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Golfers of all levels are welcome. The purpose is to have an opportunity for OPEN SV’s Charter Members to get together with the larger community, for everyone to have a good time, bring their friends who enjoy golf, play at a pristine exclusive members-only course and try to win prizes. This year, we are also extending the invite to two local golf clubs that are part of our larger Pakistani and South Asian community – Bay Area Golf Group and East Bay Golfers. The format will be individual stroke play. Various prizes will be given out. Tee times will be provided once the registration closes.
We will only have a limited number of slots, and they will go fast.
Program for the day will be as follows:

11:00 am – Check-in begins. Practice facility: range and putting green
12:00 noon – Boxed lunches will be provided
12:30 pm – Shotgun start for all the groups
5:00 pm – All groups finish and turn in scorecards
5:30 pm – Awards ceremony and mingling – at the clubhouse outdoor patio 

Mujeeb Ijaz, is the founder & CEO of ONE.ai., the hottest battery technology startup based out of Michigan. ONE.ai has demonstrated a proof-of-concept battery that powered Tesla Model S, 752 miles without recharging.

Mujeeb is a battery systems engineer with over 30 years of experience in the development of electric vehicles and battery systems technologies. Mujeeb led teams at Ford Motor Co., where he developed Ford’s Edge with HySeries Drive, the Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 that set a land speed record at Bonneville in 2007, and the Chrysler ENVI project. He was president of A123’s Venture Technologies unit, where he and his team led the development of Li-Ion battery solutions for electric vehicles, and more recently, a senior director at Apple, where he developed novel energy storage solutions. Mujeeb holds 31 U.S. patents in the field of battery technology and energy management systems.

Faysal Sohail is the Managing Director at Presidio Partners

Faysal Sohail became a venture investor in 2002 after seventeen years of experience as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He has led several investments in technology and energy space, including robotics, information security, energy, semiconductors and software.

The Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs and Professionals is a global network of entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals, which consists of chapters all around the world in 17 cities ranging from Silicon Valley, New York, Toronto, London, MENA, and Islamabad to name a few.

Due to Covid, we are limiting access to the first 500 participants who purchase tickets to the event. Our theme is ML/AI, Health-Tech, and Fintech.

Take part in the OPEN Silicon Valley Forum and benefit from one of the most dynamic and powerful entrepreneurship networks in the US.

She started her Google journey in Google Cloud from Microsoft, where she spent 11 years.. Her last role at Microsoft was Vice President of Sales and Marketing IT. Prior to Microsoft, Shahla was at IBM serving as VP of the Communications Sector for Canada, as well as VP of Global eBusiness in New York.

She is a passionate advocate for diversity in the workplace. Along with this, she has served on numerous not-for-profit boards, including the Board of Advisors for Catalyst.

About Sohaib Zahid

Sohaib Zahid is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Railz. Sohaib is a serial entrepreneur with a decade of successful experience in building teams, products and companies. He focuses on Sales and Marketing. Prior to founding Railz, Sohaib founded Vanhawks, where he led product, sales, and operations. Vanhawks was acquired in 2016. Originally from Pakistan, Sohaib dropped out of medical school to pursue entrepreneurship and is a strong believer of open access to data. Outside of work, Sohaib enjoys time with his family, and nerds out on air-cooled engines.

About Dr. Mariam Kiran

Dr. Kiran is a Research Scientist in the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, and leads research efforts in AI solutions for operational network research and engineering problems. She received her Ph.D. and MSc (Eng) in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, UK in 2011, 2009, respectively.

Her work focuses on machine learning and decentralized optimization of distributed computing system architectures, wide area networks, wireless, and Cloud infrastructures, with an emphasis on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for designing and building end-to-end self-driving networks. She is also one of the developers of FLAME an open-source agent-based framework being used world-wide for multi-disciplinary research. Before joining the lab, Kiran worked at various Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, and University College London, with collaborations with European industries such as SAP, ATOS, and BT. She was selected as the Royal Society’s Scientists in Westminster in 2015 and is the recipient of the 2017 U.S. DOE Early Career Award. She is a member of ACM and a Senior IEEE member.

About Hassan Bhatti

Hassan is a technology entrepreneur with a track record of commercializing deep-tech projects into successful businesses. Most recently, he was a co-founder of CryptoNumerics, a data privacy and machine learning startup backed by LUX capital. It was acquired by Snowflake in July 2020.

He is currently a leader in Snowflake’s data marketplace product team, where he works on strategic Partnerships & Business Development opportunities globally. Additionally, he is a co-founder & board member of Semantic Health, a venture-backed healthcare startup, an active angel investor, and an Investment Partner at Community Fund.

In addition to his professional engagements, he is involved in the community as an advisory member of Century Initiative and a mentor at various Canadian & Pakistani incubators. He holds a BSc in Physics and Economics from the University of British Columbia where he was an International Scholar.

About Dr. Mariam Kiran

Dr. Kiran is a Research Scientist in the Scientific Networking Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, and leads research efforts in AI solutions for operational network research and engineering problems. She received her Ph.D. and MSc (Eng) in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, UK in 2011, 2009, respectively.

Her work focuses on machine learning and decentralized optimization of distributed computing system architectures, wide area networks, wireless, and Cloud infrastructures, with an emphasis on deep learning and reinforcement learning algorithms for designing and building end-to-end self-driving networks. She is also one of the developers of FLAME an open-source agent-based framework being used world-wide for multi-disciplinary research. Before joining the lab, Kiran worked at various Universities of Sheffield, Leeds, and University College London, with collaborations with European industries such as SAP, ATOS, and BT. She was selected as the Royal Society’s Scientists in Westminster in 2015 and is the recipient of the 2017 U.S. DOE Early Career Award. She is a member of ACM and a Senior IEEE member.