Devenings

Building for the Modern Web
2019-12-21 16:00 - 19:00 UTC | National Incubation Center Islamabad, National Incubation Center, Street 6, Sector H-9/1 H 9/1 H-9, Islamabad, Federal Territory, 44000, Pakistan
21st Dec '19

Building for the Modern Web

A CDS Extended Event

NIC, Islamabad

Venue

December 21, 2019

Date

4 PM – 7 PM

Time

~3 Hours

Duration

About the Event

Join your local dev community for an evening of code, networking and lots learning about the latest techniques for building for the modern Web. Get an early insight into what the chrome team is working on.

This event was an extended event for the Chrome Dev Summit 2019 and we arranged it in collaboration with Google Developers.
The experts shared their knowledge and information about the tools and services in the modern web development and how to use them.

Speaker Lineup

Khawaja Waleed Iqbal
Web Developer @ KeepTruckin
Natural Animations

Arsalan Khattak
Microsoft Student Partner
Better Web Performance

Saim Safder
Community Trainer @ Code Movement Pakistan
State Management with Angular NGRX

Chrome Dev Tools

Beenish Khan
Lead Web Developer @ Codistan

Usama Zulfiqar
Lead of Software Development @ Codistan

Usama Zulfiqar
Lead of Software Development @ Codistan

Detailed Schedule

4:00 - 4:10 PM

Welcome Note

Jawad Sadiq - Founder @ Devenings

4:10 - 4:30 PM

Natural Animations

Khawaja Waleed Iqbal - Web Developer @ KeepTruckin

Khawaja Waleed Iqbal – Currently working as a Web Developer @ KeepTruckin, Waleed is a computer engineer with 5+ years of web development experience. Passionate about web animations, UX, clean code and memes. Trying to blend them together in an ever changing landscape of web technologies.

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Chrome Dev Tools

Beenish Khan & Usama Zulfiqar

Beenish Khan and Usama Zulfiqar. Both these rockstar devs from Codistan will be co-presenting a session on CHROME DEV TOOLS.

5:00 - 5:20 PM

State Management with Angular NGRX

Saim Safder - Community Trainer @ Code Movement Pakistan

Saim Safder is a Community Trainer with Code Movement Pakistan. His talk will be about “State Manangement with Angualr NGRX”.

5:20 - 5:45 PM

Better Web Performance

Arsalan Khattak - Microsoft Student Partner

Arsalan Khattak – Arsalan is a JavaScript Enthusiast and a Microsoft Student Partner in Islamabad. His talk will be about “Better Web Performance”.

5:45 - 6:00 PM

Closing Remarks

6:00 PM onwards

Refreshments and Networking

Developers supporting developers

Have questions, a big problem, or advice. Our speakers and event hosts are always
ready to assist and help the community thrive.

Fully Interactive

Our online events give you the opportunity to engage directly with the speakers, just like with face-to-face sessions.

Live Q&A Session

Got a question or didn't get that last bit. Our speakers and panelists engage in a live question and answer session and are more than happy to assist and guide wherever possible.

Live Coding

Real world use cases to demonstrate actual problems faced when working on projects. You get to experience a live coding session with each part thoroughly explained by our experienced speakers.

A CDS Extended Event

CDS Extended events are all about our remote audience, enabling developers from across the globe to gather with their peers and experience Chrome Dev Summit within their own community. We are proud to bring a taste of the Dev Summit to our local dev community.

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From Development to Launch
2019-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | National Incubation Center Lahore, SBASSE basement, LUMS, Sector U DHA Phase 3, Lahore, 54792, Pakistan
22nd Oct '19

From Development to Launch

How to successfully deliver products

Venue Partner

NIC Lahore, LUMS

Venue

October 22, 2019

Date

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Time

~1 Hour

Duration

About the Event

A successful session “From Development to Launch ” with Sarah Haas, Manager Product Operations at KeepTruckin happened on Oct 22.

Focus of the discussion was:

Beta Testing
Communication with customers
Research the market and turn your ideas into strategy
Go public early on to validate your ideas
Start building your audience

Sarah shared her personal experience and highlighted some key factors which KeepTruckin considered while launching their idea.

Speaker Lineup

Sarah Haas

Manager - Product Operations @ KeepTruckin

From Development to Launch: How to successfully deliver products
Sarah will talk about :
• From Development to Launch: How to successfully deliver products
• Deep dive into the beta testing, customer feedback and launch coordination using KeepTruckin’s products as example.

Detailed Schedule

4:00 - 5:00 PM

From Development to Launch: How to successfully deliver products

Sarah Haas - Product Operations @ KeepTruckin (San Francisco)

Sarah Haas manages Product Operations at KeepTruckin (San Francisco). She has built and scaled the Product Operations team at KeepTruckin. Sarah is well-versed in taking products to production through various development and feedback iterations. Sarah has previously worked with Facebook and Thumbtack in Silicon Valley and with Squarespace in New York.

5:00 PM onwards

Refreshments and Networking

Developers supporting developers

Have questions, a big problem, or advice. Our speakers and event hosts are always
ready to assist and help the community thrive.

Fully Interactive

Our online events give you the opportunity to engage directly with the speakers, just like with face-to-face sessions.

Live Q&A Session

Got a question or didn't get that last bit. Our speakers and panelists engage in a live question and answer session and are more than happy to assist and guide wherever possible.

Live Coding

Real world use cases to demonstrate actual problems faced when working on projects. You get to experience a live coding session with each part thoroughly explained by our experienced speakers.

