The kinetic wave equation arises in weak wave turbulence theory. In this talk we are interested in its derivation as an effective equation from dispersive waves modelled with quadratic nonlinear Schrodinger equations. We focus on the space-inhomogeneous case, which had not been treated earlier. More precisely, we will consider such a dispersive equations in a weakly nonlinear regime, and for highly oscillatory random Gaussian fields with localised enveloppes as initial data. A conjecture in statistical physics is that there exists a kinetic time scale on which, statistically, the Wigner transform of the solution (a space dependent local Fourier energy spectrum) evolve according to the kinetic wave equation. I will present a joint work with Ioakeim Ampatzoglou and Pierre Germain (Courant Institute) in which we approach the problem of the validity of this kinetic wave equation through the convergence and stability of the corresponding Dyson series. We are able to identify certain nonlinearities, dispersion relations, and regimes, and for which the convergence indeed holds almost up to the kinetic time (arbitrarily small polynomial loss).