PRIS is an annual gathering of more than 3000 Arab youth under one goal and united by one passion: to advance and enable scientific research in the Arab world. Under this year’s concept: “Taking Action!”, we aim to enable researchers and innovators at a very concrete level, and connect them with worldwide top scientists, innovators, and industry experts.
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Dr. Ahmad Jadallah
Founder and CEO, Phi Science Institute
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Professor Lord Martin Rees
The UK's Astronomer Royal and a Fellow (and Former Master) of Trinity College, Cambridge University
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan
President of the Royal Scientific Society
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Collimated Light Propagation: The Next Frontier in Underwater Wireless Communication
Mrs. Rania Toukaberi
Aerospace Engineer, Space Generation Advisory Council
African Space Strategy in the Next Years
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Prof. Ahmed Rebai
Professor, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax
Bioinformatics: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges for Young Arab Scientists
Dr. Basel Abu-Jamous
Senior Data Scientist, Sensyne Health Plc
Multiomics: The Synergetic Power in Simultaneous Analysis of Data from Multiple Molecular Layers
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Prof. Fouad Mrad
Senior Programme Manager Frontier Technologies , United Nations ESCWA
Arab Youth Technovation Program: Decade of Stars of Science
Dr. Bashar El-Khasawneh
Associate Professor, Khalifa University
Role of Universities in Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Mrs. Tara Golshan
Executive Director, Education, Jane Goodall Institute
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dr. Ahmad Jadallah
Founder & CEO, Phi Science Institute
Dr. Halima Bin Ismail
Principal Scientist and Associate Professor, Qatar Computing Research Institute-HBKU
Dr. Basel Abu-Jamous
Senior Data Scientist, Sensyne Health Plc
Mr. Christophe Zoghbi
Co-Founder and CEO, Zaka
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Prof. Nidhal Guessoum
Professor, American University of Sharjah
Prof. Riadh Abdelfattah
Vice President, University of Carthage
Mr. Ahmed El Fadhel
Coordinator, SST (Space Science and Technology) unit at the African Association for Geo-spatial Development (AGEOS)
Mrs. Rania Toukaberi
Aerospace Engineer, Space Generation Advisory Council
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Mr. Samer Obeidat
CEO, Stallion.AI
Prof. Ahmad Guessoum
Professor, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene
Prof. Mohamed Jmaiel
Director, Digital Research Center of Sfax
Dr. Tamer El-Sayed
Associate Professor, Qatar University
Prof. Yousef Al Assaf
President, Rochester Institute of Technology-Dubai
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dr. Mariam Abu-Khalaf
Project Officer, Phi Science Institute
Dr. Maha Nasr
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy Ain Shams University
Mrs. Amal Abid
Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services
Mrs. Sanaa Afouaiz
Founder and Director, Womenpreneur
Mrs. Mai Medhat
CEO, Eventtus
Mrs. Anwar Momani
High School Student, Al-Taibah Mixed Secondary School
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Mr. Amro Sawan
Design & Production Engineer, Luminus Shamal Start
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dr. Anas Abutaha
Research Scientist, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Accelerated Materials Innovation by Machine Learning
Mr. Saed Khawaldeh
Researcher, University of Oxford
Prediction of Movement Intention Using Artificial Intelligence
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Prof. Sanaa Bardaweel
Professor, University of Jordan
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dr. Rowan AlEjielat
Assistant Professor, University of Petra
Pharmacogenomics in Drug Development and Clinical Practice
Mrs. Bayan Alshahrouri
Graduate Student and Research Assistant, Temple University
Nanotechnology Contribution in the Battle Against COVID-19: Recent Research Advances
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mr. Roberto Croci
Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups, Middle East
Entrepreneurship: Mindset & Resilience
Dr. Henda Mahmoudi
Plant Physiologist, International Center For Biosaline Agriculture
Youth empowerment for Agricultural startups
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Dr. Tamer Elsayed
Associate Professor, Qatar University
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Mohamad Bydon
Professor of Neurosurgery, Orthopedic Surgery, Health Services Research, Mayo Clinic
Innovations in Neurosurgery
Prof. Mimoun Azzouz
Chair of Translational Neuroscience, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Prospects for Gene Therapeutics in Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Pre-clinical Models to Human Patient Trials
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Mohamed Aburawi
Founder and CEO, Speetar
Healthcare 2.0
Dr. Yousef Al-Kofahi
Senior Scientist & Project Leader ,GE Global Research
AI & Computer Vision for Biomedical Image Analysis: From Macro to Micro
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Ismael Al-Hinti
Vice-President, Al-Hussein Technical University
The Grid of Tomorrow: Merging AI and Big Data with Renewables
Dr. Hassan Qandil
Lecturer and Researcher, University of North Texas
Solar Water Desalination System using Fresnel Lenses
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Mohammed Yahia
Executive Director, Springer Nature
Why You Should Become a Science Communicator
Mr. Ahmed Samir Ead
Doctoral Student, University of Alberta
Science Popularization
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Rana Dajani
President, Society for Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World (SASTA)
Dr. Jinane Abunadi
Executive Director, MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
Dr. Dina Sherif
Executive Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
Dr. Marwan Hassoun
Executive Director, UM6P Ventures
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Professor Mauro Ferrari
Affiliate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Washington, USA
