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Virtual 3 rd International Conference on

Under the Patronage
First Deputy President Supreme Council for Youth and Sports,
Chairman of General Sports Authority,
and President of Bahrain Olympic Committee
Bahrain International Conference for Artificial Intelligence in Sport
- Location & Device of Your Choice
- 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM | (Bahrain)
Bahrain International Conference
for Artificial Intelligence in Sport
The Bahrain Sports Summit is a platform that aims to bring together key stakeholders including sports clubs, government entities, private sector companies and experts to exchange knowledge and expertise and offer opportunities for development and growth in the ever promising sports sector
Chairman Conference
Dr. Jassim Haji
President, IGOAI Community

Dr. Jassim Haji
President, IGOAI Community
Dr. Haji is a veteran in the field Information and Communications Technology with over 3 decades of robust experience in implementing IT strategies to move applications/infrastructure, formulating vision, improving vision/culture, innovation and change management . With hands on expertise in reorganizing operations, managing core infrastructure including servers, storage, network, collaboration, application, middleware products. Deft in IT infrastructure management, management of heterogeneous networks, information security and service delivery as well as it regulatory compliance. Proven ability to affect transformational change across a range of operational areas and create a sustainable difference to a business’s operational performance.
Manage large scale delivery assignments for various platform technologies coupled with established credibility in providing domain support for managing operations round the clock while establishing command center and security operation.
He is continuously conducting research in Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Change, exemplified by his publications on latest technologies and how to be leveraged operationally and economically in organizations. He lead the entire Information Technology department in Gulf Air and implemented numerous cutting edge projects and technologies. He managed to achieve over 40 prestigious awards including 15 distinguished CIOs (Chief Information Officer). He formerly served on the board of directors of a leading hospitality and tourism technology provider in the Middle East and on SITA Council representing Middle East and North Africa. He has the ability to implement processes for improving IT Services entailing continual service improvement, service operations, service transition and service design & strategy.
Speakers
Dr Anthony Cioppa
Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium

Dr Anthony Cioppa
Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium
postdoc researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium and currently a visiting postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). I am funded by the FNRS and work under the supervision of Prof. Marc Van Droogenbroeck and Prof. Bernard Ghanem. My research interests are in the fields of computer vision, video analysis using AI, sports analysis, real-time processing, and video understanding. I graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2017 and completed my PhD in computer vision and AI at ULiège with support from the FNRS. I also organize international challenges on AI applied to sports and publish research papers on this topic.
Prof. Ernesto Damiani
Senior Director of the Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems

Prof. Ernesto Damiani
Senior Director of the Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems
Ernesto Damiani is a Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Senior Director of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, and Director of Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within Khalifa University (UAE). He is the leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center (EBTIC), and President of the Consortium of Italian Computer Science Universities (CINI). He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity. Ernesto's areas of interest include cyber-physical systems, Big Data Analytics, Edge/Cloud security and performance, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Ernesto Damiani has pioneered model-driven data analytics. He has authored more than 660 Scopus-indexed publications and several patents. Ernesto has been a recipient of the Research and Innovation Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Homeland Security , of the Stephen Yau Award from the Service Society, of the Outstanding contributions Award from IFIP TC2, of the Chester-Sall Award from IEEE IES, of the IEEE TCHS Research and Innovation Award, and of a doctorate honoris causa from INSA – Lyon (France) for his contribution to Big Data teaching and research.
Dr. Silvio Giancola
Research Scientist at King Abdullah | University of Science and Technology

Agenda
11:00 AM (Bahrain)
Opening Speech by
First Deputy President Supreme Council for Youth and Sports,
Chairman of General Sports Authority,
and President of Bahrain Olympic Committee
11:15 PM (Bahrain)
Welcome Note by
Dr Jassim Haji, President International Group of Artificial Intelligence (IGOAI)
11:30 AM (Bahrain)
Keynote
Dr Anthony Cioppa, Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium
12:00 PM (Bahrain)
Keynote
12:30 PM (Bahrain)
Keynote
01:00 PM (Bahrain)
Keynote
Pedro Fernandes Mestriner, CEO and Co-Founder | Horizm
01:30 PM (Bahrain)
Keynote
01:55 PM (Bahrain)