- Organized by
- ICSOBA
- Hosted by
- EGA
The International Committee for Study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium (ICSOBA) has the great honour to announce the 41th International Conference and Exhibition of ICSOBA, that will take place in Dubai from 5 to 9 November 2023.
This will be the second time ICSOBA will take place Dubai and fifth time in the Middle East.
This year, ICSOBA will celebrate its 60th anniversary.
The conference is planned to allow hybrid audience, with the in-person part to be held in Dubai, UAE and the online part as real-time broadcasting for the delegates that cannot attend in-person. However, all ICSOBA presenters will travel to Dubai to deliver their presentation physically.
Organisation and conditions of ICSOBA 2023 exhibition will be released at a later stage.
We are very thankful to EGA to support the conference as the host sponsor.
Technical Program of ICSOBA 2023 will include:
We look forward to seeing you all at ICSOBA-2023!
ICSOBA 2023 will explore the following key issues:
Primary focus is on sustainable development and reducing carbon footprint.
Do not miss the opportunity to interact with international experts, scientists, engineers, technology suppliers, equipment manufacturers and representatives of worldwide aluminium industry.
The hybrid format of the conference will enable your participation irrespectively if you travel to Dubai or must stay at home. The difference between on-site and online participation is:
The Organizing Committee is currently inviting the submission of abstracts, papers and presentations.
Submission process is managed by ConfTool https://www.conftool.net/icsoba2023 which is customized for ICSOBA 2023 Conference.
Following extensive survey of ICSOBA Corporate Members, a brand-new topic is added this year to the ICSOBA Conference agenda: Casthouse Operation! This new session will cover every aspect of a smelter Casthouse workshop operations with particular interest to the interface between Casthouse and upstream operations. Focus should be similar to other conference sessions: sustainability and decarbonisation, energy usage, automation and digitalisation.
Abstracts and papers should be written in the ICSOBA 2023 Author Guidelines and Paper Template as shown below.
Sergey Akhmetov has dedicated his professional career to Aluminium, working in the industry from 2001 and more than decade in EGA. During his career he enjoyed developing new technologies and optimizing reduction processes by leading research and development teams, making industrial implementation of developed technologies, and maximize efficiency of plants with operational teams. Sergey led JA Reduction team since 2014 and EGA Reduction since 2016. He is currently holding the position of Executive Vice President, Midstream from 2020, leading the Midstream Team of the EGA overseeing the Operations and a Member of the Executive Committee. He has graduated from Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold with two degrees: Metallurgical engineer/Alumina and Aluminium production and Economist/Management of organization. He has covered executive leadership courses in INSEAD and London Business School.
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As you well know, organizing such conference would simply not be possible without the strong support of our Conference Sponsors.
ICSOBA conference, “The technology Conference of the Aluminium Industry, for the Aluminium Industry”, gives opportunity to your Company to maximize its exposure to the primary aluminium decision makers and influencing technologists.
Please consult the Sponsors Fees and Benefit table which illustrates the different options for on-site benefit but also through the Whova application, which will be used both by the on-site and the online delegates.
If you are willing to support ICSOBA activities and to showcase your Company at ICSOBA 2023, feel free to contact marc.dupuis@icsoba.org for any further information.
For more information please contact
us at info@icsoba.org