Conference Overview:Waste Management is one of the most serious challenges faced by all countries across Middle East. The high rate of population growth, urbanization, migration, industrial growth and economic expansion has led to tremendous increase in solid waste genera- tion in the region.

Interestingly, per capita solid waste generation in GCC coun- tries is one of the highest worldwide. The gross urban waste generation from Middle East countries has risen to more than 150 million tons per annum which is posing serious environmen- tal and public health hazards.

Oman now has one of the highest rates of waste generation per capita in the world, around 1.6kg/day. Currently all forms of waste, be it bio degradable or plastic and other hazardous material is being buried into landfills and even the engineered ones in the long run will result in seepage of toxins into the soil, while resources continue depleting. Hence the Government has planned investments of about RO2.5bn over the next ten years.

Find your reasons to attend:Understand the varied integrated waste management conceptsLearn new innovative waste management techniques Understand the environmental & health impact due towasteLearn guidelines & principles of waste management & it’s importance

Who will Attend:Government Officials (including Municipalities, Regional Authorities, and Public Landfill Sites)Waste Services Companies (including Private or Publicly Traded waste services companies, Landfill Owners/Opera- tors, Independent Contractors)Waste Generators (Businesses and Organizations that Create Waste in Petrol/Oil Refineries, Manufacturing, Retailing and or Providing Services)Recycling Firms (including Secondary Materials Processors, Contractors and Recyclers)Landfill Professionals (including Private and Public Sector Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfill Owners/Opera- tors/Engineers and MSW Equipment Suppliers

Prestigious Speaker Panel:Dr. Mehdi Jaaffar, Vice PresidentEnvironment Society OmanDr. Mahad Bawain, DirectorCentre for Environmental Studies & Research,Sultan Qaboos University, OmanMr. Salman Zafar, FounderEcoMENARajendra Shende, Co FounderTERRE Dr. Reginald Victor, Professor - Department of BiologySultan Qaboos UniversityMr. Stuart Wagland, Lecturer - Renewable Energy from WasteCranfield University,UK Mr. Saleh Al Farsy, Environmental SpecialistMinistry of Environment & Climate Affairs Mr. Arafat Aden, Waste Management - Waste Infrastructure DeliveryDEFRA

Attendee Job Functions:CEO / Managing Director / Director / VP / GM / CFO / CTO / COO, Directors and Managers of Sustainability, Directors and Managers of Environmental Policies, Ministry Representatives, Health and Safety Officers, HSE and QHSE Managers and Directors, CSR Managers, Developers and Building Constructors, Facility Owners/Operators, Suppliers, Industry Experts & Professionals, Environmental and Quality Managers & Practitioners, Chemical and Petrochemical Processing Professionals, Waste Management & Recycling Professionals, Water Management Professionals, Industrialists and Manufacturers, Property Managers, Architects, Project Managers of Building Facilities, Scientists & Researchers, Research and Development, Innovation Managers, Engineers, Consultants, Academicians, Policy makers, Senior Governmental Representatives and Administrators, Media

Industrial Split:Government and Environment Agencies, Municipal Authorities, Waste Management & Control Authorities, Environmental NGOs, Sustainable Energy Companies, Energy Regulators and Concerned Government Agencies, Oil & Gas Companies, Real Estate & Construction, Industrial Plants, Waste Processing & Service Companies, Engineering Services, Consultancy and Design Offices, Environmental Management Organisations, Research Organizations /Universities

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Supporting Partner: SQU

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Day 1 : 19th January 2014Registration

Recital from the Holy QuranWelcome Note by Nispana Innovative Platforms Key Note Inaugural SpeechInauguration Of The Exhibition And The Conference

“Strategies & Trends For Waste Management In GCC Countries”Session Introductory Remark by the Chair :Waste Management in Oman – Trends, Prospects and Challenges

. Trends & challenges waste management in Oman

. Way forward to manage wastesWaste Management in Middle East–Regional Trends

. Growing waste volumes

. Changes in waste compositionConcept of Zero Waste City

. Moving towards zero waste

. Case study on Zero Waste CityEffectively Using the 7R’s of Waste Management– Reject, Reduce, Reuse, Reclaim, Repair, Replace, Recycle

. Understanding principles of 7R’s

. Need for introducing 4R’s - Reject, Reclaim, Repair, Replace

(Above Speakers Get into an interactive Question Answer Session)

Networking Coffee Break.

