EXPLORE THE 12 TECHNICAL CATEGORIES
1. POWER GENERATION
- Advancements in photovoltaic (PV) panels, organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs), concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) systems, product integrated photovoltaics (PIPVs), floatovoltaics
- Concentrated solar power technologies, power tower systems
- Advancements in solar trackers, inverters, and hybrid solar systems
- Using solar energy to power desalination plants
- Wind power generation
- Advancements in wind turbines and electric generators
- Developments in plant operation and maintenance, ageing management programmes (AMPs)
- Developments in nuclear reactors and nuclear fuels, SMRs
- Engineering, procurement, and construction of nuclear plants
- Advancements in R&D in nuclear sector
- Storage & supply chain capabilities
- Radioactive waste management
- Decommissioning and disposal, effective solutions for long-term nuclear waste disposal
- Ensuring power plant safety, protecting reactors from natural disasters and external accidents
- Policies and regulations
- Finance and Investments
- Project showcases
3. WATER DESALINATION
- Water pretreatment
- Reverse osmosis technologies, solar distillation, electrodialysis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, microfiltration
- Post-treatment remineralisation
- Storage & brine management
- Seawater desalination
- Optimum utilisation of post desalination recovery metals
- Chemicals for water treatment
- Low-carbon desalination
- Advancements in membranes, pumps, pipes, valves, and other equipment
- Advancements in multistage flash evaporation (MSF) methods and technologies
- Developments in multiple effect distillation (MED) methods and technologies
- Successful integration of various water desalination techniques
- Cost-effective strategies for water quality improvement
- Water post-treatment methods
- Water-energy-food nexus
- Project showcases
5. WASTEWATER RECYCLING, REUSING OR RECLAIMING
- Construction of wastewater treatment plants
- Decentralised wastewater systems
- Waste to energy
- Sanitary engineering, advancements in equipment and technologies
- Wastewater filtration systems and technology
- Optimisation of wastewater collection
- Advancements in wastewater treatment methods
- Usage of recycled wastewater
- Safe disposal of treated wastewater, sludge management
- Policies and regulations related to wastewater treatment
7. DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
- Digital twin, Industrial Internet of Things (IoT), connected performance
- Climate digital technologies
- Cyber, Information security & data privacy
- Drones deployment and 5G
- AI and data analytics in Utilities
- Robotics, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality
- Blockchain, Metaverse, cloud computing, enterprise mobility solutions
- Network optimisation, IT & OT convergence
9. POWER TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION & STORAGE
- Smart grid distribution management, grid balancing, ensuring load management flexibility, load shed strategies, integration of renewable energy into the grid, microgrids
- Substation automation technologies
- HVDC and FACTS technologies
- Off-grid renewable power generation supply
- Smart power and water grid network management, ensuring data interoperability, SCADA
- integration, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), systems scalability
- Developing wireless communication infrastructure, M2M communication, sensors
- Wired communication, advancements in cabling solutions and transmission lines
- Strategies to ensure economic, secure, and stable power and water supply
- Lithium-ion batteries in the grid storage market
- Alternative battery solutions - flow batteries, zinc batteries, lithium-sulphur batteries, sodium ion batteries, liquid metal batteries
- Storage implementation strategies, deriving utmost value from storage solutions
- Grid modernisation
- Advancements in smart grid technologies & grid security
- Substation automation, remote intelligent switch, battery storage
- Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), grid stability, advanced meters, re-routing power
- Solid-state transformers and power flow controllers, adaptive networks
- Advancements in backup power, UPS systems, generators, and automated solutions
- Industrial power supply
- Tackling commercial and residential power outages
- Power backups
- Sustainability efforts in backup power generation
11. HEALTH, SAFETY & SECURITY ACROSS THE UTILITIES INDUSTRY
- Occupational safety
- Safety culture and safety management systems, security systems, human factors, and performance
- Role of leadership within health and safety
- Process safety
- Mental health and wellbeing, occupational health
- Innovation and digital technologies to improve health and safety, wearable technology
- Protecting power and water assets against natural disasters and unwanted intrusions; storm damage assessment and restoration; vegetation management; wildfire mitigation
- Ensuring fire safety, explosion protection
- Contingency plans, emergency preparedness and response, crisis management
- Assessing, managing, and mitigating safety and security risks
- The role of partnerships and regional cooperation in ensuring safety and security
2. ALTERNATIVE FUELS
- Advances in hydrogen production
- Advances in methanol and ammonia production
- Auto-Thermal Reforming (ATR)
- Coal and oil gasification to hydrogen
- Methane pyrolysis
- Hydrogen infrastructure, upgrading gas infrastructure for the use of hydrogen
