FAANA WEBINAR SERIES: SESSION 04: Data Importance - Cyber Security Threats and career opportunities7/20/2019 FAST Alumni Association of North America (FAANA) brings to you the fourth session from the recently launched webinar series. The upcoming session is going to cover Data Importance - Cyber Security Threats and career opportunities  Please register on the link below. Registration HERE Please join us at the fourth FAANA webinar on Sunday July 28th at 12 pm Eastern Time (9 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Mr. Muhammad Rizwan, a graduate of FAST Lahore, 02 batch. The objective of this session is to encourage entrepreneurs and students to choose their careers in the field of Cyber Security. The speaker will be highlighting the data importance (how data can be converted in to money), which cyber security threats should we know and how attackers infect their targets.  Muhammad Rizwan, 02 batch - FAST Lahore, is currently working at FireEye, Inc located in Silicon Valley (Bay Area, California). He has been working in cyber security field since 2006 (having 13+ years’ experience in Pakistan, Singapore and USA). Muhammad started his career as a QA analyst, then moved to R&D department and currently working with the Development teams. He has also filed for the following two patents,
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10284575 https://patents.justia.com/patent/10025927 Additionally Mr.Rizwan is also working on a startup in Pakistan, whose idea is around Education and Training for better earnings. He plans to launch it soon.
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FAST Alumni Association of North America (FAANA) brings to you the 3rd session from the recently launched webinar series. The upcoming session is going to cover Data Science Practical Applications in Retail Industry. Register on the link here. Please join us at the 3rd FAANA webinar on Sunday June 9th at 12 pm (noon) Eastern Time (9 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Mr Hamza Farooq, a graduate of FAST Karachi, 2004 batch. Hamza currently based out of Sunnyvale, California, leads multiple data science teams at Walmart who are responsible for building machine learning & optimization products to provide recommendation in the assortment, replenishment and space domain at Walmart stores. He has over a decade of experience in the Data Science field and have helped build multiple machine learning algorithms to solve real world problems, deliver meaningful results and accomplish critical business objectives. The session will cover some of the concepts of data science on building next generation models for the Retail Sector, how to understand customer pattern and create a personalized store for local customers. This will be followed by an overview of the startup idea and how to utilize natural language processing to learn from large amounts of unstructured data  Hamza is currently looking for skilled and passionate individuals from FAST to join his team to help transform the travel industry. This will be a paid internship for 2-3 months and will require people with experience in full stack engineering and penchant for discovering new algorithms in Machine Learning. (Further details to be given towards the end of the session)
You will also learn about how to build network using platforms available in the US and Pakistan.   FAST-NU Alumni Association (FAANA) Webinar series: Session 02: Artificial Intelligence
Please join us at the second FAANA webinar on Sunday May 5th at 12 pm Eastern Time (9 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Mr Nauman Sheikh, a graduate of FAST Lahore, 92 batch. Register ( here ) Nauman Sheikh worked on an AI project very early in his career back in 1996 when he built a rule-based Pilot Scheduling system for Northwest Airlines. He has been building and deploying predictive models in operational environments since 2008 when he built and sold Credit Risk Models to banks in 3 continents. In 2013 he undertook a 10+ million device project dealing with IoT, billions of records and Real-Time operational decisions using predictive models. He first used Neural Networks in 2009 to solve a Money Laundering problem which built on his earlier project he had undertaken for US Treasury on Anti-Money Laundering back in 2002. He is a hands-on practitioner and has written a book on implementing AI that covers problem definition, model building, model deployment and overall business adoption of AI. His recent work is focused on Text Mining, Human Machine interface and gaming. In this session, Mr Nauman will be covering the following : - What is AI and what it is NOT – Demystify and clear the confusion and jargon - History of AI evolution – Tech Perspective from 80s to today - How it works – Supervised Vs. Unsupervised - Changing Trends impacting us – Overview of Gaming, Self-Driving, Robotics, Devices - Changing nature of business and opportunities for us - Overview of Tools/technologies - Q/A session toward the end of the session - Speaker can be further reached via email provided at the end of presentation You will also learn about how to build network using platforms available in the US and Pakistan. FAST Alumni Association, North America Chapter-FAANA recently conducted its elections for the year 2019-2020. This year the response had been overwhelming both from the candidates as well as the voters/participants. Election process was successfully completed with the help of one of the founding members of this organization and the final counting of votes was completed on January 18th, 2019. Out of eight nominations,. Five individual members with highest votes were elected to be part of FAANA board and to represent the organization. The elected board members are Ahmad Malik, Nauman Sheikh, Sheeba Malik, Jasim Qazi and Ahmad Uzair. Their brief background is listed at About us. The first board meeting for this year was held on January 27th, 2019 which was attended by all the new board members. There were a couple of subsequent board meetings to set the tone and direction for 2019. Some very exciting ideas were shared and discussed among the board members. The new board will be focused on the following areas for the upcoming year:
In 2018 the alumni generously donated about $36k which was 20% higher than $30k collected in 2017. All of the donation was used for financial aid of students in need. The financial target for the donation collection for the upcoming year is set to be approximately at $45k (increase of 25%).  In the coming days, FAANA would be initiating a membership drive to involve maximum alumni in order to create a greater community space. For this purpose, we are starting a monthly webinar series that would include FAST alumni (who are mainly based in North America) as speakers so they can impart their knowledge and experience among the current FAST students and upcoming graduates. The topic list would range from highly technical and industry trending topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning, to some more personalized topic specifically focused in helping current student in pursuing higher studies in United States. This series would also cover the overall job market situation in US. This would be an excellent opportunity for the current and recent FAST graduates to come together and hear from industry veterans residing in US and learn from their experiences. There would also be an opportunity to get one-on-one mentorship and career guidance from the alumni. FAANA’s mission is to support FAST-NU in its mission through its alumni and provide a platform to council and support graduates For the last several years we have been supporting deserving students via financial aid program. Going forward, we are expecting to invest more in to the areas of Research & Development and promoting innovations across various FAST campuses. This year, FAANA sponsored $1500 each for annual exhibitions at local campuses: SOFTEC (FAST - Lahore), NUTEC (FAST - Peshawar) , DAIRA (FAST Faisalabad-Chiniot) 2019 and NASCON (FAST – Islamabad). We are having discussion to setup an incubation center at FAST Karachi. As a part of sponsorship, alumni can judge the innovation competitions, attend opening and closing ceremonies, deliver talks on behalf of FAANA and represent the organization. If you have any suggestion, please feel free to reach out to us via board@faana.org or https://www.facebook.com/FastAlumniNA/ Please subscribe to one of our digital channels listed here http://www.faana.org/resources.html Please join our WhatsApp group here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/9gZMdQQRaPVDHe6jtrq0YR  FAST-NU Alumni Association (FAANA) Webinar series: Session 01: An Entrepreneur's Journey
Please join us at the first FAANA webinar on Sunday March 31st at 12 pm Eastern Time (9 pm Pakistan Time). Our guest speaker is Fahad Aziz , a graduate of FAST Lahore, 97 batch. Fahad is the co-Founder of a healthcare startup: CareMerge. It is named one of the 2018 Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in US and has raised over $20m in funding from major healthcare investors. Fahad mentors startups at UC Berkeley and is a guest lecturer at NYU on entrepreneurship. In this webinar, Fahad will share his story of how he transitioned from corporate to entrepreneurship, with no experience in startups. He will also share key learnings from: - Taking Ideas to MVP - Selecting a co-founder and building the first team - Raising funds (from angel investors to venture capitalists) - Branding and Marketing - Creating and leveraging your network You will also learn about how to build network using platforms available in the US and Pakistan. |
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