ArabWIC Saudi Arabia @ WiDS Riyadh 2018
The ArabWIC Chapter in Saudi Arabia partnered with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in organizing and leading the “WiDS Riyadh” conference where two of the chapter leaders were part of the event’s steering committee (Dr. Areej Al-Wabil and Eng. Nour Alkhalil). The WIDS Riyadh conference at KACST also hosted two ArabWIC Regional leaders, Dr. Kaoutar Almaghraoui, ArabWIC’s Chairperson and Susan Malaika, ArabWIC’s VP for partnership, as speakers in the technical program. The event also hosted one ArabWIC Ambassador, Dr. Norah Alghamdi from Princess Noura University, who also participated in the WiDS Riyadh event at the ARABWIC chapter’s booth in the event’s networking sessions with local chapters of affinity groups (IEEE and ACM). The event held on the 5th of March at KACST hosted more than 40 speakers from different academic and industrial backgrounds and covered cutting edge topics in data science like genomic data science, environmental engineering resea
