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List of People Visiting
Officials:
Mr. Azhar Rizvi the delegation lead and one or two Officials from National ICT R&D
Fund
Research Teams
Dr. Nazar Abbas Saqib USB 3.0Dr. Sadaf Sajjad & Dr. Mohsin
Sajjad Graphical Imagery Therapy
Shahid Mahmood Electric Load Forecasting
Dr. Umar Saif MP+
Existing Companies
Ayal Abbas Sofcom
Farrukh Maqbool Discretelogix
Shahid Mir Systems Research
Syed Ahmad DPL
Delegation Lead – Azhar Rizvi:
Azhar is a serial entrepreneur who has established a number of startups. He is
also a much respected mentor who has coached a number of companies and
teams in building successful ventures.
He started his career with the information technology industry in Pakistan,
over two decades ago and during this period, has served at prestigious multinational
organizations including NCR/ AT&T and Unisys.
Azhar is the founding Vice Chairman and one of the main leaders of MIT Enterprise Forum of
Pakistan. He has helped in developing the strategy and direction of the chapter over the past five
years. The chapter with a leading role played by Azhar has been engaged in developing the
entrepreneurial eco-system of Pakistan. He is also a Member of the Advisory Board of MIT
Enterprise Forum Global. Currently he is working as the CEO and Director of TAN America
Fund, the first Angel fund established in the US with the primary objective of investing in the
Pakistani IT firms. He is also the President and Director of Cambridge Advisers Network, a
boutique consulting firm working towards building the entrepreneurial eco-system by bridging
the gap between industry and academia. Azhar is a pioneer of designing and running BusinessPlan Competitions in Pakistan and has designed and executed several Business Acceleration and
Startup Competitions. He is also an avid trainer and has conducted several workshops, boot
camps and training sessions on business planning for students, academia and industry. The
current trip was also conceived by Azhar and has been developed under the supervision of Mr
Ken Morse, founding MD, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, to expose Pakistani entrepreneurs and
researchers to the international markets.
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Researchers
Dr. Nazar Abbas Saqib
Nazar Abbas is Associate Professor at NUST School of Electrical
Engineering & Computer Science. He is the Director, Centre of Excellence
in FPGAs and ASIC Research (CEFAR) and member Research EvaluationCommittee (REC) at SEECS- NUST. He is also project director of ‘Design
and Verification of Low-Power, High-Speed IP Suite for Universal Serial
Bus (USB 3.0)’, one of the top-five projects funded by National ICT R&DFund, Islamabad.
Dr. Nazar has completed his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from CINVESTAV-IPN Mexico
City - Mexico in November 2004. Nazar has co-authored a book titled ‘Cryptogr aphicAlgorithms on Reconfigurable Hardware’ with Springer New York in 2005. He has over 22
publications in referred international journals and conference proceedings.
Sadaf Sajjad
Ms Sadaf Sajjad is an Assistant Professor in Comsats Institute of
Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She is a Clinical Psychologist and hasearned her Psychology degree and Advanced Diploma in Clinical
Psychology from Pakistan. She did her M.S in Artificial intelligence from
Japan. Her research interest is in using Artificial Intelligence techniques for Psychological healing in different ways. She has over 15 publications to her
credit.
Shahid Mahmood Awan
Shahid is a MS and a Ph.D. candidate at UET, Lahore. His areas of specialization
include software engineering and machine learning. Currently, Shahid works in
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science- UET, Lahore as Research
Manager and is an active member of several prestigious research and development
communities.
Dr. Umar Saif
Currently Dr Umar Said is the Chairman Punjab InformationTechnology Board (PITB) he is also an Associate Professor atLUMS School of Science and Engineering. Dr. Umar Saif received
his academic training from LUMS, Cambridge and MIT. Dr. Saif
worked and taught at the MIT Computer Science and ArtificialIntelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) as a research scientist for four
years.
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Dr. Saif was named as one of the top 35 young innovators in the world (TR35) in 2011. He wasselected as a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2010. Dr. Saif
received the Google Faculty Research Award in 2011, MIT Technovator Award in 2008, Mark
Weiser Award at IEEE Percom'08, Digital Inclusion Award from Microsoft Research in 2006
and the IDG CIO Technology Pioneer Award in 2008.
Dr. Saif has (co-)founded four technology startups: BumpIn.com (contextualchatting),SeeNreport.com (citizen journalism), ChOpaal.pk (SMS social networking)and TicketMy.com (event tickets). Dr. Saif is the founder of one of the first startup incubators in
Lahore, Pakistan, called SCI.
Company’s Executives
Ayal Abbas
Ayal AbbasAyal is the President & CEO at Sofcom, a softare products company that
provides products for HCM (Human Capital Management), and Productand Process Quality in the manufacturing, assembling and process
industries.
He has demonstrated good leadership, entrepreneurial and marketing skills
all through his career in marketing software and pharmaceutical products, business negotiation and assembling quality team.
Previously he was CEO of a construction firm that employed over 300 people. The company
worked with private and public sector organizations, including Pakistan Steel, Civil AviationAuthority of Pakistan, City District Government of Karachi. The company also implemented
some innovative solutions for niche industries, ranging from new designs of coal bunkers (for steel plants) through to environmentally-controlled poultry houses. Prior to that he worked in thesales and marketing department of Pfizer Laboratories. Where looked after the sales and
marketing of Animal health products.
Farrukh Malik
Mr. Farrukh is a self employed IT professional with over 9 years of
experience in industry. He has managed more than two hundred
projects ranging from small websites to large scale complex
solutions. He has worked with more than fifty clients in different
geographical areas and with diversified businesses including fastest
growing companies of USA. Challenges, innovation, creativity,
dedication and hard work are the elements in professional life he
values most.
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Shahid H. MirShahid Mir has pioneered major IT initiatives in Pakistan over the last
27 years. He set up and ran Pakistan’s largest software and services
exporting company Systems Research as the Founder Chairman and
CEO of the company. He initiated and ran Pakistan Software ExportBoard (PSEB) for the first three years as the Founder CEO of PSEB.
Shahid Mir has led delegations of the IT Industry to forums such asCOMDEX and CeBit for three years in the mid 90’s that led to theinitiation of IT Exports from Pakistan.
He pioneered Pakistan’s largest computer science university called FAST-NUCES (Foundation
for Advancement of Science and Technology, National University of Computer and EmergingSciences) which now enrolls 7,000 students.
Shahid Mir got his first degree in Electrical Engineering from NED University of Engineering
and Technology in Pakistan and merit scholarships in his graduate degree and work in Computer and Systems Science from University of Ottawa in the early 80’s.
Syed AhmadSaeed Ahmad is CEO/Director at DPL, a solutions provider
specializing in Global IT Consulting, Outsourcing and Technology
services. He is also Vice Chairman at Pakistan Software Houses
Association. He has previously served as Consultant at Elixir Technologies Corporation. His specialties include IT Project
management, Software Architecture, HRM, Organization-wide
business strategy.
Syed Ahmad is a graduate in computer science with a diverse set of global experiences. He is
passionate about topics such as Leadership and Entrepreneurship.