GuestSpeakers

=Guest Speakers=

This page is intended to keep a list of active Guest Speakers from the industry who are interested in participating in the IBA guest speaker sessions which are typically conducted twice in each semester in most of the courses. If you are from the industry and would like to become a guest speaker, please add your name here or make a request send E-Mail. If you are a faculty member, please include names of any guest speakers that you have brought in to your course in the past, or whom you plan to bring in the future. Also please include a brief writeup of the Guest Speaker's profile and contact e-mail and/or number here.

Guest Speaker: Mr. Nauman Sheikh (CTO, Credit-Chux)

 * Date:** March 2, 2009
 * Class:** BS(CS) (VI and VIII) and BBA-MIS(VI)
 * Course Name:** (i) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and (ii) Decision Support Systems
 * Coordinated by:** Dr. Sajjad Haider
 * Brief Description of Talk:** Mr. Sheikh talked about the career opportunities that exist for "data" people and how students should plan their career.The main focus of the talk was on the application of business intelligence and analytics in fields as diverse as logistic and supply chain, risk management in banks, insurance and telecommunications, fraud management, direct marketing, etc.

Guest Speaker: Mr. Jawwad Farid (CEO, Alchemy Technologies) send E-Mail]

 * Date:** March 16, 2009
 * Class:** BS(CS) (VI and VIII) and BBA-MIS(VI)
 * Course Name:** (i) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and (ii) Decision Support Systems
 * Coordinated by:** Dr. Sajjad Haider
 * Brief Description of Talk:** The title of Mr. Farid's talk was "All models are wrong, some models are more useful than others." Mr. Farid talked about his experience of providing risk management services to banks, acturial firms and blue chip companies and the role different models play in support of this activity.