Events

In the first SIG, let’s learn how to accelerate project delivery by changing your mindset, adjusting leadership style, embracing agility, creating a culture of teamwork and responding quickly to change. The session will help you understand how you can bring change by taking small steps. We have planned an interesting session for you, with an interactive presentation along with activities to engage all the participants in the learning process.

Pakistan Agile Development Society, founded in 2014, is defining the future of Agile in Pakistan. Today, the society consists of volunteer members from all over Pakistan having its chapters in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. It has been successfully spreading its message through conferences, awareness sessions, and meetups. AgilePK provides a platform to agile experts to share their experiences and knowledge and add value in industry. Find more about Pakistan Agile Development Society, visit their website: (http://www.agile.org.pk/). This event is being conducted in collaboration with Pakistan Agile Development Society Islamabad Chapter (AgileISB).

Who Should Attend?

Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Students.

Participation Charges

Free for OPEN Members. PKR 500/- for Non-Members

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.

Please register by 3:00 pm, Thursday, Mar 28, 2019, to ensure your participation.

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

In today’s world, databases are at the very core of the software business and recovering quickly from a database disaster is absolutely critical for business continuity. Downtime translates into direct revenue loss. If you run your business critical application on PostgreSQL backends, this talk covers important topics on what you need to know to perform a recovery operation of your company’s business critical PostgreSQL server using Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager.

Barman, standardizes your backup and recovery operations. It enables PostgreSQL DBAs and system administrators to easily integrate their PostgreSQL solutions in their disaster recovery plan. Barman features zero data loss backups, cooperation with standby servers, reliable monitoring integration, parallel copy for backup and recovery, backup catalogues, support for multiple servers, store backup data, full hot backup, incremental backup and recovery, retention policies, remote recovery, WAL files compression and backup Information.

This talk will cover how you can effectively use Barman for your disaster recovery plan.

Who Should Attend?

Database enthusiasts.

Participation Charges

Free

PostgreSQL provides a way to communicate with external data sources. This could be another PostgreSQL instance or any other database. The other database might be a relational database such as MySQL or Oracle; or any NoSQL database such as MongoDB or Hadoop. To achieve this, PostgreSQL implements ISO Standard call SQL-MED in the form of Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). This presentation will explain in detail how PostgreSQL FDWs work. It will include a detailed explanation of simple features, and will introduce more advanced features that were added in recent versions of PostgreSQL. Examples of these would be to show how aggregate pushdown and join pushdown work in PostgreSQL.

The talk will include working examples of these advanced features and demonstrating their use with different databases. These examples show how data from different database flavors can be used by PostgreSQL, including those from heterogeneous relational databases, and showing NoSQL column store joins.

Who Should Attend?

Database enthusiasts.

Participation Charges

Free

Internet of Things (IoT) is taking digital transformation to a whole new level by integrating devices into the ecosystem of data, insights and actions that business have access to. Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google are pouring billions into building out rich IoT platforms to enable and simplify these transformations.

In this session, Affan Dar will talk about why IoT is important, the state of the industry, current trends and future opportunities both in terms of business as well as engineering innovations.

Who Should Attend?

SW Industry: CEOs, CTOs, Engineering Leads, IOT Startups, IOT Companies
Academia: Deans, HODs, Research Leads doing IoT-centric work
Government: HEC (Curriculum Leads), Ministry of IT, Ignite
Telcos: IOT Groups, Heads of Maker Spaces

Participation Charges

Members: Free
Non-Members: Rs 500/-

Partner Organization: EMUMBA Private Limited
Special Thanks: www.rabtay.org

In this talk, Zohaib reviews the foundations of today’s software innovation, where it has been and what the future looks like. He will take a closer look at DevSecOps, what it takes to implement it to drive innovation and value that can be derived deploying it effectively. He will also share his experiences of selling and implementing DevSecOps solutions across various industries across USA. He will field questions on how we can benefit from it in Pakistan.

Kamran Kundi will share success story in implementation of DevOps in his organization.

Who Should Attend?

SW Industry: CEOs, CTOs, Engineering Leads, DevOps practitioners
Academia: Deans, HODs, Professors of Software Engineering, Research Leads doing development work
Government: HEC (Curriculum Leads), Ministry of IT, Ignite
Telcos: CIOs, Engineering Leads

Participation Charges

Members: Free
Non-Members: Rs 500/-

CALLING ALL CIVIC-MINDED GEEKS!

