Webinar: How Digital Transformation Will Change the Education Sector in the GCC by GESS Education

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How Digital Transformation Will Change the Education Sector in the GCC

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Presenters

GESS Education

Faisal Al Balushi

Chairman, The Omani Society for Education Technology

HE Dr. Abdullatif Abdullatif

General Supervisor of Digital Transformation and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia

Dr Abdullatif Mohammad Alabdullatif is currently an advisor and General Supervisor of Digital Transformation and Information Security in ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia. He is handling the digital transformation file for education. Before that he was the owner of the National digital transformation strategy (Raqmi) file for the whole kingdom in the National Digital Transformation Unit where he was the VP there. Abdullatif started his experience in digitalization and digital transformation in the educational sector, he was heading the effort for Digital transformation for one of the oldest and biggest universities in the kingdom.

HE Dr. Hamad Al Yahyaei

Assistant Undersecretary for the Curriculum & Evaluation Sector, Ministry of Education, UAE

His Excellency Dr. Hamad Muhammad Al Yahyaei, Assistant Undersecretary for Curricula Sector at the Ministry of Education since December 2017, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Al Yahyaei has worked as a curriculum director at the Ministry between 2015 and 2017 and was an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the United Arab Emirates University.

Laila Al Hadhrami

Senior Executive Digital Transformation, Ministry of Transport, Communication, & Information Technology, Oman

Laila AL Hadhrami, senior executive-Digital Transformation in the eTransformation team in Ministry of Transport, communications and IT, as she is also the director of Building Capacity and Awareness in Smart City Platform. She started working as a professional in this field from 2005 and has experience as well as credentials in different relevant fields including Government Innovation, Change Management, UX, Re-process engineering, Business Analysis, Project Management, and Knowledge Management. Speaking about Knowledge Management, she is very passionate about CoPs and she has established the first CoP in Change Management in Oman. Laila has also participated as a speaker in many conferences and seminars in Oman and overseas. Currently, she is leading national projects in Oman, like Government Innovation in emerging technologies in Oman, and other projects related to digital transformation. She is also the founder of Smart City Ambassadors initiative that has been awarded by ITU Innovation Challenges Winning ideas from the Ecosystem best practice challenge category 2020. Currently, Laila is Leading change management activities on the digital transformation program and support the government entities to adapt the required changes to meet their digital transformation objectives and organization culture change towards the digitization.