[vc_row][vc_column][heading_horizontal type=”h1″ margin_bottom=”35px”]Conference Speakers[/heading_horizontal][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Dr. Kaiser Bengali” members_title=”Dean, Management Sciences, SZABIST” local_uploaded_image_id=”11884″]Opening Address
Dr Kaiser Bengali is an economist with over 35 years of experience in teaching, research, and policy advisory. He has a Master’s in Economics from the Boston University, USA, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Karachi, Pakistan. He has been associated with prestigious institutions in Pakistan such as the AERC, University of Karachi, SDPI, SZABIST, PILER, and was Managing Director of the SPDC, Karachi.
Dr Bengali’s international academic and consultancy experience includes work at the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Developpment, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, and with international organizations in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, and Kenya.
He has also held a number of government positions and has served as Head of the Chief Minister’s Policy Reform Unit, Government of Balochistan; and Advisor to the Chief Minister of Sindh for Planning and Development. He was the first head of the BISP (Benazir Income Support Programme) and also designed the programme. He was also Sindh’s representative on the 7th NFC, which gave a successful Award, and is now Balochistan’s representative on the 9th NFC.
Kaiser Bengali has several research publications in national and international journals and is the author/editor of eight books on subjects ranging from unemployment, inequality and poverty, to education, water, gender, and urban and regional development.[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Mr. Sardar Abubakr – Keynote Speaker” members_title=”Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, and Chief Finance Officer (Acting), Telenor Pakistan ” local_uploaded_image_id=”11902″]Topic: Project Management – A Generic Skill, or a Business Transformation Driver?
Sardar Abubakr, a highly sought after speaker on topics of Strategy and Transformation, has more than 17 years of diversified experience gained in over 7 countries in Europe and Asia, blended with both Group and Business Unit exposure in listed and private entities in roles ranging from corporate strategy, digital transformation, customer billing, financial reporting, internal audit, risk and assurance management. He also have significant cross-industry exposure including Manufacturing, Retail, Banking, and Not for Profit Sectors from his time with PwC.
He is a Professionally Qualified Accountant, a graduate of the Harvard Business School Digital Strategy Program (DIGS), INSEAD Strategy Execution Program, Telecom Regulatory Master Class (TRMC) UK, a Six Sigma Green and Black Belt holder US, a Prince2 Project Management Practitioner UK, a Certified Professional in I.T. Governance.
[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Mr. Muhammad Imran” members_title=”Global Manager – Project Delivery at Kalsoft (Microsoft Gold Partner)” local_uploaded_image_id=”11947″]Topic: Using Microsoft PPM as Enterprise Project and Portfolio Platform
Imran has more than 18 years of experience of IT Project and Program management across various countries. He is a certified project manager and has led various functional and technical consultancy projects on EPM solution since 2007 for various customers based in Pakistan and Middle East.
His EPM implementations portfolio consists of project delivery for customers belonging to Oil and Gas, Banking, Hospitals, Construction, Ministries and Education sectors. He has also been involved in PMO setups at various internal and external organizations.
Imran is an avid speaker, and is often invited to address conferences and other events, related project management, EPM Solutions, and IT consultancy.[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Mr. Adeel Qaiser” members_title=”Country Consulting Leader – Teradata Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanista” local_uploaded_image_id=”11937″]Topic: Using Big Data and Data Analytics For Project Success
Responsible for advising customers on analytics programs and ensuring successful delivery of these initiatives, Adeel with over 15 years of experience in the industry has been instrumental in delivering key customer projects at financial institutions and telecom service providers.
Adeel’s expertise encompass solution architecture, large programs and business impact led approach to solution design and development. He has lead large teams effectively to deliver high-impact programs from conceptualization to delivery and successive operationalization.
With an ability to extract actionable insights Adeel frequently presents on topics related to Analytics, Big Data, Program Management and Delivery Excellence and has been part of many international conferences on Data analytics. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences from LUMS.
[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Mr. Fahd Husain” members_title=”Executive Director News at Express News TV & Executive Editor of Daily The Express Tribune” local_uploaded_image_id=”11881″]Topic: The Delicate Art of Managing A Media Project
Fahd Husain began his career as a journalist at The Daily Muslim newspaper in 1991. Since then he has since held senior positions at The Nation and Gulf News Dubai newspapers and served as the Editor of Daily The News. In the 1990s, Fahd worked at PTV as an anchor for several shows. He has also worked at leading American TV channel CBS News in New York. Fahd was also the anchor of Pakistan’s first independent English talk show on Geo TV. He then worked as Director International Affairs at ARY TV.
Starting in 2006, as Director News he designed the entire setup for Express News channel, and established the channel as a leading news network. He also served as Director News of Express 24/7, which was at one point Pakistan’s only 24-hour English news network. Later he also served as Executive Director News at Dunya TV and Chief Operating Officer at Capital TV.
Fahd has spearheaded the launch of three channels in Pakistan: Express News, Express English, and Capital TV. He has also served as Editor of major English newspapers: The Nation, The News and Executive Editor of The Express Tribune. He has also hosted prime time talk shows on Express News, ARY, and Waqt News.
His international assignments include covering the US Presidential Elections in 2004 and travelling to Lebanon to cover the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006.