Jazz, Code for Pakistan and OPEN Islamabad brings the biggest and most exciting Hackathon of the year ‘Jazz SDG Hackathon’ happening in Islamabad on the second weekend of December 2018. This is going to be a 2.5 days long Hackathon starting on 7th December and concluding on 9th December, 2018.

If you believe you:

• Have a great idea that you want to bring to reality.
• Like working with intelligent people.
• Have skills in web or mobile development, design, mapping, data analysis, research, subject matter expertise in SDGs or the civic space.
• Have what it takes to innovate on top of government information and services.

Come, utilize your talent and creative skills in transforming Pakistan in line with 5 of the selected SDGs for the better.

During this weekend, you will learn design thinking, open-source hacking for social good, receive mentoring and input from domain experts in government and local organizations, have opportunities to network, and work in teams to create solutions — all for free.

You will form teams to create prototypes that address civic and social problems in line with the Sustainable Development Goals initiative of the UN. All you need to do is bring your creativity, skills, and enthusiasm! We at Code for Pakistan will do the rest. We will bring together great mentors to assist you. There will be lots of energy and excitement through creative activities. Not to mention a lot of food and swags.

SELECTED SDGS

SDGs selected for the hackathon are for participants to focus their projects and solutions on are:

• SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being
• SDG Goal 4: Quality Education
• SDG Goal 5: Gender Equality
• SDG Goal 10: Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG Goal 11: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

We are excited to announce that OPEN Islamabad is back with its flagship event – Annual Forum 2018! This year’s theme is “Entrepreneurs & Government” and is aimed at creating sustainable public-private partnerships.

This year’s event will bring together professionals from both Public and Private sector who will not only help establish a networking platform but will also look into collaborative efforts to b the existing governance systems. Our event will provide a chance to learn from renowned business leaders and government officials about:

• Bridging the gap between Public & Private sector initiatives
• Enhancing Private sector involvement in Public services
• Creating opportunities for sustainable growth

The audience will be 400+ invite-only professionals from a diverse group including but not limited to corporate, startup, academia, government and development sectors. The event is comprised of a series of motivational talks, panel discussions as well as an excellent opportunity to network.

The event details are as follows:

Date: Saturday, 1 December 2018
Time: 09:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: 1969 and Time Goes On, Islamabad

Your participation is subject to availability of seats. Since we have limited capacity, please reserve your seat at the earliest.

We, at OPEN Islamabad, look forward to your collaborative efforts in creating a new tomorrow.

نیا زمانہ، نۓ صبح شام پیدا کر!

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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.

Please register by 3:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, to ensure your participation.

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

How do you maximize your PostgreSQL Performance?
Come join us in our next meetup on Sep 26, 2018 where we will talk about “PostgreSQL Performance Tuning”.

The session will be conducted by Ibrar Ahmed who is a Senior Software Engineer and PostgreSQL consultant at Percona. He will discuss several concepts related to measuring and improving performance of your database. The topics covered are:

– Gauging Performance
– PostgreSQL Tuning Parameters
– Tuning and optimizing techniques
– Linux Kernel Tuning Parameters for PostgreSQL

The event provides you the opportunity to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from large enterprises
– C-level executives of technology 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.

We’re back with another meetup and this time we are talking all about “Multi-master replication in PostgreSQL” in collaboration with 2ndQuadrant.

Postgres-BDR (Bi-directional replication for PostgreSQL) is a ground-breaking multi-master replication tool for PostgreSQL databases. In the complex environment of replication, BDR achieves efficiency and accuracy, ensuring very high availability of all nodes in a geographically distributed cluster.

We loved your response in the last session and keeping your suggestions/recommendations in check, we are arranging the upcoming session in continuation to the previous one, “What’s new in PostgreSQL 10?” where we talked about new features and major developments of the new release. This interactive session will be conducted by Muhammad Haroon who is a PostgreSQL Expert at 2ndQuadrant.

The event provides you the opportunity to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from large enterprises
– C-level executives of technology 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.

We are pleased to announce our 10th session of PostgreSQL SIG in collaboration with 2ndQuadrant and XFlow Research on “What’s New in PostgreSQL 10?”

Last quarter of 2017 marked a major shift in Open-source database world with the release of PostgreSQL 10; The talk of the town being addition of Logical Replication.

The session is on “Technology for Entrepreneurs” by Rebecca Garcia, focusing on how people can use technology to start their businesses and help their existing businesses.

This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event).

OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with United States Embassy are pleased to invite you to an exclusive session on “The Importance of Cyber Security in Today’s Internet

Vacuum is one of the most important concepts that PostgreSQL users and DBAs need to understand for their database to continue performing well.