In Collaboration with

KeepTruckin is the leading fleet management platform for the trucking industry. KeepTruckin is trusted by over 40,000 fleets for compliance, fuel tax reporting, GPS tracking, video monitoring and much more. The US Department of Transportation has mandated the use of electronic logging devices (ELD) by all truck drivers to record their hours of service. With the #1 rated ELD, KeepTruckin has built the largest network of connected trucks in the world.
KeepTruckin has recently been valued at $1.5B and has raised over $230 Million in funding. The company has over 50% HR in Pakistan including most of engineering and customer support. Headquartered in San Francisco, KeepTruckin started its engineering efforts from Islamabad and now has offices in Islamabad (500+), Lahore (200+), San Francisco (300+), Nashville, Buffalo, Taiwan, and Vancouver.

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Dev Community Meetup - Lahore
2019-10-19 15:00 - 18:00 | Daftarkhwan – Lahore, 90-B, Hali Road, Block B, Gulberg 2, Lahore, Punjab, 54660, Pakistan
31st Aug '19

Hello World!

Devenings Lahore Chapter Launch

Venue Partner

Daftarkhwan, Lahore

Venue

August 31, 2019

Date

3:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Time

~3 Hours

Duration

About the Event

Whether YOU code for a living, code for fun or code to make the world a better place, we are here with an initiative that puts YOU at the center of the world you work hard to build. Devenings is THE community for developers who just want to code, build and challenge their skills, all while helping each other.
After conducting 7 successful evens in Islamabad, Devenings is now coming to you in Lahore with an exciting launch event including tech talks, panel discussion and lots of swag including $200 worth of jetbrains license for two lucky winners and free annual hosting for first 50 sign ups!

Speaker Lineup

Ali Ayub Khan
Pakistan's first GitHub Campus Expert
Choosing a career in Computer Science

Abbas Siddiqi
Full Stack Developer @ BidSettle (Canada)
Backend Developer: Noob to Ninja

Naveed Tariq
Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin
Build to scale

Khurram Shehzad
Chief Executive @ eHostPK Pvt Ltd
A Developer Journey

Panel Discussion

What key skills/qualities employers expect from young devs?

Farrukh M. Khan
Head of Recruiting @ KeepTruckin

Asma Khalid
Data Scientist at ITU and Pakistan's first Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

Muneeb Ali
Founder and CEO @ 1Byte

Saima Tariq
Community Lead @ Facebook DevC

Detailed Schedule

3:45 - 4:00 PM

Hello World!

Jawad Sadiq - Founder @ Devenings

4:00 - 4:20 PM

Choosing a career in Computer Science

Ali Ayub Khan - Pakistan's first GitHub Campus Expert

Ali is a recent Computer Science graduate from (SEECS), NUST, Islamabad. Currently working as a Community Moderator at GDG Cloud Islamabad. He has co-founded GrinPhox and EdSol. He was Google Summer of Code Intern at FOSSASIA for 2017, a program hosted and funded by Google Open source. Mentored students in Google Code-in and Google Summer of Code in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
Also headed student chapter of an international society named ACM(Association for Computing Machinery) as a president. Worked as a software developer intern at Neuropsychology lab, University of Oldenburg, Germany. He has been a Summer Exchange volunteer at Beijing in 2016 and has received NUST Excellence Award.
He is Pakistan’s first GitHub Campus Expert.

4:20 - 5:00 PM

What key skills/qualities employers expect from young devs?

Farrukh M. Khan, Asma Khalid, Muneeb Ali and Saima Tariq

Farrukh M. Khan – Head of Recruitment at KeepTruckin Asma Khalid – Pakistan’s first Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Muneeb Ali – Founder & CEO at OneByte Saima Tariq – Community Lead at Developer Circles from Facebook

5:00 - 5:20 PM

Backend Developer: Noob to Ninja

Abbas Siddiqi - Full Stack Developer @ BidSettle (Canada)

Abbas Siddiqi is a full-stack web developer having more than 5 years of development experience in LAMP stack and NodeJS. He has built web applications of various scales using backend frameworks Laravel, CakePHP & ExpressJS. He is currently working on Lumen, Angular, Docker & Kubernetes to build amazing web applications at BidSettle, Inc.

5:20 - 5:40 PM

Build to scale

Naveed Tariq - Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin

Naveed Tariq is a Backend Engineer having more than 11 years of development experience in building several applications to scale using Rails, NodeJS, JavaScript and React. He is currently working as Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin

5:40 - 6:00 PM

A Developer Journey

Khurram Shehzad - Chief Executive @ eHostPK Pvt Ltd

Khurram is the CEO of eHostPK ( PVT ) Limited; a company delivering affordable hosting solutions provisioned from a world-class global infrastructure.

6:00 - 6:15 PM

Closing Remarks

6:15 PM onwards

Refreshments and Networking

Developers supporting developers

Have questions, a big problem, or advice. Our speakers and event hosts are always
ready to assist and help the community thrive.

Fully Interactive

Our online events give you the opportunity to engage directly with the speakers, just like with face-to-face sessions.

Live Q&A Session

Got a question or didn't get that last bit. Our speakers and panelists engage in a live question and answer session and are more than happy to assist and guide wherever possible.

Live Coding

Real world use cases to demonstrate actual problems faced when working on projects. You get to experience a live coding session with each part thoroughly explained by our experienced speakers.

In Collaboration with

GDG Islamabad, a part of Google Developers Group, aims to create meaningful engagements via community building initiatives. A GDG meetup event includes talks on a wide range of technical topics where you can learn new skills through hands-on workshops. The GDG community prides itself on being an inclusive environment where everyone and anyone interested in tech – from beginner developers to experienced professionals – all are welcome to join.

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Hello World - Devenings Lahore Chapter Launch
2019-08-31 15:30 - 18:30 | Daftarkhwan – Lahore, 90-B, Hali Road, Block B, Gulberg 2, Lahore, Punjab, 54660, Pakistan
