Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, WasteTT

Welcome and Opening Address: Waste to Energy, Resource, and Value: Aligning with Abu Dhabi's Sustainability Vision

Eng. Salem Mubarak Al Braik, Division Director – Waste Management Environment Quality, Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi

Where does waste to energy fit into sustainable waste management?
Darren Perrin, Partner, Kearney

The importance of waste to energy in methane reduction, compared to landfill
Siegfried Scholz, President, ESWET, European suppliers of Waste to Energy Technology; Country President, Kanadevia Inova

Title to be confirmed
Bettina Kamuk, Chair, Energy Recovery working Group, ISWA
Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, WasteTT

Ahmed Al Kayyoomi, Executive Director, Strategy and Business Performance, Tadweer Group

Moderator: Rachel Kelly

Panel discussion: optimising waste to resource – strategies and pathways to successful implementation in the wider sustainable waste management plan.

Eng. Mohammad Ahmad Al Rayees, Director – Waste Strategy & Projects, Dubai Municipality
Richard Davidson, Director - Waste Management, KEO Sustainability + Environmental
Mark Siddorn, Strategic Planning and Business Performance Director, Tadweer Group
Paul Visser, Commercial Development Manager, Blue Phoenix Australia

Moderator: Keerthana R, Editor, Waste & Recycling magazine

Panel discussion: Understanding the requirements of procuring organisations and their investment objectives, strategies and goals; aligning partners and stakeholders, developing appropriate business models and structures

Hamza Al Hashemi, CEO, Emirates Waste to Energy
Boyd Russell, Director - Infrastructure Advisory & Project Finance, EY-Parthenon
Catherine Workman, Partner, Head of Middle East Region, Pinsent Masons
Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, WasteTT

Round table session 1, Valmet, Circularity for waste: plastic chemical recycling and high-efficiency waste-to-energy
Valmet provides world-class technologies for waste circularity, including high-efficiency waste-to-energy solutions based on fluidized bed combustion and gasification, as well as pyrolysis for chemical recycling of plastics. This session will showcase selected customer cases and highlight the impact of these technologies across different regions.

Jouko Latva-Somppi, Senior Concept Sales Manager, Circularity Growth, Valmet
Jukka Lehtinen, Senior Sales Manager, Energy and Circularity, Valmet
Pasi Lestelin, Head of Sales and Service Operations, Pulp, Energy and Circularity, SEMEA, Valmet

Bruno-Frédéric Baudouin, CEO, Kanadevia Inova
Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, Waste TT

Commercial state-of the-art project setup with examples from UAE
Roni Araiji, Managing Director, Middle East, Kanadevia Inova

Panel discussion: Financing and Investment for waste to energy plants- identifying and developing appropriate investment and financial structures
Securing investor buy-in, de-risking investment, accessing funding, structuring for individual asset requirements, achieving financial close
James Cook, CEO, Advisory, Tribe
Grant Batten, Partner, Ashurst LLP
Pierre Casabonnet, Sr Operation Officer – Regional Waste & Water sector lead, IFC, International Finance Corporation
Rakesh Amin, Director, Structured Finance (GCIB), MUFG Bank
Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, WasteTT

Opening Remarks
Lord Udny-Lister, UK Government
Perspectives on AI in waste to energy
Parita Shah, Senior Energy Trade Advisor, Department for Business and Trade, British Embassy UAE
Moderator: Bradley Jones, Executive Director, UAE-UK Business Council

Managing project complexity, delivering on-time, on-budget and safely, scheduling, resolving amendments, maintaining communication with procurement partners, technology and equipment delivery and installation, etc.

Establishing the first waste to energy plant in a country - key elements to consider: developing an industrial ecosystem, communications and stakeholder engagement, training new staff etc. (title to be confirmed)
Aidan Kennedy, Plant Director, Sharjah Waste to Energy Plant, Veolia

Ensuring projects are deliverable and challenges are resolved: the role of the Owner’s Engineer, and lessons learnt on waste to energy delivery
Jan Teir, Senior Chief Project Manager, Ramboll

Delivering on-time, on-budget and safely: project execution during the plant construction phase
Stefan Kipp, Executive Managing Director, AlBihouth Waste to Energy Project Company L.L.C
Conference Moderator and Chair - Christophe Cord'Homme, CEO, WasteTT