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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!

Our Sponsors

Our Partners

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.

So, it’s not about making things pretty?

You’ve probably heard of this thing called, “Design;”; maybe you even practice it. But do you ever find it challenging to explain what it is or why it’s important to your friends, team, or even to yourself? This talk will walk through the role of User Experience (UX) Design in product development through a case study from Google, remove some misconceptions, and share tips for building a case for design within your team, despite constraints.

OPEN Islamabad is organizing an exclusive full day workshop on Data Science in collaboration with the world renowned startup Data Science Dojo. The workshop will be conducted by the founder/CEO of the company himself, Dr Raja Iqbal. Dr Raja holds a PhD in Computer Science from Tulane University and has previously worked as a Data Scientist at Microsoft.
Data Science Dojo is a world renowned training company based out of Redmond, Washington, dedicated to enabling professionals to extract actionable insights from data. The company has trained more than 2000 data scientists so far and has received stunning reviews by participants.

This one day workshop is specially tailored to familiarize people with Data Exploration, Visualization and Feature Engineering. Participants will be required to spend 4-5 hours in pre-requisite learning to make the best out of the workshop.

Getting in and staying in the box restricts our perspective and makes us sick, unlikable, and mediocre performer.

We get stuck when we have problems we can’t see. Since we can’t see them, we don’t even know they exist. We mistakenly think the problems are something else, ignoring the real issue. Put yourself in the picture. Since you can only see things from your closed and limited perspective – and since, like most people, you probably resist the suggestion that the truth lies outside of things you’ve considered – you are primarily in a box, that is “cut off, closed up, and blind.”

Are you aware of your shortcomings? Or maybe, the problem is that you don’t know them.

Leadership is AUTHENTICITY, not a STYLE.”

Success and power of influence depends on being out of the box.

For the 3rd year in a row, OPEN Islamabad brings you its flagship event, Annual Forum 2016! Themed around “Entrepreneurship: Finding Order in Chaos”, this year we will focus on the various challenges faced by an entrepreneurial venture at different stages of its lifecycle. Our speakers are people who have “been there, done that” and are in an excellent position to share their experiences and key takeaways for all of you!
As an attendee, you can expect to be walked through the different phases in an entrepreneurial journey, from conception, through building teams, leveraging a mentor network, and scaling, highlighting the challenges an entrepreneur faces at each phase and how to tackle them.

Besides hearing the speakers, you can expect this to be an excellent opportunity to network. Your fellow-attendees will be 500+ invite-only entrepreneurs and professionals from a diverse group including but not limited to corporate, startups, academia, government and development sectors.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are being very commonly used in our daily lives. Location-based services with the help of location-aware devises are also on the rise. The need of GIS solutions are pretty much in demand in the local market. PostgreSQL provides a strong back-end GIS support with the help of an extension called PostGIS, that can be used to develop and deploy useful GIS solutions.

PostGIS has the ability to deal with spatial data (both vector and raster). In this session, we will take a look on working of PostGIS. How does spatial data is stored in PostgreSQL tables? What spatial functions are available in PostGIS which can be used in SQL to get interesting results? And finally how PostGIS can connect to well-know open source GIS & Visualisation desktop software such as QGIS.

People don’t fail because they don’t have any goal or a plan. They fail because of wrong strategy or tactics. Leadership is not through position, title, or power but leadership is through actions. Successful leaders know what to do in the times of adversity and prosperity.

Is the leadership being a role model or is it acting before the crisis? Is leadership leading the under performers to peak performance or is it coaching the good to greatness? What is the real leadership?

It’s not what you know but how quickly you learn from others. So let’s learn from the experienced who have established the footprint of success for others to learn in the upcoming OPEN SIG Drive by meeting our worthy panelists “ Mr. Wahaj Siraj CEO of Nayatel, and Mr. Ather Imran, CEO of Sybrid Pakistan”

Microsoft Pakistan has partnered up with the PostgreSQL Special Interest Group in Islamabad to bring you “Open Source PostgreSQL on the Cloud”!
Agenda:

• Introduction to Azure & its features

• Deploy a Ubuntu Linux VM on Azure

• Install and configure PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux Server hosted on Azure

• Build a quick demo Asp.net app and connect it through the database using EF 6.0 drivers for PostgreSQL

• Deploy the website on Azure

Besides this, Microsoft will also be distributing $100 Azure vouchers for all attendees of the session along with handing out other goodies.

