The Middle East Smart Cities Summit 2012

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The Middle East Smart Cities Summit 2012

28 – 29 May, 2012, interContinental Doha, Qatar

Deploying Smart Technologies & Solutions - The Real Need For The GCC

THE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS & P ANELISTS

Hussain Naimi, Lusail Real Estate Development Company CEO‘s Advisor for Smart City

Dr. Adnan Abu-Dayya, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC), Qatar

Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer

Ali Al-Khulaifi, Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology (ICT Qatar)

ICT Market Development Manager

Patrick Marti, Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd, Switzerland Deputy General Manager and Director Corporate Sales

Tareq Alemadi, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser – Qatar

Head of Information Technology

Christopher Sorensen, Masdar City – U.A.E Deputy Director - Technology & Innovation Cyril Deschanel, Vodafone

Head of M2M Southern Region

Salah Nezar, Qatar Project Management – Qatar Sustainability Director

Mohammed Shah, Knowledge Economic City – Saudi Arabia VP Technology Infrastructure & Services

Dr. Edward Klinger, CNIguard Chief Executive Officer

Sa‘di Awienat, Qatar Foundation – Qatar Director Of Information Technology Directorate

Sultan Al Khuraissi, Royal Commission Of Jubail – Saudi Arabia Director Of Buildings Department

Dr. Ralph Gambetta, Calypso Networks Association Head of Promotion

Richard H. Jones, International Energy Agency Deputy Executive Director

Sultan Faden, Jeddah College Of Engineering & IT (CEIT) – Saudi Arabia

Director Of The Sustainable Development Center Thomas George, NG GLOBAL FZ LLC. UAE Managing Director

Enrico Grino, Qatar National Bank – Qatar Group Credit Division

Ali U. Al-Najim, Saudi Green Building Council (SGBC), KSA Deputy Chairman & Co-Founder

Ahmed Jassim Al-Jolo, Qatar Society of Engineers, Qatar Chairman

Dr. Mark Fuller, EMAAR The Economic City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)

Head of Utilities and Chief Technology Officer

OVERVIEW

PRESENT yOUR SMART CITy SOLUTIONS TO PROJECT LEADERS INVOLVED WITH

The recent times have seen a boost in economy and a progressive pace to transform urban environments between 2012 and 2016. This has led development authorities, infrastructure companies, governmental and corporate entities of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and U.A.E to be in the forefront of deploying IT Network Infrastructure & Communications Solutions for intelligent transportation, telecommunications, airports, sustainable environments, public safety, energy efficient buildings, residential and utilities projects. These need to be implemented with world class smart technologies that ideally constitute the overall development of Smart Economic & Sustainable Cities in the GCC.

The recent infrastructure spend by them to deploy Smart Cities Projects within existing and projected infrastructure plans for provinces in Saudi Arabia, Qatar & U.A.E exceeds over $63 Billion in the next five years. Our 2 day summit will bring to the forefront leading Middle East Smart City deployers and project stakeholders who will:

Share insights on how to develop Smart Cities with ICT solutions Integrate E-mobility and smart transit systems for rail networks Build Airport-Wide IP solutions for communication infrastructures Secure Biometrics & Intelligent Identity management systems for public governance

Implement Vehicle to Vehicle communication solutions with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

Deploy Smart Cities enabled by Man 2 Machine (M2M) technologies Deliver best practices to cyber secure Smart City Networks

Makkah Smart City, Saudi Arabia Al Wa’ab City, Qatar

Masdar city, UAE Lusail Smart City, Qatar Energy City Doha, Qatar

The King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia

Madinah Knowledge Economic City, Saudi Arabia

and more….

