The AMAN Center for Entrepreneurial Development (AMAN CED), IBA Karachi organized IBA Entrepreneurship Educators Symposium 2016 held recently in Karachi. The symposium was powered by the World Bank Group and called forth various local and international academicians, practitioners, policy makers and industry specialists for a dialogue on entrepreneurship education and eco-system, women entrepreneurship and aimed to tap onto multiple other entrepreneurial dimensions as well.
The Inauguration Ceremony of the symposium was done by Dr. Sayeed Ghani, Acting Dean & Director, IBA Karachi followed by an introduction of IBA-CED and the vision behind The Entrepreneurship Educators Symposium by Dr. Shahid Qureshi, the Program Director, IBA CED.
In the Symposium participants from all over Pakistan embraced by insightful talk by various esteemed Keynote speakers including Dr. Miles Davis, Dean, Shenandoah University, USA, Dr. Amanda Bullough, Asst. Professor of Management & President, Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB), University of Delaware, Gerrit Ribbink, Technical Team Lead Entrepreneurship, Enclude Solutions, Dr. Muhammad Shehreyar Shahid, Asst. Professor Suleman Dawood School of Business, LUMS, Dr. Xavier Cirera, Economist, World Bank Group, Dr. Asad Zaman, Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics and Dr. Shahid Qureshi, Asst. Professor and Program Director, IBA CED.
The Inauguration Ceremony was followed by panel discussions on the topic of ‘Importance of Ecosystems in Promoting Entrepreneurship’ and ‘The Role of Incubators in Fostering Entrepreneurship’. The former panel discussion includes Afaque Ahmed, from KITE, Malik Ahmed Jalal, from Aman Foundation, Talib Karim, from IoBM and Dr. Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui, IBA Sukkur and Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed of OPEN Karachi, as the moderator. Ms. Jehan Ara of P@SHA, Farzal Dojki of Dotzero, Adnan Faisal, NUST Technology Incubation Cener (TIC), Ahsan Mirza of COMSATS as its panelists and Dr. Shahid Qureshi of IBA CED as its moderator.
The speeches varied from diverse entrepreneurial topics ranging from ‘Bio Tech based Entrepreneurship’ to ‘Entrepreneurial Skill Development in accordance to University of Education, Lahore’ by Dr. Faisal F. Khan and Ms. Fariha Gul respectively.
