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Nov 16 2012 Event Ended

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?

The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

Schedule

Friday

Nov 16

4:30pm Registration Starts
5:30pm Kick off
6:00pm Speaker
6:45pm Pitches Start
8:00pm Dinner & Networking
9:00pm Attendees vote for the top ideas
9:15pm Teams start forming and discussing ideas
9:30pm Start to formalize teams and take an inventory of skills. Be honest, and direct about what resources and skills are needed for the weekend. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Saturday

Nov 17

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & tea
9:30am Teams formed and setting up workspace for the weekend
1:00pm Lunch & Namaz
2:00pm Video
2:30pm Speaker
3:00pm lectuer on video conferencing from UK
1:00pm Call for needs & skills
4:00pm Coaches help teams one-on-one. They are here to help!
8:30pm Dinner
9:30pm Mid weekend check-in, status reports, call for help
10:30pm Finished for the day. You may stay and work as late as the venue will allow

Sunday

Nov 18

9:00am Arrive, simple breakfast & coffee
10:00am Team work
1:00pm Lunch & Namaz
2:00pm Coaches arrive… ASK QUESTIONS
4:00pm Start preparing for presentations
5:00pm FINAL PRESENTATIONS
6:30pm Speaker
7:00pm Judging & awards
8:00pm Dinner & Networking
9:00pm Go home!

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Speakers

Syed Ahmad

Vice Chairman at P@SHA and CEO at DPL | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

Syed Ahmad is founder of DPL (www.dplit.com), an IT outsourcing company established since 2003. Syed is also currently serving P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) as Vice Chairman. Syed has diverse set of global experiences and is passionate about topics such as Leadership and Entrepreneurship. Syed is always set on an agenda to change the world with his rebel ethos while having fun with his job and daily life. A father of two, he likes adventure sports like Sky diving/jumping and exploring nature (more so in his dreams).

Adnan Shahid

CIO - Chief Ideas Officer at Ideogeny | LinkedIn

Passionate manager with fire to win!! Challenges status quo and willing to champion new order. Disciplined but flexible leader with balanced practice of common sense management, business operations and people management skills. Able to inspire teams with compelling vision of shared mission. Energizes, excites and motivates team to deliver results. Coaches and mentors colleagues and rejoices their success in life. Excellent presentation skills, able to build agreement among stakeholders. Strives to be amongst top 2% high performers and has fun at work. Enjoys adventure sports like wild water rafting, bungee jumping …

Shaf Choudry

Cofounder Twocial.com | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google+

Cofounder of bootstrapped startup Twocial, which helps brands better engage and reward their social audience. Shaf has a background in Computer Science with years of experience in Banking, Online Travel and Broadcast technology sectors. Currently working at the BBC in Future Media developing the next generation of connected TVs and mobile applications he is an advocate of the Lean Startup movement

Muneeb Idrees Maayr

Co-Founder Daraz.pk at Rocket Internet GmbH | LinkedIn

Co-Founder of Daraz.pk, an online fashion shopping portal funded by Berlin-based VC Rocket Internet. Muneeb graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelors in Economics and had a stint in Investment Banking in New York before heading to Pakistan to set up from scratch SNL Pakistan, a 600+ person back office selling data to investment banks. He is an avid skier and adventure sport enthusiast.

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Judges

Syed Ahmad

Vice Chairman at P@SHA and CEO at DPL | Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

Obaidullah Khawaja

Entrepreneur, founder and CEO at Sovoia | LinkedIn

Obaidullah is having specialty in Product incubation, design and evolution. Lean software development/Agile, raising funds
Learning: Marketing, Sales, Team Building. Technical areas are Software as a service (SAAS) and cloud computing (distributed systems, hadoop/mapreduce), search (SOLR and Lucene), Ad Networks and Ad Delivery, Online Retail

Raheel Waqar

CEO

As the CEO and Co-founder of White Rice Communications, a film, animation and design company, Raheel is involved in exploring the power of design, communication and storytelling, to create compelling products and services.

During the past 11 years, Raheel has led the design of many industry firsts and award-winning products. His contributions and efforts were recognized by The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship program in 2009, and he was selected as Asia’s top 100 entrepreneurs under the age of 30.

Raheel pursues opportunities aimed at behavior change and innovation in social development by working closely with social enterprises, nonprofits and businesses to bring a creative approach to the design of their services and products. He actively engages on entrepreneurship and social development engagements by serving on panels of several mentoring programs, advisory councils, juries, professional bodies and NGO groups.

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Coaches

Saj Khan

Senior Program Manager, Convo.com | Twitter

Program Manager at Scrybe. Interested in building simple solutions to some serious problems. Passionate about usability, virality, gamification.

Adnan Shahid

CIO - Chief Ideas Officer at Ideogeny | LinkedIn

Faisal Khan

Founder | Twitter LinkedIn

Faisal is the founder of two award-winning startups based in Peshawar and London. As a strong believer in entrepreneurship for social impact, he is very passionate about building the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Pakistan. He is currently writing up his DPhil in Systems Biology from the University of Oxford.

Maria Umar

Founder of Women’s Digital League | Twitter LinkedIn

Major in English Literature + Social Entrepreneur + Tech Firm Run from Home! Maria Umar is the Founder of Women’s Digital League. WDL provides digital services to clients and it’s proudly owned and powered by Pakistani women working from home. Certified by Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program and Thunderbird School of Global Management’s Project Artemis, WDL was a finalist at the “I Dare” business plan competition by GIST in June 2012. It was also featured on YouNoodle’s monthly newsletter.
With a strong passion for social entrepreneurship, Maria has a Master’s in English Literature from Frontier College for Women Peshawar. She worked as an ESL and creative writing teacher at a private school before starting her own firm.

