ACWANET Knowledge & Collaboration Platform

Attendees Criteria:

• Seniority Level: Director level and above
• Focus Areas: Technical decision-makers and policy influencers
• Roles to Exclude: Marketing-focused roles
• Innovation Ecosystem Representation:
  • Government
  • Industry / Corporate
  • Academia / Research
  • Startups / Entrepreneurs
  • Investors / Venture Capital

This opening note sets the strategic tone for Innovation Days 2026 - Shanghai, China, outlining how sustainable infrastructure is being reshaped by advanced engineering, digital intelligence, and cross-border collaboration. The address reflects on China’s industrial strength, manufacturing leadership, and rapid technology deployment capabilities, and highlights the role of strategic partnerships in accelerating scalable solutions across energy, water, and emerging industrial systems. It frames the day’s discussions within a shared commitment to innovation, resilience, and long-term impact.

• Session Type: Opening note
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: President
• Organization: Acwa
• Expertise / Focus Area: Strategy, Innovation

This opening note provides a global view on clean energy innovation, highlighting major technology trends, industry shifts, and market dynamics shaping the energy transition. It offers insights into how innovation ecosystems and international collaboration are accelerating the deployment of next-generation clean technologies.

• Session Type: Keynote
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: President
• Organization: SNEC
• Expertise / Focus Area: Strategy, Innovation

This opening note focuses on the role of ecosystems in turning cleantech innovation into real-world impact. It explores collaboration between startups, industry, investors, and policymakers, highlighting pathways to scale solutions and strengthen global cleantech value chains.

• Session Type: Keynote
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: President
• Organization: CleanTech Business Club (CBC)
• Expertise / Focus Area: Strategy, Innovation

This opening note outlines the current state of green desalination and the key technical directions shaping its development. It highlights major challenges, areas of innovation, and considerations for advancing more energy-efficient and sustainable water production.

• Session Type: Keynote
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/ Corporate
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

Internal presentation showcasing how Acwa is scaling innovations in green desalination. Sharing insights, technical challenges, and practical considerations for reliable, low-impact water production.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization: Acwa
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

This session showcases a single industrial solution in green desalination, focusing on operational experience, technical insights, and strategies for successful deployment and scaling.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/Corporate (Someone not from Acwa)
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

Experts from industry, academia, and research share perspectives on advancing green desalination technologies worldwide. The panel highlights innovation pathways, partnership models, and the practical challenges of deploying large-scale, energy-efficient water solutions.

• Session Type: Panel
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1 moderator + 5 panelists
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type:
  • 1 person from Government
  • 1 person from Industry / Corporate
  • 1 person from Academia / Research
  • 1 person from Startup / Entrepreneur
  • 1 person from Investors / Venture Capital / Risk Capital
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

A deep dive into a cutting-edge desalination technology from the lab, including technical methodology, experimental results, and implications for sustainable water solutions.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Professor
• Organization Type: Academia / Research
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

See fresh ideas transforming water production as a startup showcases its breakthrough green desalination technology. The presentation focuses on a single innovation, the problem it solves, and how it’s progressing from small-scale pilots toward practical, real-world deployment.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type: Startup 
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Desalination 

This opening note highlights how innovation, strategic partnerships, and supply chain development are driving the growth of the green hydrogen sector. It provides insights into emerging technologies, collaborative approaches, and practical pathways to scale solutions across research, industry, and global markets.

• Session Type: Keynote
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/ Corporate
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

Explore Acwa’s journey in advancing green hydrogen from concept to operational reality. This presentation highlights technical strategies, key operational insights, and lessons learned from ongoing projects, showcasing how Acwa translates vision into scalable, sustainable hydrogen solutions.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization: Acwa
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

Discover how green hydrogen technology is being translated into industrial impact. This presentation highlights a single solution, demonstrating its performance, operational insights, and lessons learned as it scales from pilot systems to real-world deployment, providing a clear picture of technical and practical considerations for industrial adoption.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/Corporate (Someone not from Acwa)
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

This panel brings together global and regional experts to discuss how green hydrogen is advancing across international markets. The conversation focuses on collaboration models, supply chain readiness, and emerging opportunities, examining how coordinated innovation and value-chain partnerships are enabling green hydrogen to scale worldwide.

