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Second day of WETEX 2026 features 26 seminars exploring AI-driven sustainability across energy, water and environmental sectors · DEWA Podcasts

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  The second day of the 28th Water, Energy, Technology,
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  and Environment Exhibition, WETEX, featured 26
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  specialized seminars on artificial intelligence
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  and digitization in advancing sustainability
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  across energy, water, and the environment. The
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  exhibition is organized by Dubai Electricity
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  and Water Authority at the Dubai World Trade
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  Center. At the Great Resilience Session, Andy
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  Warner. global service segment leader for utilities
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  at Hitachi Energy, presented HMAX Energy, an
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  AI -powered solution combining sensors, thermal
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  imaging, risk -based maintenance, and remote
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  support. Andy Warner said, Now AI is giving us
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  new opportunities. So one of the latest things
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  we brought in is a system that uses AI to monitor
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  feeds from cameras. And you can set up thermal
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  imaging cameras and ordinary video cameras to
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  monitor your site and your substation. And then,
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  AI looks at the feed from those cameras and works
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  out what's wrong with the site when looking at
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  it. So it gives you visual inspections you would
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  normally do once a year, sending an engineer
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  there with a thermal imaging camera to inspect.
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  This way, you can do it continuously with AI
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  monitoring, and then you would spot problems
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  straight away. Senior Manager of Strategy and
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  Program at Frontier 25, hosted Vitaly Matinin,
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  co -founder and CEO of Airvoice, Abdulatif Albedawi,
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  Director of the Emirates Green Building Council,
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  Dr. Hassan Ali, Associate Professor at the University
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  of Birmingham, Dubai, and Sabine Gowan, Environmental
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  Sustainability Manager at Inova. They stressed
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  monitoring carbon dioxide and fine particulate
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  matter, PM2 .5, measuring 2 .5 micrometers or
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  less in diameter. In the water track, Ahmed Anab,
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  senior manager for the MENA region at NSF Middle
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  East, covered NSF -ANSI standards 60, 61, and
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  14, addressing contaminants such as lead and
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  PFAS. Finally, supplier relationship management
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  seminars strengthened Dubai Electricity and Water
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  Authority's partnerships, advancing sustainability
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  and the circular economy.