Confiz Data Summit promotes innovation in tech at UMT Lahore

Confiz, an industry-leading software house headquartered in Pakistan, organized the country’s first-ever data and machine learning summit on 26th March 2022 to inspire ideas and innovation in the data science community.

The event was planned in collaboration with the University of Technology and Management (UMT) and hosted on their campus where 150+ students got the chance to connect with industry leaders and learn about the latest technology trends in the market. The event was also attended by 300+ online registrants.

Prominent speakers at the event included:  

• Syed Fahad Khalid – Lead Product Manager AI, Meta 
• Muhammad Fahad Bhatti – Specialist Data Governance Trainer  
• Nauman Bashir – Sr. Software Architect, Confiz  
• Naufil Hassan – Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Confiz 
• Jawwad Mansoor – Principal Data Scientist, Confiz 
• Dr. Fazeel Abid – Assistant Professor, UMT  
• Usman Barkat – Chief Innovation Officer, Algo 

These speakers were industry veterans who shared their experience of leveraging data to develop cutting-edge business solutions. They also revealed unique business use cases while speaking about modern-day technology applications in the rapidly expanding global technology landscape.

 “Our goal for today is to dive deep into the intricate world of data science, discuss the recent developments in this fast-expanding industry, and dissect modern problem-solving techniques as crucial to leveraging data innovation.” Aitezaz Sheikh – Vice President Engineering at Confiz. 

During their speeches, the experts shed insights on the future of AI, data ingestion, machine learning, vision technology, demand forecasting, and the latest data management techniques. 

“At Confiz, we believe that hard work, innovation, and knowledge sharing are the key factors for technological advancement. The Confiz Data summit is an effort to promote and propagate our values for students, professionals, and educators to bring into practice our efforts for a better and more knowledgeable data community in Pakistan.” Faheem Jabbar – keynote speaker at the Summit and Senior Data Architect at Confiz. 

The overwhelming response from the students and online attendees proved Confiz Data Summit to be an absolute success. The event further served as a networking platform for everyone in attendance who shared the common passion for revolutionary change-enablement in the field of data science. Confiz looks forward to investing in the future of data enthusiasts globally by organizing more such events in the future.

Below are some pictures from the event.

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