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H.E Mariam Almheiri
UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment
H.E Petteri Taalas
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
H.E. Dr Abdulla Al Mandous
Director General, the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology
H.E Essa Ali Hashimi
Assistant Undersecretary, Sustainable Communities Sector-Acting, Assistant Undersecretary, Green Development and Climate Change Sector
H.E. Omran Sharaf
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Advanced Science and Technology, UAE
H.E Dr. Nawal Al Hosany
UAE’s Permanent Representative at IRENA
Prof. Fahad Khan
Deputy Chair of Computer Vision, MBZUAI, UAE
Dr. Ray Johnson
CEO of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Dr. Steven Griffiths
Senior Vice President for Research and Development, Khalifa University
Prof. Enrico Natalizio
Vice President, Autonomous Robotics Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE
Dr. Prashanth Marpu
Vice President for Research and Development, Bayanat.AI
Omar Al Yazeedi
Deputy Director General, UAE National Center of Meteorology (NCM)
Dr. Pakdee Chantraket
Director of Royal Rainmaking Technology Research and Development Division
Prof. Juerg Luterbacher
Director, Science and Innovation Department and Chief Scientist, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud
Director of Water and Climate Program, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA
Dr. Deon Terblanche
Expert Consultant on Weather and Climate at the World Bank
Dr. Richard Behnke
President, SciencePrime, LLC, USA
Dr. Robert Robinson
Chief Scientist, SciencePrime, LLC, USA
Alya Al Mazroui
Director, UAEREP, UAE National Center of Meteorology (NCM)
Ayman bin Mohammad Al-Bar
Director, Cloud Seeding Program, KSA
Prof. Maarten Ambaum
Professor of Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology
Dr. Linda Zou
Khalifa University and UAEREP’s 1st Cycle Awardee
Prof. Ali Abshaev
Senior Researcher at the Hail Suppression Research Center «ANTIGRAD» and Stavropol Hail Suppression Service of Russian Hydrometeorological Service and UAEREP’s 3rd Cycle Awardee
Prof. Eric W. Frew
University of Colorado - Boulder and UAEREP’s 3rd Cycle Awardee
Prof. Roefol Burger
Senior Lecturer, North- West University, South Africa
Prof. Luca Delle Monache
UAEREP 4th Cycle Awardee, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
Prof. Zhanyu YAO
Professor, Weather Modification Center, China Meteorological Administration, China
Dr. Lulin Xue
Chief Scientist at the Hua Xin Chuang Zhi Sci. & Tech. LLC and UAEREP’s 3rd Cycle Awardee
Dr. Bradley Baker
UAEREP 3rd Cycle Awardee, University of Colorado, USA
Dr. Duncan Axisa
Director of Science Programs at Droplet Measurement Technologies, and CO-Pi of UAEREP’s 3rd Cycle Awardee Prof. Eric Frew
Dr. Diana Francis
Senior Scientist, ENGEOS Lab Head at Khalifa University, UAE
Dr. Juha Tonttila
Scientist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute
Dr. John Hassard
Faculty, Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Sagar Parajuli
Research Scientist, King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Joo Wan Cha
Research Team Leader, Research Applications Department, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), South Korea
Sufian Farrah
Meteorologist & Cloud Seeding Expert, NCM
Yodahe A. Zemichael
Technology Advisory, Office of the Prime Minister, Ethiopia
Dr. Agniv Sengupta
Research Scientist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, USA
Mohamed Alwahedi
Chairperson, Youth SDGs Council and Seismic Engineering Engineer, NCM, UAE
Alex Hirst
PhD Candidate, university of Colorado Boulder, USA
Ahmad Al Kamali
Cloud Seeding Executor, NCM
Henno Havenga
Senior Lecturer, North-West University, South Africa
Kanshaubi Malkarov
Research Engineer, HSRC Antigrad Moscow, Russia
Noor Al Shamsi
Numerical Forecasting specialist, NCM
Riccardo Toxiri
Program Officer, IRENA – capacity building and youth
Sara Alameri
Program Officer, UAEREP and Meteorologist, UAE National Center of Meteorology (NCM)
Ramia Farrage
Presenter and News Bulletin Editor of Emirates News on Dubai One TV
Date
24-26 Jan 2023
Location
Conrad Abu Dhabi, Etihad Towers
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