Mohammed Loch
President & CEO - DMS Global Director Industry Development- International Society of Automation (ISA)
2018 Technical Program
| 7:30 am – 8:30 am | Registration | ||
| 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Keynote Speeches | ||
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 Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi Manager Panorama Unit ADNOC President ISA UAE |
 Maurice Sakr CEO & Partner Autochim System |
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 Abdulla Ateya Al Messabi Manager, Refining & Petrochemicals Business Unit ADNOC |
 Paul Gruhn ISA President Elect 2018 & ISA President 2019 ISA |
 Don Bartusiak Chief Engineer, Process Control ExxonMobil |
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| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Exhibition Ribbon Cutting & Tour | ||
| 10:30 am – 12:30 pm | ARC Digital Transformation Council: Middle East | ||
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 ADNOC Group Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence: Current and Future Prospects |
 Building Digital Strategy Roadmap towards a Smart Refinery |
 EQUATE industry 4.0 Strategy intent |
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 PDO’s Journey of Real Time Operation |
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| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Process Safety | ||
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 Definition of a Dynamic Operating Envelope of a Complete Production System |
 Subramanian Ramanathan Senior Process Automation Engineer Technology Improvement Department EQUATE Petrochemical Company Process Safety: Challenges in SIS instruments in an operating plant |
 Co-Speaker: Process Safety: Challenges in SIS instruments in an operating plant |
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 It takes two to tango - safety and security |
Why selecting safety integrity levels (SIL) for fire and gas systems is NOT a good idea |
 F&G Mapping impact on Overall Process Safety |
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 ‘PROOF TESTING:- APPLIED TECHNIQUES TO MAINTAIN SIL & TO PROLONG PLANT TURNAROUND’ |
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| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Environmental and Data Management | ||
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 Predictive Emission Monitoring for Air Emission Monitoring Systems in Middle East: Features, benefits and challenges for ME End Users |
 Co-Speaker: Predictive Emission Monitoring for Air Emission Monitoring Systems in Middle East: Features, benefits and challenges for ME End Users |
 Controlling and Monitoring of Storage tanks inventory with highest accuracy level instrumentation |
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 Meeting Environmental KPI requirements with Real-Time Monitoring |
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| 8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration | ||
| 9:00 am – 10:30 am | Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security | ||
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 Christy Thomas ICS SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT DEPARTMENT EQUATE Petrochemical Company Industrial Control Systems Security – Myth or Reality |
Co-Speaker: Industrial Control Systems Security – Myth or Reality |
 IIoT Cyber Security: a new paradigm. |
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 Honeywell Industrial Cybersecurity |
 Fuad Al Attar Director, Sales & Marketing Support Process Industries & Drives and Digital Factory Siemens LLC Cyber Security, Reliability and Safety of Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks |
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| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | IIOT “Industrial Internet Of Things” | ||
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 How to implement Industrial Internet of Things for your Asset or facility? |
 Digital Substations |
 Co-Speaker: Digital Substations |
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 Information Modeling, OPC UA, and Industrial Automation Protocols |
 How to accelerate Industrial Performance in a digital world? |
 Practical IIOT for Process Industries |
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| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm | Application Integration & Data Analytics | ||
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 Data Science in ADNOC |
 Development of Excel Based Cost Estimating Module for Process & Utility Piping and Pipelines |
Digital Transformation: Challenging and Necessary |
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 An Advanced Process Control Strategy Applied to Simulation Cases |
 Opportunities for Plant Operations Improvement offered by Digitization |
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| 3:15 pm – 3:45pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm | Turbomachinery Controls | ||
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 Refrigeration Compressor Controls & Optimization for the Oil & Gas Industries |
Subramanian Ramanathan Senior Process Automation Engineer Technology Improvement Department EQUATE Petrochemical Company Turbomachinery Controls: EQUATE’s experience |
 Modernizing steam turbine controls |
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 Sumitava Sengupta General Manager Power & Water Solutions, Sales Division Yokogawa Middle East and Africa Yokogawa solutions for Integrated Control of Turbo machinery : challenges and solutions |
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