- Technology for storage, liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs)
- Strategies to scale up hydrogen production and usage
- Hydrogen and ammonia applications and uses in the utilities sector
- Export of hydrogen and ammonia
- Thermal hydrogen production from nuclear
- Advancements in biomass production
- Bio-chemicals & biomaterials
- Biofuels technology innovations: BECCUS, waste-to-energy
- Bio-hubs: processing, storage, and transportation of biofuels
- Industrial Biofuels Development
- Agro-biomass as feedstock for power generation
- Biomass feedstocks in bio-methanol and rDME production
- Finance, investment & policy governance
- Project showcases
4. WATER MANAGEMENT, SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK
- Integrated water resources management
- Hydrology and water resources
- Watershed management and protection
- Water use efficiency and optimisation
- Efficient solutions in district cooling
- Water demands for energy generation and vice-versa
- Modern Irrigation Technologies (Smart irrigation, precision agriculture, etc.)
- Water-energy-food nexus in irrigation
- Sustainable land and water management practices
- Water infrastructure, engineering & policy
- Water and network security
- Climate change and resilience
- Water conservation and efficiency
- Finance and Investment
6. DISTRICT COOLING
- Designing, owning, building, and operating district cooling plants
- Advancements in refrigerants, heat rejection methods and dehumidifying technologies; energy transfer systems
- Developments in meters, valves, and pumps
- New materials used in district cooling, the use of nanomaterials
- Integrating the alignment of analytics platform to existing building automation system (BAS), incorporating of variable frequency drives (VFDs)
- Leak detection: distributed temperature sensing (DTS) fibre optic cables, multimode leak detectors
- Adiabatic cooling & technology
- Optimising district cooling water and energy supplies
- Cooling grid management, energy storage, integration of renewable energy
- Distribution network
- Improving energy efficiency, advancements in technologies and R&D
- Preventative maintenance and operational excellence
8. SMART CITIES & COMMUNITIES
- Data space for smart communities
- Smart Meters, sensors, data mining, solar instrumentation, and user engagement
- Scaling e-mobility solutions
- Sustainable smart infrastructure solutions
- Battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs)
- EV supply equipment, 3D printing, micromobility
- Electric mobility as a service
- EV to grids, buildings, houses, other energy consuming destinations
- Smart heating and cooling systems, air quality monitors, weather sensors
- Reducing carbon emissions with sustainable transportation
- Electrotechnical systems, equipment and applications used to build and maintain smart cities and green buildings
- New energy systems - small-scale Combined Heat and Power (CHP) with heat storage, PV-driven heat pumps, bio-methane
- Integration of renewable energy and energy efficient intelligent building technologies
- Developments in transparent solar panels
- Customer engagement
10. ENERGY TRANSITION, DECARBONISATION, ESG & SUSTAINABILITY
- Decarbonisation and carbon capture solutions in the utilities industry
- CO2 emission reduction, utilization, carbon credit, and carbon market (supply and demand)
- Power plant emission and pollution control systems, reducing carbon footprint
- Management of brine discharge and sludge disposal
- Circular Economy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew
- UN sustainable development goals
- Biodiversity and ecosystem conservation
- Decarbonisation and energy transition, energy mix, clean energy business models
- Carbon credits
- Tackling land and water contamination
- Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
- Sustainable procurement
12. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
- Improving utilisation of resources
- Intelligent automation and the role of technology to achieve operational excellence
- Resilient workforce technologies and strategies
- Business process and re-engineering
- Operations excellence 4.0: challenges, innovative solutions, and best practices
- Improving asset integrity
- Challenges, technologies, and innovative practices
- Energy optimisation and transition
- Cost optimisation
- Advancements in asset maintenance strategies, managing asset life extension, improving reliability
- Six sigma methods and applications
- Intelligent automation and technology’s role to achieve operational excellence
- Lean operations
- Autonomous and remote operations
- Maintenance 4.0 challenges, technologies, and innovative practices
- Asset performance 4.0 and facility management
- Improving operating efficiency
- People development and mobilisation
- Workforce of the future
CEO
Abu Dhabi Transmission and Despatch Company (TRANSCO)
Abu Dhabi Manager Power System & Transmission Engineering
EDF CIST
Chief Operating Officer
Tabreed
Technical Director
Dalkia Middle East
Strategic Market Development – Energy Storage & Optimisation
Wärtsilä Energy
Project Manager - Middle East & Asia
Wärtsilä Energy
Senior Programme Lead – Supply Chain
World Nuclear Association
Head of Project Delivery
EDF Renewables Middle East
Associate Professor Nuclear Engineering
Khalifa University
Projects & Proposals Manager
Enppi
Proposal Manager
Masdar
Energy Sustainability Consultant
Insight Plum
Technical Manager
Qatar Cool
International Development Manager
EDF / CSFN
Product Manager Assessment Services – Digital Solution
Xylem Inc.
