Scientific Seminars | Second Edition
July 20, 2023 Online 3 tracks
The second edition of the STEAMomentos webinar: a series of specialist scientific lectures held with a number of scientific bodies and research centres, across three tracks — energy and hydrogen, cloud computing, and space science and research.
Seminar tracks
Track one: Energy and hydrogen
3 lectures
Track one: Energy and hydrogen
3 lectures
In partnership with the Hydrogen and Energy Storage Research Centre at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.
Lectures
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2:08:38
The future of hydrogen in the Kingdom: opportunities and challenges
Prof. Zain Yamani
On the future of hydrogen in Saudi Arabia and the opportunities it opens in the shift to more sustainable energy, along with the scientific, technical and economic challenges of developing hydrogen technologies and widening their use locally.
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1:19:40
Carbon dioxide capture and storage systems and technologies
Prof. Mahmoud Abdelrabnabi
On carbon capture and storage as a key technology for cutting carbon emissions, covering the main capture, transport and storage techniques and their part in reducing the environmental impact of industry and energy.
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44:09
Energy storage technologies (batteries)
Dr. Zahra Behan
On battery energy storage and its importance to modern and renewable energy systems, covering how batteries work, how the technology has developed, and the challenges of efficiency, capacity, operating life and sustainability.
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Track two: Cloud computing and its applications
4 lectures
Track two: Cloud computing and its applications
4 lectures
In partnership with the Saudi Cloud Computing Association.
Lectures
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1:00:14
Google's artificial intelligence applications
Dr. Intisar Sulaiman Alkayyal
An introduction to Google's artificial intelligence tools and how they can be used to process data and build digital solutions, alongside the relationship between cloud computing and AI and the main practical uses of both.
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1:25:33
The National Cybersecurity Authority controls
Eng. Khalid Aldossari
On cybersecurity controls and their importance in protecting an organisation's systems, data and technical infrastructure, and the part national controls play in managing risk, strengthening governance and compliance, and raising the level of cybersecurity.
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57:05
Hybrid and multi-cloud: uses and challenges
Eng. Hameed Alzahrani
On hybrid and multi-cloud, and how different cloud environments can be combined to suit an organisation's needs — covering the main uses and benefits, and the challenges of integration, resource management, security and operational flexibility.
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48:02
Privacy and data security
Dr. Sultan Al Makdi
On protecting data privacy as digital services and cloud computing expand, covering the risks of unauthorised access to data and the methods and controls used to strengthen information security and protect users' privacy.
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Track three: Space science and research
2 lectures
Track three: Space science and research
2 lectures
In partnership with Falak for Space Science and Research.
Lectures
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1:15:57
Space and its role in advancing medicine
Dr. Bader Shirah
On the relationship between space research and medical science, and how the space environment opens up ways to study the effect of microgravity and spaceflight on the human body — and how those experiments produce medical knowledge and technology useful both in space and on Earth.
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1:34:25
The Big Bang and the beginning of the universe
Prof. Najm Alhosiny
On the Big Bang as the leading scientific model for the origin of the universe and the start of its evolution, covering the earliest stages of its formation and the evidence and observations that have let researchers build a picture of its history and expansion over billions of years.
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