[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 [...]
MD of Systems Limited, Ashraf Kapadia, conducted a Mentor Nashta this morning for students from FAST and NED. The students who attended the session included Adil Arif Bawany, Ambreen Darjat, Sidra Hasan, Anam Ashraf and Muhammad Ali Qasmi. The session was a 2-hour conversation about leadership and the local industry. He talked about work ethic [...]
With dusk just an hour away, the dawn of the victors is starting to show! Anxious faces all around, the amount of anticipation on these faces has started to show.
The first to address is TPS Pakistan’s Ammar Faheem who addressed a roaring crowd by saying “I hope the students come out from this event as [...]
Post CIO Campus Conversations, today was the day when the industry visited FAST again in an attempt to abide to the promise made earlier. At 2:30 pm, the Deputy Manager of National Foods, Danish Nafay walked into the auditorium of FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, to deliver a seminar on SAP ERP solutions, as a follow-up of Campus Conversations.
Following up on their commitment to increasing their link with the academia, National Foods will be conducting a 2-hour session today at FAST-NU to talk about “Gaining Competitive Advantage through IT – A Pakistani Food Company Case Study”. The National Foods team will present some industry best practices and experiences that they went through with [...]
[March 17, 2010: Karachi, Pakistan] The CIO-P@SHA Campus Conversations took place at the main campus of FAST today. Attended by more than 80 students, the 2-hour session was the first of a nation-wide initiative to bridge the gap between the industry and the academia. The panelists from the industry were: Jehan Ara, President P@SHA; Ashar [...]
Map-o-fying Pakistan!
All around the world, Google Map Makers have been in high-gear over the past six weeks, becoming Map Maker Ambassadors by organizing local events to spread the word about how people can “map” the places they know and love. Supported by Google, these dedicated mappers have secured event locations at local universities, translated presentations [...]
There’s a Hole in Your Software,
Delilah!
Kraysis, one of Pakistan’s few SQA Companies talks about the why, what and how your software or network could be vulnerable and When it is critical to debug it during the development lifecycle.
There are multiple models you can follow for the development of your software or product. However regardless of [...]
Consider the following: Pakistan’s Biggest online job website, the Internet’s largest online Muslim social network and the country’s first online venture to attract VC funding and you get one name behind all this success – Monis Rahman. The CEO and Chairman of Naseeb Networks quickly turned his dream venture into the leading provider of online [...]
Localization CRULP or the Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing, has been working on the challenge to reduce the barrier for the average Pakistani computer user to be able to access the internet in a language he actually understands. “There is no doubt that the internet has become a tremendous reservoir of knowledge-sharing which [...]
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