Tomorrow's Tech Talk Open to Everyone (No Fees)

@Islamic Center of Irving (ICI)
2555 Esters Road, Irving TX 75062

Sunday Aug 5, 2018 Schedule

• 9:30AM

  Networking / Job Fair
  ALMPG & Local Muslim Professional Groups 

  Are you seeking job or career change or need help in deciding professional career ? Please join this session where You can network with fellow professional and other job seekers in your industry. Even if you do not wind up with a job, you can gain inside information about numerous professional careers and expand your network.
   

• 10:00AM
  Technology Innovation Strategies in a Fast-paced World

  Junaid Ali, 
  Over 15 years of product management for innovative technologies in consumer and B2B businesses. Including strategy, product development, and management consulting for innovation in small to medium organizations. Specializing in teaching and applying lean startup principles. Invented and holds US patent for online reviews and rating widgets.
   

• 10:45AM
  Stable Crypto Currencies - How they work & why they are needed: Crypto currencies that are pegged to fiat currencies like USD and Euro are becoming more popular. This talk will focus on how these currencies operate, and discuss broader issues likes: why they are needed, should you trust them, and are they a good investment.

  Syed Omar 
  Over the past three decades Omar has been involved with helping large organizations such as NASA, Yahoo, and Zynga build scalable, fault tolerant, distributed systems for mission critical applications. In early 2016 he started Unblocked Inc., a blockchain consultancy company. In 2017 he organized the Unblocked Ledger Coin project. Omar holds a B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University with specialization in Artificial Intelligence. Omar along with his son Aamir invented the strategy board game Arimaa and offered the Arimaa Challenge Prize to promote break-through research in AI.
   

• 11:30AM
  Emerging Trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning

  Babar Bhatti 
  Business and technology leader with 15+ years of expertise in Analytics, Product Management, Cloud Computing, Digital Platforms, Machine Learning and Enterprise Software. Public speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Future of Analytics, Digital Disruption and Entrepreneurship. Co-founder of DFW Artificial Intelligence meetup. Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
   

• 12:15PM
  Blockchain and the Economics of Crypto-tokens and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
  Danish Alvi
   

• 1:15pm
  Lunch / Dhuhr Break
   

• 2:15PM
  Introduction to Blockchain and Decentralized Apps
  Humdan Bakhshi 

  Humdan is an energetic, multi disciplined engineer from Dallas since 2000. His background is in Industrial Automation and Product Engineering. He has been involved with Think tank projects from major corporations such as Hewlett Packard, AutoDesk, and Bosche, to complete several scalable pilots in regards to user experience, and actionable intelligence. Currently, Humdan is the Co founder and Technology lead for ‘Tawakkul Blockchain’, a local Blockchain startup, focused on helping organizations run projects transparently using smart contract based protocols.
   

• 2:45pm
  How to make money mining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without knowing anything about it 

  Abdul H Khan

Hackathon Presentation

• 4:00pm

• 6PM - Winners Announcement and Prize