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ARYAN SEHRAWAT - UP POLICE

Let’s hear the tale of Aryan Sehrawat, a UP Police officer from the city of Nawabs, Lucknow. During the first lockdown in 2020, when thousands of people were walking back to their villages from Delhi, Sehrawat became a shining ray of light. He could see 100s of people walking onwards in the heat with no food and no money. Many falling unconscious on their long trek. Sehrawat, a true leader, distributed biscuits, water, energy drinks to these travellers. He even arranged transportation for the journeymen on milk trucks and other vehicles. A true Nawab, Sehrawat ended up helping a massive 4000 people on their journey, back to safety, back to their families, back home. For this feat, uniformer is grateful for Aryan Sehrawat.

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DEEPAK CHAUDHARY - UP POLICE

Ahhhhhh chor! chor! It was a sunny day when UP police constable Deepak Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh Police) heard a scream from a nearby ATM. One person, while pretending to help a lady with a cash withdrawal, snatched the money and tried to escape. PC Deepak immediately sprang into action and started chasing the thief. He had just caught the offender when out of nowhere a bike hit him and sent him sprawling on the floor. Turns out the thief had an accomplice! Undaunted, Deepak jumped back up and pursued the thieves on his own bike. After a daring chase through the streets, he caught them and made sure they were convicted of their crimes and sent to jail. Moral of the story - Crime does not pay, especially when brave officers like Deepak are around!

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KANU BAMBHANIYA - GUJARAT POLICE

Kanu joined Gujarat Police at the age of 22 in 2020. Only a couple of years into his duty, Kanu showed a sense of bravery when he accompanied his team of five senior police officers on a gambling raid. It was the night of Janmashtami, as they left for the raid at around 11pm for a village 7km away. They had been closely watching the activities of 12 persons who were running illegal gambling operations over the last few months. With the help of Kanu's agility, the mission was a success and Gujarat Police was successful in getting hold of the den. Officials seized an undisclosed amount of cash, betting coins and arrested all 12 persons allegedly involved in gambling. In light of Kanu and his team's bravery, we would like to honour them as uniformer Heroes.

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Celebrating INFOTECH Week! (13 Oct - 15 Oct, 2015)

We are officially celebrating INFOTECH Group from 13th October to 15th October,2015, a Pakistani company based out of its global headquarters in Singapore, with offices across the world from London to Accra. INFOTECH is one of the fastest growing information technology groups in the world. Having delivered major multimillion dollar projects in important verticals across the world for over two decades, INFOTECH is the go to partner for solutions that enrich companies.

Next week there are a bunch of informational, educational and inspiring sessions for students, startups and freelancers.

Hiring for the Digital Age & Technology Innovation

 Date: Tuesday 13th Oct,2015

Time: 3pm to 4:30

Venue: Level 3 Auditorium, Arfa Software Technology Park, 346-B, Ferozepur Road, Lahore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/875154865895171/

Speakers:

Naseer A. Akhtar (The President and CEO of InfoTech Group)

Naseer A. Akhtar is the President and CEO of InfoTech Group a position he has held since the founding of InfoTech in 1995. As a successful entrepreneur, Naseer A. Akhtar brought InfoTech to profitability and continues to build on that success with double digit year-on-year growth. He is a sought after speaker, mentor. and was the Chairman of Pakistan’s industry association P@SHA in 2013 and has been honored with numerous industry awards and accolades. 

Amir Raza Khan (Vice President of Capital Markets Business Unit at InfoTech Group)

Amir Raza Khan is the Vice President of Capital Markets Business Unit at InfoTech Group. He has over twenty years of experience in Information Technology for the Financial Markets Industry. At InfoTech, Mr. Raza Khan’s present role includes developing IT strategy, aligning software product roadmaps with market trends, managing development & delivery of mission critical & real-time technology systems and managing human capital for complex software products and projects. He is well-versed with modern software development methodologies & techniques and in designing and presenting innovative technology and business solutions to Financial Market Technologist and Business leaders. 

What to expect from the session?

Hiring in the Digital Era

Learn about Naseer Akhtar's journey of making InfoTech what it is today.

Digital era needs new types of competencies. So how do we hire for the digital age? 

What are employers and companies that provide solutions to customers in the digital era need?

If you are a startup, what sort of people should you be hiring? 

Technology & Innovation

Software development

Product development

Technological challenges InfoTech has faced during the process of scaling their company

How different and unique are technologies & products at InfoTech?

Some of the groundbreaking international projects InfoTech is involved in

How far the contribution of academia is needed to further the development and enhancement of innovation in IT

To register, fill out: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lEubbi8GPdWhrl7nyH2d_bpw_N0bKesiQ314Hc0osK4/viewform?c=0&w=1

Product Innovation Strategies

Date: Wednesday 14th Oct, 2015

Time: 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue: Level 9 Room # 21 Activity Den, Arfa Software Technology Park, 346-B, Ferozepur Road, Lahore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/980346548655527/

Speaker: 

Ejaz Anwar (CTO INFOTECH (Pvt.) Ltd.)

