Agenda 2024 | SmartCitiesSummitBH

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.