Mohammed Loch
President & CEO - DMS Global Director Industry Development- International Society of Automation (ISA)
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 |
8:00 am – 9:00 am | Registration | ||
9:00 am – 10:30 am | Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security | ||
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” | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 |