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Zeed Khalil is Regional Sales & Application Manager for Power Generation with Siemens Energy in the Middle East. Zeed oversees Siemens Energy’s sales strategies for the Power Generation business across Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, with the priority of making a sustainable, reliable and affordable power supply possible in the region.

Fuad Alattar is currently a Senior Vice President for Siemens in the Middle East, managing the digital enterprise services business unit. He has more than 25 years’ experience in automation engineering and digitalization fields, including positions of General Manager, Operations Manager, Sales Director and Engineering Manager. Throughout his career, he designed dozens of automation systems and industrial networks for various applications, including the First Smart Multi-Aircraft Docking System in The World, the Largest RO Plant in The World, and an H2O Award Winning Water Project.

Helen Karatza is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in the postgraduate and undergraduate level and carries out research. Dr. Karatza’s research interests include Cloud and Fog Computing, Energy Efficiency, Resource Allocation and Scheduling and Real-time Distributed Systems. Dr. Karatza has authored or co-authored over 230 technical papers and book chapters including five papers that earned best paper awards at international conferences.

Maciej M. Michałek received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in the field of Automation and Robotics from the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, in years 2006 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Associate/Academic Professor of PUT in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, where he serves as a deputy director of scientific affairs. His current research interests concern modeling, control design, and control applications in the area of nonholonomic systems, mobile robots, articulated vehicles, N-trailer structures, and intelligent/automated vehicles.

Prof. Raed Mesleh is currently the dean of the school of electrical engineering and information technology at German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. He received his PhD in 2007 from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at Boston University, The University of Edinburgh and Herriot– Watt University. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2015. During that period, he holds the position of department chair and the director of research excellence and intellectual property units at the deanship of scientific research.

S. A. Saleh (IEEE Senior Member), received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Bir Ziet University, West Bank, Palestine, in 1996, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, with a scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2007, he joined the Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland as a faculty and a researcher until 2011. Currently,

Antonio Iliceto

Engaged in several capacities and innovation projects within CIGRE, ENTSO-E, MEDTSO, IEC, ETIP SNET, DESERTEC, in the domain of interconnections, energy transition, hydrogen, sector coupling, EV, storage, flexibility.

Keynote Speech Title: MAIN CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR A SUSTAINABLE POWER SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Zeed Khalil is Regional Sales & Application Manager for Power Generation with Siemens Energy in the Middle East. Zeed oversees Siemens Energy’s sales strategies for the Power Generation business across Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, with the priority of making a sustainable, reliable and affordable power supply possible in the region.

Fuad Alattar is currently a Senior Vice President for Siemens in the Middle East, managing the digital enterprise services business unit. He has more than 25 years’ experience in automation engineering and digitalization fields, including positions of General Manager, Operations Manager, Sales Director and Engineering Manager. Throughout his career, he designed dozens of automation systems and industrial networks for various applications, including the First Smart Multi-Aircraft Docking System in The World, the Largest RO Plant in The World, and an H2O Award Winning Water Project.

Helen Karatza is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in the postgraduate and undergraduate level and carries out research. Dr. Karatza’s research interests include Cloud and Fog Computing, Energy Efficiency, Resource Allocation and Scheduling and Real-time Distributed Systems. Dr. Karatza has authored or co-authored over 230 technical papers and book chapters including five papers that earned best paper awards at international conferences.

Maciej M. Michałek received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in the field of Automation and Robotics from the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, in years 2006 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Associate/Academic Professor of PUT in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, where he serves as a deputy director of scientific affairs. His current research interests concern modeling, control design, and control applications in the area of nonholonomic systems, mobile robots, articulated vehicles, N-trailer structures, and intelligent/automated vehicles.

Prof. Raed Mesleh is currently the dean of the school of electrical engineering and information technology at German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. He received his PhD in 2007 from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at Boston University, The University of Edinburgh and Herriot– Watt University. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2015. During that period, he holds the position of department chair and the director of research excellence and intellectual property units at the deanship of scientific research.

S. A. Saleh (IEEE Senior Member), received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Bir Ziet University, West Bank, Palestine, in 1996, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, with a scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2007, he joined the Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland as a faculty and a researcher until 2011. Currently,

Antonio Iliceto

Engaged in several capacities and innovation projects within CIGRE, ENTSO-E, MEDTSO, IEC, ETIP SNET, DESERTEC, in the domain of interconnections, energy transition, hydrogen, sector coupling, EV, storage, flexibility.

Keynote Speech Title: MAIN CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR A SUSTAINABLE POWER SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Zeed Khalil is Regional Sales & Application Manager for Power Generation with Siemens Energy in the Middle East. Zeed oversees Siemens Energy’s sales strategies for the Power Generation business across Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, with the priority of making a sustainable, reliable and affordable power supply possible in the region.

Fuad Alattar is currently a Senior Vice President for Siemens in the Middle East, managing the digital enterprise services business unit. He has more than 25 years’ experience in automation engineering and digitalization fields, including positions of General Manager, Operations Manager, Sales Director and Engineering Manager. Throughout his career, he designed dozens of automation systems and industrial networks for various applications, including the First Smart Multi-Aircraft Docking System in The World, the Largest RO Plant in The World, and an H2O Award Winning Water Project.

Helen Karatza is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in the postgraduate and undergraduate level and carries out research. Dr. Karatza’s research interests include Cloud and Fog Computing, Energy Efficiency, Resource Allocation and Scheduling and Real-time Distributed Systems. Dr. Karatza has authored or co-authored over 230 technical papers and book chapters including five papers that earned best paper awards at international conferences.

Maciej M. Michałek received the Ph.D. and D.Sc. (habilitation) degrees in the field of Automation and Robotics from the Poznan University of Technology (PUT), Poland, in years 2006 and 2015, respectively. He is currently an Associate/Academic Professor of PUT in the Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics, where he serves as a deputy director of scientific affairs. His current research interests concern modeling, control design, and control applications in the area of nonholonomic systems, mobile robots, articulated vehicles, N-trailer structures, and intelligent/automated vehicles.

Prof. Raed Mesleh is currently the dean of the school of electrical engineering and information technology at German Jordanian University in Amman, Jordan. He received his PhD in 2007 from Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at Boston University, The University of Edinburgh and Herriot– Watt University. He was with the Electrical Engineering Department at University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia from 2010 to 2015. During that period, he holds the position of department chair and the director of research excellence and intellectual property units at the deanship of scientific research.

S. A. Saleh (IEEE Senior Member), received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Bir Ziet University, West Bank, Palestine, in 1996, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, with a scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2007, he joined the Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland as a faculty and a researcher until 2011. Currently,

Antonio Iliceto

Engaged in several capacities and innovation projects within CIGRE, ENTSO-E, MEDTSO, IEC, ETIP SNET, DESERTEC, in the domain of interconnections, energy transition, hydrogen, sector coupling, EV, storage, flexibility.

Keynote Speech Title: MAIN CHALLENGES AHEAD FOR A SUSTAINABLE POWER SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT