PAKISTAN 2020 & Beyond

Speakers for this event

• Adeel Shaffi

  Adeel Shaffi

  Co-Founder PriceOye

  Adeel is the Co-Founder of PriceOye, a shopping intelligence company that facilitates consumers in 2nd and 3rd Tier cities shop online. Forbes Magazine listed him as a 30 under 30 member in March 2018.

  Co-Founder PriceOye

• Badar Khushnood

  Badar Khushnood

• Fahad Tiwana

  Fahad Tiwana

• Hira Attique

  Hira Attique

• Jehad Zafar

  Jehad Zafar

• Junaid Akram

  Junaid Akram

• Komail Abbas Naqvi

  Komail Abbas Naqvi

• Navera Waheed

  Navera Waheed

  CEO, Orbit

  Navera believes that technology and innovation are two pillars on which the future is based. She is currently working on revolutionizing how the knowledge is transferred through the power of Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality has a proven effect in improving the process of knowledge transfer by increasing the focus of pupils by more than 80%.

  CEO, Orbit

• Owais Anjum

  Owais Anjum

  CEO, eMumba

  Owais is currently CEO of eMumba. He is a Silicon Valley trooper for a good number of years, is a Spartan armed with an MBA from San Jose State University, the oldest public institution on the West Coast of USA. He has led a subsidiary of a Silicon Valley Company in Pakistan and is now administering his own startup, eMumba. One of the biggest achievements of his startup is “Cricout – A Social Network for Cricket” available online and in the form of smartphone apps. Owais is an esteemed and distinguished member of the Islamabad entrepreneurial circle and volunteers his time for mentoring. He has also been an active member of OPEN Silicon Valley chapter in the past.

  CEO, eMumba

• Rohma Labeeb

  Rohma Labeeb

  Accelerator and Partnerships Lead at Invest2Innovate (i2i)

  Rohma Labeeb has been engaged in the social impact sector in Pakistan, Canada and the UK for over 4 years now. After graduating from the University of Toronto with Bachelors in Management, she had the opportunity to be a part of the marketing and business development of several new initiatives across the globe, including Artez Interactive and Margalla Logistics. Her passion for sustainability in social change has also led her to be in project design positions at the Human Development Foundation and Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi. She has recently completed her Masters in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship from The London School of Economics, through which she has developed extensive international networks in the field of innovation and gained expertise in sustainability research and social delivery. As the lead of the i2i Accelerator, Rohma aims to bring a systematic change to the start-up ecosystem in Pakistan, encouraging sustainability, impact and expertise in every initiative.

  Accelerator and Partnerships Lead at Invest2Innovate (i2i)

• Salman Wasay

  Salman Wasay

  Co-Founder Chaaye Khana & Couch Potato

  Salman Wasay has more than 25 years of corporate experience. He was the former Chief Commercial Officer at Ufone and Director Marketing at Zong. He's now a full-time serial entrepreneur and currently the Founder & CEO at Couch Potato - Islamabad. Interestingly, the love for fine food & entrepreneurship had urged him to open some of the best restaurants in the twin cities.

  Co-Founder Chaaye Khana & Couch Potato

• Shabahat Ali Shah

  Shabahat Ali Shah

  Chief Executive Officer, National IT Board @ Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Govt of Pakistan.

  Shabahat is a versatile and highly innovative leader with 20+ yr experience in Innovation Management, Business Development, Global Marketing & Product Management across a wide variety of technologies. He possesses extensive experience in leading large teams to expand the corporate footprint in EMEA, North and South America, and JAPAC regions. He holds progressive experience with industry-leading companies in developing sustainable business strategies. Shabahat is an MBA graduate from MIT and completed the Public Leadership and Corporate Strategy Program at Harvard. A self-motivated leader known for both technical and business acumen.

  Chief Executive Officer, National IT Board @ Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication, Govt of Pakistan.