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.

Are you worried about your database server’s availability? Do you have Service Level Agreements that require continuous availability of your database? Does it take longer down time and maintenance window to bring the database back online? Does your application have to suffer because your database needs longer maintenance windows?
PostgreSQL provides the basic building blocks to build an HA (highly available) cluster. In this session, we will take a look at what PostgreSQL & its community has to offer that promises minimum downtime with auto-failover support.

OPEN Islamabad is starting a SIG (Special Interest Group) on the topic of Lean Startup Methodology to help local startups understand the basic principles of lean and its practical implementation.

We believe 90% of startups fail because they do not build what their customers need. Lean Startup Methodology is a technique that helps understand the needs of the customers and reduces the odds of failure.

“Success is not delivering a feature, it is learning how to solve customer’s problem” – Eric Ries, Founder of Lean Startup Methodology”

According to Steve Blank, “a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”, so the faster a startup learns, the lower would be its odds of failure.

This SIG would be run by Awais Naseer who is a Lean evangelist and practitioner for past several years. Awais has helped several local and international startups build dozens of products on lean principles. He is the founder and CEO of Softoven (Pvt.) Ltd., a lean product development agency based out of Islamabad with clients across the world.

Topics to be covered
The first Lean Startup SIG would cover the following topics:

a. Introduction to lean.
b. Why (with some stories) and how?
c. Introduction to lean terms (Prototype, MVP, Pivot etc.).
c. Introduction to Lean Canvas.

“Consumer journey mapping is at the center of all consumer-focused organizations and can transform many businesses.”-Patti Williams, Wharton Business School.

A hands-on workshop to learn this powerful tool to provide the best experience to your customers.

Commitment, which appears to be a rare commodity found among the employees, invites us to revisit our strategies for employee engagement for boosting the performance. Performance getting through unleashing the potential instead of following the job descriptions needs the team members’ commitment. Commitment ensures success to achieve goals. In present times, getting a commitment is a leader’s biggest challenge because commitment is the result of choice, not circumstances. The difference between someone who’s not engaged vs. someone who is; is similar to the distinction between compliance and commitment. When someone is compliant, they just obey – doing what’s asked of them but no more. Typically they’re doing just enough to keep their job. Conversely, a committed employee will spend time and effort outside of regular business hours thinking about the work and solving problems, finding better ways to get the job done, seeking out new insights, and then acting on them.

Committed team members are involved, and research states that only 10% of the total employees are fully engaged in their jobs. Rest are either partially involved or not involved. Greater team engagement means accelerated financial returns through increased sales, higher profits, and satisfied customers.

Leaders’ capability to engage their teams is critical to employee engagement to elicit commitment, not compliance. So let’s discuss and find out how can you build team engagement strategies into your leadership development pursuit during the forthcoming OPEN Leadership Drive SIG discourse.

One of the toughest challenges for data scientists is the speed at which their queries are processed when they are exploring for patterns in very large data sets. PostgreSQL has not traditionally been designed for such analytics, but the newly added TABLE SAMPLE feature can be exploited to analyze big data very quickly. This session is about using this awesome new feature to extract data statistics very quickly from data sets that would otherwise take a very long time to return with results.

Agenda:
1 – Update on the various programs and initiatives (e.g. SIGs, IoT Lab, OPEN Seed Fund, Networking events) and insight into future plans.
2 – Solicit input for the upcoming OPEN Global Retreat that gathers over 100 Charter Members from all chapters around the world from Jul 29-31.
3 – Introduction to new Charter and Executive members
4 – Networking among the members

An exclusive fireside chat with Careem’s leadership in Pakistan. We’ll have privilege of having Junaid Iqbal and Fatima Mazhar with us. From Call Centre to Market Launch Director of Careem, Fatima will share a very personal story of growth hacking across markets the Careem Way. Junaid, the CEO of Careem Pakistan, will also be engaging the audience.