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Official Host & Headline Sponsor

Smart Cities Knowledge Partner

Smart Sensoring Partner Official M2M Partner

Smart City SCADA Partner

Mobility Innovations Partner

Supporting Associations

Media Partners

Official ITS Partner Qatar‘s Integrated Smart City Partner

Middle East Utilities Partner

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8:00 Coffee Networking & Registration 8:50 Opening remarks from the Chair

Salah Nezar

Qatar Project Management – Qatar Sustainability Director

8:55 HONORARy SPEECH by

Lusail Real Estate Development Company W.L.L. State of Qatar

9:00 INAUGURAL PRESENTATION

Lusail‘s integrated transportation systems Hussain Naimi

Lusail Real Estate Development Company, State of Qatar

CEO‘s Advisor for Smart City

9:30 KEyNOTE PRESENTATION Developing Smart Cities with ICT

• Efficient data usage in city management systems

• Best practices to tackle challenges

• Future beneficial outlook by implementing ICT in Cities Ali Al-Khulaifi, Supreme Council of Information &

Communication Technology (ICT Qatar) ICT Market Development Manager

10:00 Challenges and solutions for profitable infrastructure automation projects

• Today’s challenges in infrastructure automation

• Accesses and data for all type of users ?

• Minimum requirements to the automation system

• Solutions available

• Example from a large infrastructure automation project Patrick Marti, Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd, Switzerland Deputy General Manager and Director Corporate Sales 10:30 Vodafone M2M global platform heading to Qatar

• Vodafone M2M client case studies

• Global M2M connectivity solution

• M2M services provided by Vodafone

• M2M market outlook Cyril Deschanel, Vodafone Head of M2M Southern Region

11:00 Coffee & Refreshments Break Product &

Technology Showcase Tour With Sponsors and Partners

11:30 Deploying Building Management Systems within Smart buildings for Smart Cities – New approach Sultan Al Khuraissi, Royal Commission Of Jubail – Saudi Arabia

Director Of Buildings Department

12:00 Implementing sustainability in university campus

• Guidelines of sustainable development in universities

• Declaration of sustainability & implementation in operation

• Students initiatives

• Business consortium

• Community services

Sultan Faden, Jeddah College Of Engineering & IT (CEIT) – Saudi Arabia

Director Of The Sustainable Development Center

12:30 A widespread application to build up electronic ticketing systems for modern and smart urban transport systems

• Introduction on electronic ticketing and Calypso technology

• CNA Calypso applet presentation

• NFC world

• Interoperability

• Europtima approach

Dr. Ralph Gambetta, Calypso Networks Association Head of Promotion

13:00 - 14:10 Prayer Break & Luncheon SPONSORED By:

14:15 City Management Scada (CMS) for Smart Cities

• How to get Scada implemented

• How to simplify the tendering process especially for a multiple stage city development

• Easy maintenance of Scada and reduced Life cycle costs Thomas George, NG GLOBAL FZ LLC.UAE Managing Director

14:45 Innovative Green Building Thinking Approach

• Review of Innovative Green Buildings

• Architecture thinking

• Examples

• Innovative Approach

Ali U. Al-Najim, Saudi Green Building Council (SGBC) Deputy Chairman & Co-Founder

15:45 Financing for infrastructure projects in Qatar Enrico Grino, Qatar National Bank

Group Credit Division

16:15 Interactive Power Discussions:

Discussing the solutions & business opportunities on the key highlights of DAy 1

Panelists:

Sultan Faden, Jeddah College Of Engineering & IT (CEIT) – Saudi Arabia

Director Of The Sustainable Development Center Ahmed Jassim Al-Jolo, Qatar Society of Engineers, Qatar

Chairman

Thomas George, NG GLOBAL FZ LLC, UAE Managing Director

Dr. Ralph Gambetta, Calypso Networks Association Head of Promotion

16:45 Closing Remarks from the Chair

everyone is cordially invited to the

NETWORKING & COCKTAIL RECEPTION

• Increasing traffic congestion

• Incident safety and security concerns

• Rapid infrastructure growth

• Solution: Vehicle to Vehicle communication solutions with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)

• Solution: E-mobility and smart transit systems for rail networks Dr. Adnan Abu-Dayya, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC)

Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer

9:45 “Qatar Foundation Education City: Innovation Beyond Imagination”

• Unlocking the Human Potential

• Smart Education City: Innovative Technologies

• Social and Environmental Responsibilities

• Converged Infrastructure and reliable platform for collaboration Sa‘di Awienat, Qatar Foundation – Qatar

Director Of Information Technology Directorate 10:15 Smart Sensoring for Critical Infrastructure

