startup Pakistan always provides platform for those students and startups who want to pursue their own businesses with workable ideas. This session is a great opportunity for students to consider a wide spectrum of ideas.  A panel of highly accomplished leaders will be sharing their experience in ideation and may even share some interesting business ideas for students to learn and get inspired.
 

This online session is mandatory for all cohort students. 

In this live session we will have Mr. Usman Dar as a special guest who is currently appointed as Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs.

Program will be moderated by Hassan Syed and following thought leaders (in alphabetical order) will share their valuable advice:

1. Mr. Aijaz Qureshi - Dynamics AX - Systems Engineering Enterprise Architect at Acclivities Technology, Inc.
2. Mr. Ammar Jaffri  - Director General at Center of Information Technology ( CIT )
3. Mr. Farrukh Malik - President of OPEN Islamabad, Chairman at Agile Development Society Pakistan
4. Mr. Hisham Sarwar-  Freelancer , Youtuber and instructor in Digital Marketing
5. Mr. Khurram M.Zuberi - CEO at JumpStart Pakistan
6. Mr. Nabil Qadeer  -  Lead, Host & Content Producer, Idea Croron Ka
7. Mr. Rehan Allahwala - Founder at Institute of Peace
8. .Mr. Samad Khan -  Social Entrepreneur and Youth Leadership Trainer
9. Mr. Shahid Joia - Small Businesses Consultant and Business Coach
10. Dr. Shahida Saleem - Managing trustee at Promotion of Education in Pakistan (PEP) Foundation
11. Mr. Shahzad Gul - Focal Person to PM Startup Pakistan Program
12. Mr. Sunny Ali -  CEO at Extreme Commerce

Every speaker will speak to students for 10 minutes each and there will be an Q/A session in the end 

Moderator: Hassan Syed is the CEO of Bir Ventures USA, founder of IdeaGist, founding director of Minnesota Innovates, and a founding director of the Institute for Innovators and Entrepreneurs at Hamline University Minnesota at IdeaGist, Hassan amalgamated and leads a collaborative network of more than 400 communities from all 195 UN recognized countries.

Speaker’s profiles (in alphabetical order):

Aijaz Qureshi is a Microsoft Dynamics AX Senior IT professional.He has over 20 years of experience in IT consulting with Oracle Canada, Origin Technologies, and Acclivities Technology where he has been involved in market/business development, pre-sales, post-sales, IT consulting, project/program management, and senior management positions

Ammar Jaffri  is heading the ICTs for Development Initiative of CIT which started the Initiative E-Village in the Year 2009 and after passing through many development stages has today reached to the stage of E-Pakistan 

Farrukh Malik is actively involved in the entrepreneurial culture development of Pakistan and serves as a mentor, speaker and judge at different business plan competitions and startup incubators across the country. He is President of OPEN Islamabad, Chairman at Agile Development Society Pakistan, Charter Member of TiE Islamabad and among Board of Advisers of JumpStart Pakistan 

Hisham Serwar is an instructor for freelancing and at Digiskills5. He is a youtuber and blogger as well. He has trained a lot of people on digital marketing, freelancing and bloggings 

Khurram M. Zuberi is  Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Founding and Raising an Startup from bottom up, Strategic Planning, Negotiation, Team Building, Team Leading. Strong Entrepreneurial professional with a Master’s Degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Data Communications.

Nabeel Qadeer has been on a journey to rebrand Pakistan and redefine heroes with one goal in mind - to uplift the image of his homeland.
His efforts to promote entrepreneurship and to catalyze the startup ecosystem took shape in Idea Croron Ka – Pakistan’s first business reality show. He is also the Chairman & CEO, Commonwealth Youth Innovation Hub Pakistan which focuses on Social Cohesion, Peace and Security, Economic Sustainability and Leadership.

Rehan AllahwalaRehan  is Founder at Institute of Peace and working on mobile based education system.

Samad Khan As founder and CEO of Youth Impact, he believes that he is able to develop a youthful force of social leaders. Samad has conducted youth leadership trainings across the five continents, countries including Australia, USA, UK, Turkey, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Malaysia and Pakistan.

Shahid Hussain Joia is a Practical Businessman, Motivational Speaker, Youtuber, Social Media Activist, Small Businesses Consultant, Business Startup Mentor and Business Coach. ​Joia is dealing with Fertilizers Trading, Steel Engineering (Machinery Making), Business Consultancy, Goat Provision, Chemicals Trading, House hold product Manufacturing, Farming and Distribution. ​

Dr. Shahida Saleem is Serial Social Entrepreneur and managing trustee at Promotion of Education in Pakistan (PEP) Foundation. She is chairperson at Sehat First pvt Ltd.and founder of dotz technologies.

Shehzad Gul is Focal Person of Prime Minister's Startup Pakistan and an accomplished entrepreneur himself. He is the CEO at solochoicez pvt. Carrying technology background along with the world's top Consultancy firm’s (DELOITTE) experience and exposure in solution design, audit, consultancy, enterprise risk management, compliance, and business process outsourcing.

Sunny Ali is the founder and CEO of Extreme Commerce. Sunny Ali founded Extreme Commerce for the purpose of enabling Pakistani youth and young entrepreneurs with right knowledge and skills to build their online retail store businesses on Amazon from Pakistan.

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