Launchpad 12 Day 1

Thursday, September 13, 2018

Launchpad 12 has officially kicked off with the Expo Day. A lot of excitement was seen in the young entrepreneurs who were eager display their startup stalls. Almost 80 startups exhibited on the third floor and made their stalls as interactive as they could make it. Our first panel talk was on ‘The Role of Incubators in the Evolving Entrepreneurial Space’ and consisted of Sana Mela - Founder perspective.pk, Farhan Riaz - Incubation Manager UET, M. Rizwan Saleem Sandhu - Incubation Manager Virtual University, Anum Naseem - Project Manager NSPIRE and our very own Hammad Khalique – Project Manager Plan9. Alumni of Plan9 discussed their experiences of incubation and the success of their startups in the session called ‘Plan9 Stories. Alumni included Madiha Nasrullah – Founder of nazdeeq.com, Bilal ather – Founder of wifi gen, Shahbaz Ali Khan – Founder of club internet, Faizan Aslam – Founder of Bookme.pk and Talal Burney – Founder of Travly.