Scientific Research and Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) through Academic Research Sector, the Center for Special Studies and Programs (CSSP), is organizing a seminar entitled Scientific Research and Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities that will be held on Monday, 13 May 2024 at 12:00 noon (Cairo time) at Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center, Small Theater.

Scientific Research and Digital Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities seminar discusses the ongoing digital transformation revolution which the scientific research is witnessing. The seminar sheds light on the importance of developing a high-performance enabling environment for scientific research in the context of the rapid digital transformation. This seminar aims to address the opportunities and challenges researchers face in the digital age, such as:

  • How digital transformation and its driven technologies, including machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and other advanced technologies, are changing the whole scientific research ecosystem.  
  • How to address the unequal access between institutions and countries to the latest digital transformation tools and driven technologies.
  • Ethical considerations: the ethical frameworks that need to be established for AI and big data applications in scientific research.
  • Digital and technological skills gap: the necessary skills researchers should acquire to cope with the rapid ongoing technological advancements. 

Seminar format: Onsite (open for public with registration)

Language: Arabic

H.E. Prof. Yousry El-Gamal
H.E. Prof. Yousry El-Gamal

Former Minister of Education and Professor of Computer Engineering (Egypt)

Prof. Hoda Abou Shady
Prof. Hoda Abou Shady

Professor of Radiation and Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Prof. Essam Wahba
Prof. Essam Wahba

Acting Dean of Engineering

Vice Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University

Prof. Mohamed El-Shinawi
Prof. Mohamed El-Shinawi

President of Galala University

Prof. Ahmed Hussein
Prof. Ahmed Hussein

Professor of Biotechnology at the Biotechnology Department of Alexandria University

Prof. Mustafa Elnainay
Prof. Mustafa Elnainay

Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Alamein International University