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1969, Time Goes On
333 Market Street
Alachisoft
Building 23
Computer History Museum
FAST Incubation Center (FASTIC)
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Higher Education Commission
KNCT Hub
National Incubation Center
Netflix - Building D
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Plug & Play Tech Center
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Software Technology Park
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The Hive
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Digital Health Conference will focus on emerging trends related to the advancement of health technologies in software and hardware
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About this Event
Agenda – The Digital Health conference is scheduled on Saturday April 3rd and comprises of three sessions in the order below.
10:05 – 10:10 Welcome
10:10 – 10:55 Fireside Chat with Junaid Bajwa – Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft
11:00 – 11:55 Digital Healthcare Devices
12:00 – 12:55 Cost and Convenience of Digital Health
12:55 – 1:00 Concluding remarks
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Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Mohsin will discuss and answer questions about what is entailed in the daily life of an engineering leader and how one can move from an individual contributor role to a
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Mohsin will discuss and answer questions about what is entailed in the daily life of an engineering leader and how one can move from an individual contributor role to a leadership role. Mohsin will share the lessons learnt and how to navigate this decision in your own careers.
Mohsin’s Bio:
Mohsin is a seasoned CTO who currently leads the global engineering team at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP). With more than 25 years of experience in engineering, leadership and innovation, he brings an extensive technical background in software and distributed systems, data science, machine learning, cloud infrastructure and data analytics across AdTech, IOT, Clean tech, B2C and B2B domains . His career has spanned leadership roles across several start-ups and public firms including AOL/Netscape, Siebel, SunPower, and Criteo with 18 collective patents granted throughout his collective tenure. Mohsin has deep expertise [re]building large-scale high-availability systems, cultivating empowerment-based engineering culture, developing agile organizations for fast learning (and iterating) and integrating complex technology M&A.
Time
(Saturday) 9:00 am - 10:00 am
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This workshop is designed for anyone who wanted to learn but was afraid to ask. An expert will define these terms in an easy-to-understand terminology and you will
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This workshop is designed for anyone who wanted to learn but was afraid to ask. An expert will define these terms in an easy-to-understand terminology and you will walk away feeling that now you can participate all such conversation and feel confident. We will even talk about how to start even if you have $1000 to invest or perhaps $100K. One of the topics is how to use option trading and what is considered 100% risk free investing (yes there is such a thing!).
Naeem Zafar is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and a member of the faculty at the University of California Berkeley, and Professor of the Practice at Brown University. He teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation and New Venture Finance at Brown and Berkeley. Naeem is the co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, and has authored five books on entrepreneurship.
Please email any question you may have so we can include it in the workshop. opensv@gmail.com
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Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Two female finance and technology executives have created a unique non-profit organization aimed directly at women who want to learn, understand, and navigate the traditionally male dominated landscape of personal
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Two female finance and technology executives have created a unique non-profit organization aimed directly at women who want to learn, understand, and navigate the traditionally male dominated landscape of personal financial management and investing. Meet Rabiya Ather & Zabreen Khan
Rabiya Ather
Rabiya is responsible for systematic trading strategies and investor products structuring at Goldman Sachs. In her current role, she focuses on the design and distribution of systematic strategies for large institutional clients and asset allocators in North America. Outside of her passion for the markets, Rabiya cares deeply about social impact ranging from healthcare and education to financial literacy and inclusion. Previously, Rabiya conducted Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organization in Geneva as well as fieldwork for the Polio Eradication Initiative in Pakistan. Starting her journey with a focus on women’s education and vocational training almost 10 years ago, she continues to mentor and support various social impact projects globally. Rabiya graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics, Economics and Computer Science.
Zabreen Khan
Zabreen is currently an investor at Lead Edge Capital, a venture capital and growth equity firm based in New York. She focuses on software and internet investments and hopes to fund more female founders. Prior to Lead Edge, Zabreen worked at Facebook, Andreessen Horowitz, and Disney. Zabreen discovered her love for technology while at Stanford University where she studied Science, Technology & Society and Creative Writing. Zabreen graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and Distinction and received the Robert McGinn Award as Valedictorian in her department. She has been a longtime proponent of female empowerment, starting in her hometown of Lahore, Pakistan where she worked to promote women’s education. Zabreen was a speaker for the 2015 TEDx Women’s movement and continues to be involved in female focused organizations.
