Agenda

 

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Conference Themes

This year's conference features three curated tracks, each organized around one of our three themes exploring emerging technologies, security, sustainability.

 

First Track

Emerging Technologies: Opportunities & Challenges

This track examines topics related to the impact of emerging technologies on the businesses, economics and politics in the Middle east.

The world is currently dominated by Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and all forms of emerging technologies changing various aspects of businesses, governments and people’s lives.

 

Second Track

Security in the Middle East

This track examines various traditional and non-traditional understandings of security. 

It calls into question prominent issues, including but not limited to human security, food security, cyber-security, energy security, the refugees and migration crises, and the future of security in the region given the recent developments in Gaza.

 

Third Track

Sustainability in Dynamic Environments

This track examines topics related to the sustainability efforts as well as their effectiveness in the Middle East. 

The importance of meeting the needs of the present without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to meet theirs is getting more and more critical, with a growing recognition that serious action needs to be taken on all levels.