CTO Collaboration Platform
January 23, 2024
7:00 am
8:00 am
Welcome Breakfast & Networking
8:40 am
Welcome Address: Regional benefits and collective actions will give wings to the transition
Paul van Son, President, Dii Desert Energy
8:50 am
Keynote Address: The Innovation Ecosystem in the Energy Transformation
Thomas Altmann, Executive Vice President, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
9:00 am
Session 1: Dii Desert Energy-ILF New White Paper: Bulk Transport Options for Green Molecules. Focus Area: Europe and MENA Region
Global Hydrogen Trade, Cross-Continental Pipelines and Economics for Levelized Cost of Transportation
9:30 am
Session 2: Saudi Arabia's Country Focus
Vision 2030 – Saudi Arabia as Green Energy Hub for Green Electrons and Molecules . Moderator: Alexander Sarac. Panelists: Dr. Bart Boesmans, Prof. Mani Sarathy, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Qasim
10:10 am
Host Keynote Address: The Importance of Technology Innovation and Research on the Road to Net Zero Emissions
Dr. Ian Campbell, OBE, Interim Vice President for Innovation, KAUST
10:15 am
Networking Coffee & Refreshment
10:45 am
Session3: Keynote: Investing in Climate Action
Dr. Osman Al Gihaz
11:00 am
Session 4: Lead Partner Presentation
Smartenergy
11:15 am
Session 5: Presentations by New Associated Partners
ARC Energy, Astroenergy, Bosch, BayWa RE, Baker Hughes
12:00 pm
Session 6: Spotlight Morocco
Tarik Hamane, Acting CEO, Masen
12:10 pm
Session 7: Key Findings from the 2023 Bureau Veritas Energy Transition Report
12:20 pm
Networking Lunch in Foyer
1:00 pm
Tour of KAUST Research Centre and Research Facilities
1:45 pm
Session 8: Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA) Conditions and Feasibility of building a Clean Energy Hub in KSA: how to connect KSA with European energy markets?
Speakers: Jan Haizmann, Secretary General, Zero Emissions Traders Alliance (ZETA) Taimoor Zaman, Head of Commodity Trading, NEOM
2:00 pm
Session 9: Presentations by New Associated Partners
Each organization has 5 minutes presentation followed by a Q&A session
2:45 pm
Session 10: the MENA Hydrogen Alliance
Moderator: Frank Wouters
Panelists: Safwan Yousif, Prof Bassam Dally, Quinten Swanborn
3:30 pm
Networking Coffee Break
4:00 pm
Session 11: ACWA Power & Dii Desert Energy Innovation Challenge Winner Announcement
4:30 pm
World CleanTech Awards - Edition 2023 Ceremony
6:00 pm
End of Conference Program
6:00 pm
Advance VIP Registration & Badge collection
Advance VIP Registration/collection of the badges for Innovation Days and networking
7:00 pm
Al Marsa Amphitheatre (sponsored by ACWA Power, Dii, CBC)
7:00 pm
Welcome note from ACWA Power
Mohammed Abunayyan - Founder & Chairman, ACWA Power
7:10 pm
Welcome note from KAUST
Dr Tony Chan, KAUST President
7:20 pm
Welcome note from Dii Desert Energy
Cornelius Matthes, Dii Desert Energy
7:30 pm
Welcome note from CBC
Tomasz Slusarz, CBC
9:00 pm
Dinner Ends
January 24, 2024
8:00 am
SOLAR | HYDROGEN | DIGITALIZATION
8:00 am
Registration
Registration in Building 20/19 for Day 2
9:00 am
OPENING SESSION
9:00 am
Welcome note from ACWA Power
Welcome note by Raad Al Saady, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, ACWA Power
9:10 am
Welcome note from KAUST
Welcome note by Tony Chan, President, KAUST
9:20 am
Opening note from ACWA Power
Opening note by Thomas Altmann, Executive Vice President, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
9:25 am
Keynote CEO ACWA Power
Innovation at the heart of ACWA Power's growth strategy by Marco Arcelli, Chief Executive Officer, ACWA Power
9:35 am
Keynote CTO ACWA Power
Impact of Innovation on Sustainability by Bart Boesmans, Chief Technology Officer, ACWA Power
9:45 am
Keynote VP Research KAUST
Keynote - Translational Research for Impact by Pierre Magistretti, Vice President, Research, KAUST
9:55 am
Innovation Vision - Energy Transition and Ambition
