The last leg of the CIO Executive Dinner Discussion hosted by Oracle took place during Iftar in Lahore at the Royal Palm Country Club Dome Hall on the 27th August, 2010. As with Karachi and Islamabad, the roundtable seating under the Dome was filled with IT heads and CIOs who had insights to share about [...]
On the evening of the 26th of August, CIOs and IT heads gathered at the CIO Executive Dinner Discussion hosted by Oracle at the Serena Hotel in Islamabad. Part of a tri-city series event to talk about the organizations’ “Roadmap to the Future”, Business-Technology leaders shared insights into challenges of creating aligned [...]
On the evening of the 24th of August, 34 CIOs and IT heads gathered at the CIO Executive Dinner Discussion hosted by Oracle at the PC Hotel in Karachi. Part of a tri-city series event to talk about the organizations’ “Roadmap to the Future”, Business-Technology leaders shared insights into challenges of creating aligned business and [...]
Pakistan is known for a lot of things. However one of the areas it isn’t known for, is innovation in hardware, which is why when Sohail Abid sent a Tweet out about Alternate Gear and their Slate PC, we were intrigued enough to get in touch with the company.
Waqar Qureshi is the Managing Partner [...]
India’s home secretary is meeting with mobile service providers on Thursday to discuss access to BlackBerry data
By John Ribeiro
IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau)
BANGALORE (08/11/2010) – Indian government officials plan to meet on Thursday with mobile operators to discuss access to BlackBerry data, according to informed sources.
Home Ministry Spokesman Onkar Kedia confirmed that G.K. Pillai, the [...]
It’s been one of the few consistent highlights in Pakistan’s IT industry. When the 10th ITCN still managed to opened its gates to the public on the 3rd of August, 2010, despite the turbulent activities that had the city enveloped, the industry just held its breath. What started off as the biggest hype in the [...]
NUST AS IT IS!
When it comes to education par excellence that is not only degree-awarding but also intellectually stimulating, it feels like National University for Sciences and Technology, NUST that rightly claims to be the dynamic face of higher education in Pakistan. As stated in the mission, NUST exists to “Foster University-Industry linkages through commercialization [...]
July 22, 2010: One might not be what one appears to be. Of the many nouns this holds true for, Preston University is definitely one of them, as it was the tenth destination of Campus Conversations. Accompanying us on as panelists representing the industry were Shoaib Nizami, CEO of Corporits, Amir Hassan, Director of IT [...]
And so the Campus Conversations team was over at Iqra University earlier today to interact with students from the Media Sciences Department with a dynamic panel that had the likes of Sabeen Mahmud from T2F, Jehan Ara from P@SHA, Amyn Farooqui, co-CEO and Co-Founder of Sharp Image, Sawant Ali Shah Strategy Director at Yello.pk and [...]
And so IBA Invent comes to a close in a packed closing ceremony and final event on Sunday, July 18, 2010 at the Avari Towers in Karachi. While we’re working on the details and putting the video of the entire event up online, here are the top three team along with the photographs!
1st Team Ujala [...]
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford.
Well quoted by Clay Bedford, the above-mentioned is not just a saying but an [...]
June 30, 2010, the Campus Conversations team head out to the Institute of Business Management with Sama Aman from TRG Tech, Asher Faisel Khan from CommTel Systems, Faisal Anwar from KASB Bank, Mohsin Termezy of Samba Bank, Yusuf Jan from Mixit Technologies and of course, Jehan Ara from P@SHA. A more detailed post to follow [...]
With the help of the IEEE Society, Campus Conversations head over to SZABIST to speak with a power panel that consisted of Rahim Lalani, head of TRG Tech; Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA, Naveen Naqvi, Blogger and News Anchor; Faisal Khan, CEO of NACSPL; and Shakir Husain, CEO of Creative Chaos.
If anyone thought the gap [...]
[June 17, 2010] Kumail Dehradunwala, the CIO of UBL, hosted a Mentor Nashta with students from FAST-NU and NED. The students included: Furruh Tahsin, Mohammad Bilal Shaikh, Mubashir Ahmad, Murtaza Juzer Marvi and Sana Syed and they carried on a discussion about attitude. A 2-hour session, the students walked away with spending some quality time [...]
Despite all the buzz that surrounds National Budget June 5 (post Phet era), it is nonetheless considered an important event of the year not only for the economic circumstances that the existing businesses will have to battle with in the upcoming year but also for the confrontations it stimulates from opposing parties and lobbies. What [...]
The Business of IT: Campus Conversations Goes to Preston University
Campus Conversations: Bit by Bit, Frame by Frame at Iqra University
IBA Invent Comes to a Close:
Of Degrees and Salary-Scales: Campus Conversations at BIZTEK
Pizza for Breakfast: UBL CIO Hosts a Mentor Nashta
With iOS, Apple gets the OK to borrow a Cisco name
Where People Matter: Usability – Theme of Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino
Lotus Knows Because It Makes An Effort – Cloud Computing Is It?
The UnConference that Could… and Did
Wave14 Launch in Lahore
Oracle Modernizes EFU’s IT Systems for its New Insurance App!
Operating On IBA’s Revised CS Curricula
All Hands on TweetDeck!
IBA Hosts its First CEO Forum
Oracle Hosts a CIO Dinner Discussion on Aligning IT Strategies to Business Needs