• Shafiq Akbar

  Shafiq Akbar

  CEO, Graana

  An overseas Pakistani, Cambridge alumnus and a successful entrepreneur. Mr. Shafiq Akbar returned to Pakistan after living in the UK for 15 years. As an accomplished investment advisor and real estate developer, he not only created more than 450 jobs for the Pakistani youth, but also established a conglomerate of 7 companies. Mr. Shafiq Akbar is the Chairman and Founding Chief Executive Officer of Graana and Imarat Group of companies. He brings considerable real estate development and international business experience to the group. He is also the Chairman of Agency 21 International.

  CEO, Graana

• Shehryar Hydri

  Shehryar Hydri

  Secretary General, P@SHA

  Shehryar has two decades of diverse experience as a Tech Entrepreneur and Marketer, founding and scaling cross-functional teams that have delivered products and services for some of the top brands in the world. Prior to joining P@SHA, Shehryar was the Director, Marketing & Operations at Convo and a member of the Convo board. He also served on the Advisory Board of Ingrain.io (formerly Groopic) which was recently acquired by KeepTruckin. Shehryar also co-founded Trango Interactive, one of the pioneering game development and CGI studios of Pakistan. Trango was nominated in the Red Herring Asia 100 list within two years of its formation and delivered world-class content for some of the most well-known games and consumer brands in Europe and North America. He did his MBA from IBA Karachi.

  Secretary General, P@SHA

• Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi

  Syed Muzamil Hasan Zaidi

  Data Scientist | Content Engineer | Digital Media SME | Digital Influencer

  With his inspiring videos that went viral to millions, Muzamil has become a celebrity in Islamabad. Muzamil will share his story of Lolz Studios whose videos with an over-aching aspect of doing good has inspired and reached millions. He is now the face for many popular brands and become an icon for young Islamabad entrepreneurs.

  Data Scientist | Content Engineer | Digital Media SME | Digital Influencer

• Syed Shahzad Sherazi

  Syed Shahzad Sherazi

  Co-Founder & COO, Clicky.pk

  I am an engineer and tech entrepreneur passionate about e-commerce, fin-tech & ed-tech sectors in Pakistan. Co-founder of Pakistan's fast-growing fashion e-commerce marketplace Clicky.pk, enabling consumers in Pakistan to buy from a variety of small, medium and large brands and retailers from Pakistan and abroad. Before this, I have worked in the telecom sector and provided technical consultancy to various national and international telcos in Pakistan, Middle-east and Africa.

  Co-Founder & COO, Clicky.pk

• Taimur Rashid

  Taimur Rashid

  General Manager, Customer Success - Azure Data & AI, Microsoft

  Taimur Rashid is a cloud executive with 18+ years of experience in new market development and strategic business development, and a thought leader on the topics of digital and cultural innovation. Currently he is Head of Customer Success for Microsoft’s Azure Data & AI business. Previously, he served 10 years at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was a founding member of the Worldwide Commercial Sales & Business Development organization. Taimur led strategic business development through 2018 when the business reached $25B in ARR, and secured some of the most innovative startups and enterprises (Airbnb, Dropbox, Grab, Uber, CapitalOne, GE, Netflix, HSBC) to run their businesses in the cloud.

  General Manager, Customer Success - Azure Data & AI, Microsoft

• Umar Qamar

  Umar Qamar

  Founder at Export Leftovers

  Umar is considered a pioneer in the Pakistani eCommerce Industry. He started elo (Export Leftovers) as a 2 person operation in 2013 in a small meeting room in his father's factory in Faisalabad that currently employs 107 people & has grown to become one of the biggest & fastest growing eCommerce stores of the country. elo was also recently featured in the top 100 start ups of Pakistan. He has an M.A (Hons) from University of Edinburgh and an M.Sc in Marketing Strategy from Cass Business School, London. When he is not glued to the computer screen or making product videos, he spends his time trying out new food, reading, globetrotting & improving his Marathon time.

  Founder at Export Leftovers

• Waqar Azim

  Waqar Azim

  COO, Quixel

  Waqar Azim is a Computer Science graduate of National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad. He moved to Sweden in 2009 to pursue a Masters degree in Interactive Media Design.

  COO, Quixel