Fahd did his schooling from Aitchison College Lahore, and his Bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University USA. He did his Masters in Television Journalism from Columbia University in New York, USA, where he became the first Pakistani to graduate at the top of his class. He was also elected president of his class, and awarded both the Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship and the Jack R. Howard Scholarship.[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Ms. Ayesha Ali, PMP” members_title=”Entrepreneur, Co-Founder, Kayal” local_uploaded_image_id=”11908″]Topic: Fueling Start-Ups Through Project Management
Ayesha Ali started off her career as a Project Manager (Transmission) with Pakistan Mobile Communication Ltd. Later she shifted to development sector and was part of Micro-saving product development and launch at ‘The First MicroFinance Bank Ltd’. She soon moved to consultancy involving access to finance in micro finance sectors, and then to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – where she served as a Program Officer for Container Control Programme. While working with the UN, she had already started looking at approaches involving poverty reduction through craft revival.
She then went ahead to co-found an entrepreneurial venture ‘Kayal’ – a lifestyle brand that collaborates with artisans and designers all across Pakistan to uncover hidden treasures that are handmade, and redevelop them for markets of today.
Ayesha’s vision to Kayal involved the 3 key pillars – Creating economic opportunity, Supporting other makers, and Changing Perspectives.
Ayesha holds a MSc in Project Planning and Management from University of Bradford (UK)[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Ms. Bakhtawar Mahmood” members_title=”General Manager – DBTV.live” local_uploaded_image_id=”11936″]Topic: Artificial Intelligence In Action – A Case From DBTV.live
[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Ms. Parisay Tariq” members_title=”Head of Programming – DBTV.live” local_uploaded_image_id=”11935″]Topic: Artificial Intelligence In Action – A Case From DBTV.live
[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Dr. Tariq Banuri (Tentative)” members_title=”Chairman, Higher Education Commission (HEC)” local_uploaded_image_id=”11882″]Topic: Leveraging Technology to Transform Education and Sustainable Development
Dr Tariq Banuri has broad experience in government, academia, civil society and the international system. He has served as Director, Division for Sustainable Development, at the United Nations. He started his career in the Civil Service of Pakistan, went on to receive a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, and joined the United Nations as a Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, a model that he adopted in setting up Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Pakistan which he served as its founding Executive Director.
He was also member of the Board of Governors of State Bank of Pakistan, member of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Council and Member/Secretary of the Presidential Steering Committee on Higher Education, and a Coordinating Lead Author of the Nobel Prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He was also member of Steering Committee on Higher Education Reforms which contributed a lot in establishment of HEC in 2002. Lately, he was affiliated with University of Utah, US, as Professor in Economics.[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Mr. Shafqat Mahmood – Closing Keynote Speaker (Tentative)” members_title=”Federal Minister of Education and Professional Training” local_uploaded_image_id=”11883″]Topic: Career Development For Project Managers
Mr. Shafqat Mahmood is the current Federal Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training. Previously he was member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018 and member of the Senate of Pakistan from March 1994 to March 2000.
He served as Federal Minister for Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Environment, Urban Affair Forestry and Wildlife and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Malik Meraj Khalid from November 1996 to February 1997. He served as Provincial Minister of Punjab for Information from 1999 to 2000.
He studied in Government College University, Lahore before completing his Certificate of Merit from University of the Punjab in 1970.[2] He received a degree of Masters in Psychology and Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard University in 1981. He obtained Masters in Public Policy and Administration from University of Southern California in 1987[/team_member][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][heading_horizontal type=”h1″ margin_bottom=”35px”]Speakers From Last Year Conference (2017)[/heading_horizontal][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Ms. Yeliz Turunc” members_title=”Keynote Speaker: Microsoft” local_uploaded_image_id=”11516″]Topic: Becoming Agile in Project Management
Ms. Yeliz Turun is the Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management SSP, for Middle East and Africa for Microsoft Corporation.
She is a results-driven IT Business Professional with Computer Engineering background, MBA-level international education and 15+ years of successful track record in IT Industry.
Her areas of expertise includes
• Business Development
• Cloud Management , SaaS technologies,
• ITIL Service Management Philosophy (Certified)
• Project and Program Management (PMP)
• Talent Management
• Business Processes re-engineering
• Organizational design and change management
• Service Catalogue Design and Improvement
• Specialization in Microsoft Technologies[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Yusuf Hussain” members_title=”CEO, National ICT R&D Fund” local_uploaded_image_id=”11517″]Topic: 5 Ideas to Innovate Pakistan
“Yusuf Hussain is currently the CEO at National ICT R & D Fund. He has international experience in startups, funding, organizational transformation, and offshore development.
As Managing Director of the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB), he introduced and executed a strategic vision incorporating IT Park development, Venture Capital promotion, and human capital development. He was co-founder of CresSoft, Inc., an eCommerce technology company with FORTUNE 500 and GLOBAL 2000 clients. He has served as consultant to the World Bank, the WTO and the United Nations. As technology advisor to Government of Pakistan he helped formulate a National Technology Policy. He is also a founding charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) Islamabad.”[/team_member][team_member animate=”animate_none” last_item=”false” style=”modern” members_name=”Zubair Anjum” members_title=”VP, Corporate Strategy and Marketing, Systems Ltd” local_uploaded_image_id=”11518″]Topic: Enabling Digital Disruption and Digital Transformation
Zubair is a dynamic and high performing marketing and strategy professional in the area of Digital Transformation space. Responsible for organizational performance, and recognized in every position by increasing organizational ROI and profits. Zubair has an impeccable track record of predictable revenue generation through modern marketing excellence to achieve and sustain hyper-growth. With exceptional leadership and effective communication skills, Zubair is known to motivate internal and external teams to achieve common goals. He is an accomplished strategist with a proven record of devising transformational business models, and a trusted advisor to transform customer relation to valued partnerships.[/team_member][/vc_column][/vc_row]