Beirut Launch Program

 

Marhaba!

Social Media Cafe is pleased to invite you to attend the Young Leaders Social Media Café in its Vol. 01- Beirut, atMarch 6, Zico House (Hamra) at 4.00.

Students, techies, geeks, social media enthusiasts, activists, journalists, entrepreneurs, investors, civic and business leaders, policy-makers and change-makers will be attending the event hosting more than 22 speakers from 22 Arab Countries and Sweden from the Key Social Media Projects, internationally, Regionally and locally.

Format:

Dynamic, free, intimate and unconventional interaction with 8 minute presentations for Each speaker (22 images x 22 seconds) followed with speed networking on a common theme (Will Social Media Fuck you up?) where speakers will move around spending 5 minutes on every table.

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Program:

> WELCOME NOTE - 4:00 PM

NIKLAS KEBBON - EMBASSY OF SWEDEN IN SYRIA

> INTRODUCTION OF YLSMC - 4:08 PM

HIBA FARHAT & JAVERIA RIZVI KABANI - SWEDISH INSTITUTE

> DIGITAL MEDIA WILL FUCK YOU UP – 4:16 PM

MARK COMERFORD - STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY

> To Be Announced at a later stage - 4:24 PM

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> ONLINE FREE SPEECH/ DIGITAL ACTIVISM & ONLINE ADVOCACY – 4:32 pm

SAMI BEN GHARBIA - ADVOCACY GLOBAL VOICES ONLINE

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> YOUSTREAM 01: METROPIA / TAREK SALEH- ATMO PRODUCTIONS 4:35 pm

> Break 15 min.

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> CREATIVE COMMONS / RETHORIC OF THE WEST IN THE ARAB WORLD - 4:50 PM

DONATELLA DELLA RATTA - MEDIAORIENTE

> CSR PROGRAMS & MOBILE ACTIVE - 4:58 PM

RANIA CHEHAYEB - ZAIN

> BLOGGERS AND BLOGGING IN LEBANON - 5:06 PM

SARAH JURKIEWICZ - ANTHROPOLIGIST/ RESEARCHER

> ONLINE MEDIA ETHICS - 5:14 PM

MAGDA ABU-FADIL / JOURNALISM TRAINING PROGRAM AT AUB

> WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY - 5:22 PM

NADA HAMZEH - WIT

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> YOUSTREAM 02 – 5:25 PM

> Dinner: 50 min.

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> FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & SUPPORT NET IN MENA - 6:15 PM

SAAD KIWAN - SKEYES MEDIA

> DIGITAL MEDIA LITERACY FOR CIVIL SOCIETY & NGOS - 6:23 PM

JESSICA DHEERE & MOHAMAD NAJEM - SMEX

> 12 BRIDGE BUILDERS: BLOGGERS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE - 6:31 PM

ANGELO BEAINI - ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY

> SAWTAK

AHMAD KAMH - SAWTAK.COM PROJECT

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> SPEED NETWORKING – 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM

THEME ‘WILL DIGITAL MEDIA FUCK YOU UP?’

> MUSIC / MINGLE

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CONNECTOR: NAJAT SHARAF AL DIN (TBC)

SOCIAL REPORTER: TONY SAGHBINI 

 

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