Invited Keynote Speaker

SolutionFest – Pakistan’s Relationship with Plastic by UNDP Pakistan Using the Design Mindset to Understand Wicked Problems in the Hyperlocal Context

Opening Talk

Youth Design Forum
Design, Technology, Art, and Exploration: How to Build a Multidisciplinary ‘Making Mindset’.

Panelist

‘How NOT to Design for Development: Reflections and Foresight’ Panel in UXPakistan 2021
Hunches brings Punches: Importance of ‘Stakeholder-centricity’ in Designing for/with the Government.

Panel Organizer and Moderator

Panel in Line+Fill Illustration Conference
Digital Art and Activism: Stories from Pakistan.

Opening Talk on the Conference Theme

UXPakistan 2021 Conference
Designing for the Next Billion Us: The Shift from Users to Us in the Global South.

Invited Closing Keynote Speaker

ACM IMX 2021 Conference
Human Media Interaction in the Global South: Design Immersive Technologies for Next Billion Us

Invited Speaker and Panelist

FC College Annual Teaching Retreat
Redesigning Course Design.

Panel Organizer

HCI SouthAsia Initiative (Supported by SIGCHI)
AI for the Next Billion.

Invited Panelist

LUMS O-Week
Teaching and Learning Innovations at LUMS.

Panel Organizer and Panelist with Syed Babar Ali

LUMS LIVE
Learning from Others.

Panel Host

Webinar/Panel by LUMS Women In Computing (LWiC)
UX in Pakistani Tech Industry (and a Roadmap for the Final Year Students).

Invited Panelist

School of Science and Engineering Webcast
Research and Teaching at SSE@LUMS.

Panel Organizer and Host 

LUMS Live
Insights on the present and the future of local Gaming industry: How to enter and succeed.

Invited Speaker 

Tech Talk Tuesday by The Code School
Design, Technology and Computational Thinking for Young Kids.

Invited Panelist 

LUMS Live
Learning how to teach online: Challenges and opportunities.

Invited Panelist

Habib University, Karachi
Design Education and Practice: Evolving Design Education in Pakistan.

Panel Organizer and Host

LUMS Live With Industry Leaders
The Digitalisation of Pakistani Economy: Role of Local Software Industry.

Panel Organizer and Host 

LUMS Live With Industry Leaders
Software Industry in the New Normal – Challenges and Opportunities in the Pakistani Context.

Invited Panelist (with the VC LUMS)

Karachi T2F (The Second Floor) Education webinar
Learning to Learn: Online Education and Learning.

Talk

UXPakistan Conference
Building UX Teams in Startups – The Dos and Don’t in the Local Context.

Invited Talk

Pak Tech Summit
First 100 Days of Virtual Reality: Putting the Cart and the Horse in the Right Order.

Panel Host

UXPakistan Conference
Covid19 Hackathon: Role of Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship in Fighting Pandemics and Large Scale Disruptions.

Invited Panelist

National Entrepreneurship Summit
Why Bad User Experience Can Destroy your Startup.

Invited Panelist

Bahria University, Karachi
Innovation through Entrepreneurship in Local Universities.

Invited Panelist

Fintech Festival, Singapore
Design for Fintechs in the Local Context.

Invited Workshop

Women in Tech Entrepreneurs,  Acceleration Program by Standard Chartered and InnoVentures, Islamabad
Workshop on Design Thinking and Customer Journey Mapping.

Invited Talk

TEDx Islamabad
What Makes us Human – Is Inclusive Shared Future a Fiction?

Invited Panelist

Adab Festival, Karachi
What about the rest?: Challenges and strategies in national language pedagogy.

Invited Workshop

Women in Tech Entrepreneurs,  Acceleration Program by Standard Chartered and InnoVentures, Islamabad
Workshop on Customer-centered Design Doing.

Invited talk

National Incubation Center, Islamabad
Good Design is Good Business.

Invited Workshop

ICE2 at NUST, Islamabad
Workshop for Teenagers (as part of National Stem School) – Design Thinking to Design Doing and Making.

Invited talk

NEST IO Incubation Center, Karachi
Hunches Bring Punches: How to Park your Intuition and Embark on a Fact-driven Journey.

Invited talk

National Incubation Center, Quetta
Design Thinking for Startups – How to Stay Agile and Customer-centered.

Invited Industrial talk 

Intech Innovation, Pakistan
Human Centered IoT Design: Combining HCD and Agile Methodologies to Design IoT Solutions.

Invited Talk

Bahria University, Karachi
Starting a Human Computer Interaction Group in a Local University: Vision and Roadmap.

Invited talk

Facebook Developers Conference, Pakistan
How to be a Developer in the Local Context: The idea of Combining Skills and Passion.

Invited talk

Engro Digital, Pakistan
Human Centered IoT Design – Supporting Industry 4.0 in Pakistani Context.

Invited talk

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Designing Assistive and Playful Technologies for Visually Impaired in University Settings.

Invited talk

SIGCHI Chapter Meeting, Potsdam, Germany
HCI in Pakistan – The Past and the Future Roadmap.

Invited talk

National Incubation Center, Lahore
One Person UX Team – how to Start with UX Design.

Invited talk

National Incubation Center, Lahore
One Person UX Team – how to Start with UX Design.

Invited talk

Oxford Policy Management Limited
Leveraging Technology to Catalyze Development in the Public Sector (How not to “reform” in Pakistan).

Invited talk

Nestle, Lahore
Zoo as a Learning Space – Using Playful Design to Augment Children’s Interaction with Animals.

1st Design Baithak, Lahore
Design Trends in the Industry – Learning from the Leaders.

Invited Speaker

Habib University, Karachi
SSE Public Lecture Series Talk on ‘Design Trends in Academia and Industry’.

Invited Speaker and the Chief Guest

Aitchison College, Lahore
Annual Aitchison College Science and Engineering Concept – ACSEC 2018.

Invited Speaker

IEEE Conference on Advancement in Computation Sciences, Lahore Pakistan
Designing Interactive Systems for People with Visual Impairment.

Invited Speaker

Habib University, Karachi
Panel on ‘Replicating Silicon Valley in the Indus Valley’.

Invited Speaker

The MIX conference, Lahore, Pakistan
Panel on ‘Design Disruption’.

Invited Speaker

National College of Arts (NCA), Lahore, Pakistan
Design Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Perspective.

Invited Speaker

Heritage Now Conference, Lahore, Pakistan
Panel on ‘Heritage and Technology’.

Invited Speaker

RWTH University, Aachen, Germany
Assistive Technologies for People with Special Needs.

Webcast Host

LUMS Open Day Webcast with 5 deans and the VC.

Invited master-class

Copern Cooperation, Amsterdam
User Experience Design Meets Marketing Innovation.

Invited Speaker

Bogazichi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Child-robot Interaction in the Wild: A Cross-cultural Perspective.

Invited Speaker

VNSG (SAP User Group) Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands
User Experience Design for Complex Systems: Knocking at the End User’s Door.

Invited Master class

ProfsoUX conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia,
Human centered Design for Mobile Application Development

Invited Speaker

Invited talk at the ProfsoUX conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Measuring the Must: Going beyond Usability.

Invited opening keynote

7th SAP User Experience Conference. Amstel, Amsterdam
Designing for Complexity: Designing User Experience of ERP Systems.

Invited Speaker

‘Innovation in Teaching’ Meeting, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
iTeach and uLearn: Flipping the Classroom for Better Teacher-Student Interaction.

Invited lecture

University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Cross-cultural Child-robot Interaction.

Invited guest lecture

Social Psychology Colloquium. Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Social Child-robot Interaction.

Invited Speaker

Body and Language Conference. Tilburg, the Netherlands
Cross-Cultural Aspects of Emotions in HCI.

Invited Speaker

European Union Symposium on Multimodal User Interface Projects. Paris
Multi-device User Interface Authoring and Consistency.