Join Raheel Khan to hear his perspective on career opportunities in the system on a chip (SoC) design in Pakistan. Please save the meeting information into your calendar (see below details).

In this interactive session, learn about:

• What is platform based SoC design (covers embedded AI) and why is it important?
• What is the market opportunity?
• Why these skills are important and in high demand?
• Where to start? Tips for educators, students, professionals and investors

Raheel Khan has more than 25 years of experience in developing high volume semiconductor products from concept to production.  Raheel has served as Vice President and General Manager for Intel Corporation and as VP of Engineering at Qualcomm, where he was responsible for overseeing 7 generations of cellular modem development. Earlier in his career he was part of the pre-IPO team at Broadcom where he did groundbreaking work on cable, satellite and DSL chip development. Raheel is the founder and CEO of Xcelerium, Inc an edge AI platform company. In the course of his career Raheel has developed more than 50 SoC products with a cumulative volume of over 5B chips and a cumulative revenue generated of over $100B.

Date: Saturday March 19, 2022
Time: 9 am Pacific Time, 12 pm Eastern Time, 9 pm Pakistan Time

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Join Kamran Qazi to hear his perspective on trends and opportunities in the telecom industry. Please save the meeting information into your calendar.

In this interactive session, learn about:
 

• Major architectural components of a mobile network.
• Brief overview of mobile network generations: 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G
• Standards bodies: 3GPP, O-RAN, Winnforum, GSMA etc.
• New Trends – Network Function Virtualization and Cloudification
• 5G – a game changer or just another “G”?
• Build career or identify business opportunities

Date: Sunday March 13, 2022
Time: 9 am Pacific Time, 12 pm Eastern Time, 10 pm Pakistan Time

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Kamran Qazi is a Director of Program Management at Mavenir, based in Dallas. He has been associated with the telecom industry for 22+ years and developed a comprehensive skills portfolio ranging from product requirements management and solution architecture to product deployment and customer care. Kamran has served in many brand-name companies including Motorola, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, and IBM, and served in three different countries. Kamran’s current responsibilities include introduction of cloud-native telecom products in Tier-1 operator’s networks. Kamran graduated from the first (1990) batch of FAST-Lahore with a BCS degree, then completed his master’s in computer science from Arizona State University. He can be reached on his private email address at kay9cue@gmail.com

Speaker: Kashif Zubair
Kashif’s passion has been helping individuals find the passion within in order to excel in their personal and professional lives, so they can achieve their potential. He helps transform mindsets into a “Think Like An Owner” philosophy allowing individuals to take the first step towards liberating themselves into taking action, controlling chaos, and challenging the status quo. Kashif is a visionary serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and peacemaker. He is always on the move to continue developing himself into a better human.
More information about Kashif can be found here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashifzubair/
In this interactive session, learn about:

•    Kashif’s journey to become an impactful entrepreneur.
•   The traits of what successful people acquire and how they are able to achieve greatness in their lives.
• Practical ideas to achieve greatness in your personal and professional lives.

Date: Sunday December 12, 2021
Time: 9 am Pacific Time, 12 pm Eastern Time, 10 pm Pakistan Time
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/r/PP9hzA0GPt
 For questions, please email to board@faana.org

Join us for the upcoming FAANA session titled: Investing in Start-ups

The talk will include
- Raza Shaikh’s journey from starting at FAST to becoming a professional venture investor. 
- What investors look for to fund companies at early stage. 
- From the other side of the table, how venture capital works, 
- What do angels and venture capitalists do. 
- How you can invest in the start-up asset class. 