• Infrastructure Vulnerability

• Sensoring Challenges

• Smart Sensoring Platform

• Integrated Solutions

Dr. Edward Klinger, CNIguard Chief Executive Officer

11:15 Value Creation for Smart Cities – the Masdar Journey

• Covering the entire value chain of clean technology

• The smart city ecosystem map –work in progress

• Risk management paradigms

• Global strategic innovation

Christopher Sorensen, Masdar City – U.A.E Deputy Director - Technology & Innovation

11:45

KeYNote

Cloud Computing – Relation with Smart Cities

• The way forward: Realistic growth and implementation of Cloud Computing to enable project developers to build smart cities

Tareq Alemadi, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser – Qatar

12:15 - 13:45 Prayer Break & Luncheon SMART CITy LEADERS POWER PANEL 13:45 Smart Cities enabled by ICT

• Use of ICT in Smart Cities

• ICT infrastructure consideration

• Benefits of ICT in Smart Cities

• Challenges in enabling Smart Cities with ICT

• Future Opportunities

Panelists:

Mohammed Shah, Madinah Knowledge Economic City VP Technology Infrastructure & Services

Tareq Alemadi, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser – Qatar

Head of Information Technology Sa‘di Awienat, Qatar Foundation Director Of Information Technology Directorate Dr. Mark Fuller, EMAAR the Economic City Head of Utilities and Chief Technology Officer 14:30 SPECIAL LIVE DEMO

“The purpose of this demo is to showcase integrated detection plus response to potential incidents at urban and remote infrastructure. A CNIguard smart sensoring system is triggered indicating a safety hazard or security alert at a water reservoir, electrical substation, pipeline, telecoms facility, railway track or other critical infrastructure. A Robokopter drone is automatically deployed to provide real time in situ video and tracking to support emergency responders.”

By:

Dr. Edward Klinger, CNIguard Chief Executive Officer

15:30 Policy Framework for Smart Cities

• Reducing cities impact on the global energy consumption and CO2 emissions

• Energy Efficiency and renewable energy measures

• Energy sufficiency measures

Richard H. Jones, International Energy Agency Deputy Executive Director

15:50 Recommendations & Conclusions

16:20 Closing Remarks from Chair

DAy 2 Tuesday - 29

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MEET OUR PRESTIGIOUS SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Hussain Naimi, Lusail Real Estate Development Company CEO‘s Advisor for Smart City

Hussain has more than 35 years’ experience in Information Technology and managerial positions in varied sectors including Property Management, major airline system development, training

& consultancy services and retailing sector. Husain‘s recent experience before joining Lusail Real Estate Development Company (LREDC) was Director ICT for Tanween (Subsidiary of Barwa Real Estate) responsible for ICT development, Operation and Smart City projects specially for Barwa Al Khor project and other subsidiaries of Barwa related projects. Prior to this, Hussain was Head of Information Technology with United Development Company (UDC) responsible for strategic ICT management and development of Smart Island (The Pearl Qatar project). Subsequent to this, he was part of the executive management for system development with Gulf Air for 25 years. He was responsible for the development of Information Technology strategic plans including a successful strategy for downsizing to UNIX platform, allocation of resources and implementation of approved plans, preparation of annual ICT budget of over $35 Million, Management of Systems Development Department which consisted of over 200 IT specialists to develop and support over 70 major applications within the airline operation.Hussain is currently a consultant to LREDC (Lusail Project - a 38sq Kmtrs development in Qatar) and solely involved in the strategy and Management of Lusail Smart City project, In addition to his technical role, Hussain is also the distinguished member of the Lusail Smart City Committee.

Ali Al-Khulaifi, Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology (ICT Qatar)

ICT Market Development Manager

Ali Al-Khulaifi is Market Development Manager at ictQATAR- the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology in Qatar. With his experience of over 11 years as a senior manager at ICT QATAR, Qatar Telecom, and Vodafone Qatar, Ali is charged with developing the ICT market in Qatar through strategic initiatives aimed at attracting foreign direct investment to Qatar as well as nurturing the local ICT market to maturity. Ali Al-Khulaifi is also part of Qatar’s national World Trade Organization committee. He holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Qatar University.

