MEED Insight’s Middle East Market Seminar is an essential event for any professional who is interested in or who is already working in the region’s projects market. This event series will ensure that you gain in-depth access and up-to-date analysis on the latest challenges and the upcoming opportunities across key project market sectors. Through a series of presentations from MEED industry specialists, you will get the latest forecasts, market trend data, financing issues, client and contractor analysis and much more. You will also have the unique opportunity to ask the questions relevant to your business direct to our MEED experts.

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Middle East Projects
Market Seminar Series
In-depth insight and analysis on the
trends of upcoming project opportunities
and challenges in the region
Choose the city nearest to you!
London, UK, The Royal Horseguards Hotel, 26 September
Abu Dhabi, UAE, Park Hyatt Saadiyat Hotel, 20 November
Istanbul, Turkey, Sheraton Atakov, 5 December
Get USD$500 off the latest MEED Insight report –
Middle East Projects Forecast & Review 2011
when you register for the seminar.
Across the Gulf, projects valued at more than
$2.5trillion are planned or under way! Find out
how you can leverage the region’s exciting projects
market to win new business.
For more information, please visit www.meed.com/events/projectsseminar
To register today, please call +971 4 3900049 or email to events@meed.com

2. About the EvEnT
MEED Insight’s Middle East Projects Market Seminar is an essential event for any professional
who is interested in or who is already working in the region’s projects market. This event series
will ensure that you gain in-depth access and up-to-date analysis on the latest challenges and the
upcoming opportunities across key project market sectors.
Through a series of presentations from MEED industry specialists, you will get the latest forecasts,
market trend data, financing issues, client and contractor analysis and much more.
Who should attend
What will you gain from attending?
This seminar will cover the major sectors of the region and
• pdates on the macroeconomic and
U is relevant to anyone with an interest in the projects market.
political outlook across the Middle East and Whether a project manager or CEO, the information presented
its implications for the projects market - how at this event will give you the insight you need to make right
does this affect your business? decisions for your company.
• urrent analysis and forecasts of
C Through this MEED Insight Seminar, the MEED team will chart the
projects by country and sector highs and lows of the region’s projects market over the past five
including: Power & Water, Construction, years and assesses its future direction up to 2013 - presenting an
Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, and accurate, insightful and unbiased review of the sectors covered.
Infrastructure & Transport
About the
MEED Insight
• unique opportunity to meet and
A Report
ask questions to MEED’s sector
specialists relevant to your business;
This report from MEED Insight, Middle East Projects Market
Forecast & Review 2011, offers a detailed picture of the existing
• $500 discount off for the MEED Insight
A and future regional projects market. You will have the opportunity
Middle East Projects Forecast & Review to access the latest data on competitor and client activity by
2011 report sector within the key markets along with forecasts, trends and
much more.
Attend and get a $500 discount off the MEED Insight report
– the Middle East Projects Market Forecast & Review 2011
To register today, please call +971 4 3900049 or email to events@meed.com

3. MEET THE SPEAKERS
AGENDA
Angus Hindley
08:30 Registration and coffee Research Editor
MEED Insight
09:00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Angus Hindley has worked for MEED for more than 20
THE BIG PICTURE years. In this time, he has spent nine years in Dubai as
Gulf editor and travelled extensively across the region, reporting on a
09:15 Macroeconomic and political outlook across the wide range of sectors including construction, oil and gas, petrochemicals,
Middle East: Implications on the projects market industry and tourism. Since April 2007, he has worked as MEED research
in the region editor, providing bespoke and off-the-shelf reports for a wide cross
• A
nalysis of the current political and economic situation section of both public and private clients.
• Emerging trends and implications
• Investor sentiment across the Middle East Edmund O’ Sullivan
• MEED’s 2020 vision for the region Chairman
MEED EVENTS
09:45 A geographical assessment of the region’s
projects market Edmund O’Sullivan is Chairman of MEED Events. A writer,
• GCC broadcaster and expert about Middle East political and economic
• North Africa affairs, O’Sullivan is a graduate from the London School of Economics in monetary
• Levant economics. He was made Editor in 1985, Editor-in-Chief in 1988 and has been
a director of MEED since 1989. After seven years as MEED’s Publishing Director,
10:15 Morning refreshment O’Sullivan moved to Dubai in September 2003. In his capacity as Chairman of
MEED Events, he moderates MEED’s conferences.
SECTOR OUTLOOK
Ed James
10:45 Power and Water Head of MEED Insight
• Demand and supply trends
• Future investment requirements Ed James has been with MEED for eight years. Until
September 2008 he was MEED’s Gulf Bureau Chief. He wrote
11:15 Construction features and news for MEED magazine on nearly all of the countries of the
• eal estate and infrastructure sectors: What are the
R region. His specific areas of expertise are hydrocarbons, power and water,
existing challenges and new opportunities? and the petrochemical market. He has also worked as a consultant in the Gulf
• Potential risks for UK risk consultancy firm Control Risks. He is a regular guest commentator
on Middle East issues for news channels such as the BBC, CNN and ABC News
12:00 Lunch and is a regular speaker at events in the region.
13:00 Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals
• Analysis of country capacity plans
• etailing future upstream and downstream projects
D
14:00 Infrastructure and Transport Source: MEED Projects
• Upcoming projects and new opportunities
• Expansion plans across the region Breakdown of the projects planned
InDUSTRY TREnDS or underway ($bn)
14:45 Hot markets: Iraq and Qatar
• Opportunities in Iraq as it opens up to investment
• USD$618bn projects planned or underway
• valuating the Qatar Projects Market in light of the
E in Saudi Arabia
2022 World Cup
• USD$170bn projects planned or underway
15:30 Afternoon refreshment in Kuwait
16:00 Financing options: Moving towards PPP? • USD$634bn projects planned or underway
• Risk assessment and financiers’appetite in United Arab Emirates
• The push for PPP
• USD$227bn projects planned or underway
16:30 Future outlook – Market forecast of the Middle
East Projects Market
in Qatar
• USD$101bn projects planned or underway
17:00 Chairman’s closing remarks and end of day
in Oman

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