Driving Industrial Transformation with Digital Technologies and AI

June 11, 2026, Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Driving the transformation leveraging digital technologies and AI to achieve operational excellence, increase efficiency and reduce emissions

Across the industrial landscape, organizations are being challenged to deliver higher operational performance while navigating growing demands for efficiency, agility, and sustainability. In this evolving environment, digital technologies and artificial intelligence are no longer future ambitions — they are becoming the foundation for smarter, more resilient industrial enterprises.

Join us at AVEVA Day Nigeria to discover how leading companies are leveraging industrial intelligence, connected data ecosystems, and AI-powered solutions to transform the way they engineer, operate, and optimize their assets. Through expert insights, customer success stories, and practical use cases, the event will showcase how digital innovation is enabling faster decision-making, improved reliability, reduced emissions, and measurable business impact.

Designed as an exclusive forum for business leaders, operational executives, and digital transformation professionals, AVEVA Day Nigeria offers a unique opportunity to exchange perspectives, explore emerging trends, and engage with peers who are shaping the next generation of industrial excellence.

Event Details:
Date: Thursday, 11 June 2026
Time: 08:30 – 17:00 (GMT+1)
Venue: Eko Hotel, Plot 1415 Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Agenda

Time

Session

Speaker

08:30-09:15

Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:15-9:30

Opening & Welcome

 Khaled Salah
VP - Africa - AVEVA

09:30 – 10:00

How digital technologies & AI are enabling the transformation of the Industry landscape towards operational excellence and a sustainable future:
AVEVA will share how leveraging digital twin powered by AI features is supporting the various Industry verticals to achieve operational excellence and shape a long-term sustainable future towards autonomous operations by sharing example and success stories from Global Energy Companies.

Gaurav Panpaliya
Enterprise Architect - AVEVA

10:00 – 10:45

New Ways to deliver Capital Projects: How digital technologies can improve the way to deliver Capital Projects to meet schedule, budget and enable an operations “ready” digital plant:
The adoption of new data centric approach enabled by digital technologies is driving the Energy Industry to improve visibility, control and trust over the execution of Capital Projects leading to a more efficient delivery with potential and proven benefits around 15% of the total installed cost.
This new way of working also ensures the delivery of operations ready digital twin for more efficient project handover, commissioning and start-up building the data infrastructure needed to enable digital operations.

Hemant Tiwari
Presales Consultant - AVEVA

10:45-11:05

Customer Presentation


11:05 – 11:30

Coffee Break & Networking

11:30 – 12:00

Unifying IT & OT for more advanced machine learning powered use cases using AVEVA PI and AVEVA Cloud Platform CONNECT:
Collect, aggregate, and enrich real-time operations data for immediate problem solving and easily deliver formatted data to enterprise applications and advanced analytics using AVEVA PI in conjunction with AVEVA Cloud platform CONNECT and enable the convergence of IT and OT data and how AVEVA is collaborating with analytics platforms (such as Databricks) to provide a unified, scalable foundation for smarter decision-making and industrial transformation

Husain Al-Shaikh
Presales Consultant - AVEVA

12:00-12:45

Predictive analytics and process optimization to improve asset utilization, performance and reliability:
It is unique value proposition of bringing AVEVA predictive analytics and build an “hybrid” platform integrating predictive analytics for fault detection with first principle models to process optimization.
This new integrated approach enables an end-to-end digital twin for improved decision and informed decision making to reduce unplanned shutdowns, optimize planned maintenance while reducing emission and power consumption for more sustainable operations.

Madankumar Selvakumar
Presales Consultant - AVEVA

12:45-13:05

Customer Presentation


13:05-13:50

Improve Enterprise Sustainability & Visibility through Digital Twin leveraging Generative AI assistants and 3D visualization while enabling remote operations:
Enhance insights into energy consumption and source, GHG emissions and sustainability metrics with a single 360-degree view by bringing together data sources and data types from across your operations to identify new relationships and extract new value. Facilitate access to the most critical enterprise data in a contextualized by bringing together data sources and data types from across your operations powered by AI assistance to support data analysis and discovery while exploring options for future remote operations

Gaurav Panpaliya
Enterprise Architect - AVEVA

13:50-14:00

Summary & Remarks

14:00-15:00

Lunch & Networking

15:00-17:00

Round Table – Open format, Interactive Discussions

Host & Coordinator : Gururaj Purohit
-Table 1 – Hemant Tiwari
Design & Build : EPCs, Capital Projects, Engineering companies
-Table 2 – Gaurav Panpaliya & Madankumar Selvakumar
Operate & Optimize : Enterprise Visualization, Process optimization, Asset Reliability and AI/ML based predictive analytics & Predictive Asset Optimization (PAO)
-Table 3 – Husain Al Shaikh
IT/OT, Data Management, Industrial Intelligence Platform (Cloud Platform) CONNECT


17:00

End of Day

Participation is free and there will be a limited number of seats available so please confirm your attendance as soon as possible.

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