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Agenda
Day 1
5 March 2024
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Ceremony
Opening speech
09:30 - 09:45 Bahrain Smart Cities Summit Awards Ceremony
Announcing the Awards winners for 2024
9:45 - 10:30 Official Opening of Bahrain Smart Cities Exhibition 2024
Official Opening of Bahrain Smart Cities Exhibition
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee & Networking Break
Coffee & Networking Break
10:50 -11:25 Panel Session: AI and IoT in Urban Infrastructure
Panelists
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H.E Eng. Fahad Al Mutlaq (CEng. MSc. MBA.Urban Economist)
Deputy Minister for Urban Planning & Lands Affairs
Ministry of Municipality & Rural Affairs & Housing (MoMRAH)
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Jaber Aldoseri
Chief Executive Officer
Bahrain Network - BNET
Moderator
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Abdulla Al Hamed (MBA. MSC. DBA.)
Managing Partner – INTERMID & Chairman of the Bahrain Internet Society
11:30 - 12:00 Panel Session: Bahrain's Smart City Vision
Panelists
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Dr. Raweya Al-Mannai
Assistant Undersecretary for Common Municipal Services
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
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Dr.Khaled Al Mutawah
Deputy Chief Executive Operations & Governance
Information & eGovernment Authority
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Ayman Buheji
Chief Development Officer
Naseej
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Mohamed Al Mahmood
Head of Sales
Diyar Al Muharraq
Moderator
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Waleed Khalaf
Chairman - Bahrain Smart Cities Summit
CEO - Smart Way Consulting
12:00 - 12:20 Prayer & Networking Break
Prayer & Networking Break
12:35 - 12:55 Digital Sustainability
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Carine Saliba
Sales Manager UAE, Bahrain & Pakistan
Uptime Institute
13:00 - 13:15 The Use of AI in Development of Rural Areas in Smart Cities
Eng. Yaqoob Al Hindasi
Sultanate of Oman
13:20 - 13:35 Panel Discussion : Salman City : Leading the Way in Sustainable Smart Government Projects
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Eng. Mohamed Rashdan
Director of Project Follow up & Management
Ministry of Housing & Urban Planning
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Abdulaziz Qambar
Head, Projects Group - East Sitra Projects Manager
Ministry of Housing & Urban Planning
Moderator
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Eng. Mohamed Al Khozai
Secretary General
Gulf Engineering Union
13:35 - 13:45 Coffee & Networking Break
Coffee & Networking Break
13:45 - 14:05 Presentation: The use of AI in Electronic Fraud
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Major Mohamed Al Abdulla
Ministry of Interior
14:10 - 14:30 Panel Discussion: Smart Infrastructure and Building Technologies
Panelists
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Mohammed Sarrif
Director Digital Industries
Huawei Middle East & Central Asia
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Fatima Darwish, Senior Manager
Construction Projects
Diyar Al Muharraq
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Ali Salman, Products Manager
Enterprise Product Development
Batelco
Hasan Sulaibeekh
Telecom Infrastructure
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Kingdom of Bahrain
Moderator
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Daneh Al Rayes
Vice President
Smart Way Consulting
14:40 15:00 AI & Regulations
Amjad Maawia Elnayal
Manager of Technology
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Kingdom of Bahrain
15:00 -15:10 Presentation : Digitalizing Sustainability in Smart Cities
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Shivaa Rajesh
IT Consultant for Aarksee Group of Companies
15:15 - 16:00 Lunch & Networking
Lunch & Networking
Day 2
6 March 2024
09:00 - 09:20 Presentation: Smart Meters for Leading Edge Smart Cities
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Mohamed Khalaf
Electrical Engineer
Electricity & Water Authority
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Hasan Mohsen
Head of Services & Installations
Electricity Distribution Directorate
Electricity & Water Authority
09:20 - 09:50 Waste Management
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Ammar Abdulkarim
Director , Household Waste
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
09:55 - 10:05 Comparison between Conventional Activated Sludge (CAS) and Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) Process for Characterization of MBR Fouling for Municipal Wastewater Treatment
Eng. Balqees Al Ajmia
Sultanate of Oman
10:10 - 11:00 Series of Presentations: Smart and Sustainable City Projects in Bahrain
10:10 - 10:30
Bahrain Smart Grid : Pathway to the Future
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Mahmood Khalaf , MPM,PMP
Electricity & Water Authority
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Saud Al Ansari
Electrical Engineer
Electricity & Water Authority
10:30 - 10:50
GIS and Smart Sustainable Cities
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Dr. May Mohamed A.Wahab Al-Khalifa
Director, Geographic Information Systems
Information & eGovernment Authority
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee & Networking Break
Coffee & Networking Break
11:20 -11:40 Presentation: Emerging Technologies in Smart Cities
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Mohammed Sarrif
Director Digital Industries
Huawei Middle East & Central Asia
11:40 -12:00 Presentation: AI for Public Safety and Security
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Mohamed Mohaimen
West Region Sales Manager
Honeywell Saudi Arabia
12:00 - 12:20 Prayer & Networking Break
Prayer & Networking Break
12:30 - 12:50 Panel Discussion : Cyber Security & Smart Cities
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Abubakar Mohamed, Chief Technology Officer, Beyon Cyber
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Ahmed Al Balooshi, CEO , Advantari
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Husain Mohamed AlJanahi
Senior Network Security Engineer
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Kingdom of Bahrain
13:00 - 13:30 Panel Discussion: National Plan for Afforestation (2022 -2035)
Panelists
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Dr. Raweya Al-Mannai - Assistant Undersecretary for Common Municipal Services
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
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Abdulla Helal - Project Manager / Infrastructure Projects
Diyar Al Muharraq
Dr. Mohamed AlKalbani
Sultanate of Oman
Moderator
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Fareed Bushehri
Consultant & SDG Strategic Planning
13:30 - 13:50 Deployed Renewables Potentials Meeting Smart Cities Principles
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Ali Salman
Renewable Energy Specialist
Electricity & Water Authority
13:50 - 14:00 Coffee & Networking Break
Coffee & Networking Break
14:10 - 14:25 Sultanate of Oman National Initiative of Planting 10 million trees
Eng. Saif Al Toobi
Environment System Specialist
Environment Authority
Sultanate of Oman
14:30 - 14:40 Afforestation Platform Kingdom of Bahrain
Khalid Al Jalahma
Director Of Information Systems
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
14:40 -14:50 Presentation : Circular Economy in Smart Cities
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Shibu Daniel
Associate researcher & Business Development Manager
Aarksee Group of companies
14:50 - 15:00 Closing Remarks: Future Lookout & Recommendations
Concluding the summit with key takeaways and future steps.
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