Working From Home: How to Navigate and Embrace the Change w/ Huma Hamid (Co-Founder @ PWiC)

Apr 17, 2020, 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Huma Hamid is a tech-maker by profession and an activist by heart with a passion for building products, platforms, teams, and communities. She is currently a technical product manager, and the Cofounder and former President at Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC), an AnitaB.org affiliated global STEM community. Huma is a graduate of NUST-SEECS and Brunel University UK with 15 years of experience.

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About this event

Huma Hamid is a tech-maker by profession and an activist by heart with a passion for building products, platforms, teams, and communities. She is currently a technical product manager, and the Cofounder and former President at Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC), an AnitaB.org affiliated global STEM community. Huma is a graduate of NUST-SEECS and Brunel University UK with 15 years of experience working in several R&D and engineering groups focused on building digital platforms to serve industries like infrastructure and construction engineering, network and communication engineering, and digital learning. Her research on the challenges of implementing CRM systems in Pakistan got published at ECIS2009 in Italy and one of the few research studies focused on the digital transformation in Pakistan. Huma is also part of a number of global STEM communities as a mentor, and actively volunteers for causes impacting the digital ecosystem of Pakistan.


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Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Huma Hamid

    Pakistani Women in Computing (PWIC)

    Co-Founder

When

When

Friday, April 17, 2020
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM UTC

Agenda

4:00 PMFireside Chat
4:30 PMQ & A

Hosts

  • Eiza Naveed

    Minerva Schools at KGI

  • Arzish Azam

    Startup Grind / Ejad Labs

    Director / CEO

Organizers

  • Arzish Azam

    Ejad Labs

    Country Manager, Pakistan

  • Mehroz Azam

    Ejad Labs

    Co-Director

Partners

Startup Guide Pakistan logo

Startup Guide Pakistan

Pakistani Women in Computing (PWIC) logo

Pakistani Women in Computing (PWIC)

PopCorn Studio logo

PopCorn Studio

Daftarkhwan logo

Daftarkhwan

Colabs logo

Colabs

The Hive logo

The Hive

American Pakistan Foundation logo

American Pakistan Foundation

Tech London Advocates Pakistan (TLAP) logo

Tech London Advocates Pakistan (TLAP)

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