• Session Type: Panel
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1 moderator + 5 panelists
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type:
  • 1 person from Government
  • 1 person from Industry / Corporate
  • 1 person from Academia / Research
  • 1 person from Startup / Entrepreneur
  • 1 person from Investors / Venture Capital / Risk Capital
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

Explore the latest green hydrogen innovations straight from the lab. A single researcher presents a focused technical breakthrough, detailing the science behind their approach, the challenge it addresses, and early experimental results, offering insight into how these advances could shape future hydrogen technologies.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Professor
• Organization Type: Academia / Research
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

Step into the world of green hydrogen innovation with a startup turning vision into action. This session spotlights their core technology, tackling a key challenge in green hydrogen production or integration, and shares insights on how it’s moving from pilot projects to early commercial use.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type: Startup 
• Expertise / Focus Area: Green Hydrogen

This opening note explores how artificial intelligence and autonomy are reshaping industrial operations. It examines the convergence of digital intelligence, automation, and operational decision-making, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of deploying AI-enabled systems in complex, safety-critical industrial environments.

• Session Type: Keynote
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/ Corporate
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

This presentation shares ACWA’s approach to adopting industrial AI and autonomous operations across its assets. It highlights strategic priorities, technical considerations, and operational insights, illustrating how digital intelligence is being translated into measurable performance, reliability, and safety improvements.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization: Acwa
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

An industry leader presents a deployed AI solution operating in real industrial environments. The session dives into technical architecture, model deployment at the edge, data pipelines, latency constraints, and performance metrics. Emphasis is placed on reliability, safety validation, and how AI transitions from proof-of-concept to fully embedded operational intelligence in mission-critical infrastructure.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Director and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/Corporate (Someone not from Acwa)
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

Experts from industry, utilities, robotics, and advanced manufacturing discuss the path toward autonomous plants. Topics include human-AI collaboration, AI agents in control rooms, robotics integration, digital twins, regulatory barriers, and operational risk. The discussion examines how industrial ecosystems can move from predictive analytics to real-time autonomous decision-making at scale.

• Session Type: Panel
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1 moderator + 5 panelists
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type:
  • 1 person from Government
  • 1 person from Industry / Corporate
  • 1 person from Academia / Research
  • 1 person from Startup / Entrepreneur
  • 1 person from Investors / Venture Capital / Risk Capital
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

A researcher presents a focused academic contribution in industrial AI or autonomous systems. The presentation highlights the underlying methods, technical innovation, and experimental results, offering insight into how emerging research could influence future industrial operations.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: Professor
• Organization Type: Academia / Research
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

This session spotlights how a startup is innovating in industrial operations with AI and automation. This dive highlights their innovative solution, showing how smart controls, autonomous inspection, or predictive systems are making plants safer, more efficient, and ready for the future. All in action from pilot tests toward real-world implementation.

• Session Type: Presentation
• Number of Presenters Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: C-level and above
• Organization Type: Startup 
• Expertise / Focus Area: Industrial Automation & Robotics

This collaboration ceremony marks a key milestone of Innovation Days 2026 – Shanghai, China, where strategic partnerships are formalized through the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs). The session highlights the transition from dialogue to commitment, bringing together partners across industry, academia, and innovation platforms to establish frameworks for joint development, pilot deployment, and long-term collaboration. It reflects a shared ambition to accelerate technology adoption, enable cross-border cooperation, and unlock scalable solutions across energy, water, and sustainable infrastructure.

Session Type: Collaboration Ceremony
Number of Speakers Needed: None (MC-led announcement)
Level / Seniority: Executive / Senior Leadership (Signing Representatives)
Organization: ACWA Power + Partner Organizations
Expertise / Focus Area: Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Innovation Collaboration

The closing note reflects on the key insights and themes emerging from Innovation Days 2026 - Shanghai, China, highlighting common threads across technology, deployment, and collaboration. It emphasizes the transition from innovation to real-world impact, the importance of cross-sector partnerships, and the role of scale, execution, and systems thinking in shaping the next phase of sustainable infrastructure and industrial transformation.

• Session Type: Closing note
• Number of Speakers Needed: 1
• Level / Seniority: VP and above
• Organization Type / Part of Innovation Ecosystem: Industry/ Corporate (Someone from Acwa)
• Expertise / Focus Area: Innovation

Posters Criteria:

• Focus: Scientific or research-oriented posters
• Target Participants: Researchers, academics, or R&D teams
• Seniority / Role: Researchers, senior researchers, technical experts
• Content Type: Experimental results, scientific findings, technical projects

Demos Criteria:

• Focus: Innovative solutions or new technologies
• Target Participants: Startups or entrepreneurs
• Seniority / Role: Founders or product leads
• Content Type: Functional prototypes, product demonstrations