Community Engagement

EXTERNAL:

  • Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Direct Investor Advisory, Panel Member (2016 – Present)
  • Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Applied Innovation Judge in RBC Next Great Innovation Challenge (2011)
  • Committee member of IIE – Society of Engineering Management and Systems (SEMS) for Student Initiatives (2011-2014)
  • Panel Lead, SEMS Student Initiatives, Annual Industrial Engineering Conference- SEMS Panel Session, Orlando, FL,USA (May 2012)
  • Panel Lead, SEMS Student Initiatives, Annual Industrial Engineering Conference- SEMS Panel Session, St. Joan,Puerto Rico (May 2013)
  • Public Seminar, A new quantitative performance management systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA (Feb 2014)
  • Member, International Council of Small Business (ICSB), USA (2016 – Present)
  • Member, European International Business Association (EIBA) (2016 – Present)
  • Member, Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) (2011 – 2015)
  • Member, American Society for Quality (ASQ) (2013 – 2015)
  • Member, Academy of International Business (AIB) (2014)

INTERNAL

  • Committee Member, CBE Research & Scholarly Works Committee, Qatar University (Sept 2015-Present)
  • QU Outreach & Community Engagement Committee, attending their meetings, supporting & providing required advice/inputs (Nov 2016-Present)
  • Coach/mentor of innovation & business development, Doha Startup Weekend, Qatar University (Nov 2014)
  • Organized various QU events regarding innovation and entrepreneurship, including Innovation Day (2015), The First Research Contest on Innovation (2015),
  • Committee Member, The 4th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Qatar University (Oct 2016 – Present)
  • Conducting workshop on “Access to Finance for SMEs and Entrepreneurs in the GCC Countries”, Qatar University (Jan 2016)
  • Conducting workshop on “Pricing and Profitability”, Pre-Incubation Training Program, Qatar University (Jan 2015)
  • Facilitating various seminars about innovation management, financial management, and project management, Qatar University, Colleges of Engineering and Pharmacy (2014 – 2016)