OPEN Events

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Command and control only works in forces where no is not an option. However, in private and public sector organisations, leaders need to learn how to persuade others about their point of view than simply controlling through maladaptive behaviors. We will discuss about the way to persuade others when conveying your message. ]]>

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Leaders like to have their impact. Does it have a positive or negative impact is a question that needs to be explored and looked into detail. In this session, we will discuss about how can you increase your impact and under the difference between control, influence and interest. ]]>

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Leadership at its essence is leading change. What entails change in terms of process and handling people is a challenging task for a leader. We will discuss the ways a leader should handle change at department and organisational level. ]]>

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Leadership is the result you produce. There is no such thing as one right design. There are only organisations, each of which has distinct strengths, distinct limitations, and specific applications. In this session, we will discuss the overall design of an organisation (your culture), division or work group. ]]>

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Two chief factors impede the performance among the team members resulting in delays in the project or product delivery. Misunderstanding is one among them. We will discuss what causes misunderstanding and how can we overcome this challenge seamlessly. ]]>

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Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambience. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top Executives from large enterprises
– C-level Executives of IT companies
– Deans, Professors and Researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc.
Participation charges:
Members: 500 PKR
Non-members: 1000 PKR ]]>

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Nothing happens without trust, Trust is the building block in any relationship. We will examine the the difference between the absence and presence of trust. What effect it has on speed of work, cost of doing business and collaboration. ]]>

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Planning without action is merely a wish. Leadership is not through position but through action. What, when and where to take an action requires knowledge and skills. We will discuss action centered leadership in building team in this session. ]]>

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Are you designing human experiences through services? This session goes through the framework of service blueprints to design delightful services for your customers and clients. ]]>

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• Leadership SIG series is back with its eleventh episode, “Team Building Strategies”. In the last session, we focused on the significance of managing one’s relationship with their boss. This time, we are going to discuss effective team-building strategies and the significance of effective teams.

Building team requires strategies to effectively achieve objectives irrespective of the job or role assigned to them. What three constituents are required to build an effective team, we will discuss in this session.

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Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambiance. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top Executives from large enterprises
– C-level Executives of IT companies
– Deans, Professors and Researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare, etc.
Participation charges:
Members: PKR 600
Non-members: PKR 1200

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The talk will range from discussing the anatomy of the eye and its association with perception and how we associate colors, their meaning, how to pick colors, creating harmonized and relevant palettes, basics of typography and choosing typefaces, using spacing systems and the basic process of graphic/brand and logo design.

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Register yourself here ——->  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-summit-peshawar-2019-tickets-70705988515
Technology leaders from Silicon Valley US and Pakistan will conduct this first-ever Technology Summit in Peshawar. The newer technologies have changed the way we live, work and communicate. However, it's just the tip of the iceberg. There is still a huge need to build solutions that can not only solve local but global problems. In this summit, experts will take you on a journey of technology innovation and guide you on how you can become a catalyst of change.
Confirmed Speakers:
Fahad Aziz, Contributor Forbes
Kamran Bangash, IT Minister KPK
Waleed Khawaja, CEO ProductBox
Farrukh Malik, President OPEN Islamabad
Maryam Arshad Mahmood, Founder at Impact Dynamics, Lead-Google Business Group Peshawar
Adnan Faisal, Founder of Pakistan’s first tech accelerator in the US
Muneeb Waseem, VP Engineering Caremerge
Agenda:
— Welcome
– Introduction to OPEN and Volunteerism
– Future Technologies
– Startups 101
— Tea/Snacks Break
– Growth Hacking
– Building the first App
– Entrepreneurship Opportunities in KPK
— Closing Remarks
Who should attend?
Students, Startups, Freelancers and Working Professionals
Fees:
The event is free. Register on this website and we will send you a confirmation. We have limited seating, first-come, first-serve.
Partner:
The event is organized in association with OPEN Islamabad.
Sponsor:
We thank our sponsor ProductBox. http://www.productbox.dev
Host:
The event is hosted by FAST Incubation Center (FASTIC) – Peshawar Campus.
About OPEN Islamabad:
OPEN (Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs) is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization, dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and business leadership amongst Pakistanis. It is an inclusive, encompassing and collaborative initiative with a vision to become the premier organization driving entrepreneurship in Pakistan.
Register yourself here ——->  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-summit-peshawar-2019-tickets-70705988515 ]]>

