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Regional Talk - MENA Region
Moderators
Senior Program Officer, Technology and Innovation, IDRC
Biography: Raed M. Sharif is Senior Program Officer for the Technology and Innovation program at IDRC’s Regional Office in Cairo. A political economist, Sharif’s research focuses on accessibility and management policies of information resources and technologies and their impact...
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Speakers
Biography: Dr. Abdelgawad is a Transportation Director and Smart Cities / ITS Expert at SETS North Africa and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University.
•Dr. Abdelgawad has over 12 years of experience accumulated in Canada and the Middle East in...
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Manager, UNDP's Innovation portfolio for the Arab States region
Biography:
Jennifer manages UNDP's Innovation portfolio for the Arab States region, covering 18 countries from the Gulf to the Maghreb. She manages regional activities to introduce new and alternative approaches to development, such as big data for development, games for social...
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WebRadar.me, Founder and CEO
Biography: Jazem Halioui is the founder and CEO of WebRadar.me, a bigdata startup helping marketing, communication and media professionals leverage media monitoring & analytics technology to manage and monitor their topics of interests (e-reputation) and understand public opinion...
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Data Science Anthropologist, Data Aurora
Title proposal: Data innovation landscape in Lebanon.Biography: Ali Rebaie is a principal industry analyst at Rebaie Analytics Group. He is also a prominent blogger, consultant and keynote speaker. As a data science anthropologist, Rebaie has been studying the impact of data patterns...
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Senior Research Specialist, Access to Knowledge for Development Center at the American University in Cairo
Biography: Nancy Salem is a Senior Research Specialist at the Access to Knowledge for Development Center at the American University in Cairo, working on the project 'Harnessing the Economic Power of Data in the Middle East and North Africa', focusing on the the role and potential...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 18:00 - 19:00 CEST
Room F