“The Big Picture”Session Opening Remark By The ChairUnderstanding Waste In Muscat :

. Classifying types of waste – Hazardous & Non Hazardous

. Identifying sources of wasteIntegrated Waste Management in Muscat :

. Understanding IWM strategies

. Benefits of Integrated waste managementEnvironmental & Health effects of waste management

. Implication on environment & health due to waste management. Overcoming effects of waste management

Municipal Solid Waste Treatment And Disposal Project in Muscat :

. Functional elements of solid waste

. Major hurdles in solid waste managementHistory Of Waste Management In UAE

. The Evolution

. Best PracticesReverse Logistics in Waste Management

. Types of reverse logistics related to waste management

. Reducing wastes using RL in waste management

(Above Speakers Get into an interactive Question Answer Session)

Lunch Break

“The European Management Methods”Interactive Panel Discussion: Innovative And Future Strategies Of Waste Management Caste Study: Best Practice On Waste Management In Europe.The key component for waste management – Waste Segregation

. Principles of waste segregation

. Planning of segregation systemWaste Management in Western Europe –Lessons for Middle East

. Integrated system of municipal solid waste disposal

. Recycling Society – to avoid waste & use waste as resource

(Above Speakers Get into an interactive Question Answer Session)

End of Conference Day 1

Day 2 : 20th January 2014 Registration

“Waste & Innovations”Session Opening Remark By The Chair Waste to Energy

. Converting wastes to reliable source of energy

. Understanding waste-to-energy technologiesNeed for Waste Management Hierarchy

. Waste management based on their environmental impact – reduction, reuse, recycling & recovery. New Waste management hierarchy – “Re-think” Above

(Above Speakers Get into an interactive Question Answer Session)

“Technology And Waste Management”Waste Management Technologies

. Use of alternative waste management technologies

. Emerging technologies in Waste managementDrilling Waste Management Concept

. Drilling waste ‘Best Practices’

. Tools with drilling waste managementWaste Processing technologies

. Categories of waste processing technologies

. Emerging new waste processing techniquesExploring new methods of waste treatment

. Effectives ways to clean Hazardous waste

. Alternatives to standard methods

Lunch BreakInteractive Panel Discussion: Solid Waste Management Strategy

. Strategic Planning Guide for Municipal Solid Waste Management. Key elements influencing implementation phase of SWM

“Planning The Prescription”United Nations Environment Programme

. Growing challenges in waste management

. Analysis of waste management systemMaterial Recover Facility

. Functionalities of Material Recover Facility

. Other processing scenarios using MRFWaste Management contributing to economy

. Business opportunities in waste sector

. Augmenting the revenue of waste management activitiesOrganic Waste Management

. Types & Overview of composting methods

. Thermophilic composting and its relevance for MENAInteractive Panel Discussion: Waste Management What needs to be done?

End of Conference Day 2

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Salman Zafar

A renowned expert in waste management, biomass energy, cleantech and sustainability. He is the Founder of EcoMENA, a Doha-based voluntary organization to promote sustainable development

and create mass environmental awareness in the Middle East. In addition, he is the CEO of BioEnergy Consult, a reputed biomass/biogas consulting firm.

Salman holds Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University (Aligarh, India) and has successfully accomplished a wide range of projects, mainly in the areas of biogas technology, biomass energy, waste-to-energy and solid waste management.