A special session where we’ll walk you through the details of opening a company in the US. Here are some the topics that’ll be covered:

– How much does it cost to register a company in the US?
– What is the difference between let’s say CA and Delaware Corps, and which is more suitable for Pakistani founders? (There may be other types as well)
– What is the minimum annual cost of maintaining a company in the US (including taxes)
– Can a non US citizen or resident open a company without being in the US?
– Can a non US citizen or resident open up a bank account in the US? (Personal account and/or business account)
– How to open LLC subsidiary in any other country by keeping head office in US?
– Ownership vs licensing (US Law)
– Vesting Clauses
– Overview of Funding Rounds
– Shareholding to Angel Investors, Venture Capital Firms & Advisors
– Potential sources of Funding and if you/Hawcpa can help in it.

The session will be conducted by Evelyn A. Ashley, among other lawyers and consultants from the US.

OPEN Islamabad is glad to announce the launch of a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Design Thinking and User Experience.

This SIG will be led by Aneeqa Ishaq who is currently managing customer experience and service design at Telenor Pakistan.

Design Thinking is a problem solving toolkit in which human needs are at the core of the solution. Customer experience, service quality and product design are the factors which make a business stand out among its competition. In this SIG we will focus on all things Design through knowledge sharing seminars, discussions, and hands-on sessions.

Do you think open source software is for hobbyists and has no place in the corporate world?
Do you think dealing with open source is complicated?

Do you think in order to even begin using PostgreSQL, you will need a ramp-up of many many man-hours in terms of effort?

Well this session is designed to prove you wrong!

Come join us while Muhammad Haroon explains how easy and intuitive it is to install and setup PostgreSQL on the most popular platforms: Windows, OSX, & Linux.

Please make sure you RSVP so we can take care of logistics accordingly!

Introducing launching event of Leadership Drive Special Interest Group. The group will be lead by Mohsin Lodhi.

The topic of first event is “Finding Your Reality”. Accepting reality by knowing where you are is the first step of every journey. You need to ask three basic questions:

Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
How do you want to get there?

So let’s discuss these aspirations at OPEN’s SIG forum under the Leadership Drive program to know what is your reality.

Umair Shahid will introduce PostgreSQL, its roots & community, and also some of the NoSQL / Big Data features in the latest releases of PostgreSQL.
Ibrar Ahmed will talk about Foreign Data Wrappers for Hadoop and MongoDB

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 MOST IMPORTANTLY some amazing women who are trying to add value and redefining society with leadership skills.

Are you sitting on a great idea but lacking the funds to execute it well? Your wait may just be over!

OPEN Islamabad is excited to announce the funding opportunity available for innovate ideas through ICT R&D Fund. The fund under the new leadership of Dr. Syed Ismail Shah is going through fast track transformation and is ready to make some really exciting announcements in this session. Dr. Syed Ismail Shah, CEO ICT R&D Fund and Chairman PTA will lead the session.

STARTUP FUNDING
Investor’s Perspective

Hussein is a founding partner at Hoxton Ventures LLP with focus on consumer internet, financial technology, and software investments.

Let’s finish together, what we started earlier this year and make it a DECEMBER to REMEMBER!
OPEN Islamabad proudly announces its Annual Forum to celebrate the success stories of individuals and organizations that have excelled in their respective fields.

Inspired by Iqbal’s message to his son and our nation, the theme for this year’s forum is:

“Apna Maqaam Paida kar”
Build in love’s empire your hearth and your home;

OPEN Islamabad invites you to be part of this ‘Celebration of Excellence’ where Entrepreneurs, CEOs, Innovators, Policy Makers and officials from Government, Development and Academic sectors will join us. The full day event will include motivational talks, panel discussions, innovation showcases, announcements and networking opportunities. Join us and support the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Pakistan!

Financial Analyst turned Chef on “Pursuing your dreams”. Saima has left her lucrative career to start The Hampstead Kitchen and has cooked for the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Richard Branson.

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.

An introductory workshop for developers to get started with IoT development. You will learn how to play with a variety of sensors and a monitoring application built on an IoT Platform.

OPEN Islamabad invites you to an exciting session by Nauman Sheikh who will discuss a detailed approach to help entrepreneurs understand the complete IoT Analytics landscape, explain the various avenues of innovation and opportunity, allow them to cut through all the jargon and confusing terminology and provide a lot of insights into challenges of adoption dealing with existing organizational cultures.

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.

Failing but not staying down.
Pivoting.
Creating success by sheer resilience.

This is going to be a fun conversation around the entrepreneurial journey of Idris Kothari, a serial entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley.