Event Schedule

Friday, November 6 - Talks:

Opening Session

Keynote: Prof. Rami Abboud, Vice President for Internationalization and Engagement and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Balamand

Open Map Lebanon Introduction

• Melda Salhab, Co-founder of Open Map Lebanon and Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

• Sherif Maktabi, Co-founder of Open Map Lebanon and Product Manager - Electric Vehicles, Masternaut

• Marc Farra, Co-founder of Open Map Lebanon and Engineer at Development Seed

• Joanne Harik, Co-founder of Open Map Lebanon and Experience Designer at Hirsch & Mann

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Lebanon's Fight till the Last Breath

Moderator: Dr. Maroun Bou Sleiman, Scientist, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Panelists:

• Captain Martin Raad, Representative of H.E. Mohammad Fahmi, Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Republic of Lebanon | Presentation Slides

• Lina Abou Mrad, Director of the National E-Health Program, Ministry of Public Health, Republic of Lebanon

• Karine Zoghby - Disaster Risk Management Unit at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Republic of Lebanon

• Dr. Youssef Bassim, Consultant to the President for Healthcare and Hospital Affairs, University of Balamand

• Sara Chang, Public Health Professional and Social Justice Advocate | Presentation Slides

• Dr. Gérard-Philippe Zéhil, Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Materials Engineering, Notre Dame University | Presentation Slides

• Dr. Petra Khoury, Public Health Advisor to the Lebanese Prime Minister, Republic of Lebanon

Data Reliability, Availability, and Accessibility in Lebanon

Moderator: Dr. Rouba Ziade, Senior GIS Analyst and Consultant

Panelists:

• Dr. Ghaleb Faour, Director of CNRS

• Dr. Roula Bachour, Research Associate, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut

• Lieutenant Colonel Adib Saliba

• Lieutenant Colonel Abdallah Rihani

Beirut Disaster: The Road to Recovery

Moderator: Lilian Abou Zeki, Head of Solutions Mapping, UNDP Lebanon’s Accelerator Lab

Panelists:

• Fabien Lezeau, Lebanese Red Cross

• Houssein Noureddine, UNICEF WASH officer and coordinator

• Prof. Mona Harb, Professor of Urban Studies and Politics, American University of Beirut

Keynote: Dr. Andrew Schroeder, Vice President of Research and Analysis for Direct Relief and Co-Founder and Board President of WeRobotics.org

Data Science in Data Scarcity: Blast Modeling

Moderator: Dr. Gérard-Philippe Zéhil, Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Materials Engineering, Notre Dame University | Presentation Slides

Panelists:

• Dr. Sam Rigby, Senior Lecturer in Blast & Impact Engineering, University of Sheffield | Presentation Slides

• Dr. Yehia Temsah, Professor and Assistant Dean of Engineering, Beirut Arab University

• Charles Aouad, Ph.D. Candidate in Astrophysics, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University

• Bruno Sousa, GIS Technologist and Researcher, Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab, Rice University

Keynote: Brigadier General Sami ElHoyek, Head of the Beirut Forward Emergency Room

Disaster Response Management

Moderator: Roy Baladi, Co-founder of Jobs for Lebanon

Panelists:

• Eddy Bitar, Co-founder of Live Love Lebanon

• Kassem Chaalan, Disaster Risk Reduction Program Manager, Lebanese Red Cross

• Amina Merkebawi, Impact Lebanon

• Zeina Mhanna, Lebanese International Finance Executives (LIFE)

• Sherif Maktabi, Co-founder of Open Map Lebanon

Keynote: Mathilde Morée, Account Executive at Planet

Data Science in Data Scarcity

Moderator: Melda Salhab, Co-founder Open Map Lebanon

Panelists:

• Dr. Sang-Ho Yun, NASA JPL

• Dr. Amal Iaaly, Assistant Professor and Director of the GIS Center, Faculty of Engineering, University of Balamand

• Abdallah Bsaibes, Founder of GeoSpatialMinds

• Dr. Maroun Bou Sleiman, Scientist at EPFL | Presentation Slides

Open Data, Data Governance

Moderator: Majd Al Shihabi, Co-founder of PalOpenMaps.org

Panelists:

• Antoni Ros Martinez, Program Manager of HOT’s Disaster Services Team

• Gretta Kelzi, Operations Manager, ESRI Lebanon | Presentation Slides

• Assaad Thebian, Director of Gherbal Initiative

Global Disaster Management

Moderator: Dr. Hiba Baroud, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Littlejohn Dean's Faculty Fellow, Vanderbilt University

Panelists:

• Nicolas Di Tada, Director of Engineering, InSTEDD | Presentation Slides

• Dr. Raghav Pant, Senior Research Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford | Presentation Slides

• Anahi Ayala Iacucci, Consultant - Learning and Adaptation (AAP), UNHCR

• Jad Ajib, Frontline Engineers

Saturday, November 7 - Talks:

Overlapped Cultural Geographies of Beirut

Moderator: Bachar El Amine

Panelists:

• Ms. Nada Sehnaoui, Visual Artist

• Mr. Maath Alousi, Architect

• Dr. Habib Sadek, Architect, Specialized in Restoration & President of Chaderji Foundation

• Mr. Ghassan Salhab, Filmmaker & Scriptwriter

• Dr. Christiane Sfeir, Architect, Ph.D. in Cultural Geography

• Dr. Khaled Ziadeh, Writer & Director of the Arab Center for Research

• Dr. Rana Dubeissy, Architect & Professor, Lebanese University

• Mr. Nizar Saghieh, Lawyer & Founder of Legal Agenda

• Mr. Elie Abi Rizk, GIS Expert

• Mr. Rahif Fayad, Architect & Writer on Questions of Heritage

• Dr. Nader Sraj, Professor of Language and Thought in the Arab World

• Dr. Hazem Sabbagh, Architect, Finalist Nominee for the Agha Khan Award 2006

• Dr. Maha Kayal, Anthropologist & Professor, Lebanese University

• Dr. Maroun El-Daccache, Architect & Professor, Lebanese American University

• Dr. Lubna Tarabay, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Lebanese University

• Dr. Jihad Farah, Architect & Urbanist

• Ms. Sana Chehab, Architect & Restorer

• Ms. Bissane Tay, Journalist & Documentarist

• Mr. Mahmoud Al-Faqih, Journalist, An-Nahar Newspaper

Saturday, November 7 - Workshops:

Workshop: 100% Success Rate in Drone Operation Even in Challenging Conditions, by Roy Massaad - GeospatialMinds

Workshop: Open Data & ArcGIS Hub: Collaborating and Engaging With Your Community, by Hassan Mahmoud - ESRI Lebanon

Workshop: OpenStreetMap Fundamentals, by Marc Farra & Majd Al-Shihabi - Open Map Lebanon