Theme: NoTheme - 7 Multi-disciplinary talks!

One of the few TEDx events held in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. The students of Forman Christian College have been organizing TEDxFCCollege since 2011 and have always received a great response from the targeted community. TEDxFCCollege has a great reputation of organizing the TEDx event and for the most delicious signature cupcakes!

Forman Christian College
Forman Christian College, Zahoor Elahi Road
Lahore, Punjab, 54600
Pakistan

Badar Khushnood

Co-Founder of BRAMERZ

Ex-Google and Former Twitter Pakistan’s Country Consultant has recently joined Bramerz as an Entrepreneur in Residence. Badar has extensive experience in marketing. During his tenure at Google; he successfully projected Google as a brand nationwide by initiating different communities, meetups, and festivals around Google products for developers, designers, coders and entrepreneurs.

Kami Sid

Transgender Model and activist

Kami Sid is constantly breaking barriers for the transgender community in Pakistan, and she’s even left a mark in the fashion industry. Sid, a prominent transgender activist in Pakistan, made her debut as Pakistan's first trans model in a stunning photoshoot. Sid's visibility as a transgender model is vital to challenging the violence and stigma the transgender community faces on a daily basis in Pakistan. It's a powerful act of normalizing transgender identity.

Neelam Hanif

Assistant Professor and Academic researcher

Neelam Hanif has a Masters in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A (Hons) in English Literature from Hunter College, City University of New York. She is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) in Lahore, Pakistan. She taught ESL in the United States for several years, and was an adjunct lecturer in developmental reading and writing program at City University of New York, USA. Her areas of interest include: L2 reading and writing, the relationship of Language, Ethnicity and Identity, Ethnic languages, Sociolinguistics including varieties of English: Pakistani English, Teaching English as a second language and Language Education and Policy.

Omair Bangash

Co founder and Product head, Entrepreneur

A talented entrepreneur who at a very young age has achieved great success. He has worked for Netsol Technologies as their BD Executive and then as the Co-founder of Product Vision and Design. In 2009 he started Tossdown which is an online business giving the opportunity to browse through 826 restaurants nationwide. And the mission of this business is to let customers be part of a growing community and share the goodness of food.

Qasif Shahid

co founder of a Fin-Tech

Qashif Shaid is a Tech-Genius and his work experience is impressive and he is an inspiration for all. He has worked for ABN AMRO SINGAPORE as it’s Head of digital channels and as Head of Electronic Channels in Standard Charted Bank. He is the founder of Finja, a Pakistani FinTech, which has a mission to introduce innovative financial services through collaborative interoperable digital ecosystems driving behavior change and increasing financial inclusion.

Syedain Sisters

Youngest Microsoft certified professional

Rooma has made Pakistan proud by attaining the accolades of Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist at the age of 10. Apart from this, she also happens to be a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert and Certified Ethical Hacker v9. She has gained and achieved many of the Microsoft’s certified modules, including the Microsoft Certified Information technology professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialists and Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate, along with 15 months of experience in the networking field. She truly is an inspiration! Sania too has followed her elder sister’s (Rooma Syedain) footsteps and at the age of five, has become the Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. She is an expert when it comes to Windows, building networks of computers, configuration in Windows, data recovery and password cracking. Education and technology is Sania’s mission but to become an elite in Robotics Engineer

Yahya Ali

Social entrepreneur

Yahya has vast experience as a Social Activist, Event Manager, Marketing Executive and I.T. Manager. He has been actively involved with organizations such as Rabtt, British Council Pakistan, Red Crescent, Shaukat Khanum, WWF and International School of Cordoba. Yahya is known to be a staunch sportsman at heart. He is currently enrolled as a BSCs student at FAST-NU.