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Industry Leaders & Innovators
Experts who have shared their knowledge and experience with the Jinnah League community
JL'24 Speakers
3 speaker sessions
Muhammad Hassan
Muhammad Hassan is a technology professional and AI advocate with deep expertise in applied artificial intelligence and machine learning. With hands-on experience delivering AI-driven solutions across industries, he is passionate about making AI accessible and understandable for the next generation of Pakistani technologists. At Jinnah League '24, his session demystified the rapidly evolving AI landscape and showed students how to practically harness AI tools in their projects and careers.
Aisha Riaz
Aisha Riaz is a 24-year-old Personal Branding Strategist and entrepreneur from Karachi, Pakistan, who has rapidly become one of the country's most recognised voices in digital marketing and professional positioning. Originally trained as a Software Engineer — graduating from Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) with a BS in Software Engineering — she made a deliberate pivot from writing code to developing marketing strategies, driven by her 'community-first' philosophy and mastery of organic growth. In 2024, while still in her 6th semester of university, she founded Bemarque, a personal branding agency helping entrepreneurs, founders, and consultants build organic authority and visibility on LinkedIn. By 2025 she had evolved her role within Bemarque to Lead AI Specialist, building specialised AI teams to automate content creation, distribution, and brand intelligence. She also previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Glassogon, an innovative AR e-commerce startup. Her impact on the LinkedIn ecosystem is widely recognised: Favikon has ranked her the #1 Marketing Professional in Pakistan up to 13 times by early 2026, and she was listed among Favikon's Top 200 Global Creators in 2024. As a LinkedIn Top 1% Creator, she has organically grown a following of over 90,000 people. Before launching Bemarque, she held prestigious leadership roles including Marketing Team Lead for the NASA Space Apps Challenge (Fukaya, Japan — remote), Marketing Manager and Best Performance Award recipient at Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC) in 2023, and marketing leadership positions at Women Techmakers, GDG Kolachi, and as Director of Publications at TEDx SMIU. Beyond tech, she is a published fiction author on Wattpad with four titles accumulating over 30,000 reads. Her session at Jinnah League '24 gave students actionable frameworks for building a compelling LinkedIn presence and turning digital visibility into real career and business outcomes.
Salman Pasta
Salman Pasta is a Learning & Organizational Development professional with extensive experience designing and implementing talent development strategies across leading organisations. His work spans building learning cultures, leadership development programmes, and bridging the gap between academic preparation and workplace expectations. At Jinnah League '24, his session gave students a practical lens on how organisations invest in people — and how to position themselves as high-potential hires from day one.
JL'23 Speakers
2 speaker sessions
Shahzad Paracha
Shahzad Paracha is a UX professional with hands-on experience shaping product experiences across digital platforms. His work centres on connecting user research, design decisions, and measurable outcomes — translating the often-subjective world of UX into concrete, data-backed signals that product teams can act on. At Jinnah League '23, his session equipped students with a practical framework for selecting and applying the right UX metrics — from task completion rates and error frequency to Net Promoter Score and time-on-task — helping them think like product designers rather than just developers.
Muhammad Haris Irfan
Muhammad Haris Irfan is a highly decorated Software Quality Assurance (SQA) professional, academician, and mentor based in Karachi, Pakistan. A Senior SQA Automation Analyst at Contour Software — a subsidiary of global conglomerate Constellation Software Inc. — Haris joined the organisation in July 2021 as an SQA Trainee and over five years built a distinguished career as a recognised specialist in Playwright, developing scalable automation frameworks for web and mobile platforms and serving as an In-House Trainer for API Automation across Contour's three-city offices. In 2025 he received the prestigious 'Champion of Champions' award for leading employee referral initiatives across Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad, capping a trajectory that also included a 3-Year Tenure Award in December 2024. An equally accomplished academic, Haris graduated from Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU) with an MS in Software Engineering, earning a Bronze Medal for 3rd position in the FA22 batch with a 3.75 CGPA while consistently appearing on the Chancellor's (4.0), President's (3.9), and Dean's (3.78) Honor Rolls. Outside industry, he is deeply committed to bridging the gap between the tech sector and universities — joining FAST-NUCES as a Visiting Lecturer in early 2026, with prior roles at SZABIST and MAJU, and regularly serving as an FYP Evaluator for graduating engineers. He holds an extensive portfolio of international certifications including ISTQB® CTFL, Certified Scrum Master (CSM®), Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and has received Contour Software's Industry-Academia Collaboration Award for three consecutive years (2022, 2023, and 2024). At Jinnah League '23, his session on Playwright Automation with .NET gave students a practitioner's window into professional-grade test automation and CI/CD pipeline integration.
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