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Closing remarksAbdulwahab Al-Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA

• Pulse of the Arabian

Gulf Chemical Industry

• Forum highlights

• What’s new?

• Acknowledgements

• GPCA events 2020

Agenda

• Pulse of the Arabian Gulf

Chemical Industry


• What’s new?



Agenda

Forum in numbers

CountriesAttendees

Speakers Companies

Sessions

Masterclasses

and seminars

Days

3

2,083

69 8

4550

576

46 23

GCC International

Growth trend

GPCA Legacy Award – 2nd edition

H.E. Abdulaziz Al ZamilMinister of Industry and Electricity,

Saudi Arabia, and Chairman,

SABIC (1983 – 1995)Group photo on stage with the Legacy Award Committee and

family members of H.E. Abdulaziz Al Zamil.

www.gpcalegacy.com

GPCA Leaders of Tomorrow


51 29 20 13 5 5 5 5 4 2

140Students


Borouge site visit ADNOC site visit

Video Highlights

of LoT program

Masterclasses

Masterclass 1

Economic impact assessment of the

GCC chemical industry

Masterclass 2

The future of work: Rethinking the

workforce model for high-performing

companies of tomorrow

Masterclass 3

Crude oil-to-chemicals (COTC):

An industry gamechanger?

300 plus attendees

Knowledge partners seminars

State of the global

energy and

chemical industries:

Positioning for what

comes next

The future of plastics: Trends

and disruptions shaping this

cornerstone of the Middle

East petrochemicals industry

The opportunities

and threats of the

fast evolving

circular economy

for plastics

Winning the 20s in

chemicals –

Digital at the core

Value park seminar

Chemical value parks:

An enabler of economic

competitiveness and

value creation

Facilitated by

Reports


Chemical Industry


• What’s new?



Agenda

GPCA Innovation Zone

Presenters

GPCA Sustainability Zone

Presenters

A smart event for the industry

At the Annual GPCA Forum, we always want your

experience to be seamless. This year we

introduced the SMART visitor badge, a digital and

sustainable way to receive information during the

GPCA Forum.

Technology partner

Mobile networking platform

The 14th Annual GPCA Forum

provided exhibitors and sponsors with

an opportunity to connect with the

right target audience, reach out to

speakers, plan meetings for

themselves and their teams and

review the agenda on the go – all at

the click of a button using the GPCA

mobile networking platform.


Chemical Industry


• What’s new?



Agenda

Conference speakers

H.E. Dr. Mohammed

bin Hamad Al Rumhi

Minister of Oil and Gas,

Oman

H.E. Yousef Al-Benyan

Vice Chairman and CEO,

SABIC and

Chairman, GPCA

Bhavesh (Bob) Patel

CEO, LyondellBasell

and President, ICCA

Karen McKee

President, ExxonMobil

Chemical Company

Saori Dubourg

Member of the Board

of Executive Directors,

BASF SE

Mirek Dusek

Deputy Head of the Centre for

Geopolitical and Regional

Affairs, Member of the

Executive Committee,

World Economic Forum

Fernando J. Gómez

Head, Chemical and

Advanced Materials

Industry,

World Economic Forum

Eelco Hoekstra

Chairman Executive

Board and CEO,

Royal Vopak

Musab Al-Mahruqi

Group CEO, Oman Oil

and Orpic Group

Saleh Bahamdan

CEO, Sahara

International

Petrochemical

Company (Sipchem)

Darren Davis

CEO, Ma’adenJean-Jacques Mosconi

SVP, Refining and

Petrochemicals – Amiral

Project, Total

Masterclasses speakers

Hamilton Galloway

Head of Consultancy,

Americas,

Oxford Economics

Colin Ward

Interim Program Director

Markets and Industrial

Development,

KAPSARC

Matthias Thorns

Deputy Secretary-

General, International

Organisation of

Employers (IOE)

Scott Livermore

MD, Macro Consulting,

Oxford Economics

Gianmario Pisanu

MD - Management

Consulting Lead - Middle

East and Turkey,

Accenture

Richard Charlesworth

Executive Director, Oil,

Midstream, Downstream

and Chemicals,

IHS Markit

Ahmad Al Khowaiter

Chief Technology Officer,

Saudi Aramco

Dr. Fahad Al-Khodairi

Corporate Fellow,

Polymer Speciality

Technology and

Innovation, SABIC

Juhan Robberts

VP, Basic Chemicals,

ExxonMobil Chemicals

Seminars speakers

H.E. Eng, Abdullah

Ibrahim Al-Saadan

Chairman, RCJY,

Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, Chemicals

Clusters Champion

Kurt Barrow

VP, Global Energy

Insights, Oil

Markets, Midstream,

Downstream,

IHS Markit

Mark Eramo

VP, Global Business

Development, Oil Markets,

Midstream, Downstream

and Chemicals, IHS Markit

Theo Jan Simons

Global Petrochemicals

Practice Group Leader,

McKinsey & Company

Raheel Shafi

Vice President,

Chemicals Consulting,

Wood Mackenzie

John Stewart

Principal Analyst,

EMEA,

\Wood Mackenzie

Alex de Mur

MD and Partner, BCG

Dr. Udo Huenger

VP Middle East, BASF

John Page

VP Global Consulting,

Upstream, Oil, Mid-

Downstream and

Chemicals, IHS Markit

Jim Mcilvenny

CEO, JM Consultancy

Ltd and Past President,

Dow Asia Pacific

Olivier Thorel

Executive Director

Chemicals,

Saudi Aramco

Sanjay Sharma

VP – Middle East and

India, IHS Markit

Samir Chaturvedi

CEO, Khalifa Industrial

Zone Abu Dhabi

(KIZAD)

Eng. Fuad Mohammed

Mosa

VP, Chemicals Cluster,

Industrial Clusters

Mirko Rubeis

MD and Partner,

BCG – Middle East

Elan Habib

Head of Thought

Leadership & Strategic

Research GPCA

Innovation zone speakers

Dr. Mohammed

Al-Hazmi

Director, Gly & Ox &

F.Ch, SABIC

Arthur Foutsitzis

Director of R&D –

Middle East,

UOP Honeywell

Dr. Amira Abou-Hamdan

VP Materials Science,

Chemspeed Technologies

Sean P. Flanigan

Director, Technology

Commercialization,

KAUST

Khaled Aljohani

Process Engineer,

Chemicals Growth and

Technology, Project

Support, Saudi Aramco

Dr. Najah Al Mhanna

Head of Department of

Engineering, GUTech

Miguel Fernandez

VP – Market

Development Chemical

Industry, Siemens

Elie Daher

CMO, United SafetyDhanasekar

Periyasamy

Solution Consultant,

Aspentech

Usman Ghani

Chairman, Conflucore

Dr. Abdullah Al Abri

Director, EJAAD

Jean-Paul Sacy

Regional Director,

Baker Hughes

Sustainability zone speakers

Rayan Moathen

Health and Environment

Project Manager,

MODON

Dr. Youssef

Fakhreddine

Division Head,

Converge Business,

Saudi Aramco

Nicholas Bahr

Global Director, DuPont

Sustainable Solutions

Badr Aljohani

Sustainability Manager,

Sadara Chemical

Company

Maitha Al Marashi

VP Sustainability,

Borouge

Abdullah Maghrabi

Senior Sustainability

Engineer, SABIC

Ronald Richa

Industrial Business

Development Director,

Veolia Middle East

David Hergenrether

VP Polyethylene,

ExxonMobil Chemical

Company

Arshad Majeed

Khokher

Senior Account

Manager Middle East –

Adsorbents and

Catalyst, BASF

Bassel El Dabbagh

CEO, Agility

Jain George

Senior Officer –

Health, Safety and

Environment

DP World

Leaders of Tomorrow speakers

Mutlaq Al Morished

Chief Executive Officer,

Tasnee

Abdulaziz Al-Oudan

Executive Vice

President HR, SABIC

Niam Sinno

Associate Client Partner,

Korn Ferry

Moderators

Aseel Humoodi

SVP, Human Capital and

Administration, Borouge

Lyn Tattum

VP, IHS Markit

Richard Charlesworth

Executive Director, Oil,

Midstream, Downstream and

Chemicals,

IHS Markit

Scott Livermore

MD, Macro Consulting,

Oxford Economics

Udit Arora

Head of Committees Affairs,

GPCA

Master of ceremony

Dyala Sabbagh

Partner

Gulf Intelligence

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