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Gartner predicts that there will be over 21 billion connected devices in the world by 2020 [https://www.gartner.com/doc/3299317]. More than anything else, this number drives all 3 Vs of Big Data: Velocity, Volume, Variety. The Internet of Things (IoT) causes some challenges for any database system: security, resource consumption, ingestion rate, replication as well as coping with various access patterns from transactional systems to complex analytics. This talk will discuss how PostgreSQL‘s current feature set, the new features in upcoming versions of PostgreSQL and Postgres-BDR will provide the required feature set for IoT.

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Leadership SIG series is back with its tenth episode, “Managing the Boss”. In the last session, we focused on how managers need to communicate on three different levels and how to make these communications effective. This time, we are going to discuss the significance of managing one's relationship with their boss.
It sounds skeptical “to manage your boss” due to our traditional management practices in the organisations. It also sounds unhealthy to think why to manage your boss. But numerous research studies suggest that effective managers take time and effort notably to manage their relationships with their subordinates and also with their bosses as well. In this session, we will explore the difference between a leader, manager and a boss and what are the areas we could
look into developing our relationships with the boss.

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In the third SIG, we will focus on grooming and refining backlogs. This will include understanding the importance of slicing in agile and learning how to decompose epic into user stories, prioritizing backlog items and acquiring knowledge on potential backlog refinement benefits.
Pakistan Agile Development Society, founded in 2014, is defining the future of Agile in Pakistan. Today, the society consists of volunteer members from all over Pakistan having its chapters in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. It has been successfully spreading its message through conferences, awareness sessions, and meetups. AgilePK provides a platform to agile experts to share their experiences and knowledge and add value in industry. Find more about Pakistan Agile Development Society, visit their website: (http://www.agile.org.pk/). This event is being conducted in collaboration with Pakistan Agile Development Society Islamabad Chapter (AgileISB).

Who should Attend:

• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners
• Scrum Team Members
• Clients Management

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Leadership SIG series is back with its ninth episode, “Communicating at Three Levels”. In the last session, we focused on how should one manage oneself, now we are going to discuss the significance of communication skills for a manager.
Becoming a new manager changes their role from contributor to a director and an encourager. Managers generally misconstrue position with authority and start delving in either being aggressive, passive or manipulative. All these traits are generally negatively perceived. The question arises where and when to use and not to use them and what could be the best alternative, we will discuss in this session.
 

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In the second SIG, we will focus on how to gather information from the client in an effective way. This will include transforming vague requirements into good requirements, driving clients to obtain maximum benefits and the link between project success and effective requirement collection.
Pakistan Agile Development Society, founded in 2014, is defining the future of Agile in Pakistan. Today, the society consists of volunteer members from all over Pakistan having its chapters in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. It has been successfully spreading its message through conferences, awareness sessions, and meetups. AgilePK provides a platform to agile experts to share their experiences and knowledge and add value in industry. Find more about Pakistan Agile Development Society, visit their website: (http://www.agile.org.pk/). This event is being conducted in collaboration with Pakistan Agile Development Society Islamabad Chapter (AgileISB).

Who should Attend:

• Business Analysts
• Scrum Masters
• Developers
• Testers

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OPEN Islamabad's signature event is back. After every three to four months, we present a Networking Event for professionals in Islamabad to interact, dine and grow their network in Islamabad, linking them to exciting professional and personal development opportunities. After all, Your Network is Your Net Worth!

OPEN Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambiance. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

• Charter members of OPEN
• Top Executives from large enterprises
• C-level Executives of IT companies
• Deans, Professors, and Researchers from universities
• Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
• Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare, etc.

