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Digital Youth Leaders

Digital Youth Leaders, an international conference co-organized by Saint Joseph University of Beirut and Rethinking Lebanon, aims at shedding light on the importance of digital youth leaders in rethinking and reshaping the future of Lebanon and the world.

National and international speakers will have exciting discussions on new technologies such as AI, AR/VR, robotics, cybersecurity, digital transformation, innovation, knowledge economy and many others, and how their exponential evolution is paving the way for the 4th industrial revolution. The conference will also focus on main infrastructural, educational, and economic challenges facing the adoption of these technologies in Lebanon, highlighting the role of youth in transforming technology into a productive industry.

Digital Youth Leaders will bring together all the stakeholders such as technology providers, industries, academia, and most importantly students.

The conference will be held at Jean Ducruet Auditorium, CST campus, Mar Roukos - Dekwaneh on November 13, 2023. The maximum capacity of the conference is 600 attendees in person. However, you can tune in to our live stream on Zoom or dive into our immersive metaverse experience, the conference will be also covered by various media outlets and channels.

Program

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Registration

10:30 am - 11:15 am

Session 1: AI in Research, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical Industry

Bakhos A. Tannous, Head of Neuro-Oncology Discovery at AstraZeneca,
Former Full Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School

11:15 am - 12:00 pm

Session 2: How synthetic data is going to revolutionize the industrial Metaverse
Jimmy Nassif, CTO IDEALworks GmbH, Subsidiary of BMW Group

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Networking Break

12:30 pm –1:30 pm

Session 3: Discussion Panel
The Future of Jobs in the Era of AI. 
Dany Mezher, Rector’s advisor for IT affairs at USJ

Building a Regulatory Ecosystem Conducive to Innovation 
Samer Abdallah, Global Lead Partner, Board Member and Head of ICT Sector at KPMG

Digital Risk Transformation and the Cyber Youth
Elie Zeidan, CPO-Managing Partner at Thidesoft, Potech

Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Media and Communication
Naji Bouhabib, CEO & Founder at Mobile Technology Tomorrow “MT2” & apps2you

Moderator: 
Imad Bou-Hamad, Associate Professor of Statistics & Data Analytics at AUB. Initiator of ‘The Researcher’ show at LBCI 

1:30 pm –2:15 pm

Session 4: Bitcoin and Economic Freedom
Saifedean Ammous, Economist and Authour of The Bitcoin Standard

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