Startup Insiders Session #8

Once again, BrightSpyre is proud to associate itself with Startup Insider Sessions which have become one of the most talked and heavily attended event for the Pakistani IT industry. Already seven such sessions have been held this year in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. This April 4th, 2008 Islamabad will have its third session of the year.

Startup Insider has a simple philosophy as explained by Osama Hashmi on Greenwhite.org, “A lot of bright, energetic and passionate entrepreneurs have great ideas but want to figure out how to take their brilliant idea and convert it into a business”.

We recommend everyone interested in Entrepreneurship and venturing out on their own to attend. Here are the details of the event:

Theme: Starting Up: the first essential steps
Date: April 4th 2008 (5:30pm – 9:00pm)
Location: NIIT Campus, Chaklala III, Rawalpindi (http://www.niit.edu.pk)

Please register yourself for the event at the following web address:
http://www.niit.edu.pk/Seminars_workshops/pages/startup/index.php

And get more information related to the event at Jehan Ara's blog:
http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/good-news-for-startups-in-islamabad-si-8-on-april-4/

Join us at Startup Insider Session

PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) and Green & White are organizing Startup Insider Sessions all over Pakistan. The aim and purpose of these sessions is connecting successful businesses with brilliant young people who would like to pursue a career in entrepreneurship. As Green & White puts it on their own blogsite “A lot of bright, energetic and passionate entrepreneurs have great ideas but want to figure out how to take their brilliant idea and convert it into a business”.

These sessions are being held once a month in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. Already the sessions in Karachi and Lahore were well attended. We hope to see a similar turnout at Islamabad session as well.

BrightSpyre (Cogilent Solutions) is also one of the companies that has been invited at the inaugural session in Islamabad. We will be represented by the co-founders of the company namely, Mr. Faisal Chohan and Atif Mumtaz who will talk about the journey that the company took from an idea to reality. The complete panel list includes:

• Ovais Ashraf, CEO, Trivor Software / Trango
• Atif Mumtaz & Faisal Chohan, CEO Cogilent Solution / BrightSpyre
• Faizan Buzdar - CEO, Scrybe Corp.
• Osama Hashmi, CEO, CDF Software
• Zahid Mirza, Netsol Technologies
• Saeed Qadri, CEO, Voxel Communications
• Faisal Qureshi, CEO, Kolachi Advanced Technologies
• Jehan Ara, President, PASHA

• Time: 6 – 9 pm
• Date: January 31, 2008
• Location: LMKR Office, 3rd Floor, Evacuee Trust Complex, Aga Khan Road, F-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
  

Details of the event can be found on Green & White blogsite.

PAHSA-BrightSpyre Career Fair Lucky Draw Winners

BrightSpyre announces the winners of the lucky draw held at the PASHA-BrightSpyre Career Fair in Rawalpindi this July. The winners for prizes are :

• Mr. Waqas Asif
• Ms. Nosheen Zaidi
• Mr. Ahsan Masood
• Ms. Nighat Iram
• Mr. Tanvir Ahmad

For more information about the lucky draw please feel free to contact BrightSpyre office. The career fair was a tremendous success BrightSpyre aims to regularly hold such events nationwide.

PASHA-BrightSpyre host a successful Career Fair

BrightSpyre-PASHA hosted an extremely successful and well managed career fair at Rawalpindi. "This is the first time, there has been such a large career fair for job seekers in the city of Rawalpindi", mentioned, Faisal Chohan, from BrightSpyre. Over 3,000 job seekers filtered throughout the day to meet with prospective employers that included companies like Si3, Wateen Telecom, Buraq Telecom, Orgoo, Cisco, Green and White and many others.

There were numerous sessions arranged specifically for young graduates. This included, career advice in various fields including, Resume building, Software engineering, Telecom sector, BPO-Call center and many others.

There was also a separate section where job seekers could get one-on-one career advice through councilors provided by Green & White (www.greenwhite.org).Overall, the event was tremendously successful. BrightSpyre also received hundreds of visitors throughout the day at their booth. At the same time, they interviewed and provided guidance to a lot of potential job seekers.

"The candidates that we interviewed were not only for our own internal hiring, but also for our customers who had requested to seek out good candidates for them." mentioned, Ahmad Jawad, from BrightSpyre.

BrightSpyre is especially thankful to Jehan Ara (PASHA), MAJU Students (Mohammad Ali Jinnah University) and Osama Hashmi's Green and White (www.greenandwhite.org) for making this event extremely successful.

For more information, please click on the links below.

• See the event in Pictures
• View the Blog of Jehan Ara about the Job Fair in Rawalpindi
  

PASHA-BRIGHTSPYRE Collaborate on THE CAREER EXPO

PASHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) has been instrumental in organizing capacity building events in Pakistan since 2004. This year, PASHA is holding three mega Career Expos in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. These events are focused on fresh graduates and young professionals to assist them in their careers. They will learn more about the kind of careers that are available to them across the spectrum of ICT and will also become aware of the growth and maturity of the sector they are either joining or are already a part of.

The Career Expo shall focus on the following:

1. Job Matchmaking through company booths.

2. Presentations on different career tracks including Software Engineering, BPO/Call Centers, Telecom, New Media & Animation, System Integration, Networking and Finance

3. Interactive Workshops

4. Expert Panels

5. Career Counsellings

The event in Islamabad is co-organized by BrightSpyre (www.BrightSpyre.com) in collaboration with PASHA (www.pasha.org). It will take place at the Convention Center on June 23, 2007.

Please click here for more information about this event.