Who Should Join:
Everyone working or studying in Islamabad, looking to benefit from the presence of esteemed professionals and experts at one place and
Participation charges:

• Members: 500 PKR
• Non-members: 1000 PKR

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Do illiterate women recognize icons and illustrations? Do we need to train farmers to use mobile applications? Do users in lower income segments understand the search icon on Amazon (or Google)?
Who are the next billion users? We have 7 billion people on this planet and they all have different needs, wants, aspirations, capabilities and skill levels. Platforms like facebook and google have impacted the lives of nearly 1.5 billion users, however, the next billion users who will adopt digital technologies are very different from the existing users. Technology products will need to be customized for these users to serve their needs. Learn about these insights and experiences from field research in Pakistan to design your products and services for the next billion users.

Who Should Attend

• Program Managers from NGOs
• Product Designers
• UX designers
• Service Designers
• People wanting to understand how Human-centred design works in practice

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Software businesses nowadays rely immensely on databases. Database disasters, resulting in downtime, have dire consequences in terms of direct loss in revenue. Thus it is very critically essential for businesses to recover from database disasters quickly. Participating in this session will help you understand how to perform a recovery operation for business-critical applications on PostgreSQL backends using Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager.
Barman standardizes your backup and recovery operations. It enables PostgreSQL DBAs and system administrators to easily integrate their PostgreSQL solutions in their disaster recovery plan. Barman features zero data loss backups, cooperation with standby servers, reliable monitoring integration, parallel copy for backup and recovery, backup catalogues, support for multiple servers, store backup data, full hot backup, incremental backup and recovery, retention policies, remote recovery, WAL files compression, and backup Information.
This talk will focus on effective planning for disaster recovery using Barman.

Who Should Attend?

Database enthusiasts, CTOs, IT Business owners, PostgreSQL Professionals

Participation Charges

Free for OPEN Members, PKR 500/- For Non-Members

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We cannot reach the destination unless we know where are we going. We set goals and after a while start beating the old track again. Setting goals seems to be trivial but it is the most challenging task for the new managers. In this session we will talk about outcome goals and performance goals and how can we set them to achieve our objectives.

Who Should Attend?

Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Students looking to work in a leadership role.

Participation Charges

Free for OPEN Members. PKR 500/- for Non-Members

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In the first SIG, let's learn how to accelerate project delivery by changing your mindset, adjusting leadership style, embracing agility, creating a culture of teamwork and responding quickly to change. The session will help you understand how you can bring change by taking small steps. We have planned an interesting session for you, with an interactive presentation along with activities to engage all the participants in the learning process.
Pakistan Agile Development Society, founded in 2014, is defining the future of Agile in Pakistan. Today, the society consists of volunteer members from all over Pakistan having its chapters in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. It has been successfully spreading its message through conferences, awareness sessions, and meetups. AgilePK provides a platform to agile experts to share their experiences and knowledge and add value in industry. Find more about Pakistan Agile Development Society, visit their website: (http://www.agile.org.pk/). This event is being conducted in collaboration with Pakistan Agile Development Society Islamabad Chapter (AgileISB).

Who Should Attend?

Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Students.

Participation Charges

Free for OPEN Members. PKR 500/- for Non-Members

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Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambience. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top Executives from large enterprises
– C-level Executives of IT companies
– Deans, Professors and Researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc.
Please register by 3:00 pm, Thursday, Mar 28, 2019, to ensure your participation.
Participation charges:
Members: 500 PKR
Non-members: 1000 PKR
 

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In today's world, databases are at the very core of the software business and recovering quickly from a database disaster is absolutely critical for business continuity. Downtime translates into direct revenue loss. If you run your business critical application on PostgreSQL backends, this talk covers important topics on what you need to know to perform a recovery operation of your company's business critical PostgreSQL server using Barman, Backup and Recovery Manager.
Barman, standardizes your backup and recovery operations. It enables PostgreSQL DBAs and system administrators to easily integrate their PostgreSQL solutions in their disaster recovery plan. Barman features zero data loss backups, cooperation with standby servers, reliable monitoring integration, parallel copy for backup and recovery, backup catalogues, support for multiple servers, store backup data, full hot backup, incremental backup and recovery, retention policies, remote recovery, WAL files compression and backup Information.
This talk will cover how you can effectively use Barman for your disaster recovery plan.