Ejaz Anwer is the Chief Technical Officer of Capital Markets Business Unit at InfoTech Group. He has over sixteen years of experience in Information Technology for Financial Markets Industry, 3D Game Development & Military Simulations. Mr. Anwer has successfully delivered World Bank sponsored project worldwide for eGovernment as well as complex mission critical system for Exchanges, Brokerage Houses and Regulators. Mr. Anwer led the team that developed InfoTech award winning products in Capital Market and eGovernment domains. Moreover, he also supervise InfoTech Product Innovation & Improvement department with seasoned professionals to develop the frameworks for InfoTech products in order to keep them in line with modern trends and technologies. Mr. Anwer was a frequent contributor to development communities and had several articles published at www.codeguru.com, where he voluntarily served as 'Super Moderator' and 'Article Reviewer'. In recognition of his contributions to the community, he was awarded 'Microsoft Most Valuable Professional' award for ‘Microsoft Visual C++’ by Microsoft Head office in 2007 and Federal IT Minister, Pakistan at ‘Pakistan Developer Conference’ in 2008. He is also mentioned at errata list of C++ bestselling book by Scott Meyers (i.e. ‘Effective C++, Third Edition').

What to expect from the session?

How INFOTECH developed their own products

Obstacles faced

Technologies worked with

Strategies that were in place

How INFOTECH transformed and grew into a product company from a services company

What lessons were learnt on the journey

How did INFOTECH achieve CMMI Level 3 distinction- journey

Q & A session to discuss your product based problems with the CTO of INFOTECH Global.

Who should attend this session?

Startups with product based businesses

Final Year Project Students

Freelancers

To register, fill out

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tr0btJ6t1QQllPVOJYi8YcyhyFB-wv7aR_mBdThI5_E/viewform?c=0&w=1

Mentoring Session With INFOTECH

Date: Thursday 15th Oct, 2015

Time: 11:00am to 1:00pm

Venue: INFOTECH Office

Mentors:

Haris Naseer(Director Marketing and Communication)

Muhammad Haris Naseer is a Director at InfoTech in charge of Marketing, Public Relations, and Corporate Affairs. He has played a key role in aligning product road maps with strategic market realities resulting in annual growth rates that far surpass peer emerging market companies. In addition to his current portfolio he owns emerging technology investments for the group where he identifies and co-ordinates Infotech’s response to global emerging technology trends. 

Prior to InfoTech, Haris was working with a start-up company in Canada in the field of eEducation and Remote Education Delivery. He attended the University of Waterloo, Canada where he studied Math and Computer Science.

Amir Raza Khan (Vice President of Capital Markets Business Unit at InfoTech Group)

Please find profile above.

Agenda for the session:

This session is exclusively for Plan9 Startups. INFOTECH showed keen interest in some of the brilliant startup ideas incubated in Plan9 Technology Incubator. These startups were then asked for their respective focused areas where they want to seek mentoring. After a careful match making by our management, this session is being arranged to facilitate the early steppers into the startup world.  

HR Session

Date: Thursday 15th Oct, 2015

Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Venue: Level 5 Room # 06, Arfa Software Technology Park, 346-B, Ferozepur Road, Lahore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/188532848145744/

 Speakers:

Ejaz Anwar (CTO INFOTECH (Pvt.) Ltd.)

At InfoTech, Mr. Ejaz Anwar’s current role includes supervision of products development in cost effective manner within quality standards, oversee product engineering department to attain maximum efficiency in the design and production, direct activities so that products are developed on schedule to meet market demands, ensure customer support, formulate and recommend operational policies/programs that guide the organization in maintaining and improving its competitive position, evaluation of new headcount, hiring, and employee performance. 

Irum Bajwa (Assistant Manager Talent Acquisition and Development at INFOTECH)

Irum Bajwa is the Assistant Manager Talent Acquisition and Development at InfoTech Group. She is a passionate Human Resource Professional with 4 years of recruitment and organizational development experience along with almost 6 years’ experience of office management, customer services and quality assurance. Irum has previously worked with Mobilink , Saeed Buksh Pvt. Ltd and CitiBank. Irum’s keen interest in human resource management and its vast possibilities for being the means to enhance the employability resulted in her choice to obtain a MBA degree in HRM from University of Central Punjab. Irum also holds a Master’s in Commerce degree from Hailey College of commerce, University of Punjab. 

What to expect from the session?

This session would open doors for interested candidates for future employment at INFOTECH. 

Please find the agenda below.

