DEWA hosts 30 initiatives and activities during Innovation Week
DEWA has launched DEWA's Innovation Week and has actually collaborated with its partners, universities, business owners, and pioneers water and power to organise this effort, with the participation of international spokespeople who specialise in energy, sustainability and water innovation. This supports the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to host UAE Innovation Week from 22-28 November, and His Highness's view that, "Innovation is not a choice or a culture however a lifestyle, and governments and business that do not innovate threat losing their competitiveness and consequently will fall behind.".
DEWA's Innovation Week comprises a number of innovative activities and events, consisting of a Government Innovation Lab where real-life devices will be utilized to promote development. DEWA's Innovation Week likewise includes an 'Innovation Exhibition', through which DEWA's staff members, innovators and emerging business will get updates about the most recent innovations to support DEWA's work, and will have the chance to check these innovations. The exhibition will also display services and items which are not yet on the market, and will feature the most recent research study and technical concepts. DEWA has actually likewise organised inspiring talks under the title 'I Talk', with the involvement of ingenious prominent guest speakers, who will host talks for DEWA personnel and participating in members of the public. The goal is to spread out a culture of innovation by sharing experiences about the application of development, so that attendees can find out about how innovation is finest prepared and executed.
DEWA has also arranged a 'Design Thinking Lab' that consists of a series of workshops, topped three days, to check out difficulties dealt with by DEWA, and to discover ingenious methods to conquer these difficulties, utilizing the 'Better Today' design thinking approaches. DEWA will host an Innovation Conference, including worldwide experts whose speeches focus on the roles that sustainability and eco-friendly energy have played in a few of the most essential developments worldwide. DEWA has likewise organised a Build-It-Yourself Robotics Kits competitors for schoolchildren from the age of six, up to high-school age. The robotics kits are equipped with sustainable innovative gizmos, such as solar panels, sensing units, chargeable batteries, and programmable microcontrollers.
The activities also include the launch of 'My Innovation' (Ibtikari in Arabic), to motivate innovators and designers from the UAE and abroad to offer developments through a wise platform. This includes science and engineering competitions for college student and engineering professionals to determine scientific options and innovations in sustainability and water.
"To support the directives of our President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who stressed the importance of innovation to the UAE's method, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, proclaimed 2015 to be the Year of Innovation, and introduced the UAE National Innovation Strategy. I am pleased to invite you to Dubai Electricity and Water Authority's (DEWA's) head office today. Together, we will observe a minute that will be remembered in history, as we experience the first day of the UAE's yearly Innovation Week, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Today, DEWA ranks alongside a few of the greatest companies in the world, thanks to the excellent requirements of effectiveness and dependability in management and technology it has actually achieved since its formation. This might never ever have actually taken place without accurate preparation, and the execution of ingenious jobs and solutions, adopted and made use of by DEWA," stated HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, in his opening address.
"DEWA's ingenious tasks have actually led it to become a worldwide model of excellence in development of service advancement, management and technical efficiency. The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is the biggest single-site solar job on the planet, based on the Independent Power Producer (IPP) design. Working in cooperation with the economic sector, we desire the Solar Park to have a capability of 3,000 megawatts by 2030. We are also advancing our smart grid repairs and installation to link over one million wise meters to a wise integrated electrical power and water grid. Beginning with the primary production stations, all the method to the end customer point, the clever grid will host a broad variety of applications to handle consumption with the greatest levels of effectiveness. At DEWA, we are happy of the progress we have made with the Green Charger effort, to establish an efficient infrastructure for electrical vehicles to minimize carbon emissions and to accomplish the Emirate's sustainability objectives. The Shams Dubai initiative is another useful example of the success of our innovation technique," added Al Tayer.
"DEWA's personnel created its innovative Minimal Electricity Line Losses task to lower the percentage of our grid power losses in distribution stations to 3.5 % in between 2011 and 2012, from 7.03 % in 1998. These jobs have won DEWA's personnel a number of local and global awards and distinctions. DEWA tape-recorded 4.9 minutes in 2014, compared to 15 minutes tape-recorded by leading energies in the European Union.". "DEWA keeps to pursue an ingenious technique, and to develop its future strategic plans to support sustainable advancement in Dubai. DEWA has actually embraced development within its technique for 2021, and has adopted Strategic Innovation as one of 5 major pillars of DEWA's Strategic Plan 2021. We aim to achieve the goals of our method by the time we celebrate the Golden Jubilee of our Union," stated Al Tayer.
"I wish to thank the nationwide universities and groups that took part in the DEWA 2021 graphic design competitors, which we launched as part of UAE Innovation Week, to offer students the opportunity to share their innovation and concepts with an audience, to reflect the 5 strategic pillars within DEWA's Strategic Plan 2021. Throughout today's occasion, we will announce the names of the winning groups, chosen by an internal vote amongst DEWA's staff, and an external public vote on DEWA's Instagram page. I want you all best of luck. We will also commemorate the launch of the 3rd phase of our Mu'asherat programme, which is a huge achievement for DEWA, and another example of its staff members' capabilities to innovate in every field. Staff members finished a crucial phase that included automating 10 balanced scorecards in 10 DEWA departments, and 500 strategic and functional performance indices. This enables DEWA's leadership to access accurate info anytime, anywhere, to enhance vibrant decision-making processes," concluded Al Tayer.