Who Should Attend?

Database enthusiasts.
 

Participation Charges

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PostgreSQL provides a way to communicate with external data sources. This could be another PostgreSQL instance or any other database. The other database might be a relational database such as MySQL or Oracle; or any NoSQL database such as MongoDB or Hadoop. To achieve this, PostgreSQL implements ISO Standard call SQL-MED in the form of Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW). This presentation will explain in detail how PostgreSQL FDWs work. It will include a detailed explanation of simple features, and will introduce more advanced features that were added in recent versions of PostgreSQL. Examples of these would be to show how aggregate pushdown and join pushdown work in PostgreSQL.

The talk will include working examples of these advanced features and demonstrating their use with different databases. These examples show how data from different database flavors can be used by PostgreSQL, including those from heterogeneous relational databases, and showing NoSQL column store joins.
 

Who Should Attend?

Database enthusiasts.
 

Participation Charges

Free

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Internet of Things (IoT) is taking digital transformation to a whole new level by integrating devices into the ecosystem of data, insights and actions that business have access to. Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Google are pouring billions into building out rich IoT platforms to enable and simplify these transformations.
In this session, Affan Dar will talk about why IoT is important, the state of the industry, current trends and future opportunities both in terms of business as well as engineering innovations.
 

Who Should Attend?

SW Industry: CEOs, CTOs, Engineering Leads, IOT Startups, IOT Companies
Academia: Deans, HODs, Research Leads doing IoT-centric work
Government: HEC (Curriculum Leads), Ministry of IT, Ignite
Telcos: IOT Groups, Heads of Maker Spaces
 

Participation Charges

Members: Free
Non-Members: Rs 500/-
 
Partner Organization: EMUMBA Private Limited
Special Thanks: www.rabtay.org

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In this talk, Zohaib reviews the foundations of today’s software innovation, where it has been and what the future looks like. He will take a closer look at DevSecOps, what it takes to implement it to drive innovation and value that can be derived deploying it effectively. He will also share his experiences of selling and implementing DevSecOps solutions across various industries across USA. He will field questions on how we can benefit from it in Pakistan.
Kamran Kundi will share success story in implementation of DevOps in his organization.

Who Should Attend?

SW Industry: CEOs, CTOs, Engineering Leads, DevOps practitioners
Academia: Deans, HODs, Professors of Software Engineering, Research Leads doing development work
Government: HEC (Curriculum Leads), Ministry of IT, Ignite
Telcos: CIOs, Engineering Leads

Participation Charges

Members: Free
Non-Members: Rs 500/-

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CALLING ALL CIVIC-MINDED GEEKS!

Jazz, Code for Pakistan and OPEN Islamabad brings the biggest and most exciting Hackathon of the year ‘Jazz SDG Hackathon’ happening in Islamabad on the second weekend of December 2018. This is going to be a 2.5 days long Hackathon starting on 7th December and concluding on 9th December, 2018.
If you believe you:

• Have a great idea that you want to bring to reality.
• Like working with intelligent people.
• Have skills in web or mobile development, design, mapping, data analysis, research, subject matter expertise in SDGs or the civic space.
• Have what it takes to innovate on top of government information and services.

Come, utilize your talent and creative skills in transforming Pakistan in line with 5 of the selected SDGs for the better.
During this weekend, you will learn design thinking, open-source hacking for social good, receive mentoring and input from domain experts in government and local organizations, have opportunities to network, and work in teams to create solutions — all for free.
You will form teams to create prototypes that address civic and social problems in line with the Sustainable Development Goals initiative of the UN. All you need to do is bring your creativity, skills, and enthusiasm! We at Code for Pakistan will do the rest. We will bring together great mentors to assist you. There will be lots of energy and excitement through creative activities. Not to mention a lot of food and swags.
 

