WEP 2017
January 8-21
Opening night Jan 7
Register To An Exciting Program
This year’s WEP is offering fourteen enthralling days of a unique educational experience to explore the theme “Pushing the Limits: Challenging Engineering and Science”. With around 100 events, there is something for everyone’s taste! Many workshops and lunchtime lectures are already fully booked. But you can still register for all the keynote lectures.
Speakers who all have pushed the limits within their field will deliver nine exceptional keynote lectures:
- Sunday Jan 8: His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi: Out of the Desert - My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
- Monday 9: Ed Stone - The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space
- Tuesday 10: Christopher Fabian – Innovation at UNICEF: How to help balance an asymmetric world
- Wednesday 11: Dirk Ahlborn - Hyperloop: The Future of Transportation
- Thursday 12: Theo Jansen - Pushing the Limits of Kinetic Arts: Strandbeests
- Sunday 15: Steph Davis – Choosing to Fly: Examining Fear, Risk and Resilience
- Monday 16: Cindy Lee Van Dover – From Exploration to Exploitation? Opportunities and Imperatives in the Deep Sea
- Tuesday 17: Martin Fischer - Preparing for the America's Cup: A technological and a human challenge
- Wednesday 18: Estelle Metayer – Your future in Science and Technology: Breathtaking Opportunities and Significant Choices
Except for the first keynote lecture happening from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, all lectures will take place in the auditorium, building 20, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.
Many activities will be offered at the WEP Hub. The Opening night on January 7 will launch it at the University Library with many activities. It will be the beating heart of the program, open to everyone in the Community. The hub will deliver morning live talk shows with keynote speakers, exhibitions, creative activities, science and engineering challenges, book signing session, building with LEGO workshops and challenges… And there will be gifts for everyone.
Professional Training through Improvisation - Morning Workshop (1/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
Discover Saudi Arabia: The Egyptian Pilgrimage Road - Lunchtime Lecture
Location: Building 20, Auditorium
Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil
Location: Building 20, Auditorium
Professional Training through Improvisation - Evening Workshop (1/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
What Drives Human Cognitive Development? (1/3)
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2322
Three 1/2-day courses on cognition and human evolution. One of the days will be a lab where students learn how to make stone tools ranging from 2 myr to 0.5 myr technologies. The course will ... more
Professional Training through Improvisation - Morning Workshop (2/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
Professional Training through Improvisation - Evening Workshop (2/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
What Drives Human Cognitive Development? (2/3)
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2322
Three 1/2-day courses on cognition and human evolution. One of the days will be a lab where students learn how to make stone tools ranging from 2 myr to 0.5 myr technologies. The course will ... more
Professional Training through Improvisation - Morning Workshop (3/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
Additive Manufacturing: Creating Bigger, Faster, and Smarter Electronics
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
Biological Flight and Aerodynamics of Small Moving Wings - Lunchtime Lecture
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
Professional Training through Improvisation - Evening Workshop (3/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
What Drives Human Cognitive Development? (3/3)
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2322
Three 1/2-day courses on cognition and human evolution. One of the days will be a lab where students learn how to make stone tools ranging from 2 myr to 0.5 myr technologies. The course will ... more
Professional Training through Improvisation - Morning Workshop (4/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
Professional Training through Improvisation - Evening Workshop (4/4)
Location: Building 19, Level 1, Mosti Auditorium
Preventing and Fighting Infectious Diseases: Carbohydrate Vaccines and Flow Chemistry - Lunchtime Lecture
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
Automated Glycan Assembly as Basis for Vaccine Development and Material Science
Location: Building 9, Room 3131
Programming the Multiverse: An Introduction to Quantum Programming
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
From Aedes to Zika: Understanding the origins of emerging infectious diseases - Lunchtime Lecture
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
KAUST Research Poster Competition - Opening and Judging Session
Location: WEP HUB (University Library)
Supercharge Your Personal Productivity with Today's Tech Tools
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2322
Prospecting for Biomimetic Models in the Sea - Lunchtime Lecture
Location: Building 9, Lecture Hall 2325
From Exploration to Exploitation? Opportunities and Imperatives in the Deep Sea
Location: Building 20, Auditorium
Preparing for the America's Cup: A technological and a human challenge
Location: Building 20, Auditorium
Your future in Science and Technology: breathtaking opportunities and significant choices
Location: Building 20, Auditorium
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