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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Momentum 2017, the 2 day startup conference and exhibition concluded successfully on 7th February, 2017 at Karachi Expo Center. The inaugural event welcomed on site over 150 startups, mobile operators, leading technology providers, academia, investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and vast panel of national and international speakers. The event began on 6th February, 2017 with over 6000 attendees able to create their own programme from a wide range of high level options including Conference Sessions, Live Show case Demos and Interactive Panels. 50+ Speakers, Founders, Presenters and Mentors took to the stage, with the conference sessions drawing consistently strong attendance right across the themed agenda. First time such an event has been organized in Pakistan at Karachi Expo Center. It is a very interesting, encouraging and a very important event which was held today. Kamran Khan, Dunya News
FACTS & FIGURES ATTENDEE OVERVIEW SUB-SECTORS 6800 REGISTERED ATTENDEES Momentum 2017 received 11 COUNTRIES Mobile Network Operators Incubators Accelerators Technology Companies Cloud Specialists Telematics Regulators Venture Capitals MOMENTUM 2017 LIVE IN NUMBERS 6800 REGISTERED ATTENDEES 48 EXHIBITORS AND S 20 KEYNOTES FIRESIDE CHATS AND PANELS 15 MENTORS ON HAND FOR ADVICE 2438 TWEETS ABOUT THE EVENT DURING BOTH DAYS 65749 TOTAL IMPRESSIONS ABOUT THE EVENT 15 LIVE PRODUCT DEMOS 50 EXPERT SPEAKERS
Dr. Umar Saif Chairman Punjab IT Board Hana Habayeb Developer Experience Director Microsoft Mudassir Sheikha Co Founder & Careem Armughan Ahmad SVP & GM Global Solutions & Alliances DELL Inc. Nadeem Hussain Founder & Coach Planet N Group Companies Danish Elahi Elahi Group of Companies Gerrit Robbink Technical Team Lead Entrepreneurship Enclude Solutions Jehan Ara President P@sha Amer Hashmi Vice Chairman Arfa Karim Foundation Naeem Zamindar Acumen Pakistan Junaid Iqbal MD Careem Pakistan Abdul Rehman Talat BlueEast Ltd Syed Irfan Ali Executive Director State Bank of Pakistan Veqar ul Islam Jaffer business system Shehzad Shahid TPS Raza Saeed Pakwheels Bilal Khan Managing Director One Eleven Saif Akhtar 10xC Ali Fahd Ahmed Witribe Khurram Kidwai Dawai & Well.pk Shayan Tahir Homeshopping.pk Momina Rajput Founder & Head of Digital Accelerator Telenor Velocity Khurram Zafar Executive Director LUMS Center for Entrepreneurship Dr.Shahid Qureshi Program Director IBA-Aman-CED
Abrar Ameen VRG Com Mirza Mirza Holdings Asif Jafri Eocean Abid Malik Indus Venture Omer J Ghani Region Director Enclude Solutions Nabeel Qadir Director Entrepreneurship PITB Omer Moeen Malik Director Payments Easy Paisa Telenor Adnan Faisal Head of Technology Incubation Center NUST Usman Dastagir Head of IoT Telenor Nauman Afzal Country Head Corporate TCS Muhammad Shahid Technical Concultant Microsoft Innovation Center Dr. Imran Assitant Professor IBA Mehak Jamal Zaidi Assistant Program Manager Tech Hub Dr. Ayesha Khan Portfolio Associate Director Acumen Pakistan Uzair Qadir DX Lead Microsoft Pk Shariq Rehman Manager Software Group IBM Dr. Sara Khurram Cofounder Docthers Badar Khushnood Country Consultant Twitter Humayun Bashir Former Country GM IBM Pk, Afghanistan Dr. Owais HassanSheikh Intellectual Property Specialist Sadaffe Abid Co-founder Circle Sana Mela Founder Perspective.pk Samia Hasan Founder & Director Dose Sadaf Mehmood Partner Seed Ventures
