Speakers

Ahmed is the section head of planning and contract support in the municipality of Abu Dhabi with 15 years of experience working in different senior positions in the Department of Municipalities & Transport. His focus is to search for the best plans to implement on projects strategy, moreover looking forward to find new creative methodologies that help our environment.

Alanood Al Mazrouei has more that 19 years of public sector experience, and 8 years is the Abu Dhabi’s Housing Sector. She conceptualized and lead the first National Housing Demand and Supply study for Abu Dhabi setting the foundation for the government capital projects planning as a cornerstone for the process thereafter, which helped ensure integrated planning amongst the different players in the housing ecosystem for the delivery for government housing communities. Alanood also contributed to transforming the award-winning customer journey by leading the digital transformation in customer-centric manner, and facilitating providing neighborhoods with the required services and amenities.

Bassel Omara is a multi-award-winning Egyptian architect, designer, and artist with a humanitarian vision who won numerous accolades and honours both regionally and globally. With over 15 years of experience and a successful record in both the public and private sectors spanning from Egypt to UAE, KSA, Qatar, Oman, Iraq, Libya, France, Mali, Iceland and Germany.

Ms. BASLICAN is a professional Senior Landscape Architect with over 16 years of experience in landscaping fields, she worked in contracting and consulting companies, coordinate all the disciplines of the design for soft and hard landscape of the project, prepare and coordinate of the IFC submissions for the masterplans, hard landscape, soft landscape (as per the sustainability requirements), levels and grading with the surface water design, exterior lighting, urban street furniture of the Precinct to the client as well covering and updating the design due to DRCT comments. Ms. Duygu is currently responsible for preparation of the public open spaces including Neighborhood, Linear, Family and Palace Parks with Eco Corniche, Barahaat and Sikkas concept design, detail design and construction plans including hard landscape, soft landscape, exterior lighting, irrigation and surface and stormwater projects, 2d rendering and 3d visual and animations.

Stephen Goldie is the City Planning Advisor at Al Ain Municipality.

He has over forty years’ experience in urban planning and design, mostly at executive level.

His urban planning and design experience ranges from regional and metropolitan strategy to complex inner-city design, from high-level policy and legislation to seemingly intractable local disputes, and from detailed urban design to complex management issues, including:

• An urban expansion for a third of a million people,
• A high density transit oriented development; and
• 100 km of metro rail in three different projects.

Earlier this year Stephen received a 2023 UAE Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure Research & Innovation Award for groundbreaking work on Artificial Intelligence Supporting Urban Planning.

Landscape Architect passionate about creating sustainable, inspired outdoor spaces. Over fourteen years of experience developing high profile and complex projects such as residential communities, resorts, airports, and educational facilities across multiple regions including the Gulf, the Middle East and Africa.

Currently leading the landscape team at Diamond Developers, crafting sustainable, community-driven spaces that bring people closer to nature.

Dr. Kheira Anissa Tabet Aoul is a sustainability professional, Architecture and Building Science Professor, and currently Head of the Architectural Engineering Department, at the United Arab Emirates University. She draws from 30 years of international academic and professional experience in USA, North Africa and the Middle East. She is engaged in education and practice-based research focusing on advancing the design and execution of a sustainable, socio-culturally sensitive built environment in hot climatic zones. High Performance buildings, building integration technology and human factors in the built environment are her major areas of expertise and research interest. In 2019, Prof. Tabet Aoul was appointed as Director of ZEMCH Network (www.ZEMCH.org) UAE regional center, and serving as the Chair of ZEMCH 2021 International Conference in UAE. She has a strong record of accomplishment in providing the necessary expertise in Sustainable Design and Green Building Practices, in both professional and educational environments.  Outcomes include extensive publications, Editorial roles, successful supervision of Masters and PhDs and leading major interdisciplinary consulting and research projects in UAE and internationally. Kheira holds a PhD in Building Science from Sheffield University (UK). She is a LEED Accredited Professional and Green Advantage Certified (USA).

Lorenzo Zoli is an Italian architect and a PhD holder with over 20 years of experience. He was appointed Managing Director of M+N Architecture in 2010 and since then he has been based in Abu Dhabi from where he has led the development of the company in the GCC market. For more than a decade he has been exposed to all sides of the design business, overlooking the growth of the company, which delivered over 250+ projects in the field of education, residential developments, mixed use, governmental buildings and interior design.

Mohamed comes from Engineering background with holistic experience in sustainable design development & sustainable construction management. With a collective experience of more than 13 years, Mohamed has been taking integral role in delivering green buildings, providing design solutions towards sustainable green urbanism & Masterplans, integrating long term life cycle carbon assessment with life cycle costing, and collectively putting on all these KPIs in the context of climate change and sustainability.

Mohamed had the privilege to provide services to well-known mega developers in the MENA region supporting their corporates/ projects objectives towards the triple bottom line [people, planet, profit].

Mohamed has successfully won several regional & international awards last year pertinent to sustainable public realms and human centric urban designs.

Mohamed holds Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the American University of Sharjah, and is consistently developing his academic capacity being LEED AP, PQP, WELL AP, PMP, RMP, CEM, CMVP, LFA, & Urban GHG specialist to deliver the best value to his clients.