Officials of Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft to visit Pakistan

LAHORE: Giants of the digital world; Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft are coming to Pakistan to mentor and support Pakistani entrepreneurs and start-ups in the 2018 edition of Momentum Pakistan - an event being held in Karachi on February 19 and 20 next year.

Amir Jaferi, organiser of the event, shared that international companies were arriving in Pakistan to tap the talent as most of it goes undetected due to lack of opportunities, mentorship, exposure and connectivity with the right people. “The online world is one such untapped area, where the youth could have several opportunities to learn new skills and earn foreign exchequers.”



The two-day event will include several workshops, one-on-one sessions of successful ventures’ officials with start-ups, a great line-up of national and international speakers from industries.

The Facebook team will share insights about their FB Start Programme that helps start-ups to bootstrap by using tools of different partners.

Amazon will provide start-ups with data centre facilities. As companies shift to cloud technology, Amazon will offer free clouds worth $5,000 to $50,000 to selected entrepreneurs besides conducting a series of hackathon with developers and workshops with start-ups.

IBM is coming to Momentum Pakistan with exciting hackathons and workshops on its IBM Watson Programme.

Last but not the least, Microsoft will offer clouding solution to start-ups.

“Start-ups need no investment but products and tools. The collaboration of big companies like Facebook, Amazon, IMB and Microsoft can build people’s trust on new products,” said Jafri.

The main highlights of the events are; incubators, accelerators, investors, start-ups, featured start-ups, global cloud companies, top tech companies, top fintech (payment enabler) companies, Higher Education Commission funded project showcase, speakers, pitches, and signing of memorandum of understanding between investors and start-ups.



The two-day event will have warm-up sessions for participants so that they can get the maximum benefit from the representatives.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 9^th, 2017.

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