Introduction

How to enter in corporate world? Advise for students to get hired

Campus to Corporate (i.e. C2C) model

Graduate Training Program

Induction Criteria

Professional Training

6 Month Assessment

Induction

Question/Answer Session 

Who should attend this session?

Startups

Final Year Project Students

Freelancers

University Placement Officers

Students seeking internships/employment in near future

 To register, fill out: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V-7PSmLU2zsvrkO3BM6R67-iQc4i6N4uOW2Jgki8QpM/viewform?edit_requested=true

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Mr. Nabeel A. Qadeer, Joint Director Entrepreneurship- PITB to host a technology show on Pakistan’s leading channel

“This blog was originally posted in TechJuice.”

Punjab Information Technology Board(PITB) announced at the recent roundtable conference that a technology program on one of the top three leading channels of Pakistan will be aired very soon. The primary reason behind such a program is the promotion of entrepreneurship and glamorizing the Information Technology (IT) industry of Pakistan.

This roundtable event was held last month under the supervision of Dr. Umar Saif, Chairman PITB. In addition to discussing various issues faced by Pakistani Technology industry like taxation, credibility issues and promotion of IT ventures, Umar also announced that a television show is soon going to be telecasted for the promotion of IT and Entrepreneurship.

In a recent meeting with TechJuice, Dr. Saif commended the effort of running The TechJuice Show exactly saying that there is a need of promotion and glamorization the IT industry of Pakistan.

Mr. Nabeel A. Qadeer, Joint Director Entrepreneurship and Enterprise- PITB will be hosting this television program. The broadcast date and timings are yet to be announced.

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Mr. Asif Peer, the driving force behind Systems Ltd.

“We are reposting this blog with some amendments.“

System Limited is one of its kind in the list of paramount IT companies of Pakistan. It is a globally recognized leader of the next-generation IT and technology-led BPO services. This employee owned company was started 38 years ago by Syed Baber Ali and Mr. Aezaz Hussain. Its offshore facilities established in Europe, North America, and Middle East along with all the major cities of Pakistan comprise of over 2,500 customer-focused employees providing a great customer experience. It has accomplished above 600 projects and its vast list of customers includes Fortune 500 companies, government and corporate entities.

Mr Asif Peer who is currently CEO, Member of the Board and the Managing Director of Systems Limited started off his career as associate developer with Systems after completing Graduation from FAST, Karachi. He also served as Senior Vice President of Services and as Vice President of Servicing Technologies at Visionet Systems Inc. He has a total experience of 18 years and 13 years of professional experience of working at Systems Limited’s sister concern in the USA. He was one of the Top 11 CEO of Pakistan according to an article written in 2014 and one of the best performing CEOs and Leaders according to Manager Today and CEO club.

Talking about the company Mr. Peer said that the company sends 40 to 50 people abroad every year and 500+ citizens of US have gone from SYSTEMS and its goal is to hire 20,000 employee every year, groom them and take them to next level. Working in various capacities at leadership level, he strongly believes in leading the company’s growth through innovation, methodology and achieving high degree of excellence in execution through mix of technologies and business domain.

As the CEO, he has envisioned Systems Limited to be recognized by its customers, employees, stakeholders, vendors, partners and competitors as the number One IT enabled services provider not only in Pakistan but to be rated among the best software solutions and IT services companies within the Finance & Apparel market segments in the USA, South East Asia, Middle East and European Markets.

Work philosophy of Systems Limited is simple - deliver quality & value by generating flexible software solutions within a fun, disciplined, and a receptive work environment that promotes unity and fortify the strength of the company.

Awards won by Systems Limited under leadership of Asif Peer include:

·         Best in BPO

·         Runner-up award for Brand Management categories at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2014.

In the question & answer session Mr Asif Peer pointed out that the key difference between the graduates of US and Pakistan is grooming, upbringing, magnitude and exposure. Graduates of US are groomed in a way to think out of box and if you have an idea and efficiency to sell yourself then nothing can stop you from achieving your goal. He further said that vision, mission along with re-innovating both in business domain as well as in technology domain is most important thing to make a company work. Talking about the scope of IoT, he said that since all large organizations need data of their end users to make their services better, it is the future of IT. Answering a question related to Bit Logger Currency he shared that the company is already working on it in Pakistan and mentioned a startup called One Load. According to him, the major challenge faced by B2B solution startups is to come up with an idea which is different from the ideas of current working companies.

Mr. Peer also agreed to extend their services to freelancers by providing trainings on communication. He believes that Systems Limited is an institution and it’s their Corporate Social Responsibility to help all sectors of IT.

Very interesting prospects came out after the session and TechHub Connect hopes to collaborate with Systems Ltd. on many more projects in future. :)

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Mr. Asif Peer, the driving force behind Systems Ltd.

