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VIRTUAL MASTERCLASSES
Monday, 16 November

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Tuesday, 17 November \|	Wednesday, 18 November

EMEA Masterclasses

Monday, 16 November

TIMES	SESSION
8:45 – 12:00	MORNING SESSION
	*"Fundamentals of Passive Optical LAN" ( Part 1 of 2)* Nazih Fattal – DASAN Zhone Solutions – Lebanon Chad Hines – ITConnect – USA This two-part seminar will provide an overview of the value, architecture, design and powering considerations for a passive optical LAN technology. Specific focus will be given to system components, benefits, design methodologies, power survivability using AC and DC methods, planning and commissioning of electronics, infrastructure testing and closeout package deliverables. Topic: \| Optical Fiber & Passive Optical Networks (PON) \|
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	*"Effective Data Centre Cooling Strategies"* Maria Fedorovicheva – ABB – Russia Matteo Zanesco – CAREL Middle East – Italy Julio Conde – CEIS S.L. – Spain John Conboy – Danfoss FZCO – Ireland Tom Bosmans – Baltimore Aircoil International N.V. – Belgium Jamshad Padanchery – Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd – India This six-part BICSI Masterclass will be presented in collaboration with Eurovent Middle East, an association of the leading HVAC manufacturers in the region. Leading industry experts will elaborate on key technologies and strategies related to Data Centre Cooling, including: Reducing Cost in Data Centres with Low Harmonic Drives Five (and more) Reasons to Use BLDC Technology in Data Centre Cooling IT Cooling: Standards & Performance Testing Data Centre Cooling: Efficient and Reliable with Inverter Important Evaporative Cooling Opportunities in Data Centre Cooling The Evolution of Data Centre Cooling – Higher Temperatures, Air Management, Chilled Water, Free-Cooling, Adiabatics and Water Optimisation In this Masterclass, attendees will gain an understanding of the technology behind data centres to enable exact specifications and mechanisms for increasing reliability and improving energy efficiency, which are key aspects in effective Data Centre Cooling strategies. Topic: \| Data Centre \|
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12:00 – 13:30	BREAK
13:30 – 16:45	AFTERNOON SESSION
	*"Fundamentals of Passive Optical LAN" (Part 2 of 2)* Nazih Fattal – DASAN Zhone Solutions – Lebanon Chad Hines – ITConnect – USA This two-part seminar will provide an overview of the value, architecture, design and powering considerations for a passive optical LAN technology. Specific focus will be given to system components, benefits, design methodologies, power survivability using AC and DC methods, planning and commissioning of electronics, infrastructure testing and closeout package deliverables. Topic: \| Optical Fiber & Passive Optical Networks (PON) \|
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	*"Converged Networks – the Future of Intelligent Buildings as defined by BICSI 007”* Barry Shambrook, RCDD, MIET, MBCS – Hartdixon – BICSI EMEA Region Director – United Kingdom Murat Cudi Erentürk, DCDC – Goradata Consulting and Software Ltd. – BICSI Turkey Vice Country Chair – Turkey Is an intelligent building “smart”? Or a smart building intelligent? Can a comparison be made between buildings and the human body, in which case do buildings need a central nervous system to maximise functionality and efficiency? The masterclass will address this and the following topics: What are intelligent building systems and what benefits do they provide What is the infrastructure needed to support these systems and why converge the networks Barriers to adoption and risks The effect of design and implementation of converged networks on the other parts of the construction The masterclass will then look at each intelligent system and consider the options for control and integration with other systems. Those to be addressed include: Lighting Environmental control (BMS) Security access control, surveillance video and intruder detection User network access Information display and distribution Audio visual entertainment Point of sale Other Internet of Things devices The final part of the masterclass will look in detail at the good practices required to design and implement the infrastructure to support the intelligent building systems and emerging technology options for networks such as Power over Ethernet, Passive Optical Networks and Single Pair Ethernet Topic: \| Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things \| Latest Developments in ICT/ELV Standards \|
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EMEA Plenary Sessions