Mehdi Ahmed Jaaffar (Ph.D.)

Originally trained as a TESOL instructor back in 1971, Dr. Mehdi has shifted career and course of interest from teaching to human resources development domain, and subsequently pursued

his post graduate education and training in relevant disciplines. He, then served in the field of environmental education and awareness in the mid nineties of the past century before moving to Nature Conservation in 1996 in his capacity as the Director General for Protected Areas & Nature Conservation. In the summer of 1998 he moved to Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) assuming different roles and responsibilities before concluding his tenure at SQU as the Advisor to the Centre for Environment Studies & Research (CES&R) until the end of 2009.

At the civic front, and at the turn of the new millennium, he-amongst many other like-minded people- lobbied for the initiation of Oman’s first civic environment entity - the Environment Society of Oman (ESO) - as the nation’s pioneering and sole environmental NGO. ESO has emerged over the years as a growing formidable credible civic entity spearheading non-governmental efforts, and acting as a think tank in complimenting the roles of existing public and private environmental agencies in promoting the concept of sustainable development. Dr. Mehdi is a co-founder and ESO’s elected board member and vice president since its official inception in March 2004.

Dr. Reginald Victor

Professor Reginald Victor, the former Dean of Researchand currently at the Department of Biology, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman is an environmental scientist/ecologist. He has a long

academic career spanning four decades with experience in the University systems of India, Canada, Nigeria and the Sultanate of Oman. He has published more than 140 research articles in refereed journals, as books and book chapters, monographs and conference proceedings.

Professor Victor is a pioneering researcher on ecological studies in the tropics focusing on a variety of issues and is well known for his studies in Southeast Asia, Nigeria and Oman. He has recently turned his is attention to solid waste management studies in ecologically sensitive ecosystems.

Rajendra Shende

Former Director in the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is founder and Chairman of TERRE Policy Centre. He is leading expert in transfer and development of the sustainable technologies

and policies.

He coordinated implementation of global environmental programme for ozone layer protection and climate change in146 developing.

Mr. Shende was Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore.

He is recipient of Climate Protection award from USA. The OzonAction Programme led by him became the first ever programme in UN system to win Stratospheric Ozone Layer Protection award from USA. Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government gave Roy Family award to the partnership he forged.

Dr Mahad Said Baawain

is the Director of Center for Environmental Studies and Research, and Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University. He obtained his BSc in

Civil Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman in 1998, MSc in Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, UK in 2000, and PhD in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada in 2007.

His research interest covers several areas among environmental engineering including fundamentals of water and wastewater treatment processes, advanced oxidation processes, water and wastewater reactors modeling, nanotechnology applications for water and wastewater treatment, contaminant transport in natural systems, climate change and impacts on environmental systems, solid waste management and air pollution modeling and management.

Mr.Saleh Salim Al-Farsy

currently works as an environmental specialist at the department of monitoring & pollution control ( water pollution & waste management section). He also is seconded to work at the Sohar Industrial

Port as a counter part for the ministry of environment & climate affairs to set up pollution monitoring systems and mechanism in association with Port of Rotterdam DCMR (Netherlands).

His academic profile includes a Higher diploma in Lab Science, Chemistry and Biology, Higher College of Technology Oman, SQU Diploma in Computer & Information Systems,M.Sc. in Integrated Environmental Management at University of Bath UK . JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Cross post Training on Industrial Pollution Control Management 2006/2007. He has also previous served Head of Waste Management Section,MInistry of Environment and climate affairs, Inspector of Water & Waste Pollution Section, Ministry of Environment & Climate Affairs,Production & Shift Supervisor at Oman flour and Feed Mills Co. He has been a part of numerous prestigious projects and studies such as Water pollution control and waste management, Treatment and reuse of wastewater,Groundwater pollution monitoring.

He has been instrumental in authoring some prominent publications and reports like -Waste Water Treatment Plants in Muscat (capacity

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