Event name: Vitalwiz seekhna seekho event
When: 21st December 2019
Where: Jinnah Convention center, Islamabad
Why: To help freelancers get inspired
Before the event, the host of the event Mr. Muhammad Yousaf made two live sessions on Facebook on 14th and 19th December 2019 to help the attendees to gain as much as possible from this event.
Finally, the event day came on 21st December 2019. A cold sunny day in Islamabad when all the attendees got ready for the best event of the year.
Among many people, I was one of the attendees.
With learning as my only tool and a notepad and a pen as my instruments, I went to Jinnah convention center to attend the biggest freelancing event of the year. The main purpose of this event was to motivate and inspire youth to reach beyond the stars so that they can discover, mine and master their born talent.
The event was sponsored by Realtime and vitalwiz with senator Attiq Shaikh as a special chief guest.
With a crowd of more than 2000 people including attendees, guests, speakers, ambassadors, and hosts from all over Pakistan, the main hall was jam-packed. The main advantage of this event was that the biggest freelancers in Pakistan were found at one place, which made this event, once in a lifetime opportunity for freelancers to get inspired.
The speakers who attended this event were:
Hisham Sarwar (The Guru himself)
Imran Ali Dina (GFXMENTOR)
Aaliyan Chaudry (Fiverr Superhero)
Neman Ashraf (Quora specialist)
Tanveer Nandla (Dr web)
Salman Baig (SEO specialist)
Malik Mudassir (CEO AppsGenii)
The main idea behind the event was :
،تھکنا نہیں،جمے رہو،ڈرنا نہیں،ڈٹے رہو،کامیاب ہو جاو گےہاں دیر سویر اپنی جگہ
In English, it means "Do not get tired, stick to it, do not get scared, hang on, you will be successful, everything in due time"
The event started with a single and very simple quotation:
"YOU CAN ONLY TEACH THOSE, WHO WANTS TO LEARN"
This simple quote was so effective that it grabbed the participant's attention in an instant.
Then it was time to carry on with the proceedings. First, the representatives from vitalwiz talked about their amazing initiative to empower youth by bringing start-up and incubation center initiatives and skill development programs like certifications. The main highlight of vitalwiz presentations was given by their COO Mr. Mehtab Raja in which he talked about how to create your own start-up by focusing on three targets i.e. primary objectives, target population, and needs, desires and problems.
In addition to the three targets, there was also the explanation about the 9 steps one can take to build a start-up and expand it into a business by focusing on the customers rather than the money it brings and most importantly thinking outside the box.
Then after a very informative and helpful session by vitalwiz and a speech by the chief guest, it was time to get some fresh air and eat lunch. After a 30 minute break of fresh air and lunch, it was time for the next session to start.
In the next session, it was time for the guest speakers to inspire the audience by their life story. The order in which the speakers came was:
Neman Ashraf (Quora specialist)
Neman Ashrat is a Police constable who worked hard to help his family in difficult times. He started to watch videos on youtube and quickly learned English and gained knowledge about his work by watching documentaries and movies. Then he started his career on Quora where he became one of the top-rated quora specialists as a Pakistani. He talked about how to make a personal brand by leaving behind your fears and mediocrity etc. He explained how to make a personal brand by having self-awareness, by telling your story to others and by showing people you care.
Salman Baig (SEO specialist)
Salman Baig is an SEO specialist who started his career at a young age. The main idea of his talk was circled around 2 main schemes. In the first scheme, he talked about how he build an E-commerce business by the name of BAAZ by selling shoes. He explained how an idea can become a full fletched business if you have the right format and basic IT knowledge. In the second scheme, he talked about how one can learn the basics of SEO and start their freelancing career.
Imran Ali Dina (GFXMENTOR)
Imran Ali Dina is a Graphic designer, Teacher, and a mentor who has his own youtube channel about graphic designing in which he posts tutorials on software like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe after effects. There was a huge cheer for his arrival as he is one of the most famous and helpful graphic designers in Pakistan. His entire talk was about why you should keep learning and keep getting better and to never let your ego get in the way of success. He talked about how you can get better in any field just by watching others work.
Tanveer Nandla (Dr web)
Tanveer Nandla is a famous blogger and is more commonly known as Dr web. He is an SEO consultant for urdupoint.pk. He talked about why you should take control of your own life and excel in any field you join. He explained that you should have friends who are like you which can help you to excel in life.
Aaliyan Chaudry (Fiverr Superhero)
Aaliyan Chaudry is a Fiverr super seller who has made his career as a freelancer by starting as a web developer. He talked about how he came from a poor family and started to work with a simple dream. He explained how to achieve those dreams he started as a web developer and learned more skills and became a super seller just by keeping yourself up-to-date with the latest technology and keep on learning new things.
Malik Mudassir (CEO AppsGenii)
Malik Mudassir is the CEO and founder of a tech company called AppsGenii. He is a personal friend of Ms. Hisham Sarwar. His entire talk was about inspiring the audience with his knowledge and experience. He started his talk by saying "Learn to ask questions before learning how to learn". If you do not ask questions, you cannot learn. He explained if you do not have the greed of money and get ahead of the competition, you cannot lose. Rather than competing, if you work together and work on it then you cannot lose.
Hisham Sarwar (The Guru himself)
Finally, it was time for the guru himself, The man who we all have been waiting for. Hisham Sarwar is the most famous freelancer in Pakistan. He is the founder of Beingguru.com and a freelancing teacher in Digiskills.pk platform. His talk was not about his life story, but about how to get inspired by this event.
After many thank you notes and inspiring words from The GURU, it was finally time to wrap up the event. The event was finished by lots and lots of selfies with the attendee's mentors.
Mr. Muhammad Yousaf will do a post-event session on facebook live on how and what to take away from the event on 23rd December 2019.
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MR. HISHAM SARWAR AND MR. MUHAMMAD YOUSAF FOR THIS GREAT EVENT AND FOR BRINGING US SO MUCH INSPIRATION
IT WAS TRUELY A GREAT WAY TO END THE YEAR!!!
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ReplyDeleteGreat and transparent event by the greatest people.we are lucky to have such hardworking people like sir hisham and his all team who has sympathy for others and they encourage the pakistani's to get success in the digital world.They are providing all this free of cost that is such an amazing thing where every one is charging and selling their experience, only sir hisham is not only encourging the youth but also facilitate them by organizing such a big event Seekhna seekho.The speakers who shared their thoughts and experience with the people was also very very admierable and helpful.i have less words to describe your efforts.Pakistan will lead in the digital world insha Allah in upcoming years with combine efforts of you and all freelancers.yes, it is become also our moto do not get tired,stick to it,do not scared,hang on.
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