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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

Ali Ayub Khan

Abbas Siddiqi

Full Stack Developer @ BidSettle (Canada)

Backend Developer: Noob to Ninja

Abbas Siddiqi

Naveed Tariq

Senior Backend Engineer @ KeepTruckin

Build to scale

Naveed Tariq

Khurram Shehzad

Chief Executive @ eHostPK Pvt Ltd

A Developer Journey

Khurram Shehzad

Panel Discussion

What key skills/qualities employers expect from young devs?

Farrukh M. Khan

Head of Recruiting @ KeepTruckin

Farrukh M. Khan

Asma Khalid

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

Asma Khalid

Muneeb Ali

Founder and CEO @ 1Byte

Muneeb Ali

Saima Tariq

Community Lead @ Facebook DevC

Saima Tariq

Detailed Schedule

Hello World!

Jawad Sadiq - Founder @ Devenings

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Closing Remarks

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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