The session will be conducted by Muhammad Haroon. He will talk about what vacuum really does, how it works and why it is important for PostgreSQL DBAs to be well informed about it.

For long, it has been believed that success at the workplace depends on your intelligence quotient (IQ) as reflected in your academic achievements, exams passed, marks obtained, and so on. All these are instances of intelligence are of the academic variety. But how smart are you outside the classroom, faced with life’s difficult moments? Here, you need a different kind of resourcefulness. You need, what is called, emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ), which is a different way of being smart.

Your network is your net worth! Start investing in it now. We believe a simple hello could lead to a million things. Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambiance. You can expect to see:
– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from Telcos
– C-level executives of IT companies
– Deans and Heads of leading universities
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, health care, real estate etc and some amazing women who are trying to add value and redefining society with leadership skills.

“Finance for Entrepreneurs” by Dr. Andrew Scheuermann. The session will be moderated by the Leadership Drive SIGs Evangelist, our Charter Member and renowned Trainer Mohsin Lodhi.

This is an exclusive session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as a part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program
This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event

This an exclusive session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program.

This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event).

We are holding our 8th event of PostgreSQL User Group in partnership with 2ndQuadrant.
There will be live session with Gabriele Bartolini, who is a long time PostgreSQL community member, Project Leader of Barman and Head of support at 2ndQuadrant. Gabriele will be talking about backup strategies and disaster recovery systems that you can use to secure your critical PostgreSQL databases.

Gabriele will also be walking us through the following areas:

– System and Database requirements to use barman
– Principles (integration, usability, automation) and available features (remote and incremental backup & recovery, multiple servers, bi-modal WAL archiving, WAL compression, etc) of barman
– Backup types & scope
– Methods both for backup and recovery
– Relevant case studies

Barman is written and maintained by engineers at 2ndQuadrant, so you really don’t want to miss the chance of learning from the guy who conceived this tool! ?

When we talk of UX the first thing that comes to our minds is a website, a software or a mobile application. But we often forget that user experience is one of the main components of any industry. “People don’t buy products anymore, they buy experiences that are meaningful to them”. Pepsico’s Chief Design Officer.

The behaviors of customers are changing: the way they look at things now is different than 20 years ago. They have so many channels of communication and information that their decisions are being influenced by the current and future trends. In order to stay competitive we have to work along with the user in the design process to address each and every need which increases the chances of our products and services to have a good customer base.

This is a session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program. The session is “Entrepreneurship Do’s and Don’ts

It’s the spirit, not the statistics which matters. If we get into statistics, we will hardly get an encouraging image of female presence in the leadership role in Pakistan. Owing to the common challenges, women leadership is on the rise at an astonishing pace. We have seen a significant number of women making it on multiple fronts during the last decade.

In celebration of rising women excellence, OPEN’s 5th Leadership Drive session is dedicated to all those emerging women leaders, managers, entrepreneurs who are making their way forward by cutting through the social and cultural stigmas. The session aims to serve as a catalyst to women at all career levels who aspire to develop leadership acumen, learn the art of breaking the glass ceiling, overcome self-limiting beliefs, to strategically navigate through the leadership maze!

The session will provide a learning and networking platform which encourages participation of young females from all education and career levels who aim to develop and polish their leadership & management acumen in corporate, government or business sector.

Your network is your net worth! Start investing in it now. We believe a simple hello could lead to a million things. Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambience. You can expect to see:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from Telcos
– C-level executives of IT companies
– Deans and Heads of leading universities
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, health care, real estate etc and some amazing women who are trying to add value and redefining society with leadership skills.

Ever heard about the terms AR, VR or Mixed Reality? These systems will define the future of immersive experiences for mankind in almost all fields such as class room education, infotainment, retail and advertisments etc. In this guest talk by Asad J. Malik we will explore these futuristic technologies and learn about their applications. If you are interested in learning about the latest trends in experience design and human-computer interaction, this is the right talk for you!

This is an interactive session around Intellectual property, patents and related matters for technology organisations. The event is structured to have an opening presentation by Haris, followed by an open discussion and Q&A. The objective is to address questions, concerns and ambiguities around matters around Intellectual Property of an organisation.

As promised, we plan to hold our 7th session on 20th January. Topic of focus this time will be ‘Performance’.
Haroon will walk us through various tips and tricks on how we can enhance PostgreSQL performance while highlighting some typical pitfalls people encounter. If you are planning for capacity, doing scalability analysis, or simply facing degradation in performance of your apps or queries running against PostgreSQL, you should definitely attend this session.

The talk will be followed by refreshments and networking.