Leadership SIG series is back with its tenth episode, “Managing the Boss”. In the last session, we focused on how managers need to communicate on three different levels and how to make these communications effective. This time, we are going to discuss the significance of managing one’s relationship with their boss.

It sounds skeptical “to manage your boss” due to our traditional management practices in the organisations. It also sounds unhealthy to think why to manage your boss. But numerous research studies suggest that effective managers take time and effort notably to manage their relationships with their subordinates and also with their bosses as well. In this session, we will explore the difference between a leader, manager and a boss and what are the areas we could
look into developing our relationships with the boss.

An introduction to User Experience Design elements starting from product strategy all the way to pixel perfect interfaces. In this 2.5 hours session we will go from the basics to the intermediate level understanding of UX process and it’s stages. Understanding this framework can help you explain User Experience process and it’s importance to your clients, customers and partners.

Gartner predicts that there will be over 21 billion connected devices in the world by 2020 [https://www.gartner.com/doc/3299317]. More than anything else, this number drives all 3 Vs of Big Data: Velocity, Volume, Variety. The Internet of Things (IoT) causes some challenges for any database system: security, resource consumption, ingestion rate, replication as well as coping with various access patterns from transactional systems to complex analytics. This talk will discuss how PostgreSQL‘s current feature set, the new features in upcoming versions of PostgreSQL and Postgres-BDR will provide the required feature set for IoT.

Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambience. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN

– Top Executives from large enterprises

– C-level Executives of IT companies

– Deans, Professors and Researchers from universities

– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad

– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc.

Participation charges:
Members: 500 PKR
Non-members: 1000 PKR

Building team requires strategies to effectively achieve objectives irrespective of the job or role assigned to them. What three constituents are required to build an effective team, we will discuss in this session.