KP Business EXPO 2021

WELCOME

About the Event

The University of Peshawar is organizing a business expo that aims to bring together all important stakeholders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The event will be organized at the University of Peshawar, will host participants from academia, industry, the business community, government institutions, social sector organizations, and independent experts.

They will participate in a variety of activities including exhibiting their product and services, highlighting their roles, projecting new ideas, getting expert opinions and holding discussions and networking events. It is expected to explore and create new value-bearing opportunities and build symbiotic relationships for exploiting them.

VC University of Peshawar

University of Peshawar, a prominent seat of higher education in Pakistan, is known as the “mother university” of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The graduates of this university have played a leading role in national and international organizations belonging to diverse array of fields. To realize the true potential of interdisciplinary knowledge, the Institute of Management Studies , University of Peshawar is organizing a business expo to bring together and connect all the major stakeholders of higher education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The two-day event seeks to explore new horizons for cooperation between public and private organizations. It provides a platform for creating mutually beneficial relationships that can re-ignite the historically recognized entrepreneurial spirit of this geography. I invite you to participate in this event with complete confidence and trust that your time will be best spent.

Prof.Dr. Muhammad Idrees

VC University of Peshawar

Director IMS Message

IMS is emerging as a major center of excellence in the field of management and its allied disciplines, catering to the ever-growing demands of the markets both at national and international levels. Its mission is imparting business education in order to meet the challenges of dynamic global business environment, inculcating the sense of citizenship responsibility through communal involvement. Furthermore, it provides a knowledge and resource base to state institutions and policy makers for building their institutional capacities and competencies by offering a platform to support non-governmental and international donors for optimizing social interventions and innovations

Prof.Dr. Sajjad Ahmad Khan

Director IMS

Coordinator Training & Development

The purpose of KP Business EXPO is to connect various stakeholders of business environment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It focuses on learning, growth, expertise and skills available in Khyber Paktunkhwa. IMS University of Peshawar, aim to draw a positive impact on the business environment. It will be a multi-functional expo containing summit, business plan competitions, business stalls and job hunts. The main objective is to uplift the students pre-emptively for their careers ahead. It is an opportunity for the students, bore a business plan but lack the monetary support to materialize it.

Dr. Shakeel Khan

Chief organizer
Email: shakeel.ims@uop.edu.pk

Past Speakers

Abdul Karim

Minister of Commerce & Industries

Atif
Shehzad

CEO of Makka Agency

Umair Jaliawala

Inspirational Speaker, Ceo and Founder of Torque

Karishma Zaka Ullah

CEO Unidesk

Shafeeq Gigyani

CoFounder of Grow & COO at The Enlight Lab

Khurram Zuberi

Founder & CEO JumpStart Pakistan

Muhammad Sulaiman

Founder National Influencers

Hisham Sarwar

Founder BeingGuru & CEO Infomist

Ahmad Manzoor

Technologist & Blockchain expert

Taimur Khan Jhagra

former KP Finance & Health Minister.

Our Past Sponsors

Partners

Activities

Business plan competition
Exhibition booth
Showcase and advertise your business
Career wall
Emerging and ongoing Business Booths
Networking opportunities
Local entrepreneurs to Network, Build and grow
Job opportunities
Scholarship Opportunities
Financial workshops
Business resources
Women Entrepreneurs
Resume writing assistance
Potential On-site interviews
Startups/ Mentoring
Business to business Networking
Business to consumer exposure
Summits

OBJECTIVES

The core objective of this expo is to work as a bridge between academia and industries.
Providing environment for showcasing emerging ideas from academia personnel.
Facilitating the students with ideas by introducing them with investors and vice versa.
Setting the trend of casting business education in the market.
Providing job and educational opportunities through projection desks like CPEC, USAID, GIZ etc.
Rendering opportunities to various emerging and ongoing SMEs in marketing themselves
Establishment of businesses environment through collaboration with other universities.
Encouragement of career wall, networking, business to business transaction and start-up.
Giving business mentorship and counselling by influencers and speakers.
Gaining, sharing and practicing of skills, knowledge and awareness.
Ensuring women participation and empowerment them through women led businesses.
Taking various chambers of commerce on board

About the Organisers

IMS, University of Peshawar is the pioneer organization in business and public administration education in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It benefits from a vastly experienced and diversified, highly qualified and specialized faculty available at University of Peshawar to teach a variety of cross-disciplinary subjects. Join this Expo and get a chance to meet us and join our team.

Join this Expo and get a chance to meet us and join our team.