Conference Day 1: Tuesday, 17 November

TIMES	SESSION
9:00 – 9:15	Plenary Session Opening & Welcome Barry Shambrook, RCDD, MIET, MBCS – Hartdixon – BICSI EMEA Region Director – United Kingdom
9:15 – 10:15	*Keynote: "Global Trends in ICT Infrastructure"* Lone Hansen – BSRIA – United Kingdom In this session, BSRIA a UK-based testing, instrumentation, research and consultancy organisation, providing specialist services in construction and building services engineering, will provide research-based insight into the latest trends in ICT infrastructure being deployed around the globe today along with what lies a not so distant future. Topics covered will include the current trends in Convergence to IoT in commercial buildings and PoE devices along with an overview of the global structured cabling market. Attendees will come away from this session with a better understanding of the global structured cabling market and the latest technology trends driving this market along with what to expect in the future. Topic: \| Advancements in Technology and their Impact on ICT/ELV \| ICT Professional Development \|
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10:15 – 10:30	EMEA REGION UPDATE
10:30 – 11:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
11:00 – 11:45	*"The Future of Digital Infrastructure"* David Carey, MSc, CIWFM – MET Consulting – United Kingdom ISO 19650-1:2018 defines one of the most significant developments of Facilities Management (FM) yet produced. It addresses the “organization and digitization of information about buildings… including Building Information Modelling (BIM), its concepts and principles”. The UK BIM Framework, which includes ISO 19650, delivers a fully-populated, digitalised asset data set, at the handover of a building. This refined transition process supports Asset Management (AM) and FM activities that contribute to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), tracked via an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system, during the operational Life Cycle of a built asset. Not all data or meta-data needs storing, forever, to support Computer Aid to FM (CAFM) systems used by Operations & Maintenance (O&M) teams. Hence, Information Requirements (IRs) need defining early on, to ensure the data held is aligned with the O&M department’s needs. Significant reductions in Capex and Opex outlay are achievable, along with other benefits. Topic: \| Advancements in Technology and their Impact on ICT/ELV \| ICT Professional Development \|
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11:45 – 12:30	Presentation TBD
12:30 – 14:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
14:00 – 14:45	*"Evolution of copper cabling: how new systems for Intelligent buildings are changing our infrastructure designs"* Gautier Humbert, RCDD – Legrand – BICSI M. Europe District Chair – France The communications infrastructure is changing. The race to higher speeds in copper applications seems to end. But instead of signaling the end of copper, it’s only a conversion to address a far larger market. The new needs for Iot, and the conversion of power supply toward a DC type will change what’s expected of our environment, and therefore require a new type of infrastructure. Topic: \| Advancements in Technology and their Impact on ICT/ELV \| New & Emerging Applications \| Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things \|
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14:45 – 15:30	*"Zone Cabling, Are we Ready?"* Miodrag Kovanovic – TRS Serbia – BICSI M. Europe District Vice Chair – Serbia Structure cabling is no longer just a LAN cabling. It gets a new role in the digital era providing essential communication highway for fast and reliable data exchange of variety of services. With the rise of intelligent buildings, high power PoE, LED lighting, WiFi6, Sensor and Multigigabit Ethernet the Cabling gets its importance again. Every day technology advancements and automation of building systems require fast deployment cabling, for high speed data transfers, enabling prompt moves, adds and changes. Along with it there’s also a need for unique skill sets of the „Digital Ceiling“ installers and engineers. We need a new ride, to carry on with implementing the future SCS and the secret is hidden in the Zone Cabling. Topic: \| Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things \|
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16:00 – 16:45	*"SMART BY DESIGN: Implementing Intelligence during Design & Construction"* Mohamed Essam – RMJM – Egypt This session will cover the following hot topics: Building lifecycle: what are all the conditions affecting and contributing building design. Design Intelligence: control design components using visual scripts and space programming to reduce workload and improve accuracy and facilitate design improvement. Optioneering: tracking cost impact and rectification during design stage using 5D BIM. Single source of troth: A single BIM model for marketing visualization, engineering simulation, supply chain management, procurement, and safety planning. Construction Intelligence: tracking construction progress and delivering COBie information to building operator. Operation and Facility Management: As-built BIM model integration with BMS and CAFM . Client Engagement: Delivering value beyond design and construction service. Topic: \| Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things \| Latest Developments in ICT/ELV Standards \|
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16:45 – 17:30	*"Edgeless Connectivity from IoT to 5G and Data Centers"* Associate Professor Dr. Montri Wiboonrat – King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang – BICSI Thailand Country Chair – Thailand Edgeless connectivity makes the devices easily accessible. Massive Internet of Things (IoT) is optimizing to connect anything, anywhere, anytime with efficient, low cost communications. The fifth generation (5G) of mobile wireless communications promises to lower latency, offer greater stability, cut in network energy usage, the ability to connect many more devices at once, and move more data to faster speeds. The combination of 5G and the IoT are shipping newer applications that need connectivity not just among people, but also among things. A rise in the speed and bandwidth of the 5G networks means they will be able to access the content in lesser time. This will bring pressure on the data centers to make more content available on the network and manage them. 5G networks will reach speeds as high 10 Gbits per second, support 1 million devices per square kilometer, supporting 10 TB terabytes per square kilometer, and provide 1 msec latency, unleashing the age of IoT. Everything will be impacted by 5G from high-performance cloud data centers to core and access networks to edge services and smart devices. Topic: \| Data Centres \| Wireless and Distributed Antenna Systems \|
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17:30 – 17:45	Technical Seminars – Day 1 Barry Shambrook, RCDD, MIET, MBCS – Hartdixon – BICSI EMEA Region Director – United Kingdom
17:45 – 19:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS

Conference Day 2: Wednesday, 18 November

TIMES	SESSION
8:00 – 15:30	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
9:00 – 9:45	*Keynote: "Developing Deeper Connections"* Eugene Seah – Trainium Academy – Singapore Discover 3 Levels Of Connections To Build An Innovative Ecosystem For A Powerful Future This is a new world paradigm that requires a new way to innovate and a new way to manage business. In the old world, businesses could do one thing very well and succeed… Not any more! The businesses that thrive in the modern era are those capable of building powerful connections. Traditionally, connections refer to networking and associations. The engineers would view connections as electronic ecosystems, e.g. IOT. Eugene Seah, Global Keynote Speaker, who specializes in connections will bring you two levels deeper. Through his unique keynote, he will share the three levels of connections that will help you and your team to prepare for the disruptive future. Packed with humor and insightful case studies, Eugene will inspire you to connect in powerful ways. In this keynote, learn: What are the three levels of connections Why does it matter to go deeper in connections How to take practical steps to build a powerful ecosystem of connections Topic: \| ICT Professional Development \|
9:45 – 10:30	Presentation: TBD
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10:30 – 11:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
11:00 – 11:45	*"Simplifying WiFi Troubleshooting"* Stefan Klotzbuecher – NetAlly – Germany Being able to get to the root cause of the problem as opposed to treating the symptom is key with any form of troubleshooting, this is especially relevant to WiFi when you can’t always ‘see it’, and there are possible many different parameters to consider. Even after the comprehensive planning and a good quality deployment, problems with the WiFi from an users perspective will always occur. But, troubleshooting these WiFi issues doesn’t have to be complex or time consuming to resolve them . This presentation will discuss some of the newer WiFi technology/standard changes, how you can understand the key RF/WiFi problem areas and best practices to resolve them, and what you need to do this. Topic: WiFi I Internet of Things \| Latest Developments in ICT/ELV Standards
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11:45 – 12:30	*"ICT/ELV Design, Compliance, and ORAT (Testing) for Large Projects"* Joop Ierschot, RCDD – NACO, RHDHV – The Netherlands Telecommunications and IT systems have become an important corporate asset and successful delivery of IT projects are becoming a prerequisite for operational excellence specially on mega projects like airports where the operational success is measured based on the passenger satisfaction throughout their journey. Network planning, including the implementation of the latest technology in a project with a long lead time is a multi-objective optimization problem which involves clustering areas of interest. It requires minimizing the cost function which includes relevant parameters, such as: installation cost, distance between users and base stations, supported traffic, radio communication, quality of received signal, level of service, etc. Engineers on long term building processes, they are faced with many challenges such as the changing network coverage or providing the expected Quality Compliance for employers with the availability of new technologies that occur in network hardware or software on the long-term building projects delivering date. Finally, the challenge in current long-term projects is the impact of Internet of Things (IoT) that is leading to explosive growth in the connected devices. This growth is generating new data sources and thus, it is expected that this growth will push the data to be handled by networks to zettabytes per year. This presentation will share many multicriteria to deal with different kinds of challenges facing the engineer, regarding network planning and quality assurance, during large long-term construction projects. Topic: \| Data Centres \| Wireless and Distributed Antenna Systems \|
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12:30 – 14:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
14:00 – 14:45	*“TR60 - ICT Lifecycle Management”* David Bain - Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) – USA To develop and maintain a suite of standards providing performance and business outcome focused requirements for the management of Information and Communications Technology in the commercial and government sectors. Discussions will include: Mission of TR-60 Technology Management Challenges Business Challenges Business Outcomes Content structure & amp; timeline Participation Rapid development Technology transformation Infrastructure standards, consistency Containing operational costs “Add on” or “Build New”? Policies, Trusted Data, Naming Standards Stakeholders
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14:45 – 15:30	*"Case Study: One Company's Journey to a Modern Disaster Recovery Solution- DRaaS"* Craig Rhodes – Structured – USA When the facilities team at a healthcare organization in the Pacific Northwest announced to the IT team that they were undertaking a campus remodel project and they needed the on-prem data center for office space, the IT team quickly sprung into action to find a new home for their DR environment. Learn how one company found success in leveraging the cloud for their DR solution, ultimately leading to a more successful outcome than they might realize doing it on their own. Topic: \| Data Centres \|
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15:30 – 16:00	VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
16:00 – 16:45	"The Cognitive Enterprise: A New Era of Business" Samer Abdullatif – IBM – Syria Organizations are facing an unprecedented convergence of technological, social, and regulatory forces. As artificial intelligence, blockchain, automation, Internet of Things, 5G, and edge computing become pervasive, their combined impact will reshape standard business architectures. The “outside-in” digital transformation of the past decade is giving way to the “inside-out” potential of data exploited with these exponential technologies. We call this next-generation business model the Cognitive Enterprise. More and more enterprises are seizing the opportunity to truly transform themselves. By leveraging these new technologies in conjunction with historic strengths, companies can reshape their competitive positions and build new business models, often extending beyond industry boundaries. Topic: \| The Fourth Industrial Revolution \| Intelligent Buildings / Smart Cities / Internet of Things \|
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16:45 – 17:45	Panel Discussion Theme: “What is the Future of the ICT Connected World Post-COVID-19?” Panel Discussion Moderator – Dr. Taseer A. Rangrez, DBA, Ph.D – Oman Shaimaa Hashem, PMP, RCDD, DCDC, ATD – Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair & Partners) – Egypt Miodrag Kovanovic – TR Services – BICSI Mainland Europe District Vice Chair – Serbia Chris Frazer, RCDD – Layer Zero Services – UK Edmond Ayavazian - Furukawa Electric - Brazil
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