I was invited to speak about product management at NIC Islamabad by Integry.
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Product School, Lahore
I’ve attended Product School events in the San Francisco Bay Area and Buenos Aires. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that they also have a chapter in Lahore. Their local organizer, Haseeb Raza, reached out on LinkedIn and asked me to speak on a trip to Lahore in 2019. Product School talks in SF […]
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“Make your worlds larger”, Oakland
This talk was delivered on April 29, 2017 in Oakland, California, to the Fulbright Class of 2017 shortly returning to Pakistan. I have added links and certain references, details and qualifications that I could not mention while speaking (in the interest of time). I was invited by the Institute of South Asia Studies at UC […]
I was invited to deliver a lecture for a Technology for Accountability Lab course being put together by Vivek S. for Stanford University. More details: The Program on Liberation Technology (LibTech) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) together with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) are proud to launch a free massive […]
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Startups and Pakistan, Oakland
I was invited by the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley to lead the final debrief session at the 2016 Fulbright Reentry Seminar for scholars from Pakistan. This is a short-clip of the full talk. Clearly, I was having a good time.
I was invited by the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley to speak about Social Enterprise at the 2016 Fulbright Reentry Seminar for scholars from Pakistan. Unfortunately, the video quality isn’t great, but here are the slides.
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TED Prize for City 2.0, Doha
TED, in addition to their genre-defining conferences, also awards the TED Prize each year to a game changing idea. It is usually awarded to individuals, like Bill Clinton and Bono, but in 2012, TED decided to award it to “an idea for continued flourishing: The City2.0, an exploration of the intersection of ingenuity and urbanity”. Omer […]
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Why Study Computer Science, Lahore
In the BS program at LUMS, you declare your major at the end of the freshman year. I was invited by Hasnain Lakhani, class of 2013, to speak with the class of 2014 to encourage them to opt for Computer Science (CS). I had also majored in CS. I remember lots of jaws dropped on […]
I was invited to speak at TEDxKinnaird, the first university-style TEDx event held at Kinnaird College in February 2010, themed Believe in Tomorrow. There’s no video, but here are the slides and transcript of my talk that should have been titled “19, free and ambitious”. About 2500 years ago, Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, said something […]