{"id":8464,"date":"2022-09-26T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=8464"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T05:39:33","slug":"teaching-tech-to-pakistani-aspiring-students-from-the-booklet-of-the-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/teaching-tech-to-pakistani-aspiring-students-from-the-booklet-of-the-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Tech to Pakistani Aspiring Students: From the Booklet of the Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this, techies: We, as a nation are interestingly very genuine to fall in love, when its our own baby, we love it unconditionally. A talk, <em><strong>Teaching Tech to Pakistani Aspiring Students: From the Booklet of the Silicon Valley<\/strong><\/em>, arranged at Habib University.<\/p>\n<p>Now see this: There is a much-loved startup, great founders, having great vision, good initial trajectory and having pinnacle of success in mind and reaching that peak!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider this: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>, itself is a great startup, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah\">Jinnah<\/a> was a great founder, his ideals that were inculcated in the foundational years, at the birth of the country were immensely extra-ordinarily gem-stones, one should treasure, leading to reaching to the top of the peak, cases in perspectives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piac.com.pk\/\">PIA<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.com.pk\/\">Pakistani cricket team<\/a>. How brilliantly focused approach was it? It was. But with every success and significance, comes a down-turn, the spiral wave, but with this fall, you still plan to rise and can garner hope for going back to the top<\/strong>. To place this story, courtesy of Mr. Umair Khan, who assembled this thought. Mr. Umair Khan, Founding Partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/mentors.fund\/\">Mentors Fund<\/a> was here at the talk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8468\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8468\" class=\" wp-image-8468\" src=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0002_Pic-6-620x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0002_Pic-6-620x318.jpg 620w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0002_Pic-6-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0002_Pic-6-351x180.jpg 351w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0002_Pic-6.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The August Gathering listening to \u2018This Silicon Valley Insider\u2019s View of Pakistan\u2019s Tech Ecosystem\u2019 keenly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This talk, \u2018This Silicon Valley Insider\u2019s View of Pakistan\u2019s Tech Ecosystem\u2019 was held on late Friday evening, at Tariq Rafi Hall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habib.edu.pk\">Habib University<\/a>. The University collaborated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.folio3.com\/\">Folio3<\/a> in allowing the young students of the institute a chance to see what the panel of experts (read: leading techies) had to say about economic uncertainty that is prevailing in the country and yet it is giving the feel to this particular community, the Pakistani techies to rise and plan a start-up!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8469\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8469\" class=\" wp-image-8469\" src=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0003_Pic-3-SV-620x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0003_Pic-3-SV-620x318.jpg 620w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0003_Pic-3-SV-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0003_Pic-3-SV-351x180.jpg 351w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0003_Pic-3-SV.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People intent to know, how Tech is the road ahead. Welcoming the road to digitalization in most perspective.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Besides, Mr. Umair Khan there, were two other panelists, namely Mr. Eram Khan, CITO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engro.com\/\">Engro Corporation<\/a> and Mr. Furquan Kidwai, CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/dawaai.pk\/\">Dawaai<\/a> and the panel was moderated by Dr. Anzar Khaliq, Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, at <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\">Habib University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8471\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8471\" class=\" wp-image-8471\" src=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0005_Pic-1.-SV-620x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0005_Pic-1.-SV-620x318.jpg 620w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0005_Pic-1.-SV-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0005_Pic-1.-SV-351x180.jpg 351w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0005_Pic-1.-SV.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Khaliq from Habib University, in talks with Mr. Kidwai, CEO of Dawaai.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chief of Mentor\u2019s Fund, Khan, said that, \u201cWhy would you want to have a start-up in the first go? But if you as a youngster are really involved in doing so, it must inculcate three things in you fundamentally about the project, because it essentially requires three things within you to have a) desirability, b) viable project and c) feasibility.\u201d Going forward and giving an idea that can be structured around the surface, \u201cYou see you live in Karachi; the city is not clean at all. This is your home. Do something about it? Basically, there should be a strong demand in the good market of Karachi, to make it (neat)\u201d Khan has about 60+ startup that he has mentored and 10+ alone are based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karachi\">Karachi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking this cue forward Eram Khan observed that, \u201cEntrepreneurship is all about product failure or pass. The desire should be given in the form of Demand and Supply, which in itself makes Entrepreneurship an exciting thing, to begin with!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Furquan Kidwai, briefly shared his trajectory of life, while he was based in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\">London<\/a> in 2014, he desired to comeback to Karachi and start his own startup company where he saw the fact that he <strong>\u201ccould work with cheap labor and skilled labor. Where I could upgrade it and this became my resolve to continue. If we don\u2019t do it now then when? One needs to dared to try and just do it. The key factor here is Resilience and earning money, should not be the mantra but rather solving the problem.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8470\" style=\"width: 706px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8470\" class=\" wp-image-8470\" src=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0004_Pic-2-SV-620x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0004_Pic-2-SV-620x318.jpg 620w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0004_Pic-2-SV-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0004_Pic-2-SV-351x180.jpg 351w, https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Untitled-1_0004_Pic-2-SV.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8470\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr. Eram Khan, CITO, Engro Corporation focusing on a technical and digital world of today; hearing him is Mr. Umair Khan, Founder and Partner on Mentor\u2019s Fund.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What makes the startup click is the, \u201cFact that you have a good idea and a solid space. Plenty of it can happen,\u201d stated Mr. Umair Khan.\u00a0 Where patience and resilience was given a major thought, Mr. Eram Khan stressed on the need to \u201cPlease learn, to get to learn. Because that\u2019s how you will get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where Umair Khan, had initially talked about Pakistan as a great case-study, for a start-up, he shared yet another story of a man called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Sattar_Edhi\">Abdul Sattar Edhi<\/a><strong>. \u201cWith Pakistan a success story. <a href=\"https:\/\/edhi.org\/\">Edhi<\/a> yet another success story. But remember, not everyone can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/mark-zuckerberg\/\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/bill-gates\/\">Bill Gates<\/a>!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, \u201ctry keeping Cash Flow, positive, \u201csaid Mr. Eram Khan and remember \u201cInvestment is not a Revenue,\u201d a retained thought by Mr. Umair Khan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time is ripe for start-ups to begin functioning, for after every major recession, the new model of economic changes takes place. Besides after \u201cEvery Success Story leading to Significance comes down to being in-significant,\u201d Mr. Umair Khan stated. Which in entirety \u201cleads to understand Your Value which Determines Your Destiny, of Success and Significance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Khaliq moderated the event and closely observed the thinker\u2019s attitudes and deliberation which in itself created a host of opportunities for the critical mind of young student, attending the forum, to realize the potential of being a critical thinker, in this regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this, techies: We, as a nation are interestingly very genuine to fall in love, when its our own baby, we love it unconditionally. A talk, Teaching Tech to Pakistani Aspiring Students: From the Booklet of the Silicon Valley, arranged at Habib University. 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