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Thursday, December 29, 2022
BIC, AWKUM and BIC, GIKI organized two days training sessions.
The
Business Incubation Center Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in collaboration
with the Catalyst (Business Incubation Center) Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
(GIKI) Topi organized two days training sessions on December 20-22 at seminar
hall, the Catalyst GIKI for startups of AWKUM and GIKI. The
main purpose of the training was to promote "Entrepreneurship via
Establishment & Strengthening of Incubation Centers at Educational
Institutions”
Session
on Tuesday 20 December 2022 was delivered by Mr. Rahat Gul on “Business
Proposal writing for Start-Ups". During the session, the trainer discussed
a step-by-step approach to develop a simple business proposal and its
importance in achievement of business objectives.
Session
on Thursday 22 December 2022 was delivered by Mr. M Waheed Iqbal on “Company
Formation and its legal aspects for Start-Ups". During the session, the
trainer discussed comparison of companies with other forms of business, the
meaning of separate legal personality, limited liability, transfer of ownership
and perpetual succession, definition of company and body corporate, private
company and public company etc.
Startups
from AWKUM were invited by GIKI Incubation Center. Coordinator BIC Mr. Shah
Hussain Awan along with Mr. Shahzad Khan (IBL) accompanied the startups during
the two day training sessions. Dr. Mohammad Jehangir, (Director Business Incubation
Center AWKUM) thanked officials and staff of the Catalyst GIKI for providing
such a great learning opportunity for BIC AWKUM startups.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Monday, December 26, 2022
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Friday, December 23, 2022
IBL, AWKUM in collaboration with Business Incubation Center AWKUM organized “Marketing Gala”
The Institute of Business Studies & Leadership (IBL), Abdul
Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) in collaboration with Business Incubation
Center AWKUM organized “Marketing Gala” on December 7-8, 2022. The opening
ceremony was inaugurated by Prof. Dr. Saeed Islam (Director Academics AWKUM)
and Mr. Zahir Shah Khan (President Mardan Chamber Commerce of Industry).
The main purpose of the event was to provide practical platform to
the students to market their product and services in front of huge audience. The
students were given assignments to develop a marketing plan for the product and
services they wanted to offer. The students were divided in various groups for
displaying their products in the stalls. The assignment included marketing
research, strategy, marketing mix and sales management.
Local brands including BIC startups also placed their stalls for providing healthy competition to the students. 8 startups of BIC AWKUM participated in the event and displayed their products and services to the general public. The delegation from Mardan Chamber of Commerce & industry visited the stalls and appreciated the efforts of Dr. Mohammad Jehangir (Director IBL), Mr. Shah Hussain Awan and Kashif Zaman (Chief Organizers) for organizing such a wonderful event for students. Such kind of events delivers a learning experience in a challenging environment for the students.
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman from department of Computer Science, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis.
Mr. Hanif Ur Rahman defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled “Offshore
Outsourcing Decision of Application Maintenance: A Study from Client-Vendor
Perspective” on December 16, 2022 at Department of Computer Science, Abdul Wali
Khan University Mardan, Pakistan.
He conducted his research under the supervision of Assistant
Professor Dr. Mushtaq Raza and Dr. Palwasha Afsar. The thesis report was
evaluated from Spain, Poland and University of Peshawar by Prof. Dr. Iván
García-Magariño, Prof. Dr. Robertas Damaševičius and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad
respectively. While his external examiners were Prof. Dr. Zahoor Jan Department
of Computer Science, Islamia College Peshawar and Prof. Dr. Sara Shahzad Department
of Computer Science, University of Peshawar.
Dr. Hanif Ur Rahman published five articles in International
reputed journals having top ranking; W category in HJRS by HEC.