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Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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What it takes to turn your idea into a product! Hear the journey of Komal Rizvi and Dr. Najwa Javed
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If you have a dream you can achieve it! In this inspiring panel discussion famous Pakistani celebrity Komal Rizvi and Silicon Valley based Dr. Najwa Javed will share their experience and reveal strategies, tactics and tips on how you can turn your idea into a successful product.
Some facts about our speakers
Komal Rizvi:
- National Award holder of “Best Newcomer in Acting” at 18 years old.
- First Pakistani to host a Bollywood talk show on an International Channel.
- Only female to have 3 music albums released by International Record Labels like EMI and Saregama.
- Has 4 superhits on Coke Studio Pakistan’s Top 25 hits ever.
- has performed in the highest number of Concerts for a female Pakistani performer all over the world.
- Successfully operated her own Skincare company, which has within 1.5years become the fastest growing local skincare in Pakistan. Successfully converting her fans into her buyers making her venture already a financial success.
- Has leading number of followers as a Female singer on Facebook (approximately 1 million).
Najwa Javed:
- Double Board Certified Podiatric Surgeon
- Trained in Limb Salvage and Trauma from VA Palo Alto/Stanford
- Masters in Public Health/ Clinical Research from UNTHSC
- Holder of the “Philip Gardner” Award for Excellence
- Adjunct Professor/Faculty VASF/UCSF
- Advisor, Biotech companies
- Medical Reviewer and Consultant
- CEO, Silicon Valley Podiatry Group – a comprehensive medical group focused on providing cutting edge foot and ankle care/surgery
- Founder and CEO, E’MAR Italy; a luxury Footwear brand designed with patent pending medical technology. Made for the Modern Women who does it all.
- Featured in American Muslim Today, 1966 Magazine, and Style and Spa Magazine
- Over 100K monthly viewers on Pinterest
Moderator:
Zainab Baqar
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Time
(Sunday) 10:30 am - 11:30 am
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Many people are intimated about the stock market and various terms seem mysterious. Mutual funds or ETF ? and what exactly do they mean. What about the index funds? How
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Many people are intimated about the stock market and various terms seem mysterious. Mutual funds or ETF ? and what exactly do they mean. What about the index funds? How to get started and how to learn to research and invest. Should I just get a financial advisor?. Many struggle with these concepts and have many questions.
This workshop is designed for anyone who wanted to learn but was afraid to ask. An expert will define these terms in an easy-to-understand terminology and you will walk away feeling that now you can participate all such conversation and feel confident. We will even talk about how to start even if you have $1000 to invest or perhaps $100K. One of the topics is how to use option trading and what is considered 100% risk free investing (yes there is such a thing!).
Naeem Zafar is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and a member of the faculty at the University of California Berkeley, and Professor of the Practice at Brown University. He teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation and New Venture Finance at Brown and Berkeley. Naeem is the co-founder and CEO of TeleSense, and has authored five books on entrepreneurship.
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Time
(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Netflix’s ever changing libraries of movies, shows and original content have changed the way people
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Netflix’s ever changing libraries of movies, shows and original content have changed the way people watch TV. Netflix success is credited to pioneering ways that the company incorporated AI and Machine Learning (ML) into its products, services and infrastructure. Netflix is a data driven company. Data offers power insights for making informed business decisions. It fuels experimentation and innovation and helps Netflix discover content with a goal of predicting what our members want to watch next. To accelerate innovation velocity, Netflix has been building cloud native ML infrastructure that promotes: collaboration, model reuse and data abstraction.
Netflix notebook system and enhancements, ML libraries and orchestration help run hundreds and thousands of experiments every day. ML models should learn and adapt to new data as it arrives, and that is automated via CI/CD platform and DevOps support. Powerful multi-GPU cloud instances and distributed TensorFlow libraries making it possible to run more experiments and train more complex models in a short amount of time. At Netflix, ML is applied to tackle a wide range of challenges such as: personalizing member viewing experience, improving streaming quality, resource management, capacity forecasting, regional fail over and anomaly detection.
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Time
(Sunday) 10:00 am - 11:00 am