ISA Qatar Section to host automation conference in Doha this September

The International Society of Automation (ISA) has announced the staging of the ‘Automation Conference 2023’ and the ‘Automation Leaders Meet of Europe, Middle East and Africa Region’ slated this month at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Doha.
According to ISA Qatar Section President Nilangshu Dey, the conference will be held on September 25 under the theme ‘Digitalisation in Oil and Gas Industry’.
The conference will be attended by automation industry leaders from England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, Canada, the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, India, Pakistan, and Portugal, Dey noted.
He said more than 200 international delegates are expected to attend the conference, which will be addressed by nine industry experts who will be presenting their papers during the full-day event.
Dey said: “The speakers were selected from various countries and automation vendors, who will be presenting the future needs of the industry in order to maintain global sustainability for the benefit of the automation engineers of Qatar to a greater extent.”
He explained that the conference, which is being organised by ISA Qatar Section after a five-year respite, underscores the fast-growing economy of Qatar and the ongoing large-scale developments of automation systems in Qatar’s oil and gas, petrochemical, and energy industries.
“ISA President Marty Bince, ISA EMEA Vice-President Dr Soliman al-Madi, and other dignitaries from the ISA headquarters in the US will be the guests of honour of the conference.
“Further, a large number of automation professionals from various oil and gas companies of Qatar, such as QatarEnergy, Qatar Gas, Shell GTL, Oryx GTL, Dolphin Energy, Qafco, CChem, Qapco, Qatalum, Qatar Steel, and North Oil Company, among others, along with Saudi Aramco, PDO, and ADNOC will be participating,” Dey further explained.
Dey also highlighted that the ‘ISA EMEA Regional District Leaders Council Annual Meet’ will be held in Doha on September 26 and 27. As many as 15 ISA leaders from different countries are expected to participate in the event, he also said.
ISA Secretary Radouane Zid stressed that Qatar is the first country in the Middle East to host the international automation leaders meet. In the last 75 years, the district leaders meeting were being conducted in different European countries, he said.
During Monday’s announcement of the events, Dey was also joined by ISA Qatar Treasurer Shabu Varghese, ISA Membership Chair Naidu Singampalli, and organising committee members Omer bin Abdul Aziz, Senthil Nagaraj, Karthik K, and Mohamed Amjad Khan.
Dey said interested parties may email [email protected] to attend the event, which does not require any delegate fee.