Mrs. Aisha Al-Owais, a research assistant at the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST), was invited by the UAE Space Agency to give a short presentation about the academy on Jan. 18, 2022. This was part of the “Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week,” the Future Sustainability Summit organized during Jan. 17-19, 2022. The summit was to set the stage for engaging, thought-provoking discussions on the global sustainability
agenda and how advances in artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) can accelerate sustainable development. Mrs. Aisha
presented the different programs of the academy in terms of its four units: administration, academics, planetarium, and research.