers, distributors, and the power utilities supply and value chain to present the solutions and technologies needed to modernise the power sector.
LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLES
LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLES
The invitation-only Leadership Roundtables gather stakeholders – from Ministers and policymakers to CEOs and scientists – to explore solutions and collectively address the challenges and shape the future of the utilities sector.
CO-LOCATED WITH THE 6TH ARAB WATER FORUM
In the heart of Abu Dhabi, two pivotal events will come together, creating a cross industry platform addressing the shared challenges and collaborative solutions of sustainability, energy and water security in the Arab world.
The Arab Water Forum & World Utilities Congress will play host to the crucial dialogues taking place in the water and utilities industries, fostering collaboration and shared insight.
The two events will not only connect these indispensable industries but will also propel them towards a collective vision of a sustainable and prosperous future, where water and utilities play instrumental roles in shaping global resilience and prosperity.
Find out more: https://www.arabwaterforum.org/
"The World Utilities Congress gave us the unique opportunity to connect with key stakeholders in the utilities sector, along with thought leaders and policy makers looking to make real and meaningful change in the industry. A global gathering such as this is crucial at this time given we are soon approaching COP28 and are seeking to address the issues of climate change and decarbonisation with energy security in mind."
Alexis Grenon
Global Digital Grid Senior Vice President
Schneider Electric
"The World Utilities Congress was a great opportunity to connect with global players in the energy field and discuss the energy transition in the region as well as the challenges in the industry. We had the pleasure to welcome several delegations from our clients and partners. We look forward to meeting again next year!”
Hassan Merhi
Managing Director
Linxon Middle East & Africa
"We are delighted to have partnered with the World Utilities Congress, witnessing its remarkable growth year after year. Through this collaboration, we have gained valuable networking opportunities, connecting us with influential decision makers from various industries. We eagerly anticipate a continued strong partnership with the Congress in the years to come!"
Frank Janssens
Vice President
KROHNE Oil and Gas - Middle East and Africa
“We were elated to showcase our solutions and services at the World Utilities Congress 2023. Through close collaboration with our valued customers and partners, we are actively working together to build a sustainable energy future that brings benefits to both current and future generations.”
Dr. Mostafa AlGuezeri
Managing Director
Hitachi Energy
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