Program

09:00 - 10:00 (GMT+2)	Welcome Coffee and Registration (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
10:00 - 12:00 (GMT+2)	Session I: Grand Opening (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Master of Ceremony: Ahmed Yousif, Announcer for the Egyptian National Media Authority, Egypt Setting the Scene Yousef Torman, Managing Director, ASREN, Jordan High Level Opening Messages H.E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman, ASREN, Jordan H.E. Prof. Mahmoud Sakr, President of Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Egypt H.E. Ambassador Christian Berger, Head of the European Union Delegation to Egypt H.E. Dr. Farrag Al-Ajami, Minister Plenipotentiary, Director of Education & Scientific Research Social Sector, League of Arab States, Egypt H.E. Prof. Basri Saleh, Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Palestine H.E. Prof. Moncef Boukthir, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Tunisia, represented by Prof. Saoussen Krichen, Director General, CCK, Tunisia H.E. Prof. Abdelmajid Benamara, Secretary General, Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils (FASRC), Sudan Dr. Nuria Sanz, UNESCO CAIRO Office Director and UNESCO Representative to Egypt Goodwill Messages (Global Partners) Announcements Next e-AGE23 Keynote I: "SESAME: A Synchrotron Radiation Facility in the Middle East", Atef Elkadime, Administrative Director, The Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME), Jordan [ppt] Appreciation and Recognition Group Photo
12:00 - 14:00 (GMT+2)	Lunch Break (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+2)	Session II: Enabling Cooperation (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: Boubakar Bary, CEO, WACREN, Senegal Keynote II: "The Arab Youth Role in the Region's Journey to Sustainable Development", Nazar Hassan, UNESCO Senior STI Regional Advisor for the Arab States, UNESCO, Egypt [ppt] "Promoting regional cooperation in the Southern Neighbourhood region", Vadim Deleu, Programme Manager, European Commission DG NEAR, Belgium "AfricaConenct3 Project: Connecting Africa to unlimited possibilities", Madara Ogot, CEO, Ubuntunet Alliance, Malawi [ppt] "International Cooperation in Research and Innovation", Heba Gaber, Research and innovation officer, the European Union Delegation to Egypt, Egypt [ppt] "Providing Meaningful Access to an Evolving Multilingual Internet", Baher Esmat, Managing Director, Middle East and Africa, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Turkey [ppt] "Arab NRENs and their role towards the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals", Silvia Fiore, Communications Officer, GEANT, Netherlands [ppt] "How GÉANT can support the sustainability of NRENs - Building blocks of a business model for all NRENs", George Konnis, Managing Director, Cyprus Research and Academic Network, Cyprus [ppt]
15:30 - 16:00 (GMT+2)	Coffee Break (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
16:00 - 17:30 (GMT+2)	Session III: NRENs, A Global Update (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: Raed Al-Zoubi, Director of the Centennial Library, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan ENSTINET: Majid El-Sadeq, Director, Egyptian National Scientific and Technical Information Network, Egypt [ppt] GÉANT: Helga Spitaler, Senior International Relations Project Manager, GÉANT, United Kingdom [ppt] CCK: Saoussen Krichen, Director General & Jamel Aloui, Chief Administrator of Higher Education, Al-Khawarizmi Computing Center, Tunisia [ppt] MARWAN: Aziz Ettahir, Head of Mutualisation Département & Hassan Bouhaddou, IT engineer, CNRST, Morocco [ppt] AfREN: Boubakar Bary, CEO, WACREN, Senegal [ppt] SomaliREN: Mohamed Ahmed, President, Jamhuriya University for Science and Technology, Somalia [ppt] TechCARE: Yousif Asfour, Chief Information and Technology Officer, AUB, Lebanon [ppt] Internet2: John Chapman, Senior Advisor, Global Engagements, Internet2, United States [ppt] SudREN: Babiker Abdelgader, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sudanese Research and Education Network (SudREN), Sudan & Waleid Elmobarak, Federation of Arab Scientific Research Councils (FASRC) [ppt] SHERN: Mohamad ALhabbal, It Manager, Syrian Virtual University, Syria [ppt] GARR: Claudia Battista, Director, The Italian Academic and Research Network (GARR), Italy (Recorded)
19:00 - 21:00 (GMT+2)	Gala Dinner (Jayda Lounge, 3rd Floor)