SELECTED SDGS

SDGs selected for the hackathon are for participants to focus their projects and solutions on are:

• SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well Being
• SDG Goal 4: Quality Education
• SDG Goal 5: Gender Equality
• SDG Goal 10: Sustainable Cities and Communities
• SDG Goal 11: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

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We are excited to announce that OPEN Islamabad is back with its flagship event – Annual Forum 2018! This year’s theme is “Entrepreneurs & Government” and is aimed at creating sustainable public-private partnerships.

This year’s event will bring together professionals from both Public and Private sector who will not only help establish a networking platform but will also look into collaborative efforts to b the existing governance systems. Our event will provide a chance to learn from renowned business leaders and government officials about:

• Bridging the gap between Public & Private sector initiatives
• Enhancing Private sector involvement in Public services
• Creating opportunities for sustainable growth

The audience will be 400+ invite-only professionals from a diverse group including but not limited to corporate, startup, academia, government and development sectors. The event is comprised of a series of motivational talks, panel discussions as well as an excellent opportunity to network.
The event details are as follows:
Date: Saturday, 1 December 2018
Time: 09:00 am – 4:00 pm
Venue: 1969 and Time Goes On, Islamabad
Your participation is subject to availability of seats. Since we have limited capacity, please reserve your seat at the earliest.
We, at OPEN Islamabad, look forward to your collaborative efforts in creating a new tomorrow.
نیا زمانہ، نۓ صبح شام پیدا کر!
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Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambience. More specifically, you can expect to meet:

– Charter members of OPEN
– Top Executives from large enterprises
– C-level Executives of IT companies
– Deans, Professors and Researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc.
Please register by 3:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 25, 2018, to ensure your participation.
Participation charges:
  Members: 500 PKR
Non-members: 1000 PKR ]]>

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How do you maximize your PostgreSQL Performance?
Come join us in our next meetup on Sep 26, 2018 where we will talk about “PostgreSQL Performance Tuning”.
The session will be conducted by Ibrar Ahmed who is a Senior Software Engineer and PostgreSQL consultant at Percona. He will discuss several concepts related to measuring and improving performance of your database. The topics covered are:
– Gauging Performance
– PostgreSQL Tuning Parameters
– Tuning and optimizing techniques
– Linux Kernel Tuning Parameters for PostgreSQL ]]>

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The event provides you the opportunity to meet:
– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from large enterprises
– C-level executives of technology companies
– Deans, professors and researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc. ]]>

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We’re back with another meetup and this time we are talking all about “Multi-master replication in PostgreSQL” in collaboration with 2ndQuadrant.
Postgres-BDR (Bi-directional replication for PostgreSQL) is a ground-breaking multi-master replication tool for PostgreSQL databases. In the complex environment of replication, BDR achieves efficiency and accuracy, ensuring very high availability of all nodes in a geographically distributed cluster. ]]>

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We loved your response in the last session and keeping your suggestions/recommendations in check, we are arranging the upcoming session in continuation to the previous one, “What’s new in PostgreSQL 10?” where we talked about new features and major developments of the new release. This interactive session will be conducted by Muhammad Haroon who is a PostgreSQL Expert at 2ndQuadrant. ]]>

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The event provides you the opportunity to meet:
– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from large enterprises
– C-level executives of technology companies
– Deans, professors and researchers from universities
– Representatives of other cultural and civic organizations of Islamabad
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, healthcare etc.
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We are pleased to announce our 10th session of PostgreSQL SIG in collaboration with 2ndQuadrant and XFlow Research on “What’s New in PostgreSQL 10?”
Last quarter of 2017 marked a major shift in Open-source database world with the release of PostgreSQL 10; The talk of the town being addition of Logical Replication. ]]>

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The session is on “Technology for Entrepreneurs” by Rebecca Garcia, focusing on how people can use technology to start their businesses and help their existing businesses.
This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event). ]]>

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OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with United States Embassy are pleased to invite you to an exclusive session on “The Importance of Cyber Security in Today’s Internet ]]>

