Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, is hosting the second edition of its ‘Innovation Summit Cairo 2019’, under the theme of “Digital Transformation”, taking place from the 23rd to the 24th of September, to be held at one of Cairo’s hotels. The event will be visited by Schneider Electric's top executives in France and Egypt, as well as representatives of major corporations operating in the Middle East and Africa

“Schneider Electric's ‘Innovation Summit Cairo 2019’ conference and exhibition highlights the concept of digital transformation, which comes amid outstanding and rapid transitions of the government sector and companies to a business model that relies on digital technologies in rolling out products & services, alongside a desire to provide tools that add value to such products and services while increasing their quality, achieving the highest performance and operating efficiency with the lowest efforts & cost,” said Walid Sheta, Regional Cluster President of Egypt, North East Africa and Levant

“During the Innovation Summit, we will launch Schneider Electric's latest products and solutions, mainly: Altivar Process, Easy UPS, ASCO Solutions, EcoStruxure Building Operation, EcoStruxure Asset Advisor. These products rely on the latest Internet-of-Things technology, which serves the idea of digital transformation,” he added

Through out the Summit, Schneider Electric experts will be holding technical sessions on various products, softwares and latest innovations to customers, partners as well as students to enrich the market with Digital transformation concept. Also, Four panels will be held during the second and third day of ‘Innovation Summit Cairo 2019’, which will feature speeches by a number of experts from Schneider Electric as well as experts in the field of sustainability (CSR), Services Evolution, Real Estate, Internet of Things and Water Resources Challenges

A session will also be held during the summit, during which the eleven finalists for ‘Schneider Electric Energy Challenge’ will showcase their innovations and smart solutions in the field of energy and sustainability, before a jury of Six experts who will be naming the top three winners. The contest was launched by Schneider Electric Egypt in May, in collaboration with the company’s global arm Innovation @Edge and the Ministry of Investment and International Cooperation, through Fekretak Sherketak program and Falak Startups