Jibran Masud

Head of Mobile division at TEO A/S | Twitter LinkedIn

Jibran has been working with mobile solutions since 2005. He was part of an award winning Danish Start up ZYB. Vodafone acquired ZYB in 2008 and it became part of 360 platform.

At moment Jibran manages the mobile team at TEO focusing primarily on iOS, Windows Phone & Android platforms as well as occasionally employing HTML5, JQuery & Titanium.

His earlier engagements include working with Dawn Media group in Marketing & Research. He is interested in are mobile/web apps, hacks and social media.

Mohammad Yousuf Khan

Master Strategic Planner at Six Sigma Associates

Mr. M.YOUSUF.K is award winner from PM of Pakistan on entrepreneurial project management. M.YOUSUF.K (MPhil CS and MPhil PM ( 586 PDUs)) having 11 years of experience is Certified Productivity Specialist , Certified Lean Six Sigma Implementer , Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt , Certified Lead Auditor 5S , National Register Master Trainer & Consultant, NPO-Govt. of Pakistan, Certified Professional Manager in Project Management , Project Management, Six Sigma & ISO Professional, ISMS - QMS - TQM Professional.

Adnan Ali

Marketing Technologist | Twitter LinkedIn

Adnan Ali is a Marketing Technologist with 12 years of experience at the intersection of Marketing, Software Product Development and Online Networks. During this time he has helped startups and established businesses in USA and Pakistan to leverage the digital medium to acquire, retain and monetize users. Prior to working with Vopium, he was Program Manager at Tricastmedia Pvt Ltd working on P@SHA ICT Award winning app, Cricket Companion.

His primary focus is measuring the digital click chain across channels. Using Analytics to analyze usage data, Adnan has been able to offer actionable insights that have directly led to increase in revenue and decrease in cost of acquiring a customer. He is an outspoken evangelist for social, local and mobile applications for both B2C and B2B ventures.

Adnan is also a frequent speaker and mentor to technology based startup teams.

Fahad Yaqub

Developer at Scrybe

Jibran Ghani

Digital Marketing Manager at Vopium | Twitter

Jibran’s expertise lies in all that is Digital. With over 8 years of experience coupled with solid marketing and branding expertise, he has an impressive track record of successful delivery of complex and innovative technology and marketing solutions for leading organizations like Intel, Bank Alfalah and Vopium.

In his various roles, he has gained extensive knowledge on Digital marketing, new product development & launch, Affiliate Marketing, Gamification and general content leading to their immediate monetization. He also teaches Entrepreneurship, Business Communication and marketing research courses to MBA classes In University of Central Punjab as visiting faculty.

Hasan Mubarak

Business Development Manager at Vopium A/S | LinkedIn

Hasan has been working in the realms of business development, market research, brand management and digital media marketing for more than 5 years now. His multi-functional expertise is based on the experience of working for the likes of The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, Citibank N.A., Metroblogging and Copenhagen Business School. After getting an MBA from LUMS, he joined Vopium and has been looking after new business development projects, consumer research, marketing communications, digital marketing, app store management and customer satisfaction. In 2010, he was part of the Vopium team that won MIT Enterprise Forum Pakistan’s prestigious Business Acceleration Program award. Hasan also brings with him a vast experience of blogging and citizen journalism for which he has been featured and interviewed by major international and Pakistani news outlets in the past. Apart from all the techie stuff, he enjoys travelling, photography and likes to explore and discuss new entrepreneurship opportunities with like-minded people.

Zubair Khan

CEO at Tranchulas | Facebook LinkedIn

Zubair Khan - Founder of Tranchulas, entrepreneur, hacker, tech freak & troublemaker
“I just like to keep challenging myself”, says Zubair Khan, a technology entrepreneur with random crazy ideas. Zubair is founder and CEO of Tranchulas (www.tranchulas.com), a multinational information security company with offices in UK, USA and Pakistan. Known for his killer elevator pitches which helped him raise venture capital for Tranchulas, he is also a frequent trainer and speaker at renowned hacker conferences including Hack In The Box Malaysia, Hack.lu Luxembourg and Infosek Slovenia. Zubair graduated from Curtin University of Technology, Australia with a degree in Business IT. He is also Honoree for Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievement Program by (ISC)2.

Salman Ul Haq

CEO at TunaCode Inc. | Facebook LinkedIn

Salman a techpreneur, CEO and co-founder of TunaCode Inc, a technology startup helping companies deliver real-time speeds in video/image processing and data security verticals. Our company is one of the earliest adopters of GPU technology and probably the first in Pakistan to offer hardware optimized solutions to time-critical applications.

Zeeshan Haider

COO at Askoli

He is a seasoned internet marketing and technology professional who has strategized with top internet startups to design high-impact measurable digital media campaigns. Start-up companies have been Zeeshan’s focus throughout his professional career. The Web 2.0 space is where he is most comfortable and he’s never happier than when there’s an opportunity to discuss trends and opportunities in this ever-evolving industry.

Zeeshan is someone who is passionate about his work. Driven, dedicated and addicted to success - he’ll put in the extra time to get results. He has lead venture-backed startups like Weblo.com, Dragtotop.com, SocialBuckets.com, Shopit.com, Allvoices.com and FanIQ.com.

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