Telecom Networks: Integration Challenges & Solutions | Agenda

Day I – November 5, 2008
10:30 – 11:00	Registration
11:00 – 11:05	Lebanese national anthem
11:05 – 11:30	His Excellency Mr. Mohammad Safadi Minister of Economy & Trade.
11:30 – 11:45	His Excellency Dr. Adnan Kassar Head of the Union of Arab Chambers.
11:45 – 12:00	His Excellency Dr. Hachem Saleh Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities.
12:00 – 12:15	Prof. Ahmad Zaki Badr President Ayn Shams University, Egypt
12:15 – 12:30	His Excellency Dr. Adnan Traboulsi President of Global University
12:30 – 12:40	Speakers’ Awards
12:40 – 13:00	Coffee Break

Time	Speaker		Topic
13:00 – 13:20		Dr. Ibrahim Kebbe, Dean Faculty of Administrative Sciences Global University	Global University line of research
13:20 – 14:30		Dr. Walid Dabbous Senior researcher at INRIA | France Professor at Ecole Polytechnique	Evolution of Networking: Integration challenges and future directions

Day II – November 6, 2008
Time	Speaker	Topic
9:30 – 10.15	Mr. Khalil Abed al Masih Country Manager Microsoft Lebanon	The new world of collaboration
10:15 – 11:15	Dr. Reda Alhajj Professor of Computer Science University of Calgary	Two-way Mapping for Relational DB, OODB and XML. Mapping strategies & integration challenges.
11:15 – 12:15	Dr. Mamdouh El Tabach R & D Engineer France Telecom	Optical Wireless Communication for home Access Networks: Integration challenges
12:15 – 12:30	Coffee Break
12:30 – 13:15	Dr. Ahmad Hammmoud Head of IT research unit Global University.	Integrating Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 with different PBX packages
13:15 – 14:00	Mr. Ziad Shaaban IT Manager Faculty of Engineering American University of Beirut	Operational vs. Academic IT unit in relation to integration
14:00 – 14:45	Video Conferencing Session
	Mr. Mohammad Boukhari Business Development Manager Smart Solutions	Integrating different technologies for video communication over IP and ISDN
14:45 – 15:00	Lunch
15:00 – 15:15	Certificates of Attendance