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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
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
Ahmed Jaber Aldoseri
Chief Executive Officer
Bahrain Network - BNET
Moderator
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
Dr. Raweya Al-Mannai
Assistant Undersecretary for Common Municipal Services
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
Dr.Khaled Al Mutawah
Deputy Chief Executive Operations & Governance
Information & eGovernment Authority
Ayman Buheji
Chief Development Officer
Naseej
Mohamed Al Mahmood
Head of Sales
Diyar Al Muharraq
Moderator
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
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
Eng. Mohamed Rashdan
Director of Project Follow up & Management
Ministry of Housing & Urban Planning
Abdulaziz Qambar
Head, Projects Group - East Sitra Projects Manager
Ministry of Housing & Urban Planning
Moderator
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
Major Mohamed Al Abdulla
Ministry of Interior
14:10 - 14:30 Panel Discussion: Smart Infrastructure and Building Technologies
Panelists
Mohammed Sarrif
Director Digital Industries
Huawei Middle East & Central Asia
Fatima Darwish, Senior Manager
Construction Projects
Diyar Al Muharraq
Ali Salman, Products Manager
Enterprise Product Development
Batelco
Hasan Sulaibeekh
Telecom Infrastructure
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority
Kingdom of Bahrain
Moderator
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
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
Mohamed Khalaf
Electrical Engineer
Electricity & Water Authority
Hasan Mohsen
Head of Services & Installations
Electricity Distribution Directorate
Electricity & Water Authority
09:20 - 09:50 Waste Management
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
Mahmood Khalaf , MPM,PMP
Electricity & Water Authority
Saud Al Ansari
Electrical Engineer
Electricity & Water Authority
10:30 - 10:50
GIS and Smart Sustainable Cities
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
Mohammed Sarrif
Director Digital Industries
Huawei Middle East & Central Asia
11:40 -12:00 Presentation: AI for Public Safety and Security
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
Abubakar Mohamed, Chief Technology Officer, Beyon Cyber
Ahmed Al Balooshi, CEO , Advantari
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
Dr. Raweya Al-Mannai - Assistant Undersecretary for Common Municipal Services
Ministry of Municipalities Affairs & Agriculture
Abdulla Helal - Project Manager / Infrastructure Projects
Diyar Al Muharraq
Dr. Mohamed AlKalbani
Sultanate of Oman
Moderator
Fareed Bushehri
Consultant & SDG Strategic Planning
13:30 - 13:50 Deployed Renewables Potentials Meeting Smart Cities Principles
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
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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