In 2007, Ali received a Project Management Professional Certificate from the Project Management Institute in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Adnan Abu-Dayya, QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC) Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer

Adnan has more than 20 years of international experience in the areas of wireless/telecomm R&D, product innovations, business development, and services delivery. Before moving to Qatar in 2007, he worked for 10 years at AT&T Wireless in Seattle, USA where he served in a number of management positions covering Product Innovations & Emerging Technologies, Systems Engineering, Product Realization, Intellectual Property Management and Licensing. Before that, Adnan worked as a Senior Manager at Nortel Networks in Canada in the advanced technology group and as a Senior Consultant at the Communications Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada. From April 2007 to Dec. 2008, he was the Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at Qatar University.He led the initiative to create and then was appointed as the Founding Executive Director (CEO) of the QU Wireless Innovations Center (QUWIC) in Jan. 2009 at the Qatar Science and Technology Park, Doha, Qatar. QUWIC is focused on utilizing emerging wireless/mobile technologies to develop smart solutions and applications tackling the needs of different market segments in the region including Intelligent Transportation, Environment, Utilities, Mobile Health, etc. Adnan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Queens University, Canada in 1992. He has many issued and pending patents and more than fifty publications in the field of wireless communications technologies and services.

Ali U. Al-Najim, Saudi Green Building Council (SGBC) Deputy Chairman & Co-founder

Ali Al- Najim has a BS in Architecture Engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum & Minerals and a Master in Architecture from King Faisal University. He has more than 100 publications in sustainability & energy and with one third of the total being on Power conservation & energy savings.

He holds various positions including the Deputy Chairman/Co-founder of Saudi Green Building Council (SGBC), Architecture Deputy Chairman, Saudi Council of Engineers( CE-SCE), Registered Consultant Engineer (CE-SCE), Saudi Council for Engineers and a Senior Energy Consultant. He is also a member of International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), Saudi Association for Energy Economies (SAEE), Saudi Umran Society and Classification and Arbitration Committee, Saudi Council of Engineers

Ahmed Jassim Al-Jolo, Qatar Society of Engineers, Qatar Chairman

Engineer Ahmad Jassim al-Jolo has more than 25 years experience in the construction industry. A civil engineer, Al-Jolo is now chairman of the Qatar Society of Engineers and is a founding member of the Qatar Green Buildings Council. A former chairman of the Professional Engineers Committee at the Urban Planning & Development Authority, he is at present a member of the accreditation board for the engineering programme at the College of Engineering at Qatar University and evaluator for graduate student projects at Qatar University, Texas A&M where he lectures frequently. Al-Jolo is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Christopher Sorensen, Masdar City – U.A.E Deputy Director - Technology & Innovation

Mr. Sorensen has been leading innovative developments for the last 25 years in both large and small scale projects. He has been responsible for leading innovative transformation at iconic companies like Accenture and Bang & Olufsen as well as entrepreneurial initiatives creating new EU consortia, SME start-ups and corporate spin-offs. Mr. Sorensen’s domain experience reaches well around the public- private spectrum including innovation cluster development, smart buildings, smart grid, renewables, leadership and education, healthcare, transportation and ICT/AV. His education background includes engineering, psychology and an MBA and his work spans the US, Europe and the Middle East. Masdar is the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company - a world leading clean tech cluster headquartered in the UAE. This global commercial effort under the sovereign wealth firm Mubadala, includes the graduate research efforts of the Masdar Institute developed in collaboration with MIT, global funds managed by Masdar Capital, carbon capture and trading via Masdar Carbon, utility scale renewable energy projects by Masdar Power and the real estate test bed Masdar City.

Cyril Deschanel, Vodafone Head of M2M Southern Region

Cyril is the Head of M2M for Southern region, responsible for Vodafone global companies and government organizations operation with this region. His expertise ranges from end to end M2M solutions covering the utilities, automotive and healthcare industries to the implementation of a unified global data connectivity platform which introduces reliable provisioning and management of SIM cards across various assets for large organizations spanning across all these industries.

