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. Saleh Hachem

Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities.

12:00 – 12:15

His Excellency Dr. Adnan Traboulsi

President of Global University

12:15 – 12:30

Speakers’ Awards

12:30 – 13:00

Coffee Break

Time

Speaker

Topic

13:00 – 13:20

Dr. Malek Haroud

Head of Computer Science Dept

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