Senior Principal Team Leader - Advanced Nuclear Technology
EPRI
Investment Manager
EDF, UAE
Chairwoman
Kuwait Water Association
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Chief Executive Officer
FynValue
Managing Director
Future Water and Power Consulting
Managing Partner
Natural Ventures
CXO Advisor, Programme Lead
Sullivan & Stanley
Executive Vice President, Innovation & New Technology
ACWA Power
Vice President - Engineering and Technical Project Management
ENGIE
Vice President - HSEQ
Tabreed (National Central Cooling Company)
Global Energy and Utilities Practice Leader
IBM Consulting
Partner and Global Director of Strategy and Advisory
AESG
Senior Director, Clean Energy
Dynapower
Technical Director – Wastewater, Engineering Services
Atkins
Regional Water Market Director - Middle East
Atkins
Regional Director
Acciona
Director, Engineering and Construction, MEA & APAC
Jinko Power (HK) Company Limited
Founder and CEO
ForeSee Advisors
Advisor for Water Resources, Environment Quality
Abu Dhabi Environment Agency
EMEA Energy Lead
AWS
Head of Middle East Nuclear & Net Zero Energy
WS Atkins & Partners Overseas - Abu Dhabi Branch
Data Scientist & Project Manager
ENEDIS
Chief Sustainability Officer
Engie
Chief Executive Officer
Enertech Middleast FZ LLC
Co-founder and Head of Products
Solinas Integrity, India
Founder & CEO
SWPC (Sustainable Water & Power Consultants)
Managing Director
PSM Thomassen Gulf
Head of Sales, Digital Grid, MEA
Schneider Electric
Water and Waste Water Segment Consultant, MEA
Schneider Electric
Principal Consultant
Infosys
Electrical Engineering Lead
Siemens Energy
Chief Investment Officer
EIGENSONNE GmbH
Vice-President and Chief Science Officer
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Director Energy & Natural Resources, Industries Value Advisor
SAP
Manager, Business Development
EDF, Saudi Arabia
Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Student
Khalifa University, UAE
Principal
dss+, UAE
President
Aboudheir Consulting, Canada
Head of Business Development and Sales
CAMBI
MENATI Regional Engineering Director – Gas Technology Services
Baker Hughes, Italy
Digital Transformation Director
Atkins, UK
Associate R&D Engineer
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), UAE
Director- Emerging Technologies- Middle East North Africa
CES, India
Senior Power Performance Engineer
Transco, UAE
Executive Partner & Global Industry CoE Leader-Energy & Resources
IBM Consulting, Germany
President
Water Vision Technology, UAE
Chief Business Officer
Metroscope, France
Chief Engineer
Atkins, UAE
President
Dalkia/U.S. Chiller Services, USA
Senior Economist, Strategy & Markets Analysis
Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Regional Manager
CTC Global, UAE
Quality and Environmental in General Administration for Quality and Environmental Affairs
Holding Company for Water and Waste Water, Egypt
Specialist - Electrical Network Performance
Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC), UAE
Senior Research Specialist
Abu Dhabi Quality & Conformity Council, UAE
Chief Solution Expert - IBU Utilities
SAP, Germany
Head of Department, Electrical Energy Storage
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
Security Expert
Nawah Energy, UAE
Sr. Lab Scientist
Aramco, Saudi Arabia
President
50 Hertz Limited, India
Lead, Energy Transition
Infosys Limited (India)
Sustainability Manager
Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC)
Managing Director
Inspirational Development Group Middle East, UAE
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
Research Scientist
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Senior Information Systems Specialist
Enerjisa, Turkey
Information and Cyber Security Director