System Limited is one of its kind in the list of paramount IT companies of Pakistan. It is a globally recognized leader of the next-generation IT and technology-led BPO services. This employee owned company was started 38 years ago by Syed Baber Ali. Its offshore facilities established in Europe, North America, and Middle East along with all the major cities of Pakistan comprise of over 2,500 customer-focused employees providing a great customer experience. It has accomplished above 600 projects and its vast list of customers includes Fortune 500 companies, government and corporate entities.

 Mr Asif Peer who is currently CEO, Member of the Board and the Managing Director of Systems Limited started off his career as associate developer with Systems after completing Graduation from FAST, Karachi. He also served as Senior Vice President of Services and as Vice President of Servicing Technologies at Visionet Systems Inc. He has a total experience of 18 years and 13 years of professional experience of working at Systems Limited’s sister concern in the USA. He was one of the Top 11 CEO of Pakistan according to an article written in 2014 and one of the best performing CEOs and Leaders according to Manager Today and CEO club.

Talking about the company Mr. Peer said that the company sends 40 to 50 people abroad every year and 500+ citizens of US have gone from SYSTEMS and its goal is to hire 20,000 employee every year, groom them and take them to next level. Working in various capacities at leadership level, he strongly believes in leading the company's growth through innovation, methodology and achieving high degree of excellence in execution through mix of technologies and business domain. 

As the CEO, he has envisioned Systems Limited to be recognized by its customers, employees, stakeholders, vendors, partners and competitors as the number One IT enabled services provider not only in Pakistan but to be rated among the best software solutions and IT services companies within the Finance & Apparel market segments in the USA, South East Asia, Middle East and European Markets.

Work philosophy of Systems Limited is simple - deliver quality & value by generating flexible software solutions within a fun, disciplined, and a receptive work environment that promotes unity and fortify the strength of the company.

Awards won by Systems Limited under leadership of Asif Peer include:

·         Best in BPO

·         Runner-up award for Brand Management categories at the P@SHA ICT Awards 2014.

In the question & answer session Mr Asif Peer pointed out that the key difference between the graduates of US and Pakistan is grooming, upbringing, magnitude and exposure. Graduates of US are groomed in a way to think out of box and if you have an idea and efficiency to sell yourself then nothing can stop you from achieving your goal. He further said that vision, mission along with re-innovating both in business domain as well as in technology domain is most important thing to make a company work. Talking about the scope of IoT, he said that since all large organizations need data of their end users to make their services better, it is the future of IT. Answering a question related to Bit Logger Currency he shared that the company is already working on it in Pakistan and mentioned a startup called One Load. According to him, the major challenge faced by B2B solution startups is to come up with an idea which is different from the ideas of current working companies.

Mr. Peer also agreed to extend their services to freelancers by providing trainings on communication. He believes that Systems Limited is an institution and it’s their Corporate Social Responsibility to help all sectors of IT.

Very interesting prospects came out after the session and TechHub Connect hopes to collaborate with Systems Ltd. on many more projects in future. :)

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TechHub Connect Celebrates Systems Ltd. Week

Systems Ltd. is prominent IT Company with thirty eight years of experience and has branches worldwide to provide IT solutions and products.

Systems Ltd. week would be a great platform for startups, freelancers and students to interact with the top tier management and make a connection.  This is how TechHub Connect has planned to celebrate Systems (Pvt.) Ltd.

A Talk by Asif Peer - CEO of Systems (Pvt.) Ltd.

Monday, 7th September, 2015

Time: 4pm

The motivating force behind Systems Ltd will give an open talk to startups, freelancers and university students at 4pm. This will be a good opportunity for people to interact and learn from Mr. Asif Peer.

Systems Investor Pitch Day

Tuesday, 8th September, 2015

Time: 11 am to 2 pm

This will be a mock pitch where startups from PlanX will pitch to acting investors from Systems Ltd. People who can understand and evaluate an investor pitch from Systems Ltd will judge and give feedback.

Mentoring with Systems Ltd.

Thursday, 10th of September, 2015

Time: 11 am to 3 pm

Plan9 startups will be mentored by financial, business and technical experts from Systems Ltd. Later, after mutual agreement these experts can in future get involved in the development of selected startups.  

Systems Ltd Innovation & Strategy by Zubair Anjum

Thursday 10th of September, 2015

Time: 4 pm

Mr. Zubair Anjum (Vp Marketing, System Ltd) will have a session with all startup & freelencers, where he will discuss about Systems Ltd modernization and also the approach it has taken for it.

Visit to Systems Ltd.

Friday 11th of September, 2015

To wrap up, an open house will be conducted on the final day. TechHub Connect has arranged two batches (morning & evening) to witness Systems Ltd. In action. First would be of startup founders & freelancers. Second would be of university students.

See you at Systems Week! =)