Panelists from ARAMCO, SABIC, MAADEN, MASEN, IRESEN, RDIA, KAUST
10:45 am
Coffee Break, Posters and Demo sessions
Coffee Break, Posters and Demo sessions
11:00 am
Accelerating the deployment of greener technologies through innovation
Panelists from Envision, Siemens, Shanghai Electric, Longi, De Nora, Schneider Electric, ACWA Power
11:45 am
HYDROGEN SESSION
11:45 am
The future of green hydrogen in GCC region from ACWA Power
The future of green hydrogen in GCC region from Driss Berraho, Vice President ,Business Development Green Hydrogen, ACWA Power
12:00 pm
ACWA Power Hydrogen R&D overview
ACWA Power Hydrogen R&D overview by Ahmed Balawi, Manager, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
12:10 pm
Methane Pyrolysis - future perspective
Methane Pyrolysis - future perspective by Mani Sarathy, Professor, Chemical Engineering Associate Director, KAUST
12:20 pm
Water Electrolysis - future perspective
Water Electrolysis - future perspective by Xu Lu, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, KAUST
12:30 pm
Innovation Challenge, KSA – Launch of Ideation Initiative
Innovation Challenge, KSA – launch of ideation Initiative by Sharzi Mukhri, Innovation Initiative Lead, ACWA Power, and Manus Ward, Director, Research Planning Partnerships, KAUST in Building 20/19
12:30 pm
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 pm
SIGNING OF MOUs (Day 1)
Signings of MoUs: ACWA Power, NanoPhos, SNEC
1:30 pm
DIGITALIZATION SESSION
1:30 pm
Keynote on Digital Technologies and its role in Innovation
Keynote on Digital Technologies and its role in Innovation by Alvaro Perez, Chief Digital Officer, ACWA Power
1:40 pm
Artificial Intelligence Initiative – KAUST
Artificial Intelligence Initiative – KAUST by Bernard Ghanem, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST
1:50 pm
Advanced Simulation & Modelling
Advanced Simulation & Modelling by Shehab Ahmed, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Chair, KAUST
2:00 pm
SOLAR SESSION
2:00 pm
Role of Innovation in Solar
Role of Innovation in Solar by Jose Barragan, Vice President Renewables Technical Services, ACWA Power
2:10 pm
ACWA Power's progress in Solar
ACWA Power's progress in Solar by Saad Umer, Director, Renewables Business Development, ACWA Power in Building 20/19
2:20 pm
KAUST ACWA Power Collaborative Solar R&D
KAUST ACWA Power Collaborative Solar R&D by Stefaan Dewolf, Professor and Director KAUST Solar Center, KAUST
2:30 pm
Coffee Break, Posters and Demo sessions
Coffee Break, Posters and Demo sessions
3:30 pm
LAB TOURS
3:30 pm
KSC (Solar) lab tour
KSC (Solar) lab tour
4:15 pm
CCRC (Hydrogen/Ammonia combustion) lab tour
CCRC (Hydrogen/Ammonia combustion) lab tour
4:15 pm
CCRC (Hydrogen/Ammonia combustion) lab tour
CCRC (Hydrogen/Ammonia combustion) lab tour
5:00 pm
Poster Session (09:00 - 18:00)
Bassam Dally Omar Behar Ahmed Azmeer KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Solar Tower (ST) Solar Tower Solar-thermal Renewables CSP 3D Print
Mani Sarathy Tairan Wang KAUST Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Artificial Intelligence Digitalisation
Cafer Yavuz Javeed Mahmood Seokjin Kim Phil Woong Kang KAUST Saudi Arabia Green Hydrogen Hydrogen Green Gases Energy
Karl Bedrich Yong Khoo Yan WANG Quantified Energy Labs Singapore Energy Drones
Julian Hunt Yoshihide Wada KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Decarbonisation
Mubarak Alwadaani Julian Hunt Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Energy Storage Decarbonisation
Farid HABELHAMES Abdelfetteh Sayah Ahmed Bahloul Ferhat Abbas University Algeria Energy Storage Energy Decarbonisation
Thomas Altmann Ahmed Yousry Ratul Das Bassam Dally Mani Sarathy Haytham Alhamed Fabiyan Shamsudheen Omar Behar Saumitra Saxena César Lucio Cifuentes KAUST ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Decarbonisation
