“Youth Unemployment: Leading a Generation to change the world.
Nov 6, 2019
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Another feather on the cap, Being the President The Marketects Club and Head of Communication Momentum Pakistan, I represented as advisor to Hult Prize IoBM Chapter. Hult Prize, an entrepreneurship strengthening competition which took place in Institute of Business Management (IoBM). It revolves around the theme of “Youth Unemployment: Leading a Generation to change the world. It is the most prestigious startup event in the world that aims at promoting initiatives to solve world pressing issues by our leading young entrepreneurs.
About Hult Prize:
Hult Prize is the world's leading platform for launching for-profit startups and bringing young social entrepreneurs together. The annual, year-long competition crowdsource ideas from business students after challenging them to solve a pressing social issue around topics such as food security, water access, energy, and education.
About Hult Prize IoBM Chapter Event:
10 teams delivered their pitches in front of the judges, out of which only one could make it to the Regional Finals. Teams presented their ideas to end 'For Us, By Us, Youth Unemployment', the theme for Hult Prize challenge 2019. Anum Kamran -Founder & CEO Buyon.pk, Omer Salimullah, Head of Open Banking and Ecosystem Development - JS Bank, Anaz Niaz - CEO Viscous.co, Nadia Patel, Founder and CEO Sheops, Madiha Shamim - CEO HR Ways, judged startup pitches on the basis of how innovative, practical and empowering they were and advised as to how they should further improve their ideas.
Start-up proposal Junk Away was the winner. As an online scrap collection service, Junk Away will allow people to dispose industrial and household scrap in a better, smarter and cost-effective way.
I wish them best of luck!
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