Mubasher: Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC) and its subsidiaries, and Kuwaiti petrochemical company EQUATE announced that they will inaugurate of the Kuwait 4th Industrial Automation and Control Systems (KIACS) Conference 2019 on 1 December.
Planned to be held at Maha Ballroom- the Regency Hotel, the two-day event will attract experts in the oil and gas, technology and other industries to showcase latest advancements in cybersecurity in response to evolving threats on industrial control systems, according to a statement released on Wednesday.
“We reaffirm our commitment to addressing challenges to our cybersecurity and the solutions that aim to protect our industry. At this unique conference, we shall discuss how to face those threats to the control systems,” Kuwait National Petroleum Company’s deputy CEO for projects, Abdulla Fahhad Al-Ajmi, commented.
KIACS 2019 Conference is sponsored by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), Fortinet, Schneider Electric, Oracle, Honeywell, Thales, and Kuwait University.
“We are pleased to contribute to addressing the challenges at every level of industrial control systems and to share experiences. This will help develop the necessary governance and compliance measures required to counter these challenges,” vice president for technical services at EQUATE, Nawaf Al-Khaledi, said.
KIACS 2019 is expected to attract 800 individuals, including 20 global and local experts.
