Program

Workshop I: 29 – 30 November 2016 - Antoun Ghattas Karam e-Classroom, Jafet Library (MAP)
09:00 - 17:00 Serge Droz, Jaap van Ginkel, “Workshop on Computer Security Incident Response Team”

Project meetings: 30 November 2016
09:00 - 17:30 EUMED and AfricaConnect2 Cluster3 Meeting Internet2 SIG Middle East Meeting
13:00 – 17:30 AfricaConnect2 Coordinators meeting (closed meeting)

DAY1: Thursday, December 1^st, 2016

08:00 - 09:00 Registration – Bathish Auditorium, West Hall (MAP)
09:00 - 09:50 Session (1): Opening ceremony and welcoming remarks with OSSCOM & AROQA [Video]
- - - - -	Dr. Mohammad Harajli, Provost, American University of Beirut, Lebanon HE Yasser AbdulMunem, Director of Education and Scientific Research, League of Arab States, Egypt HE Sabry Saidam, Minister of Higher Education, Palestine HE Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of Arab States Research and Education Network, Jordan HE Boutros Harb, Minister of Telecommunications, Lebanon
09:50 - 10:10 Keynote (1)
	Stéphanie Truillé-Baurens, “International Cooperation in an Era of Information Explosion”,International Cooperation Officer, European Commission, Belgium
10:10 - 10:30 Appreciation and Recognition Moderator: Salem Alagtash, Arab States Research and Education Network, Jordan Yousef Torman, Arab States Research and Education Network, Jordan
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session (2): e-Infrastructures Developments in ASREN’s region [Video1] [Video2]
- - - -	Chair: Yousef Torman, “ASREN Updates 2016”, Co-Managing Director, ASREN, Jordan David West, “Perspectives of AfricaConenct2/ EUMEDCONENCT3 Projects”, Project Manager, GEANT, UK Yousif Asfour, “AUB Contributions towards Lebanese Research & Education Network”, CIO, AUB, Lebanon Johnathon Chapman, “Middle East Internet2 Special Interest Group”, Consultant - Global Relations, Internet2, USA NRENs in the Arab Countries: 1.Aouaouche El-Maouhab (Algeria) 2.Dina Barakat (Egypt) 3.Maged Mohamed El-Sadek (Egypt) 4.Omar Aljarrah (Jordan) 5.Walid Karam (Lebanon) 6.Abdulmonem AL Kharusi (Oman) 7.Hassan Bouhaddou (Morocco) 8.Abdullahi Bihi Hussein (Somalia) 9.Kalid Elbadawi (Sudan) 10.Habib Youssef (Tunis) 11.Taleb Alhaj (Palestine) 12.Mohammad Mabrouk (UAE)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:15 Keynote (2) [Video]
	Steve Cotter, “Opportunities and Challenges of Research and Education Networks”, CEO, GEANT, Netherlands
14:15 - 15:30 Session (3): Roundtable on Global R&E Networking [Video]
- - - - -	CHAIR: Boubakar Barry, “West and Central African Research and Education Network”, CEO, WACREN, Senegal Jim Ghadbane, Canadian Research and Education Network,CANARIE, Canada Pascal Hoba, Sub Saharan Research and Education Network, Ubuntunet Alliance, Malawi Johnathon Chapman, The USA Internet2 for Universities, USA David West, The European GEANT Network, UK Salem Alagtash, The Regional Arab States Research and Education Network, ASREN, Jordan
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session (4): Global Science Communities, the Biodiversity Case [Video]
- - - - - - -	CHAIR: Pascal Hoba, CEO, Ubuntunet Alliance, Malawi Yousef Torman, “MAGIC Project”, Co-Managing Director, ASREN, Jordan Tiwonge Banda, “Global Science Communities”, Head of Administration and Finance, UbuntuNet Alliance, Malawi Tania Altamirano, “Colaboratorio” Coordinadora General de Comunidades”, Academic Communitties Coordinator, ReDClara, Chile Rhea Kahale, “The flora of Lebanon at your fingerprints”, Project Manager, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Ibrahim Fathy Moawad, “Biodiversity Informatics: Scientific Data Management”, Associate Professor, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Egypt Manal R. Nader, Director, “Mapping Potential Responsible Hunting Areas in Lebanon”, Institute of the Environment, University of Balamand, Lebanon Ghassan Soleiman Abu-Sittah, “Where Surgery meets Augmented Reality”, Chief of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, AUB, Lebanon
18:00 - 19:00 ASREN Shareholders Meeting (Closed to ASREN members and by invitation)

