KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and DHA Suffa University jointly organized Pakistan's 1st Hybrid International conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. President Dr Arif Alvi was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

President FPCCI Nasser Hyatt Magoo in his welcoming address underscore the importance of this timely conference and pointed out that the world is rapidly changing as such Pakistan has to adopt innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship in the comity of nations.

Naqi Azam, advisor to the Vice Chancellor DHA Suffa University; the main architect of the conference underlined the need to foster strategic linkages between academia and industry to optimize growth and development. He further added that the conference will identify determinants of innovation and entrepreneurship, drawing parallels between developing and developed countries to exchange entrepreneurship experiences and deduce lessons and lastly to furnish policy recommendations applicable on Pakistan's socio-economic and business landscape.

The Vice-Chancellor DHA Suffa University Prof Dr Afzal Haque accentuated the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in multiple sectors such as education, trade and emerging technologies to meet the needs of the youth in sharpening their skillset.

The participants of the meeting were given a detailed briefing on hybrid conference "success stories" in 5 sectors, construction, education, e-government, women education and financial services.-PR

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