Dr. Edward Klinger, CNIguard Chief Executive Officer

Edward is an engineer with 30 years experience in creating, building and running global technology companies. He is founder and CEO of CNIguard which manufactures smart sensoring systems for critical national infrastructure including water, electricity, oil & gas, and defence sectors. He is also Chairman of Ozonelink, a homeland security technology incubator. Previously he was with PwC, Perot Systems, and Pratt & Whitney, and an Adjunct Professor at McGill University. Edward holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from McGill and an MBA from Wharton.

Enrico Grino, Qatar National Bank Group Credit Division

Enrico Grino joined Qatar National Bank (QNB) in 2004, and until October 2011 was the Head of Structured and Project Finance, responsible for overseeing all aspects of structured finance activities that QNB Group is involved with including Project finance, Asset Backed Financing, Islamic Finance, Corporate Finance and Syndications. He was recently appointed QNB Group Credit Adviser. Mr. Grino was educated in the Philippines and United States. He majored in Economics, Accounting and Finance (with Honors) from La Salle University. He has over 30 years banking experience in Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Structured and Project Finance, Syndications and Risk Management having worked with, and acquired extensive specialized banking training from, Chase Group, Banque Indosuez Group (now Credit Agricole) and Citigroup in the Far East, Europe, USA and the Middle East.

Mohammed Shah, Madinah Knowledge Economic City VP Technology Infrastructure & Services

A recognised IT executive with over 15 years experience in leading edge IT and change implementation in the Middle East in areas of IT Strategy, Smart City IT, ERP, DSS, IT Outsourcing & transforming IT into a Profit Centre. Acclaimed as an agent of change with a track-record of successfully implementing complex IT and change projects to a reference site standard meeting challenging deadlines on time and in budget. Twice Awarded as one of the Top 10 IT Managers of the Middle East and featured in numerous published articles in IT and Project Management in the region‘s IT publications. Currently architecting a Smart City IT infrastructure for the regions new Knowledge Based Industries hub.

Patrick Marti, Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd, Switzerland Deputy General Manager and Director Corporate Sales

Patrick Marti is the Deputy General Manager and Director Corporate Sales of Saia-Burgess Controls Ltd, Switzerland. He has a B.S. in Electric and Electronic Engineering from Le Locle University of Applied Science. He started his career in industrial weighing for explosion proof environment and paint mixing systems, before joining the telecom division of Swatch. He is active since over 17 years with Saia-Burgess Controls in International sales assignments.

Dr. Ralph Gambetta, Calypso Networks Association Head of Promotion

Ralph Gambetta, Managing Director of Temco GmbH, has a management and a politics background with Ph.D. as well as a strong involvement into the transportation sector. Before joining in 1997 Temco GmbH he has been active in various transport companies such as German Railway, International Railway Union (UIC) and RATP (Paris metro and bus operator). Projects have included the successful smart card project CALYPSO (Contact And contactLess telematics platform Yielding a citizen Pass integrating urban Services and financial Operations) and SINCE project (Secure and Interoperable Networking for Contactless in Europe). Since 2005 he is in charge of promotion at Calypso Networks Association and the deployment of electronic ticketing schemes. Further he is member of the German standardisation committee of information technology and smart cards.

Richard H. Jones, International Energy Agency Deputy Executive Director

Richard H. Jones took up his duties as Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency on 1 October 2008. Ambassador Jones, a former American diplomat, brings to the IEA over thirty years of diplomatic and policy experience on issues ranging from Middle East politics to trade negotiations and energy security. After a rapid rise through the ranks of the U.S. Foreign Service, he served as the American Ambassador to four countries: Israel (2005-2008), Kuwait (2001-2004), Kazakhstan (1998-2001) and Lebanon (1996-1998). He also acted as the U.S. Secretary of State’s Senior Advisor and Co-ordinator for Iraq Policy from February-August, 2005. During his diplomatic career Ambassador Jones gained a wide range of policy experience in energy policy. Early in his diplomatic career he served as Economic Policy Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the OECD. Born in 1950 near Shreveport, Louisiana, Ambassador Jones has a Bachelor’s degree in mathematics with distinction from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, and an MS and PhD in Business/Statistics from the University of Wisconsin. In addition to his native English, his foreign languages include Arabic, French, Russian and German.