DAY2: Friday, December 2^nd, 2016

08:00 - 09:00 Registration – Bathish Auditorium, West Hall (MAP)
09:00 - 09:15 Keynote (3) [Video]
	Ayman El-Sherbiny, “Key Issues on the Information Society, Digital Economy and Smart Development”, Chief, Information and Communication Technology Policies, UN-ESCWA, Lebanon
09:00 - 10:30 Session (5): Research, Education and Collaboration (1) [Video]
- - - -	CHAIR: Habib Youssef, General Director, Computing Center el Khawarizmi, Tunisia Chafic Chaya, “The RIPE Academic Cooperation Initiative (RACI)”, Regional Communications Manager, Middle East Region, RIPE NCC - Dubai, United Arab Emirates Tarek Sadek, “Regional Initiative on Climate Change in the Arab Region: Regional Knowledge Hub”, Economic Affairs Officer on Climate, ESCWA, Lebanon Sara Najem, “Beirut Solar Map”, Researcher, CNRS-L, Lebanon Rainer Herpers, “Research potentials in the NREN domain”, BRSU, Germany
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Session (6): Infrastructures and Services (1) [Video]
- - - -	CHAIR: Ahmed Dabbagh, Chief Education & Technology services Officer, Emirates College of Technology, UAE Salem Alagtash, “Pan Arab Services for Research and Education”, ASREN and GJU, Jordan Patrick Fassnacht, “Updating the ASREN Community on the MENA-CERN collaborations”, Physicist, CERN, Switzerland Yves Poppe, “Convergence of Computing, Storage and Networking: Supercomputing without Borders”, AStar, Singapore Antonio Saravia González, “RedIRIS: Consolidation and Development and Deployment of New Services”*, Deputy Director, RedIRIS, red.es, Spain
12:00 - 12:30 Session (7): IoT and NRENs [Video]
- - - -	CHAIR: Walid P. Karam, University of Balamand, Lebanon Fred Baker, “IoT and Securiy”, Consultant, USA Chafic Chaya, “IoT evolutions and impact”, Regional Communications Manager, Middle East Region, RIPE NCC – Dubai, United Arab Emirates Salam Yamout, “Internet Society Trends in IoT”, Regional Bureau Director for Middle East, Internet Society, Lebanon Marc Nader, “Evolution of IoT Applications and Technologies”, COO, Data Consult, Lebanon
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:20 Keynote (4) [Video]
	Lars Fischer, “Integrated and Ubiquitous e-Infrastructures with Open Exchanges”, Strategy and Policy Officer, NORDUNet, Denmark
14:20 - 15:30 Session (8): Infrastructures and Services (2) [Video]
- - - -	CHAIR: Aouaouche El-Maouhab, Director, ARN, Algeria Michal Prochazka, “CESNET Services and Best Practices”, Researcher, CESNET, Czech Republic Mohamad Nawar Alawa, “e-Infrastructure: Enabler for Sustainable Development in the Arab Region”, Regional Advisor on Technology for Development, ESCWA, Lebanon Alexander Van Den Hil, “The benefits of the Advanced North-Atlantic 300G for the global R&E community”, Product Manager, SURFnet, Netherlands Radwan Mousalli, “Pushing the Limits on Research & Education with the Cloud”, Senior Vice President, TATA Communications, United Arab Emirates
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session (9): Research, Education and Collaboration (2) [Video]
- - - -	CHAIR: Ibrahim Fathy Moawad, Associate Professor, Ain Shams University, Egypt Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, “Incidence of Entomopathogenic Fungi of the Oat Bird-Cherry Aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi L. (Homoptera: Aphididae) Infesting Wheat Plants at Assiut”, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt Mohammad Daoud, “Medical applications in the scientific domain”, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, GJU, Jordan George Ghinea, “Potential research collaboration in a global context”, Brunal University, UK Nagib Ghaleb Nasher Mohammed, “Quality of Rainwater From Rainwater Harvesting Systems in Sanaa”, University of Bahrain, Bahrain
17:30 - 18:00 Session (10): Joint Closing with OSSCOM & AROQA [Video]
	Closing Keynote: Ramin Sedehi, Chief Operating Officer, AUB Beirut Declaration and event conclusion: Yousef Torman and Salem Alagtash, ASREN Welcome by the host of e-AGE 2017 Thank You, Appreciation and Group Photo.

Workshop II: 3 – 4 December 2016 - Antoun Ghattas Karam e-Classroom, Jafet Library (MAP)
09:00 - 17:00 Michal Prochazka, Jan Oppolzer, “Identity Federation”, CESNET, Czech Republic

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