Future digital twin & Generative AI
Middle East 2024
31 October 2024 | Abu Dhabi
Future Digital Twin & GenAI Middle East was our inaugural senior-level digital conference & expo focusing on digital twin strategies for the oil & gas sector in the Middle East. The event successfully explored establishing a common data model, leveraging digital twins for autonomous operations, and examined the role and impact of enabling technologies and key performance management.
Future Digital Twin attendees included operators, oil service companies, energy institutes and associations, drilling companies, exploration and production companies, integration solution providers, academics, and technology innovators at the CTO, CIO, CSO, CEO, CDO, VP, Senior Directors, and Chief Engineer level.
Advisory Board
Shane McArdle
CEO, Falkor
Khaled Al Blooshi
VP, Digital Projects & Innovation, ADNOC
Wassim Ghadban
Global SVP, AI & Digital Engineering; Kent
Dr. Abdullah Al-Halafi
Digital Twin Project Manager, Networks and Systems Lead Engineer, Saudi Aramco
Dr Michael Grieves
Executive Director & Chief Scientist, Digital Twin Institute
Steering Committee
Saleh Al-Wadei
Director (A): Maintenance Manufacturing Shops Department, Saudi Aramco
Dr Wael Ziadat
SPE Chairman
Dina Alamer
Lead IT Systems Analyst, Saudi Aramco
Fayez Kharbat
Digital Transformation Senior Consultant, Saudi Aramco
Professor Merouane Debbah
Senior Scientific AI Advisor, Technology Innovation Institute
Dr Soliman Almadi
Principal Scientist, Process & Control Department, Saudi Aramco
Dr Wael El Ghandour
Lead Scheduling Engineer, Saudi Aramco
Abdulaziz Alshehri
Senior Project Engineer, Saudi Aramco
Dhafer Algarni
Project Management & Industrial Services Division Manager, Saudi Aramco
ElFadl Zaki Ibrahim
Upstream AI & Digital Transformation Program Lead, ADNOC
Dr Dalia Abdallah
Technology Manager, ADNOC Onshore
Maxim Krayushkin
Growth & Partnerships Lead, AIQ
KEY THEMES COVERED:
Generative AI, reality capture and digital twins
APM, quantum twins and plant maintenance
Regulation and standardisation for generative AI and digital twins
Decarbonisation and digital twin integration
Immersive training, the remote worker and robotics
Future Digital Twin & GenAi (Middle east) 2024 Speakers:
Shane McArdle
CEO, Falkor
Berdiyar Saurbayev
Managing Principal, Energy Consulting at EPAM Systems
Adam Williams
Senior Manager, Engineering Design Technology at Motiva
Ram Seetepalli
Director, Data & Analytics & Digital Innovation, Motiva Enterprises
Khaled Al Blooshi
VP, Digital Projects & Innovation, ADNOC
Wassim Ghadban
Global SVP, AI & Digital Engineering; Kent
Dr. Abdullah Al-Halafi
Digital Twin Project Manager, Networks and Systems Lead Engineer, Saudi Aramco
Dr Chris Cooper
Executive Advisor, Group Digital & Cyber Security, Former CEO AIQ
Dr. Mikael Berthod
Head Business Development & Sustainability Growth MEA - OMV Refining & Marketing MEA
Dr Wael Ziadat
SPE Chairman
Paul Tours
Associate Director of Solutions Consultants at Wolters Kluwer Enablon
Yara Alatrach
Digital Energy & Sustainability Advisor, Microsoft
Fayez Kharbat
Digital Transformation Senior Consultant, Saudi Aramco
Youssef Sami Salem
CFO, Finance & Controls Division, ADNOC
Muhammad Ahmad
Specialist, Smart Field (Surface Facilities), ADNOC
Prahallad C R
Head of Customer Solutions at Bosch Digital Twin Industries
Professor Merouane Debbah
Senior Scientific AI Advisor, Technology Innovation Institute
Maxim Krayushkin
Growth & Partnerships Lead, AIQ
Abdulla Alhammadi
Technology Advisor at ADNOC
Ahmed Fathi
Team Leader AI & Analytics at ADNOC Distribution (Ph.D. in progress)
Kari Manner
Director,Global Business Development, Process & Industry at CADMATIC
Andreas Hoel Gaarder
Vice President on FutureOn AS
Michael Deighton
Senior Vice President of Operations at Kent
Awad Ahmed Ali El-Sidiq
Head of Artificial Intelligent & Analytics at ADNOC Distribution – U.A.E
Dr.Shivagami Gugan
Digital Transformation Technologist, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Architecture Evangelist at the Emirates Group
Dr Ozan Koseoglu
Global Head of BIM at Siemens Energy
Saad Tounzi
heads the digital projects department at ADNOC Distribution
Omar Ismail Al Hammadi
Specialist in Smart Field at ADNOC,
Samah Ghaoucha
Senior Manager, Strategy & Consulting, atAccenture
Fatima Abdulla Al Zaabi
VP, Procurement Services at ADNOC
Manish Kumar
OT Network & Cybersecurity Manager Global Innovation & Digital Engineering at Kent
Dr. Lina Bariah
Adjunct Professor at Khalifa University
Nadun Muthukumarana
CEO, V2T
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy
CEO, Reignite Future