On November 8th, 2015 join us at the grand Aga Khan auditorium for Pakathon Global Finals; a day of innovation, culture, and inspiration.
The event will showcase fifteen all-star teams from around the world and a distinguished panel of judges featuring investors and entrepreneurs. Attendees will experience South Asian culture through music and visual artists who are masters of their craft.
What is Pakathon?
Pakathon began in Boston in 2013 as a movement for the diaspora to create initiatives for social change in Pakistan. It has grown into a global movement for changemakers to come together and share their ideas.
Pakathon is a global organization with over fifteen city and university chapters. Through events, webinars, hackathons and online forums; Pakathon provides you with a platform to launch your initiative and collaborate with a global network. Join us and be a part of the change.
Founder & CEO of Invest2Innovate
Invest2Innovate supports early-stage impact entrepreneurs and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem in untapped developing markets. Since 2012, i2i has accelerated 16 startups in Pakistan, which have gone on to raise over $700,000 in capital, scaled their businesses, created over 205 jobs, and deepened their social and economic impact in the country.
i2i also has 35+ mentors and 15+ investors in their network, who are all local and successful Pakistani entrepreneurs dedicated to supporting innovative startups in Pakistan.
President of The Citizens Foundation, Canada
Aziz Rakla has started numerous successful business and is no stranger to the startup world. He is also the President of TCF.
TCF is a professionally managed, non-profit organization set up in 1995 by a group of citizens concerned with the state of education in Pakistan. It is now one of Pakistan's leading organizations in the field of formal education. As of 2012, TCF has established 830 purpose-built school units nationwide with an enrollment of 115,000 students and encourages female enrollment and strives to maintain a 50% female ratio in most campuses.
Co-Founder BitAccess Inc
Haseeb Awan is Y-Combinator (S'14) alumni & Ottawa Immigrant Entrepreneur of the year'14 & winner of multiple other awards. Within his role at BitAccess, the company has been featured over 350 times, raised over million dollars from prestigious Silicon Valley investors and expanded to 14 countries within first 2 years. He has been involved with Pakwheels, Spano Drinks, ChipTag Technologies & Efani Eyewear. He occasionally writes at haseebawan.com
Founder and CEO, VentureLynx
Director- Founder Institute Toronto
Kamal is the CEO of VentureLynx, the place for businesses to share corporate information with all stakeholders. He is also a Director of the Founder Institute in Toronto, and was previously the CEO of Skymeter, a GPS-based payment system for trucks and cars.
Kamal is a passionate entrepreneur, who wants to give all entrepreneurs the opportunities that he has had. He has been involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem from all sides since 1997. He has been CEO of three early stage companies, as interim leader, as a board member in five organizations, as an angel investor in ten companies, as a guest lecturer at three universities, as a consultant looking at microfinance and entrepreneurial ecosystems. VentureLynx represents the sum of his experience – the tool he wishes he had in all cases.
Kamal specializes in entrepreneurship, leadership, tech, cleantech, early-stage financing, and transit.
