LAHORE – Concurrently to the UX Pakistan Design Conference, LUMS is also hosting the first Google Home Developers Summit. For the first time in Pakistan, a team from Google will come to speak on Home Automation; speakers include Faisal Feroz, Director Partner Engineering at Google, Ryo Ga, APAC Head of Technical Account Management at Google, Sean Cho, Head of Technical Account Management at Google, John Fieg, Head of the Home Automation Division at Google, Kevin Nilson, Head of the Technical Solutions Engineering at Google, and John Fieg, Head of the Home Automation Division at Google. In 2019, participants will get a chance to showcase their talent and work through the UX Pakistan Design Challenge and Design Awards. Participants can also apply with their start-ups for the UX Pakistan Design Showcase. Not only this, all the speakers attending this year’s conference will share stories about their own journeys and projects, as well as what led them to come up with their ideas. Keynote speakers for this year’s conference include Abbas Saleem Khan, CEO of Optera Digita, Asif Baki, Head of Research & Insights, Next Billion Users at Google, Usman Riaz, Founder of Mano Animation Studio, TED Senior Fellow, Burgan Shealy, who also is the Interaction Designer at Google, Shahzad Nawaz ( Chief Creative Officer and Advisor to CEO at AAP Media), Garen Checkley, Emerging Market Design Strategy at Google. In addition, the event will feature Sadia Khurram, Chief Customer Experience Officer at Jazz, Benedict Davies, UX Designer at Google, Suleman Shahid, Founder UXPakistan, who is also an Assistant Professor at LUMS, as well as Sadaan Ahmad, Founder/CEO at Vanilla Arcade, Jaffer Hussain, Founder at Offroad Studios, Creative Consultant at CricinGif and Design Educator at VCD-BNU. With all these amazingly talented names, the experience is bound to be full of diversified knowledge. The founder of INDEX and UXPakistan, Dr. Suleman Shahid, Assistant Professor at LUMS, shared his views, saying, “Modern complex problems cannot be solved by a single discipline. We need a multidisciplinary approach for understanding and solving these problems and design, as a process and action, can help a lot in solving those wicked problems out there. To spread design in its true essence in Pakistan, we need a grassroots movement starting from schools and going all the way up to businesses and the government. Events like UXPAKISTAN and UXCAMPS, which try to bring modern creatives (designers, business leaders, technologists, craftsmen, architect and artists) on one platform for spreading the real value of design, are just a starting point.” This conference is a grand expedition of change and a vast experience of learning in the field of design. UX Pakistan 2019 is geared to provide opportunities, mentorships and a platform for connection to everyone within the industry, from established professionals to future entrepreneurs and UX unicorns.