Thomas Altmann Ahmed Yousry Ratul Das Bassam Dally Mani Sarathy Haytham Alhamed Fabiyan Shamsudheen Omar Behar Saumitra Saxena César Lucio Cifuentes KAUST ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Decarbonisation
Reem Alharbi Shubham Tyagi Paresh Rout Udo Schwingenschlögl KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Monitoring
Mani Sarathy Fabiyan Shamsudheen Qi Wang Faseeh AbdulRahman Kulangara Kandiyil Saudi Arabia Energy Hydrogen Green Gases Decarbonisation
Basem Eraqi Mani Sarathy Shashank Nagaraja KAUST Saudi Arabia Artificial Intelligence Digitalisation Machine Learning
Mani Sarathy Holkan Vazquez-Sanchez Julian Florez Mohammed AlAbbad Saudi Arabia Green Ammonia Ammonia Green Gases Energy Hydrogen Decarbonisation
Eydhah Almatrafi Ali A. Alshammari Elias Salilih Mohamed Rady King Abdulaziz University Saudi Arabia Photovoltaic Renewables Energy PV cooling
Schneider Electric ( Germany) United States of America Desalination Water Monitoring
SHANGHAI ELECTRIC China Energy Decarbonisation
Shanghai Electric China Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Decarbonisation
Julian Hunt Yoshihide Wada KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Hydrogen Green Gases Decarbonisation
SHANGHAI ELECTRIC China Energy Photovoltaic Renewables Decarbonisation
Water Stuff & Sun Germany Energy Hydrogen Green Gases Decarbonisation
Mani Sarathy Shashank Nagaraja Carolina Gallego Andrés Alvarez Manuel Monge Palacios Adrian Cavazos Sepulveda Aramco ARAMCO KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Hydrogen Green Gases Decarbonisation
Cafer Yavuz Javeed Mahmood Seokjin Kim Azimet Karluk Eziz Naryyev KAUST Saudi Arabia Turquoise hydrogen Hydrogen Green Gases Energy Decarbonisation
Bassam Dally Jiajun Li Adamu Alfazazi KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Chemicals
Chen Yang OMAR F. MOHAMMED Razan Nughays Sarvarkhodzha Nematulloev Jun Yin George Harrison Shadi Fatayer Osman M. Bakr KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Decarbonisation
5:00 pm
Break
Break
6:30 pm
Gather at building 19 for dinner transfer
Gather at building 19 for dinner transfer
7:00 pm
Dinner
Pool Side Dinner, Al-Khozama Hotel, KAUST
January 25, 2024
8:30 am
DESALINATION | ENERGY STORAGE SESSIONS
8:30 am
Registration
Registration for Day 2
9:30 am
Welcome note from ACWA Power
Welcome note by Thomas Altmann, Executive Vice President Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
9:35 am
Significance of this event/innovation from KAUST perspective
Significance of this event/innovation from KAUST perspective by Dr. Ian W. Campbell, Vice President Innovation, KAUST
9:45 am
Opening video
Opening video
9:50 am
Desalination Translational Research
Panelists from KAUST, IDA, Toray, SWCC, NYU, Veolia, KISR, Khalifa University
10:30 am
Coffee break and demos
Coffee break and demos
11:00 am
DESALINATION SESSION
11:00 am
Keynote on ACWA Power’s Desalination Journey
Keynote on ACWA Power’s Desalination Journey by Fawzi Al Saadi, Executive Vice President, Red Sea Portfolio Management, ACWA Power
11:15 am
ACWA Power - Desalination R&D
ACWA Power - Desalination R&D by Ratul Das, Senior Manager, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
11:45 am
KAUST ACWA Power Collaborative Desalination R&D
ACWA Power Collaborative Desalination R&D by Dr. Graciela Gonzalez Gil & Dr. Bastiaan Blankert, Research Scientist, Water Desalination & Reuse Center, KAUST in Building 20/19
12:00 pm
Signings of MoU and LoC (Day 2)
Signings of MoU and LoC
12:00 pm
Posters and Demo sessions - Lunch and Prayer
Posters and Demo sessions - Lunch and Prayer in Building 20/19
1:30 pm
BESS SESSION
1:30 pm
New sustainable energy storage technologies suitable for GCC climate conditions
KAUST, VoltStorage, KSU, Aramco, ACWA Power, Enervenue
2:10 pm
BESS presentation
Husam Alshareef, Professor, Material Science and Engineering in Building 20/19
2:20 pm
Way forward on BESS
Krunal Patel, Executive Manager, Central Technical Services, ACWA Power
2:30 pm
ACWA Power - BESS R&D
