Embracing the Future, Welcoming Disruption
Discover the new WFES
WFES (World Future Energy Summit) is a global industry platform connecting business and innovation in energy, clean technology and efficiency for a sustainable future.
WFES Expo hosts over 800 exhibiting companies from over 40 countries; The Future Sustainability Summit; the unique WFES Forums, covering everything from disruptive technologies to future cities; CLIX , the ground-breaking WFES Initiative; and WFES Hosted Events, where individual growth markets come under the spotlight.
The Future Sustainability Summit
Industry Convergence: Accelerating Sustainable Development
Fighting climate change is one of the most complex but also most urgent challenges of our time. The Future Sustainability Summit, part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, is a global action-oriented initiative with the ultimate goal to accelerate the transition to a sustainable society by connecting government, investment and business leaders from across various sectors.
2019 Speakers:
WFES Expo
The WFES Expo brought together more than 800 international exhibitors from over 40 countries to showcase the latest solutions in clean energy, water and waste management. Discover top innovations and products launches from global enterprises, leading tech companies, rising start-ups and entrepreneurs from around the world.
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WFES Hosted Events allow international organisations and global associations to host their main events alongside WFES, uniting stakeholders from every continent all in one meeting place. WFES Hosted Events are high-profile in nature: some are open to all attendees, while others are by invitation only.
WFES Forums
The WFES Forums is an exclusive, free-to-attend initiative that brings world-class expertise to the show floor. Whether your aim is to keep pace with emerging best practices, or deepen your understanding of a particular sector, the WFES Forums provide four days packed with industry experts’ seminars and discussions regarding the latest developments occurring across Solar, Energy Efficiency, Waste and Water.
CLIX, launched in 2018, supports the UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment strategy to enable the sourcing and funding of climate change solutions and technologies.
CLIX is part of Youth 4 Sustainability Hub, which brings together wisdom and knowledge, aiming to prepare youth to carry forward the sustainability agenda by ensuring that relevant and actionable information is passed down from our current leaders and experts to our future leaders.
Sustainability Business Connect, an exclusive networking programme to facilitate business meetings that allow exhibitors, buyers, and visitors to exchange meeting requests even before the show begins and to extend meeting business people through various networking sessions during the event.
What is Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week?
WFES is part of the largest sustainability gathering in the Middle East, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). ADSW is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the major social, economic and environmental trends shaping the world’s sustainable development, and to empowering the global community to realise viable and effective strategies to mitigate climate change. To seriously address the global energy challenge, the relationships between economic development, poverty eradication, energy security, water scarcity and climate change cannot be overlooked.
Other ADSW events include:
The official ADSW Opening Ceremony initiates four days of discussion and collaboration between policymakers, investors and thought leaders. It also recognises ground-breaking achievements in sustainability with the Zayed Future Energy Award, a prize which has impacted 200 million people globally by giving them access to clean energy, safe water and food.
Highlights of the 2018 ADSW Opening Ceremony:
For more information, please visit https://abudhabisustainabilityweek.com/
The Zayed Sustainability Prize (former Zayed Future Energy Prize) is a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan – a visionary champion of environmental stewardship and global sustainability. This annual award celebrates achievements that are driving impact, innovation and inspiration across five distinct categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.
In addition to the global recognition that comes with being a winner of the Prize, each category has a Prize fund of US$600,000. For the winner, this is an injection of funding that may well be the difference in turning an innovative yet small-scale project into a world-changing solution.
The Awards Ceremony will take place on January 14, 2019 in the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre as part of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.
For more information regarding submitting an entry to the Prize, go to www.ZayedSustainabilityPrize.com
The UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science aims to help tackle the challenge of global water stress by encouraging innovative solutions needed to aid people at risk around the world. Three researchers from the USA, China and Russia, respectively were named as awardees of the US $5 million grant offered by the program.
Meet the 2018 grant recipients:
For more information about the award, visit http://www.uaerep.ae/
2019 High-Level Attendees:
H.E. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber
UAE Minister of State and Chairman
of Masdar
H.E. Eng. Suhail Mohamed Faraj
Al Mazrouei
Minister of Energy and Industry, UAE
H.E. Dr. Thani bin Ahmed
Al-Zeyoudi
Minister of Climate Change and
Environment, UAE
H.E. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi
Minister of State for Higher Education
and Advanced Skills, UAE
H.E. Mariam Saeed Hareb Al Mheiri
Minister of Food Security, UAE
H.E. Shamma bint Suhail bin
Faris Al Mazrui
Minister of State for Youth Affairs,
UAE
H.E. Razan Al Mubarak
Secretary General, Environment
Agency - Abu Dhabi
H.E. Awaidha Murshed Ali Al
Marar
Chairman of Department of Energy,
UAE and Member of the Abu Dhabi
Executive Council
H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed
Al Nahyan
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Presidential Affairs, UAE
H.H. Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al
Nahyan
Vice Chairman of the Abu Dhabi
Executive Council
H.E. Mr. Yang Jiechi,
Special Representative of President Xi Jingping,The People's Republic of China
H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan,
bin Khalifa, bin Zayed Al Nahyan
H.E. Armen Sarkissian,
President of Armenia
H.E. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,
President of Mali
H.E. Joao Laurenco,
President of Angola
Raj Kumar Singh,
Minister of Power, India
H.E. Khalid Al-Falih,
Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia & Chairman of Saudi Aramco
H.E. Dr. Sultan Al Jaber,
UAE Minister of State, CEO of ADNOC & Chairman of Masdar
H.E. Masagos Zulkifli,
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Singapore
H.E. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan,
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research
H.E. Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi,
Minister of Climate Change and Environment
H.E. Eng. Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei,
Ministyer of Energy & Industry, UAE
H.E. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan,
Minister of State for Tolerance of the UA
H.E. Dr. Hussain bin Ali Mirza,
Minister of Electricity & Water Affairs, Bahrain
H.E. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi,
Minister of Higher Education
H.E. Sarah Al Amiri
H.E. Mariam Al Mehairi
Ban Ki-moon,
Former Secretary General, United Nations
H.E. Razan Al Mubarak,
Managing Director, Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
H.E. Dr. Mohammed Al Ahbabi,
Director General, UAE Space Agency
H.H. Prince Khaled Bin Awaleed Bin Talal Al Saud,
Founding Chaiman, KBW Investments; Founder & CEO, KBW Ventures
