UAE User Conference 2025: Phast, Safeti, KFX, and EXSIM
Join us in Abu Dhabi for expert knowledge sharing, hands-on workshops, and connect with other super users.
This two-day event is your opportunity to deepen your expertise, exchange ideas, and advance your skills in consequence and risk analysis.
A detailed agenda will be published soon. Secure your spot today and stay tuned!
Event highlights
Day 1: Conference
- Energy transition outlook – challenges and solutions
- Transitioning to safe and reliable decarbonized operations
- Technical insights:
- Learn how Phast, Safeti, and KFX are advancing industry standards in consequence and risk analysis
- DNV's hydrogen, ammonia and carbon dioxide JIPs with major energy players and industry partners
- Advanced Mitigation of Ammonia Releases: Exploring KFX’s New Multi-Component Spray Model
- CO₂ Releases & Dry-Ice Dynamics: Advanced Dispersion Modeling in KFX
- Hydrogen safety: Advanced Explosion models in EXSIM
- Validating our models through large scale customer sponsored energy transition related experiments in DNV’s research and testing facilities in Spadeadam
- Customer presentations:
- ENOC: QRA: The illusion of ALARP
- More to be confirmed
- Product road map and intro to new features and added value offering
- Unlocking operational excellence - Harnessing real-time data integration with enhanced asset performance forecasting
- Dinner and networking opportunities
Day 2: Workshop
- Update & hands-on workshop with DNV's software experts for Phast, Safeti, Phast CFD and CFD products (KFX, EXSIM)
- Hands-on workshop with latest Maros 10 release
- Interactive super user sessions
A detailed agenda will be updated on the event page shortly.
Why attend?
Get inspired by thought leaders
Stay ahead with product roadmaps
Gain exclusive hands-on training and certification
- Certificate of Contribution to Technical Discussions
Eligibility: Open to participants who are willing to share their user case and present at the conference. - Certificate of Attendance
Eligibility: Open to participants who attend the conference and/or the hands-on workshops.
Connect and celebrate with other super users and product experts
Connect with industry peers during engaging day sessions and informal evening gatherings.
Speakers
Arvind Saxena, Group HSE Manager - Safety at ENOC
Arvind is a chemical engineer with 20 years of global experience in Oil & Gas and Safety Consulting, specialising in HSE, process safety, and refinery operations. With 12+ years leading safety initiatives at refinery and corporate levels and 2 years at DuPont Safety Consulting, he has delivered impactful solutions in process safety and risk management. His 8 years of hands-on refinery operations further demonstrate his technical expertise. As Group HSE Manager at ENOC, Arvind drives safety excellence and operational integrity.
Koheila Molazemi, Product Line Director Plant, Digital Solutions at DNV
With over 20 years of consulting experience in the oil and gas industry, she specialises in risk management across HSE, technical safety, asset risk, and enterprise risk management. She has led numerous ESIA and HSEIA studies, advising on HSE-MS, process safety, and ERM for E&P and industrial sectors. As a project manager, she has successfully delivered medium to large-scale projects for major international and national oil companies.
Marion Torre, Delivery Manager for CFD products (KFX and EXSIM), Digital Solutions at DNV
Marion is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in the oil and gas industry. She has a strong background in risk management, including CFD and CFD tools. Marion has successfully managed numerous projects for major international and national oil companies, demonstrating her expertise in CFD projects for gas dispersion and fire simulations for offshore and onshore facilities using KFX.
Adeyemi Oke, Senior Principal Mathematical Modeler, Digital Solutions at DNV
'Ade' is a Senior-Principal technical safety, loss prevention and software development consultant with more than 20 years’ post-doctoral experience in a broad range of risk-based engineering design and management roles. He has in-depth experience in leading / managing projects providing safety case support as well as risk based design optimization for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a wide range of onshore and offshore installations, including LNG, Hydrogen Power (Carbon Capture) production and petrochemical facilities. He has also been involved as a lead developer/modeller in software development projects concerned with source-term, flammable, explosion and toxic impact assessment and associated risk modelling.
Emmanuel Ayo Shogelola, Senior Engineer, Digital Solutions at DNV
Emmanuel is an experienced seniorEngineer at DNV with 10+ years of experience in risk management and software development for the chemical industry. He provides technical support for engineering software such as Phast and Safeti. His responsibilities include training customers, participating in seminars and conferences, and supporting consulting projects with the risk and safety advisory team. Emmanuel's responsibilities encompass understanding software functionality, addressing technical issues, and clarifying results for consulting projects.