PKI Seminar at Intercontinental Hotel in Riyadh

The Saudi MCIT (don’t mind the design) will be hosting a 2 day seminar on PKI (Public key infrastructure). The seminars will be for 2 days starting tomorrow the 15th to the 16th of December 2009. The seminar will be titled “Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges in PKI”.

The following will be speaking at the seminar:

Dr. [...]

GITEX Technology Week 2009 coverage

Gitex Dubai 2009 just concluded. I didn’t get the chance to attend so I followed these sites that provided coverage of the event, hope you find them as informative as I did:

Shufflegazine has done a great job at covering Gitex: day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5 and wrap up.
The National: GITEX: [...]

6th Riyadh Tweetup September 1st

As you know, a tweetup is “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service”. You are welcome to attend the sixth Riyadh Tweetup to be held Thursday October 1st 2009 at Second Cup Cafe after Isha prayer. The tweetup is still a male-only event. [...]

5th Riyadh Tweetup September 3rd

A tweetup is “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service”. You are welcome to attend the fifth Riyadh Tweetup to be held September 3rd 2009 at Second Cup Cafe from 10 pm to 2 am. Still a male-only event.

You can register for [...]

Fourth Riyadh Tweetup August 6th

A tweetup is “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service”. You are welcome to attend the third Riyadh Tweetup to be held August 6th 2009 at Second Cup Cafe.

You can register for it here. Follow @TweetupRiyadh on Twitter.

Saudi BlogCamp 2009

A BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences. The first Saudi BlogCamp will be held in Jeddah tomorrow July 2nd 2009 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and starting at 10am (7am GMT). It is organized by the Saudi BarCamp.

Saudi BlogCamp 2009 will include presentations by Saudi bloggers Khaled Al-Nasser, Ahmed Al-Omran, Essam Al-Zamel [...]

Third Riyadh Tweetup July 2nd 2009

A tweetup is “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service”. You are welcome to attend the third Riyadh Tweetup to be held July 2nd 2009.

You can register for it here. Follow @TweetupRiyadh on Twitter.

CodeBetter June Public Event in Riyadh

CodeBetter is a group of programmers who want to “raise software quality in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through sharing best practices related to different Application Lifecycle phases. Community target will be initially Microsoft technologies focus, upon the member’s feedback it can be stretched to other different technologies.”

They are having a CodeBetter June Public Event on [...]

Second Riyadh Tweetup

A tweetup is “n. A real world meeting between two or more people who know each other through the online Twitter service”. You are welcome to attend the second Riyadh Tweetup:

This is the second Riyadh Tweetup meant to gather people located in Riyadh who use twitter to socialize and meet face to face.
Location is still [...]