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Dr. Maha Nasr
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy Ain Shams University
Prof. Adewale Adewuyi
Head of Department, Chemical Sciences, Redeemer's University
Prof. Mohamed Elhadidy
Professor, Zewail City of Science and Technology
Dr. Mohamed Hamzawy
Vice Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Fayoum University
Dr. Luise Fischer
Researcher, Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Prof. Amine Bermak
Professor and Associate Dean , Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)
Internet of Things: Challenges and Research Opportunities
Dr. Bashar El-Khasawneh
Associate Professor, Khalifa University
Development of Advanced Robotics Systems
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dr. Olfa Messaoud
Associate Professor, The Pasteur Institute of Tunis
Next Generation Sequencing and Related Challenges
Dr. Chamseddine Kifagi
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Immunology & Vaccinology, DTU Nanotech
Biomedical Chromatin-Related Research-Advances and Challanges
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dr. Alaaldin AlKilany
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, University of Jordan
Nanotechnology: The world of Wonder and the Emerging Opportunity
Dr. Maha Nasr
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy Ain Shams University
Shaping the Future of Medicine Using Nanotechnology
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Prof. Said Ismail
Director, Qatar Genome Programme
Precision Medicine, Building Future Health Care
Dr. Walid Qoronfleh
Director, Healthcare Research & Policy, Qatar Foundation/WISH
Precision Medicine Innovations Driving Healthcare
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr. Walid Al-Zyoud
Head of Biomedical Engineering Department/ Vice dean of School of Applied Medical Sciences, German Jordanian University
An Invention Step in the Age of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Prof. Nancy Hakouz
Professor of Pharmacogenetics, University of Jordan
Vitamin and COVID19 Trearment
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Mr. Joao Bocas
The Wearables Expert
The Wearables Can Change the World
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Mr. Amer Hijazi
Researcher, Centre for Smart Modern Construction, Western Sydney University
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr. Jehad Almaliti
Associate Professor, University of Jordan
The Serendipity in Science: The Pathway of Drug Discovery as an Example
Dr. Lina Dahabiyeh
Assistant Professor, University of Jordan
The Emerging Role of Proteomics in Disease Biomarker Discovery: Approaches and Applications
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Dr. Jane Goodall
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mrs. Shalimar Shadeed
Senior Publisher, Atlantis Press
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Mr. Nidal Qanadilo
Managing Partner, South Point
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Prof. Sanaa Bardaweel
Professor, University of Jordan
Day 1
Friday / 3 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Rana Dajani
President, Society for Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World (SASTA)
Dr. Jinane Abunadi
Executive Director, MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program
Prof. Christian Seelos
Director, Global Innovation for Impact Lab, Stanford University Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
Dr. Dina Sherif
Executive Director, Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Hamdi Mbarek
Scientific & Industry Partnership Manager, Qatar Genome
Roadmap for Genomics in the Middle East: Insights from Qatar Genome
Dr. Ahmad Nabhan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genetech
The Human Cell Atlas: A Comprehensive Map of All Cells in the Human Body to Understand Biology and Disease
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Bassam El-Fahmawi
CEO & Chief Technical Officer, Mawi DNA Technologies
COVID-19 Molecular Testing and Supply Chain Challenges
Prof. Rana Dajani
Professor, Hashemite University
Corona and Evolution
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Sonia Haddad
Professor, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis
Graphene-Like Materials: The New Technology Era
Mr. Kyle Cordova
Executive Director for Research Enterprise / Assistant to HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan for Research & Development, Royal Scientific Society
Nanomaterials Discovery as a Tool for Innovation in the Water and Environment Sectors
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mr. Mahmoud Hammouri
Program Manager, Phi Science Institute
Mr. Francisco Marmolejo
Education Advisor, Qatar Foundation=
Mr. Mohammad Rawashdeh
Economic advisor and Politician
Dr. Farah Shamout
Assistant Professor, NewYork University Abu Dhabi
Dr. Mohamed Aburawi
Founder and CEO, Speetar
Day 2
Saturday / 4 JUL
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Dr. Jehad Almaliti
Associate Professor, University of Jordan
The Serendipity in Science: The Pathway of Drug Discovery as an Example
Dr. Lina Dahabiyeh
Assistant Professor, University of Jordan
The Emerging Role of Proteomics in Disease Biomarker Discovery: Approaches and Applications
Glad to be at Phi Science Institute ’s Annual Research and Innovation Summit. Two days of exciting talks and presentations under one theme “Connecting for Science”! Support to youth organizations like Phi Institute and creating opportunities for youth in Jordan is our top priority!
The amount of talent and positive energy I encounter every year at PRIS is phenomenal. Hundreds of young students gather at this event hungry for a chance to step into the world of scientific research. Phi is an inspirational initiative guiding Arab youth towards a career in scientific research and indeed towards a better future for all of us.
Let me join the chorus singing praise and thanks for this wonderful event! I am so grateful for the opportunity to be part of this important PSI Summit that I do believe will contribute to the building of the science and engineering workforce of the future in Jordan and the region.
I was certainly honored to be among such a beautiful community of hope-makers, future-leaders and knowledge-creators.
We challenge YOU to predict the potential spread of a new pandemic.