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Vacuum is one of the most important concepts that PostgreSQL users and DBAs need to understand for their database to continue performing well.
The session will be conducted by Muhammad Haroon. He will talk about what vacuum really does, how it works and why it is important for PostgreSQL DBAs to be well informed about it. ]]>

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For long, it has been believed that success at the workplace depends on your intelligence quotient (IQ) as reflected in your academic achievements, exams passed, marks obtained, and so on. All these are instances of intelligence are of the academic variety. But how smart are you outside the classroom, faced with life’s difficult moments? Here, you need a different kind of resourcefulness. You need, what is called, emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ), which is a different way of being smart. ]]>

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Your network is your net worth! Start investing in it now. We believe a simple hello could lead to a million things. Open Islamabad is giving you this great opportunity to connect with leaders of various industries while enjoying some fine food and ambiance. You can expect to see:
– Charter members of OPEN
– Top executives from Telcos
– C-level executives of IT companies
– Deans and Heads of leading universities
– Business owners from a variety of industry verticals like manufacturing, health care, real estate etc and some amazing women who are trying to add value and redefining society with leadership skills.
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“Finance for Entrepreneurs” by Dr. Andrew Scheuermann. The session will be moderated by the Leadership Drive SIGs Evangelist, our Charter Member and renowned Trainer Mohsin Lodhi. ]]>

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This is an exclusive session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as a part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program
This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event ]]>

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This an exclusive session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program.
This event will cater to invite-only professionals from corporate, startup, academic, public and development sectors. Please note that the session is free of charge but has a limited capacity. This invitation is exclusively for you and is non-transferable. Also, the event cannot be advertised on social media or other media platforms (prior to the event).
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We are holding our 8th event of PostgreSQL User Group in partnership with 2ndQuadrant.
There will be live session with Gabriele Bartolini, who is a long time PostgreSQL community member, Project Leader of Barman and Head of support at 2ndQuadrant. Gabriele will be talking about backup strategies and disaster recovery systems that you can use to secure your critical PostgreSQL databases.
Gabriele will also be walking us through the following areas:
– System and Database requirements to use barman
– Principles (integration, usability, automation) and available features (remote and incremental backup & recovery, multiple servers, bi-modal WAL archiving, WAL compression, etc) of barman
– Backup types & scope
– Methods both for backup and recovery
– Relevant case studies
Barman is written and maintained by engineers at 2ndQuadrant, so you really don’t want to miss the chance of learning from the guy who conceived this tool! ? ]]>

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When we talk of UX the first thing that comes to our minds is a website, a software or a mobile application. But we often forget that user experience is one of the main components of any industry. “People don’t buy products anymore, they buy experiences that are meaningful to them”. Pepsico’s Chief Design Officer.
The behaviors of customers are changing: the way they look at things now is different than 20 years ago. They have so many channels of communication and information that their decisions are being influenced by the current and future trends. In order to stay competitive we have to work along with the user in the design process to address each and every need which increases the chances of our products and services to have a good customer base. ]]>

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This is a session by OPEN Islamabad and The Hive, in collaboration with US Embassy as part of US Embassy’s Entrepreneurship Speaker Series program. The session is “Entrepreneurship Do’s and Don’ts ]]>

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It’s the spirit, not the statistics which matters. If we get into statistics, we will hardly get an encouraging image of female presence in the leadership role in Pakistan. Owing to the common challenges, women leadership is on the rise at an astonishing pace. We have seen a significant number of women making it on multiple fronts during the last decade.
In celebration of rising women excellence, OPEN’s 5th Leadership Drive session is dedicated to all those emerging women leaders, managers, entrepreneurs who are making their way forward by cutting through the social and cultural stigmas. The session aims to serve as a catalyst to women at all career levels who aspire to develop leadership acumen, learn the art of breaking the glass ceiling, overcome self-limiting beliefs, to strategically navigate through the leadership maze!
The session will provide a learning and networking platform which encourages participation of young females from all education and career levels who aim to develop and polish their leadership & management acumen in corporate, government or business sector. ]]>