Salah Nezar, Qatar Project Management – Qatar Sustainability Director

Salah is an award winning experienced Sustainability Specialist with 23 years of international experience in delivering variety of projects across numerous sectors. He holds the position of Sustainability Director at QPM. He is LEED Accredited Professional and QSAS Certified Green Professional and has led the design and Design-management of a number of prestigious projects such as: Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou China (designated to be the first zero energy skyscraper in the world), United Nation Headquarter Upgrade in NYC (historic sustainable renovation of the HQ complex), Madagascar House- Bronx Zoo (first LEED-Gold Certification for a Landmark Building in NY State), Bank of America-1 Bryant Park, NYC (first skyscrapers achieving LEED Platinum Certification in the US) and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, and Barwa Financial District.

Salah is the author of numerous published works, technical papers related to High Performance Buildings, Carbon Neutral Solutions and Indoor Environment Quality. Salah holds two Masters of Science Degrees; MS in Mechanical Engineering specialising in High Performance Buildings and the second one in Computational Fluid Dynamics.

Sa‘di Awienat, Qatar Foundation – Qatar Director Of Information Technology Directorate

Sa’di Awienat is director of IT at Qatar Foundation’s Information Technology Directorate. In support of Qatar Foundation’s mission and core objectives, he is responsible for developing and managing both short and long term IT plans and strategies, and maintaining relationships with customers and partners. He has successfully implemented a rich portfolio of business applications maintained by an IT infrastructure capable of supporting the substantial growth within Qatar Foundation and its’ advanced research facilities. Before joining Qatar Foundation, Sa’di worked as a Manager in the Financial Sector for Accenture. Within this role he led several projects of system implementation and integration in various regional banks. Mr. Awienat holds an MBA Degree and Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering topped with more than 15-Year of experience in various IT disciplines across range of sectors.

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MEET OUR PRESTIGIOUS SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Sultan Faden, Jeddah College Of Engineering & IT (CEIT) – Saudi Arabia

Director Of The Sustainable Development Center

Eng. Sultan is registered as a professional engineer at Saudi Council of Engineers. Eng. Faden graduated from CED - KFUPM Dhahran-Saudi Arabia & went ahead to study graduate Diploma in architectural design at the Architectural Association (AA) – London – UK. He has 19 years of experience working for major Saudi Consulting offices, including his own practice. Since 2006, he’s been focusing on green building and sustainability in the built environment. With being the Adviser for Makkah Municipality he is also the founder of the Saudi Green Building Council since 2008.

Currently the director of Sustainable Development Center at college of Engineering and Information Technology (CEIT) – Jeddah

Sultan Al Khuraissi, Royal Commission Of Jubail – Saudi Arabia Director Of Buildings Department

Sultan ALKhuraissi, PMP, CPMM, is a project management professional and certified plant maintenance manager, with an MS in building science and technology, His experience encompasses building engineering, maintenance management, and project and contract management. He has presented and participated in international and national conferences and is a certified professional engineer in the Saudi Council of Engineering. Currently he is working in Royal Commission for Jubail as the Director of Buildings department.

Tareq Alemadi, Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser – Qatar

Tareq Alemadi is currently Head of Information Technology at the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser also Vice General Manager for Alemadi Group. He is responsible for building and maintaining a highly available, scalable, and centralised IT infrastructure. Prior to his current position, he has worked for over a decade at Qatar Telecom in various positions including the role of Project Manager for the company’s electronic portal. He has extensive experience and understanding of various aspects of business processes, project management, software development, portals, and cloud computing. Tareq hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the Qatar University.

Thomas George, NG GLOBAL FZ LLC.

Managing Director

Thomas is well known in the Gulf for his last 25 years contribution in the ‚Intelligent Building Controls‘

business with over 450 integrated BMS installations to his credit. Some of the prestigious installations are Integration manager role at Dubai Airport Terminal 3, The integration of Honeywell BMS at The Burj Khaleefa Tower, Testing and Commissioning witness for Dubai Metro, Dubai Internet city, Doha Land Scada, Saudi King Abdulla Financial District, Bahrain King Haned hospital etc. Thomas is a graduate in Instrumentation Engineering and started his career in Oil & Gas Petroleum refinery.