Hana Habayeb Developer Experience Director Microsoft It was a great pleasure and honor to speak at Momentum. The energy and passion in the startup ecosystem in Pakistan is inspiring, and Momentum brought it all together. I m honored and humbled to have the opportunity to support. Dr. Umer Saif CIO Govt. Of Punjab This is really big and very loud. Incredible! I've actually never been in a hall this big before. Com Mirza Mirza Holdings It s a fantastic effort. Amazing to see a lot of people here. From an investor's stand point, I think what will really help the eco system bringing more capital into the country is if we see one big giant juicy exit happening in Pk. I think that will open the front door. Junaid Iqbal Managing Director Careem Fantastic speaker lineup. Best layout for any conference I have been to so far. We will continue to support it in the future!. Nadeem Hussain Founder & Coach Planet N Group Of Companies I want to thank the organizers of Momentum. I think they have done a great job! Omer J. Ghani South Asia Regional Director Enclude Holding Momentum was one of the best events that I have been a part of. A great addition to Pakistan s entrepreneurship eco system. www.momentum.org.pk
DAY 1 6 th Feb 2017 MOMENTUM CONFERENCE ARENA The inaugural Momentum 2017 conference gathered leading and aspiring founders, investors, startups and executives to explore trends, opportunities, disruptions and major shifts in the startup eco system landscape in Pakistan. The event brought together promising startups, along with senior executives from some of the top technology companies, government agencies, incubators, banks, VC funds and academia. The event featured high profile local and international speakers who delivered numerous high level keynote presentations, interactive panel discussions, fire-side chats and startup stories. The day commenced with the opening remarks by event moderators Sana Mela and Samia Hasan followed by a Welcome address, by Syed Asif Jafri, Co-founder of Momentum and of Eocean highlighting the growing startup eco system and his vision to provide a collaborative platform to bring together the stake holders to embrace the young tech entrepreneurs to help build the knowledge economy of Pakistan. This was followed by an interesting keynote by Dr.Umar Saif, Chairman of Punjab IT Board on the importance of innovation for Pakistan. The next speaker Nadeem Hussain, Founder & Coach at Planet N Group of Companies delivered an enthralling keynote on emerging landscape of entrepreneurship. This was followed by a presentation on Customer experience in the digital age by Hana Habayeb, Developer Experience Director at Microsoft. The next speaker Muddasir Sheikha, Co-founder and at Careem captured the attention of the audience by sharing his views on The Billion Dollar Mindset. The first session concluded with an insightful and interesting talk on the topic of Startups in Pakistan Present & Future by Jehan Ara, President at P@sha. The session resumed with a talk on role of Private equity in the local startup eco system by Danish Elahi, of Elahi Group of Companies.This was followed by a keynote by Syed Irfan Ali, Executive Director of State Bank of Pakistan on the role of financial innovation in Pakistan. The session concluded with a talk on global emerging technology trends by Armughan Ahmed, SVP Global Solutions & Technology Alliances at Dell Inc. The third post-lunch session resumed with an interesting Fire side chat with Junaid Iqbal, Managing Director of Careem with Naeem Zamindar, of Acumen Pakistan. This was followed by a panel discussion on Women Entreprenuership which was moderated by Sadaffe Abid, Co-founder of Circle and the panelists included Gerrit Ribbink, Technical Team Lead Entreprenuership at Enclude Holdings; Dr Shahid Qureshi, Program Director at IBA-Aman- CED; and Mehak Jamal, Manager at Tech Hub Connect. The next speaker Naeem Zamindar, Acumen Pakistan captured the attention of the auhdience by sharing his views on Social entreprenurship and its role in development of Pakistan. The last interesting panel discussion of the day on Fintech- Challenges & Opportunities was moderated by Shehzad Shahid, of TPS and the panelists included Omar Moin Malik, Director Payment Easy Paisa at Telenor Pakistan; Adnan Ali, EVP Head of Payments at Summit Bank; Taha Imam, Business Strategy Officer at Inov8 & Zain Tariq, Co-founder at Urdu Bit. Day one concluded with closing remarks by Sana Mela and Samia Hasan.
