Join us at the SME Fair in Lahore

BrightSpyre is proud to be part of the LCCI SME fair being held in Lahore on May 14 and 15 at the LCCI Building. The Main objective of the fair is to provide an opportunity for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to display their products and services to the potential new customers.

Mr. Rehmatullah Javed, Chairman LCCI Standing Committee on SMEs stated that SMEs play a vital role in the economy of Pakistan. “SMEs are the largest employer in the country and contribute up to 75% of industrial production and 60% towards exports to the national economy.” Mr. Javed further stated that the SMEs are the critical backbone for the numerous multinationals and mega corporations of Pakistan who outsource or purchase raw material and services from these organizations.

United Nations (UNIDO) states that over 97% of all businesses in Pakistan fall under the category of SMEs. And there are potentially over 2 million such enterprises all across the nation. BrightSpyre feels that this is an important segment of our economy and therefore has resolved to closely work and assist them in acquiring quality human resource for their industry.

The fair is expected to attract a large number of entrepreneurs, international dignitaries, Ministers, high-level government officials, representatives of well-reputed business organizations and multinationals, and students from various institutions all over the city.

The SME Fair is organized by Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the following address
Date: May 14 – 15, 2008
Time and Date: 10 am till 8pm
Address: LCCI Building 11-Shara-e-Aiwane Tijarat Lahore. Pakistan.
UAN: 111-222-499
Fax: 042-6368854

BrightSpyre Partners with Microsoft in Pakistan Developer Conference

BrightSpyre is once again at the forefront when it comes to professional development in Pakistan. This year BrightSpyre is one of the strategic partners with Microsoft in promoting this event in Pakistan. The aim of Pakistan Developer Conference 2007 is to provide a comprehensive technological developments including recently released and upcoming Microsoft development and platform technologies.

There will be numerous focused sessions during the conference that for Windows Vista, Office 2007, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server 2006 and many other leading Microsoft Technologies.

It is expected that over 3,000 professionals from all over Pakistan will attend this conference on June 19 and 20 at Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. This will be a great opportunity to meet and network with who's who of the industry and Microsoft team. BrightSpyre highly recommends its users to attend the event in either of the three cities.

BrightSpyre wins Shell Tameer Award

BrightSpyre brings in Second Place Award for Cogilent Solutions in Shell Tameer Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition


The Shell Company boasts of over 100 years presence in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent proving to be a key player in bolstering the economy by productively helping to utilize natural energy resources and providing much needed jobs to people. However, along with its key financial function, the Company has also been very vitally present in the social sector by promoting its development both through technical and educational resources.
Along with 25 other public service programmes that the Company runs per year, it also initiated Shell LiveWIRE International, a unique programme with an out reach to 23 countries. The LiveWIRE programme was launched as Shell Tameer in Pakistan and has been successfully running in collaboration with partners SMEDA (Operational) and IBA (Developmental) respectively. The purpose being to boost the youth by helping them to acquire skills and enhance existing ones in order that they may apply themselves to finding the right path towards their future careers; not only in the cities at Business School level, but also in remote areas through workshops and vocational training institutes. Suffice to say, this has effectively changed lives of over 300 students (in Pakistan alone) and 10,000 people in general. This is Phase I of the programme.

The Second phase is the ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ Awards given in recognition of brave entrepreneurial spirit. The Programme selects ten outstanding individuals (not necessarily from/beneficiary of Phase I) whose companies are chosen through a series of tough regional and local competitions. After selection, the competitors come together under one roof from all over the country to showcase their businesses for judging purposes and on the basis of original initiative, utilization of resources (financial, human, raw material), successful running and focused enthusiasm and spirit, the winners rise above. These are the very reasons why Brightspyre was entered and it shone through.

The Second Shell Tameer Awards for ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ took place on Tuesday, 14th February, 2004 at Avari Hotel, Lahore. The Chief Guest was Chaudhery Pervaiz Elahi, Chief Minister of The Punjab. Atif Mumtaz, Managing Director and CEO represented Cogilent Solutions. By winning second place, the Company was commended for its originality in HR (Human Resource) Development by providing an alternative, cost effective service which is well on its way to becoming the future of the HR Management process. This is a unique award, more so since Cogilent Solutions was established not so far back in the year 2002 and BrightSpyre was launched in August of the same year. Since its launch, the Company has been climbing securely and productively towards the fulfillment of their vision and has been making inroads all over Pakistan, business potential wise. The entire dynamic team behind the Company and its service’s success must be commended for their hard work, team spirit and belief in themselves. We wish them all the very best and hope to see them achieving much more in the coming years.