He joined Landis & Gyr Swiss co. in Dubai in 1987, today known as Siemens Building Technology and executed the ‚First BMS in the Middle East for Rulers Court in Dubai. Thomas has been a leader in BMS with ‚trend setting‘ initiatives such as started the first ‚System Integration‘ business in BMS, launched open protocols, Lon Works, BACnet, BMS with Open Scada. His unique knowledge is Hybrid Automation combining both Industrial (Oil & Gas) as well as Building Controls which facilitate to bring ‚industrial quality and good practices‘ into the building controls sector. Thomas has worked with Honeywell, Schneider (Invemsys), Siemens, Johnson Controls and almost all known BMS systems.

MEET THE SMART CITIES SPONSORS & PARTNERS Qatar Project Management (QPM)

QPM provides unrivaled real estate and infrastructure project management services that perpetuate world class standards in the industry. QPM‘s operations ensure project efficiency and absolute precision for civil infrastructure, commercial, leisure, real estate, and residential projects within the evolving global marketplace. QPM offers a full range of professional project management services including

program development and management, claim management and resolution, project control, health and safety management, cost management, and environmental management. The company also specializes in the field of risk management. QPM manages projects in various locations around the world and plays an integral role in the development of international communities. To maintain a world-class standard of project management, QPM invests in the latest project management technologies and employs a highly skilled team of professionals with global experience.

SAIA-BURGESS: Official Host & Headline Sponsor

Saia-Burgess Controlsis the Swiss specialist in innovative

PLC based controllers and HMI. Saia products are used

worldwide in infrastructure automation for district cooling and utilities, and in industrial and building automation. Saia products combine the strengths of the traditional PLC values - reliability and robustness - with open protocols and IT technology for unique system flexibility and openness. Saia give more value to investors and operators in controlling globally installations for higher efficiency, higher profitability and smaller carbon footprint. Over 100 references in the Gulf prove that Saia is a wise investment.

CNIguard: Smart Sensoring Partner

CNIguard delivers systems to enhance the health, safety, security, environment and quality of critical infrastructure. CNIguard works closely with government and industry at policy and operational levels to deliver smart solutions to water, electricity, oil & gas, chemical, telecommunications, border and defense sectors. The CNIguard SENSORCORE™ platform delivers an array of applications such as the CNIguard-IDS, CNIguard-CBRNE, and CNIguard-EM by

integrating commercially available sensors and communication infrastructure. These systems have been designed, tested, and approved to deliver the highest level of performance in the most hostile operating environments.

VODAFONE Qatar, Official M2M Partner

Vodafone has come a long way since making the first ever mobile call on 1 January 1985 in the United Kingdom. Today, more than 371 million customers around the world choose Vodafone to look after their communication needs. In 25 years, a small mobile operator in Newbury, England has grown into the largest telecom operator worldwide and the seventh most valuable global brand. Vodafone now operates in more than 30 countries including Qatar since March 2009. Vodafone Qatar is listed on the Qatar exchange and is owned

by more than 40,000 individual Qatari shareholders, Qatar Foundation, Vodafone Group and Qatari institutional investors appointed by the government.Vodafone Qatar has become an essential part of the lives of many people in the country, with over 800,000 active customers and 100% geographic network coverage. More than 50% of our customers enjoy internet services on their mobile every month, one of the highest rates of active internet users worldwide. In 2012, Vodafone Qatar will continue to bring new and innovative products to the market including high speed broadband over our state of the art fibre network and new services for business customers. Vodafone is a brand that loves change – if it’s not happening naturally then we’re creating it ourselves. As a global company with local roots in Qatar, it’s in our DNA to push forward and support the future development of Qatar with next generation communication services. We are committed to help achieve Qatar’s National Vision 2030. Our purpose is to make a world of difference for all the people in Qatar.

