Past Events

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

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

STARTUP FUNDING
Investor’s Perspective

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

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.

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.

Amazon is a global leader in the cloud computing with its AWS platform. Find out more about exciting products and they could benefit your venture… directly from the head of Worldwide Business Development for AWS.

Who should Attend?
An invite-only talk best suited for CEOs, CTOs, Mobile & Web App Devleopers, IT Admin & security Champs and SW Architects.

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.

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 organized its first event – a day long UI/UX workshop by usability expert Sheba Najmi. A Code for America Fellow (2012), Sheba Najmi is a user experience and product strategist. At Yahoo! she was a lead designer for Yahoo! Mail. A number of people from different leading organization participated in this workshop and feedback score was 9/10 by the participants.

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.

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!

Celebrating Entrepreneurs of Islamabad
– Keynote addresses by seasoned entrepreneurs and executives on topics relevant to entrepreneurs.

– Panel discussions including one on “Women in Entrepreneurship”.

– Budding Islamabad entrepreneurs will share their stories and experiences

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.