Turn off your machines for an hour next Saturday March 27th at 8:30pm local Saudi Time. This is the first year Saudi Arabia officially joins the “Earth Hour” move. I will be participating in “Earth Hour Riyadh 2010″ as well.
From Arab News: “Lights are expected to be switched off in major cities including Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam from 8.30 to 9.30 in the evening. A number of government departments and private sector companies are also taking part.”
Make sure to register for the event on Facebook: Earth Hour Saudi Arabia 2010 – ساعة الأرض في السعودية ٢٠١٠. Also check this event specific for Earth Day Jeddah 2010.
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. Fahad Al Hoymany. Senior Advisor and Head of National Center for Digital Certification (NCDC) , Saudi Arabia.
- Phil D’Angio. Director of Business Development for VeriSign EMEA.
- Dr. Khalid alghonaim. General Manager Alelm company ,Saudi Arabia.
- Eng. Ali alsoma.General Manager E-Government Program “YESSER” Saudi Arabia.
- Ami Azrul bin Abdullah.Chief Technology Officer Digicert Sdn Bhd., Malaysia.
- Youngchul Kang.CEO, National Administration Information System and Security Co, South Korea.
- Sami Ghazali.Chief Executive Officer Certification. National Digital Certification Agency. Tunis.
- Hisham Mohamed Abdel Wahab.Director of electronic signature, ITIDA.Egypt.
- Antti Vihavainen.Business development & professional services manager Valimo, Finland.
- Eng. Abdullah Nasser Alghannam.R&D Deputy Director National Information Centre.
- Eng. Fawaz Al Bassam.PKI administrator Aramco.
- Dr. Tim Moses.Senior Director of the Advanced Security Technology group Entrust. Canada.
- Antonio Colaianni.EMEA Sales Director Corestreet.
- Dr. Sami alhumaidi.Director of ECP Research Program, KACST.Saudi Arabia.
- Eng. Abdullah AlFathel.Head of Architecture & Security Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency.
- Eng. Mohammad M. Al-Mandeel.Assistant Secretary General for IT – CIO Council of Saudi Chambers (CSC).
- Olivier Ruff.PKI & SCM Consultant OPENTRUST.
- Dr. Sundeep Oberoi. Global Head of the Niche Technology Delivery Group (NTDG) in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
- Dr. Dhaifallah Al Zahrani. Deputy Governor for Legal Affairs Communications and Information Technology Commission(CITC).
- Ronny Bjones. Security Architect/ EMEA EPG Security lead Microsoft Corporation.
Registration and more info can be found here.
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: The 5 things you can’t miss.
- ITP’s Gitex page.
- Gitex video coverage from tech-wd.
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. Registration here.
Follow @TweetupRiyadh on Twitter for updates. Also make sure to follow @SaudiTech for Saudi TechView updates.
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 it here. Follow @TweetupRiyadh on Twitter. Make sure to follow @SaudiTech for Saudi TechView updates.
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.
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 and Fouad Al-Fahran.
There will also be a live blogging as well as a ustream page on this page (sorry for the long URL, Arabic permalinks should be avoided).
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 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 Thursday, June 25th 2009 1:00PM at Al-Yamama University, Riyadh. Visit the event page for directions because as we know Google maps for Saudi Arabia is useless. The event will also introduce Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software.
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 under consideration and any recommendations are welcomed.
Due to local laws we will have a sexes separated with a female and male gatherings.
This is the second meetup after the success of our first meetup.
If you have any recommendations or ideas for the meetup let me know by emailing me saudi AT asaudilife net
Depending on the event location we may or may not have an hour of lectures and discussions.
If you are interested in sponsoring the event please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Follow us on Twitter for the latest in regards to the Tweetup @TweetupRiyadh
هذا تجمع مستخدمي تويتر الرياض الثاني.
موقع التجمع سيحدد فيما بعد ونرحب باي اقتراحات بالنسبة للموقع.
تطبيقاً للقوانين المحلية سيكون هنالك فصل بين الرجال والنساء ولن يسمح بالاختلاط.
هذا هو التجمع الثاني بعد نجاح التجمع الاول.
اذا وجد لديكم اية اقتراحات فضلاً ابلاغي بها على بريدي saudi AT asudilife net
اعتماداً على موقع التجمع قد نقيم او لا نقيم ساعة من المحاضرات والمناقشات المفتوحة.
اذا اردتم رعاية التجمع لا تترددوا بالاتصال بي.
Thanks Turki for arranging it.