Calypso Networks Association, Official ITS Partner

CNA gathers operators, authorities & suppliers implementing Calypso. Calypso technology being the world leader of microprocessor cards in transport, is an open technology issued from

an EU project, to assure a high security level for contactless transactions and to provide technical interoperability between networks assuring multi-services providers environment. For Calypso, the key to successful development of a modern electronic ticketing system is the ability to offer a standardized and interoperable transport application, meeting the needs of trans¬port operators all over the world, irrespective of what medium they run on. Widely spread in Europe & beyond, Calypso offers multi- sourced compliant products, and is fully ready to be carried as Java Card Applets on the new portable objects: mobile phones, USB keys etc.

Energy City Qatar: Qatar‘s Integrated Smart City Partner

Energy City Qatar (ECQ) is a fully integrated business cluster that will

be the Gulf’s first oil and gas industry commercial hub. ECQ will be a single point of access to the Middle East and global Oil & Gas players in the hydrocarbon value chain.

• ECQ is a $2.6 billion project

• Low-rise and green office buildings masterplan. Aiming to be the world’s first fully LEED certified development (all buildings within the city will be designed with minimum Silver LEED Certification)

• The world’s first eCity, making the development a fully connected business cluster

• World class offices for 20,00 people

ECQ aims to attract the industry leaders in O&G production, IOCs, NOCs, support services, infrastructure and downstream activities, shipping and trading, market and resource data, intellectual property and energy trading. ECQ forms part of the major new city development, Lusail, which in addition to major business and entertainment districts, will be home to up to 200,000 residents.

QUWIC (QU Wireless Innovations Center): Mobility Innovations Partner

QUWIC is an applied research and development center founded by Qatar University in Collaboration with and at the Qatar Science

&Technology Park (QSTP) to leverage the use of emerging wireless and mobility technologies in creating solutions and smart applications for use in a number of markets including Transportation, Utilities, Healthcare, and Environment. QUWIC was founded with the objective of filling the existing gap in the region for institutions focusing on

applied research and solutions delivery. QUWIC has strategic objectives in the areas of local capacity building, innovations leadership, and in becoming a virtual R&D center for local and regional partners.

NG GLOBAL FZ LLC.: Smart City SCADA Partner

NG Global is a a Dubai Internet City based company, with a team of highly qualified BMS & SCADA engineers, with over 25 years in Intelligent Buildings. NG has experience both industrial and building scada and thus introduced many revolutionaty concepts in the Middle East such as Smart Homes, Remote Monitoring Control Rooms and

today NG is a pioneer in ‚Smart City Scada solutions‘. NG‘s industrial scada experience has helped to provide advisory / design / implementation role in several City Management Systems (CMS) such as Burj Khaleefa Tower, Dubai World Central (DWC), Scada for Doha Land, King Abdulla University in Saudi, Pearl Dubai, Dubai Festival City Control Room and many. NG has a team of experienced engineers to carry design review, vendor analysis, project management of large Scada projects, including Testing and Commissioning, Auditing and validation. NG value to the customers are cost effective ‚Open protocol‘ scada, simple design to implement and maintain by the customers, with minimum life cycle cost. NG has proven track record in successfully completing very complex integrated Iintelligent building such as the Burj Khaleefa tower, where NG was appreciated for the work.

ACWUA: Middle East Utilitiy Partner

The Arab Countries Water Utilities Association (ACWUA) is a regional center of excellence that partners with water supply and waste- water utilities in Arab Countries. Since its official launching in 2009 in Amman, ACWUA is working on expanding its members Network to reach more than 100 water utilities, private sector companies and academic institutions. ACWUA has signed several agreements and memorandums of understanding with various international organizations, which led to extensive benefits to the association,

and a great support in achieving its goals and objectives. ACWUA is building a solid, professional platform for water professionals from all over the world. It is the center point where regional and international experts would meet to exchange their knowledge and expertise, get introduced to latest water technologies and seek the utmost benefit for all. ACWUA organizes many exceptional events and activities over the year in partnership with International water associations and agencies, such as training programs with professional certifications, best practice conferences, seminars and workshops; to raise our members efficiency and performance level.

The Middle East Smart Cities Summit 2012