January 26th, 2016 10:00 am Registration - distribution of badges and welcome kits 11:00 am Board meeting & General Assembly of AUE 07:30 pm Welcome cocktail January 27th, 2016 08:00 am Registration - Distribution of badges and welcome kits 09:00 am Welcome speech Mr. Essa Bin Hilal Al Kuwari, President of Arab Union of Electricity (AUE)-Qatar Mr. Ali Fassi Fihri, CEO, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco 09:20 am Opening remarks Mr. Abdelkader Amara, Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, Morocco 09:30 am Opening session Keynote Speaker : Dr. Hisham El khatib, Former Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jordan 10:00 am Exhibition hall opening and booths visit 10:30 am Coffee Break 11:00 am Session 1 : Trends, visions and challenges for the power sector « Plenary room » Chair and Moderator : Eng. Fawzi Kharbat, Secretary General, Arab Union of Electricity (AUE) Keynote Speaker : Dr. Matar Hamed Al Neyadi, Under secretary - Ministry of Energy - UAE Mrs. Jamila Matar, Head of Energy Department, League of Arab States (LAS) Dr. Hafez Abdel Aal El Salmawy, President of «Mediterranean Energy Regulators» (MEDREG) Dr. Walid Al Deghaili, Consultant in Energy ESCWA Mr. Tarik Hamane, Power Generation Projects & Programs Director (ONEE), Morocco Mrs. Houda Allal, Managing Director, Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie (OME) Questions & Answers 12:45 pm Lunch 02:00 pm Parallel Session 2 : Renewables integration « Plenary room » Chair and Moderator : Dr. Walid Al Deghaili, Consultant in Energy ESCWA Keynote Speaker : Sheikh Nawaf Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, CEO Electricity & water Authority - Kingdom of Bahrain Mr. Mohamed Mustapha Khayat, Director, New & Renewables Energy Autority (NREA) - Egypt Mr. Brahim Oumounah, Renewables Director, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco Mr. Roberto Vigotti, Secretary General (RES4MED), Italy Mr. Mohamed Sahri, Senior project manager - MASEN - Morocco Mr. El-Habib El Andaloussi - Expert in Renewable Energy - Algeria Mr. Vincent Dewulf - Commercial Director - ACWA POWER - Belgium Questions & Answers 02:00 pm Parallel Session 3 : The future of fossil Power Generation « workshop space » Chair and Moderator : Ms. Amani Al Azzam, (NEPCO) - Jordan Keynote Speaker : Mr. Khalid Jolo, CEO, Nebras Power - Qatar Dr. Abdallah Al Shehri, Governor, Electricity & Co-Generation Regulatory Authority, Saudi Arabia Mr. Hamdi Khadraoui, Head of Service of Electrical Studies , Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et de Gaz (STEG), Tunisia Mr. Khaled Nouasri, Strategy and System Director (Sonelgaz), Algeria Mr. Tawfik LAABI, Strategy Director, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco Questions & Answers 03:45 pm Coffee Break 04:00 pm Panel debate : the power sector situation in the MENA region « Plenary room » Mr. Essa Bin Hilal Al Kuwari, President, Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahrama), Qatar Mr. Ali Fassi Fihri, CEO, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco Mr. Ali Abbas Naki, secretary general, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), Kuwait Mr. André Bouffioux - CEO of Siemens Belgium-Luxembourg, responsible for North, West and Central Africa Mr. Kacem Arous - Deputy General Manager, Société Tunisienne d’Electricité et de Gaz (STEG), Tunisia Mr. Nabil Kafi, Managing Director, Société Algérienne de Production de l’Electricité (SPE), Algeria 05:00 pm End of the Day 1 08:30 pm Gala dinner January 28th, 2016 09:00 am Session 4 : the place of Nuclear Energy in the power system mix « Plenary room » Chair and Moderator : Mr. Lakhdar Chouireb, Secretary General - COMELEC Dr. Mahjoub Abdelmajid, General Manager, Arab Atomic Energy Agency Mr. Patrick Zak - Project Director - EDF - France Eng. Ali Alnuaimi - Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation - UAE Mr. MEHDAOUI Ahmed, Electro nuclear project manager, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco Questions & Answers 09:00 am Parallel Session 5 : Transmission and interconnection role « workshop space » Chair and Moderator : Mr. Tawfik LAABI, Strategy Director, Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau potable (ONEE), Morocco Keynote Speaker : Mr. Ahmad Ali Al Ibraheem - CEO, The GCC Interconnection Authority (GCCIA), Saudi Arabia Mr. Bruno Cova, Head of power sytems , Markets and Regulatory studies , CESI - ITALY Mr. Jean Kowal, Vice President, MEDGRID Ms. Amani Al Azzam (NEPCO) - Jordan Questions & Answers 10:45 am Coffee Break 11:00 am Closing panel debate : What mid and long term electric power mix for the Arab countries? « Plenary room » Chair and Moderator : Mr. Roberto Vigottti, Secretary General, RES4MED - Italy Dr. Matar Hamed AL Neyadi - Undersecretary / Ministry of Energy, UAE Mr. Ali Ben Saleh Al Barrak, Former president of Saudi Electricity Company, Saudi Arabia Dr. Ahmad Elsewedy, CEO Elsewedy Electric, Qatar Dr. Hassan Youness, Former minister of electricity in Egypt Dr. Hisham El khatib, Former Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jordan 12:00 am Closing statement and recommendations Eng. Fawzi Kharbat, Secretary General, Arab Union of Electricity (AUE) End of the Conference 01:00 pm Lunch