HCTAbuDhabi
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Theme: The Big Questions

This event occurred on
August 1, 2022
Abu Dhabi, Abū Z̧aby
United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi Women Campus Student Council Led Event

Abu Dhabi Women Campus
Hazza Bin Zayed Street, Al Dhafrah - Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, Abū Z̧aby, 00000
United Arab Emirates
Event type:
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Speakers

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Adnan Al Hashimi

Student and President
Adnan Al Hashimi is a passionate energetic person who loves teaching others and advocate the importance of education and Health in general. Being the first and only male future teacher in UAEU University specializing in Health and sports science. Adnan believes that the knowledge he has to deliver to educate children and younger generations is a responsibility and a vision he got inspired from his leaders in the country. He also gave out a workshop in the importance of physical activity and nutrition to cognitive functions of children of determination to mothers in UAEU university. Out of the academic world, Adnan is a strength and conditioning coach for different teams and athletes and gave workshops to different government sectors and schools to raise awareness about movement and health in general. Adnan believes he has the skill of effecting others and equip the future generations with the right tools of emotional intelligence, leadership and giving back to community.

Farah Al Qaissieh

Founder of Stutter UAE
Farah Al Qaissieh is a mother of three boys, an award-winning social entrepreneur and a hypnotherapist. Farah holds a Bachelors of Finance from Zayed University. Farah launched Stutter UAE in 2013 to raise awareness and support people who stutter through various workshops and events. Throughout the years, Farah has been featured in books and films. Farah co-founded Guiding stars to support mother's mental wellbeing and promote a more mindful journey of motherhood.

Lulwa Almarzooqi

Software Engineer
The leader of sustainability and ambassador of nature Lulwa Almarzooqi. She’s Driven by making changes for the better, always equipping herself with diverse knowledge and skills across different disciplines. she's very passionate about technology, the environment, sustainability, volunteering and sometimes of extreme sports. Lulwa never says no to self-improvement, and it was always a motive for her to be a better person and serve as much as she can to her people.

Mohamed Yalouh

Entrepreneur
Mohamed is a changemaker, innovator, author, and senior at the American Community School of Abu Dhabi. He was already a multi-time winner of more than eight gold medals & distinctions in multiple innovation competitions/olympiads worldwide at the age of fifteen. After Co-founding an R&D start-up called “Waind'', Mohamed began pondering the artistic sense of scientific discoveries and their Philosophy of Causation. Kuhn’s Paradigm, adapted from Kuhn's Structures of Scientific Revolutions book, was an interesting concept to him. He aimed to complement it with Causal relations; inferences and thus became interested in its research and various disciplines.

Organizing team

Hind
Almarzooqi

United Arab Emirates
Organizer

Maria
Farhan

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Co-organizer