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Mobile technology is increasingly facilitating the way consumers worldwide spend, save, learn and monitor their health, says Andrea Monteiro, director of the Connected World Forum which is taking place in Dubai in October.

Baker Hughes unconventional gas expert Adrian Topham says he sees the European unconventional gas market develop primarily in Poland in the next 12 months, “through steady exploration and appraisal, but with a few wells in other countries.”

“We are living in interesting times in the energy market in Brazil”, says Adriano Rehder, the project director of the annual Metering Latin America, taking place in Sao Paulo from 25-27 October.

Massive public enterprises are still battling to get maintenance off the back-burner while at the same time huge investment is going into new-build projects, according to Tracey-Lee Zurcher, the project director of Reliability & Maintenance Week.

The Port of Luanda is a perfect example of the infrastructure partnerships and private sector investment opportunities Angola has to offer, says the Port's Technical Director, Mr. Sansão Domingos Pitra.

The Brazilian pre-salt shows the industry's continued ability to adapt to new challenges and come up with new and innovative solutions to find and extract oil in new areas, says Eric H. Namtvedt, President of FloaTEC.

Australia and New Zealand’s top utility professionals will meet in Sydney in November to explore new ways to improve reliability, quality and security of water and electricity supply in a cost-efficient and customer-friendly way.

A database detailing all microhydro installations in Eastern and Southern Africa will be launched at the upcoming Hydropower Africa conference and exhibition in Johannesburg from 19-23 September.

The Libyan National Transitional Council will undoubtedly favour companies from those countries that have supported it and French and British companies could do particularly well during the country’s economic reconstruction.

For the first time since the crisis in North Africa, new leaders of regional NOCs will meet in Madrid for the 6th annual North Africa Oil & Gas Summit, from 26-27 October to talk about investment in the oil and gas industry in the region.