Christos Iraklis, Manager, Innovation & New Technology, ACWA Power
2:40 pm
Coffee break
Coffee break in Building 20/19
3:00 pm
LAB TOURS
3:00 pm
WDRC Lab tour
WDRC lab tour
3:45 pm
SWRO, PV & H2 pilot tour
SWRO, PV & H2 pilot tour
5:00 pm
Poster Session (09:00 - 18:00)
KIm Choon NG M Kum Ja Raid AlRowais Doskhan Ybyraiymkul KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Krunal Patel ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Energy Storage Energy Microgrids Grid Battery Cells
Thomas Altmann Noreddine Ghaffour Ratul Das Adnan Qamar Najat Amin Henry Tanudjaja KAUST ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Artificial Intelligence Digitalisation Desalination Water Monitoring
Thomas Altmann Noreddine Ghaffour Ratul Das Adnan Qamar Najat Amin Henry Tanudjaja KAUST ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Artificial Intelligence Digitalisation Desalination Water
Cristian Picioreanu Bastiaan Blankert Fernan Martinez Felipe Salto-Quintana Valentina-Elena Musteata Santiago Zuluaga KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Sanjay Parekh Jeremy Biddle Fergus Rooksby KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Noreddine Ghaffour Pascal Saikaly P.D. Kolubah Hend Omar Mohamed M.N. Hedhili Mohamed Ben Hassine R. Díaz-Rúa D. I. Drautz-Moses M. Obaid P. Castaño KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Storage Energy Electrodes
KIm Choon NG Doskhan Ybyraiymkul Ahmed Alanazi KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Membranes
Thomas Altmann Ratul Das Johannes Vrouwenvelder Graciela Gonzalez Gil Abozar Akbari Akbari Yasmeen Nadreen KAUST ACWA Power International NematiQ Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Husam Alshareef Eman Alhajji KAUST Saudi Arabia Energy Storage Energy Decarbonisation Electrodes
Cristian Picioreanu Johannes Vrouwenvelder Bastiaan Blankert Luca Fortunato Luigi Ranieri KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Membranes
Noreddine Ghaffour Johannes Vrouwenvelder KIm Choon NG Doskhan Ybyraiymkul Damaris Sosa Alla Alpatova Nadia Farhat KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Biofouling
Johannes Vrouwenvelder Bastiaan Blankert Natalia Clavijo KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Membranes Monitoring
Shanghai Electric China Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Geert-Jan Witkamp Luca Fortunato Lamya Al Fuhaida Maria Fernanda Nava-Ocampo Andreia Farinha Laura Falivene Sapia Murgolo Cristina De Ceglieb Giuseppe Mascolo KAUST Institute of Water Research Italy Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Decarbonisation
Carmelo Morgante V. Boffa J. Lopez J. Cortina Aalborg University Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Università degli Studi di Palermo Denmark Italy Spain Desalination Water Filtration
Thomas Altmann Ahmed Balawi Christos Iraklis ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Energy Storage Energy Wind (On-shore) Renewables Decarbonisation
Thomas Altmann Ahmed Balawi Christos Iraklis ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Energy Storage Energy Battery Cells
Cristian Picioreanu Bastiaan Blankert Felipe Salto-Quintana Santiago Zuluaga KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Monitoring
Shanghai Electric China Va RFB Flow Batteries Energy Storage Energy
Johannes Vrouwenvelder Bastiaan Blankert Kees Huisman KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Biofilm
Thomas Altmann Ratul Das Johannes Vrouwenvelder Graciela Gonzalez Gil María Camila Albarracín Ruíz Castrillon Tobon M. Abdul-Hamid Emwas KAUST ACWA Power International Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Chemicals
Cristian Picioreanu Bastiaan Blankert Fernan Martinez Santiago Zuluaga KAUST Saudi Arabia Desalination Water Membranes
Alistair Cameron Ken Willcock Scotmas United Kingdom Desalination Water Chemicals Biofouling
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