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Dubai, UAE, United Arab Emirates, 2011/07/07 - The Smart Grids and Smart Meters Summit, 2011, is growing to be the leading platform in the middle eastern smart grid arena for technology providers to meet, network, and foster new business relationships - FlemingGulf.com.
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Industry giants, Huawei Technologies, have signed up as Premium GOLD partners for the forthcoming Smart Grids and Smart Meters Summit, an industry-specific high-level event scheduled to take place on the 26th and 27th of September, 2011, in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“Smart Grid technologies and systems is an emerging trend in terms of Communications & Information Technology (ICT), Control and Power Systems engineering convergence. The next generation electricity grid is becoming far ‘smarter’ than yesterday, where intelligent devices operate bi-directionally and where communication systems function in real-time.
As a global leader providing ICT solutions across industries, Huawei Technologies has identified growth opportunities in the emerging vertical Smart Grid and Green Energy segment to meet the increase demand and serve our existing and new customer in the Electricity and Energy Markets with strong, secure, efficient, reliable, scalable and high performance Communications and IT solutions.
The Smart Grids and Smart Meters Summit will create a platform that will give Huawei Enterprise Business the opportunity to showcase its innovative experience in electricity grid technology and demonstrate how the Smart Grid concept operate as an enabler of ‘smart cities’”, said Mr. Dong Wu, Vice President, Huawei Enterprise, Middle East.
Mr. Abner Francis, Sales Director – EMEA, says “Initiatives have been taken by governments in the middle east to move into sustainable modes of energy by transitioning from the power grid to the smart grid, making them fast and emerging in these verticals. Getting a strong hold during this nascent stage is very important to ensure that the basics of implementation of these million dollar projects are in the right hands. This is why we have Huawei Technologies partnering with us for the Smart Grids and Smart Meters Summit as the ‘Premium Gold Partner’.
We are also working with the likes of ADWEA, DEWA, ADCC, World Energy Council, ECRA, GCC Interconnection Authority, SEC, and KAHRAMAA, to name a few, to put together a cutting-edge agenda covering all the very latest developments in the world of Smart grids and Smart metering.”
The Middle East is a new and upcoming market in the smart grid arena. It is thus, only becoming, that strong and effective foundations be adopted to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in operations. The Smart Grids and Smart Meters Summit is just the avenue for utility technology providers and consultancy companies to present their solutions to our hand-picked, C-Level attendees who will be present.
Fleming Gulf (fleminggulf.com), with a rich history of producing top-end, industry specific events, is the name behind some of the biggest summits witnessed in this region, including Petrochemicals Technology, District Cooling, and the HSE Series.
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