Empower is Gold Sponsor for 2016 ACFE Middle East Fraud Conference

Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, is the Gold Sponsor for 2016 ACFE Middle East Fraud Conference, organised by The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) as the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. 

The event will be held in Dubai between 14 – 15 February under the patronage of HH Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Deputy Ruler of Dubai and the Chairman of Financial Audit Department of Dubai.

“Believing in the importance of corporate values such as transparency, honesty and justice, we are glad at Empower to support this conference,” says HE Ahmad Bin Shafar, Chief Executive Officer of Empower. “We are sponsoring this event as part of our CSR programme. At Empower, we adopt the highest standards of institutional integrity and governance. This comes in line with the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, who stresses on the importance of transparency, governance and accountability, all to be discussed during the event.”

"It is a pleasure to sponsor this conference which serves as a perfect opportunity to review the latest techniques and tools in combating fraud. The techniques will be showcased by well experienced international practitioners. Empower linked its community happiness efforts in the framework of strengthening the institutional integrity. Hosted by the Financial Audit Department (FAD), we were encouraged to contribute to this success. We will use the interactive sessions, workshops, and networking activities to explore the cutting-edge technologies in fraud detection, and what could be applied within the scope of our work in district cooling.”

“Our aim is to deploy the best practices in district cooling industry by applying latest and well proven institutional and industrial operations pertaining to different aspects. We have opened up new prospects for the industry on the global scale as we succeeded in developing precise monitoring and measurement systems that minimise human intervention to the least possible thus ensuring precision,” said Bin Shafar.

More than 300 anti-fraud professionals from across the world will gather at the event. Over 90 experience spokespeople will give insights in auditing, monitoring and corruption discovery cases, with background experience in U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury, National Security Council – The White House, Office of the U.S. Attorney General, and American Police Force (APF), in addition to global auditing offices and companies specializing in detecting fraud and cybercrime.

Empower currently operates more than 1 Million RT, providing environmentally responsible district cooling services to large-scale real estate developments, such as Jumeirah Group, Business Bay, Jumeirah Beach Residence, Dubai International Financial Centre, Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Ibn Battuta Mall, Discovery Gardens, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai World Trade Centre Residences and Dubai Design District, among others.