Nawah Energy Company, UAE
Strategic Business Development Manager
DEIF A/S, Denmark
Data Science Manager
ENEDIS an EDF group entity, France
SVP, Digital Transformation
Injazat, UAE
Climate Technologies Sales Manager - NET Power
Baker Hughes
Business Resilience Director
SWS Holding
Technology General Manager
The Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company (Echem), Egypt
Cofounder and Head of Products
Solinas Integrity, India
Senior Managing Director - International Tendering Head
Jinko Power, Jordan
CEO
Protium Technologies, UK
Managing Director
Isle Utilities Middle East, United Arab Emirates
Project Manager
EDF CIST-INGEUM, France
Sr Management Consultant for Utilities
IBM Consulting, India
Chief Executive Officer
Tetracore Group
Financial and Market Analyst - Energy Business
Wärtsilä , UAE
R&D Design Engineer
Baker Hughes, Italy
General Manager, Market Development – Middle East & Asia
Wärtsilä, UAE
Data Scientist
ENEDIS an EDF group Entity, France
Assistant Electrical Engineer
Al Ain Distribution Company, UAE
Chief Marketing officer
Enercap power industries LLC
Head of Energy Transition
RED Engineering Design, United Kingdom
Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Department
Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
VP Health, Safety, Environment and Quality
Tabreed, United Arab Emirates
Vice President - Engineering and Technical Project Management
ENGIE, UAE
Sr. Business Manager
Hydrogen, Baker Hughes
Senior Vice President
CTC Global
Senior Manager (Automation and Digital)
SNC-Lavalin, UAE
Senior Industry Principal – Energy & Utilities
Infosys, India
Researcher
MCI - The Entrepreneurial School, Austria
CEO
DUNE-Invest DMCC, UAE (presenting on behalf of ExerGo)
X-to-Grid & DC Influence and Standards Manager
Schneider Electric, UAE
Digital Transformation Assocaite
Atkins
Engineering Consultant (Resident Engineer/Project Manager)
ESB International (ESBI), Bahrain
AGM-Control and SCADA
Egyptian Natural Gas Company (GASCO)
Principal Project Manager, Advanced Nuclear Technology (ANT)
Electric Power Research Institute, USA
Client Solutions Architect
Xylem, UAE
Senior Performance Engineer
Tabreed
Data Expert Consultant at Innovative Analytics
ENEDIS an EDF group entity, France
Product Manager Hybrid & Wind
DEIF A/S, Denmark
Regional Water Market Director - Middle East
Atkins
Strategic Partnership Manager
Schneider Electric, UAE
Director of Nuclear Export Technologies
EDF Nuward, France
Manager
Ansaldo Green Tech, Italy
R&D Engineer
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), UAE
Vice President, Clean Energy Solutions
PSM – a Hanwha Company, USA
Decarbonisation Consultant
Atkins, UK
Regional Sales Manager
MAN Energy Solutions Middle East, UAE
I was honoured to be part of the technical committee of the World Utilities Congress in Abu Dhabi and to co-chair the Technical Conference. This event was also a fantastic opportunity to hear from government ministers, policymakers, and industry leaders on energy strategies.
Hervé de Trémiolles
International Development Manager
EDF / CSFN
I had the opportunity to speak at the Technical Conference about district cooling and it was a truly enriching experience. The event brought together leading experts and professionals from the utilities sector in UAE and worldwide.
Antonio Di Cecca
Chief Operating Officer
tabreed
The World Utilities Congress brought together many of the important players in the energy sector at a time of great importance leading up to COP28 in UAE. The Technical Conference enabled the cross-pollination of ideas and opportunities to collaborate on the pressing industry challenges.
Nathan Paterson
Senior Programme Lead – Supply Chain
World Nuclear Association