DAY 2 7 th Feb 2017 MOMENTUM CONFERENCE ARENA Sana Mela and Samia Hasan presented the opening remarks followed by a need of the hour panel discussion on' How to fund your startup moderated by Com Mirza, of Mirza Holdings and the panelists included Bilal Khan, of OneEleven; Omer Ehtisham, of Dot Zero Ventures; Khurram Zafar, Executive Director of LUMS; and Saif Akhter, of 10xC. The first session concluded with a panel discussion on Building Stronger Startups Faster which was moderated by Sadaf Mehmood, and the panelists included: Jehan Ara, President at Pasha; Nabeel Qadeer, Director at Entrepreneurship and Enterprise PITB; Ali Fahd, Witribe; Hassan Bhatti, Partner at Quintus Capital; and Dr. Sara Khurram, Co-founder of Docthers. The second session resumed with a riveting panel discussion on How the IoT landscape is shaping up in Pakistan moderated by Dr. Mustanssar Tinauli, & Founder of Fori Mazdoori, and the panelists included Usman Dastagir, Head of IoT at Telenor and Abdul Rehman Talat, of BlueEast. The second session concluded with an interesting panel discussion on the topic of E-commerce opportunities and Challenges - Startup Death Trap moderated by Veqar Ul Islam, of Jaffer Business Systems and the panelists included Badar Khushnood, partner at Seed Ventures; Furqan Kidwai, of Well.pk, Nauman Afzal, Country Head Corporate at TCS and Khurram Zafar, Executive Director at LUMS. The third post lunch session resumed with a Momentum Pitch Competition where the top 3 finalists from the 20 competing Startups got an opportunity to pitch to the distinguished jury and an audience to be nominated as the Winner of Momentum Pitch Competition 2017 and for two runner up positions. The panel of judges included Raza Saeed of Pak Wheels; Khurram Zafar Executive Director at LUMS; Humayun Bashir, Former of IBM and Jehan Ara, President P@sha. The most inspiring and exciting session of the entire event was a Fireside chat with Imran Khan, the Chief guest of the event and Amer Hashmi,Vice Chairman Arfa Karim Foundation. The event concluded with the award ceremony where Imran Khan presented the cash prize of PKR 2 million to the 3 top Startup finalists.
M O M E N T U M S T A R T U P V I L L A G E Startup Village witnessed an enthralling participation from over 150 startups from all across Pakistan who showcased their products and services. There was huge enthusiasm and curiosity in the visitors who showed interest in different technologies, innovative approaches and ways to implement them. The event hosted senior executives from leading incubation centers and accelerators who shared their work methodologies on how they support the development of new business ideas by providing mentorship, business services and funding connections to early stage startups to prepare them for the next round. The Startup Village was hosted in a massive hall that also had a separate Pitching area where top 20 startups pitched live on-stage in front of an expert panel of judges and hundreds of attendees during the 2 days to qualify for the final round. It also hosted product launches and demos by various startups, ranging from smart traffic control systems to automated social media tools. Complimenting the sessions in the Startup village were a series of breakout sessions and presentations from leading cloud service providers such as Rapid Compute which highlighted the significance of IoT in transforming enterprises and explore ways for startups to scale and grow using cloud based technology and applications. The Startup Village was well received and much appreciated by all visitors and participants.
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Around 80 Startup applications were received for the Pitch Competition. Out of these, 20 finalists were selected to pitch their business ideas at Momentum 2017. FINALISTS Nearpeer.org Formula Electric Racing Shopsy.pk Investors Lounge Smart Fission Cricflex Islam360 CampusFeed Car Butlers Mobile Doctor Qury Technologies Retailgen Clique Fori mazdoori Getperkup Withease Diygeeks Rising mom touche d Social champ
In keeping with Momentum s focus on fostering innovation and technology startups, the event introduced the Momentum inaugural Momentum Awards, recognizing the most innovative and promising Pakistani Startups. After two days of pitching, out of the 20 finalist companies selected to the competition, 3 tech Startups were selected as winners. The winning startups received a cash prize of PKR 2 Million. The prize was given to them by the Chief Guest for the event Imran Khan. 1 st Runner up CampusFeed, Qasim Salam 2 nd Runner up NearPeer, Ammar Ayub Winner of Momentum 2017 Pitch Competition Social Champ, Sameer Ahmed Khan
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On behalf of the management of Momentum, we would like to extend a warm and a sincere thank you for your valued support of the Inaugural Momentum 2017. Our sincere thanks to all the exhibitors, startups, speakers, investors, mentors, delegates, academia, visitors, partners and sponsors who participated and contributed to the success of this initiative. SPECIAL THANKS TO S & SPONSORS Our heartfelt thanks goes to our Partners and Sponsors for their Invaluable contribution to and support of Momentum 2017 EVENT SPONSORS We welcome any feedback and suggestions you might want to share about this initiative for our future editions. We look forward to hosting you at the 2nd edition of Momentum Startup Conference & Exhibition in 2018. Sincerely, Syed Amir Jafri Founder, Momentum LOGISTICS BANKING TRAVEL COURIER FOOD