Tune in live at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (9pm-10pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, 19th September, 2021 

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Speaker: Raza Shaikh
Raza Shaikh is Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group, one of the most active and largest angel investor groups in the US. Raza is an active investor in early-stage companies in the New England area. He also co-manages the Beacon Venture Partners Fund, which invests in early-stage companies, including the Launchpad portfolio. He also currently mentors and advises several Boston-based businesses. Raza co-founded NorthBay, one of the largest independent Amazon Web Services partners helping large companies transition to the Cloud and Artificial Intelligence. Previously, Raza was part of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, building science platforms for small molecule synthesis, and was an early employee at Formulatrix, building software and robotics for drug discovery applications. Raza holds a B.S. in Computer Science from National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences FAST-NU in Pakistan.

Join us for the upcoming FAANA session titled: Careers in Sales Engineering
The talk will include:

• What is Sales Engineering.
• Role of Sales Engineering in Software Sales.
• Why it is one of the best jobs to do.
• How to get into it.
• What can people do to make it a career.

Tune in live at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (9pm-10pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, August 15th, 2021.

Speaker: Ali Farooq

Ali is Vice President of Sales Strategy and Development at GoodData. With 17 years of professional experience across multiple Data & Analytics roles, Ali brings a wealth of knowledge.
Ali defines himself as an unorthodox sales professional where he is always looking for innovation, creativity and challenging the status quo. He is a Purdue Alumni with M.S in Data Mining. Besides Purdue Ali completed MBA in management from Bradley University and MS Computer Science from Florida International University.

Zoom Info : 
FAST-NU Alumni Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: FAANA Webinar#22 : Sales Engineering
Time: Aug 15, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Join us for the upcoming FAANA session titled: Careers in Computer Graphics
Learn about the different Career opportunities that exist for Computer Graphics Engineers. We will cover the different tracks that exist within this field as well as the industries to which this skillset can be applied to.

The talk will include
- The speaker's academic and career journey
- Graphics applications in the industry
- Overview of different types of job roles
- How to get started in the field
- Q&A 

Tune in live at 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Time (9pm-10pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, April 11th, 2021.

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Speaker: Novaira Masood

Novaira is a graduate from FAST Islamabad, Batch 2000. She has 20 years of industry experience in computer graphics and computer vision. She has worked on numerous Hollywood movies as an R&D Software Engineer, including titles like Maleficent and Thor etc.
Check out her IMDB profile here : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3681538/
She is also the Vice President of Pakistani Women in Computing, and passionate about creating strong networks for female engineers.

Join us for the upcoming FAANA session titled: Conflict Resolution: Making progress while building trust

In this interactive talk, we will discuss conflict resolution and learn about a framework to resolve conflicts in a workplace, among friends or any other situation

Tune in live at 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific Time (9pm-10pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, March 14th, 2021.

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Speaker: Rehan Hamid

Rehan coaches soft skills to help grow individuals and teams being more effective and efficient. He works at Google as Technical Program Manager. He is proud to be a founding member of FAANA. He loves to play squash, read books and hunt - holds a record of hunting two deers in 2 minutes :)

Join us for the upcoming FAANA session titled: Towards Business Sustainability: The Role of Tech-Entrepreneurs and Business Decision-Makers
This session provides a comprehensive background in the management principles needed to enhance entrepreneurial decision-making in today’s complex World.  It will allow participants to examine some local and global level management challenges. A pragmatic stakeholder engagement approach will be discussed as a way to confront these multifaceted and dynamic business situations.  The subject areas that make up this session include, stakeholder theory, sustainability, management of technological innovation, and business ethics.


Tune in live at 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10pm-11pm Pakistan Standard Time) on Sunday, February 14th, 2021.
 
Speaker: Dr. Umair Shah
With a PhD degree in Management of Technology, Dr. Umair Shah is a Lecturer in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo (Canada). He actively pursues teaching, industry-consultation, and research in these four areas: 1) stakeholder theory, 2) management of technological innovation, 3) business sustainability, and 4) behavioural aspects of privacy and cybersecurity. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, reading books, and playing music.

Zoom Info :

​FAST-NU Alumni Association is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: FAANA Webinar Session17: Business Sustainability
Time: Feb 14, 2021 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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