09:00 - 10:30 (GMT+2)	Session IV: National, Regional and Global Science Cooperation (1) (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: Ibrahim Fathy Mouawad, Dean of Computer Sci. & Eng. Faculty, New Mansoura University, Egypt Keynote III: "Space technology and earth observation applications as potential collaboration to achieve SDGs and Climate Actions in the Arab region", Islam Abou El-Magd, Vice President of the Egyptian Space Agency, Egypt [ppt] "Establishing synergies with ASREN on e-Biodiversity in support of the Arab Ecosystems", Juan Miguel González Aranda, Chief Technology Officer, LifeWatch ERIC, Spain & Rohaifa Khaldi, LifeWatch ERIC Artificial Intelligence Technical Assistant (Remotely) [ppt] "Gathering Nations through Global Science Research", Farida Fassi, Professor & Senior Researcher, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Faculty of Science, Morocco [ppt] "A success story of REN role to Provide High Performance Computing to Scientific Researchers", Ahmed Hassan, Dean, Nile University, Egypt [ppt] "Sparkle MultiCloud for the Research & Education Community", Andrea Livatino, Enterprise and ICT Sales, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Italy [ppt] "A Role for the RENs in Earth Observation", Mark Urban, Director for International Cooperation, Academic Relations and Communications, RedCLARA, Uruguay (Remotely) [ppt]
10:30 - 11:00 (GMT+2)	Coffee Break (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
11:00 - 12:30 (GMT+2)	Session V: National, Regional and Global Science Cooperation (2) (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: John Chapman, Senior Advisor, Global Engagements, Internet2, United States "Arabic Natural Language Understanding", Mustafa Jarrar, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Birzeit University, Palestine [ppt] "A People-First Approached to Technology", Mohamed A. Elhindi, Chief Information Officer, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar [ppt] "The Living Lab Approach in Co-creating open science and open innovation Gerontech Ecosystems", Evdokimos Konstantinidis, President, European Network of Living Labs - ENoLL, Greece (Remotely) [ppt] "The City of Sciences in Tunis is celebrating its 30th anniversary!", Fethi Mzah, Manager of Digital Planetarium, Tunis Science City, Tunisia (Remotely) [ppt] "Performance Analysis of a Hybrid Channel for Foglet Assisted Smart Asset Reporting", Hasan Farahneh, Professor, The University of Jordan school of Engineering, Jordan [ppt] "Hyper-Kamiokande Collaboration", Rafik Er-rabit, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn-Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco (Remotely) [ppt]
12:30 - 14:00 (GMT+2)	Lunch Break (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+2)	Session VI: Open Science, Open Access and Clouds (1) (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: Helga Spitaler, Senior International Relations Project Manager, GÉANT, United Kingdom "ASREN Cloud and Open Science efforts", Raed Al-Zoubi, Director of the Centennial Library, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan [ppt] "Building a Multi-institutional Open Access Digital Repository for Higher Education and Research Institutions: The Case for SomaliREN Centralised Digital Repository (SORER)", Mohamed Ahmed, President, Jamhuriya University for Science and Technology, Somalia [ppt] "An update on EOSC", Sarah Jones, EOSC Engagement Manager, GÉANT, Netherlands (Remotely) [ppt] "LA Referencia and ASREN collaboration experience", Lautaro Julian Matas, Executive and Technical Director, LA Referencia, Spain [ppt] "Mapping and Visualizing the Arab Region’s Contribution to Global Environmental Research through Open Access Publishing", Shaher Zyoud, Director General for Development & Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Palestine [ppt] "Open Science African Perspectives Through Strategic Partnerships and Its Impact on Democratizing Knowledge", Joy Owango, Executive Director, Training Centre in Communication (Remotely) [ppt]
15:30 - 16:00 (GMT+2)	Coffee Break (Conrad Foyer, Lobby Area)
16:00 - 17:30 (GMT+2)	Session VII: Open Science, Open Access and Clouds (2) (Conrad Ballroom A & B, Lobby Area) [Video] Chair: Yousif Asfour, Chief Information and Technology Officer, AUB, Lebanon "Library and librarians as enablers of open science and open society", Ola El Zein, Head of Saab Medical Library, American University of Beirut, Lebanon [ppt] "The new trends in libraries and their vital role in supporting open data practices – BAIFA case study", Maha Abbas, Head of BAIFA unit (Bibliotheca Alexandrina Information for Africa), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt [ppt] "Why and How IMIST is Committed to Promote Open Science", Hicham Boutracheh, Head, The Moroccan Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (IMIST), CNRST, Morocco (Remotely) [ppt] "Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA): Towards generating new economic knowledge", Batool Almarzouq, Community Lead, Open Science Community Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom (Remotely) [ppt] "Working together towards a more knowledgeable world: The Forum for Open Research in MENA", Emily Choynowski, Head of Publishing, Knowledge E, United Arab Emirates [ppt] "African Open Science Platform - Towards a continental Open Science Vision", Tshiamo Motshegwa, Incoming Director African Open Science Platform (AOSP), University of Botswana, Botswana (Remotely) [ppt]

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