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Namkeen Peshawri
Founder, Trans Support Group
Namkeen Peshawri is a transgender rights activist, artist, curator, poet, and peacebuilder with over 10 years of experience in grassroots advocacy. She is the founder of the Trans Support Group, a platform promoting LGBTQ+ rights, cultural preservation, and inclusive Sustainable Development Goals in the conflict-affected Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. Namkeen leads creative initiatives that blend art, gender justice, and climate action to empower marginalized communities and build peace across deeply conservative and crisis-prone areas.
Saran Ahmad
Founder, Warm Waters Innovation Labs
Saran is the founder of Warm Waters Innovation Labs, an organization helping innovative minds with limited resources solve industrial problems. Founders enrolled with the organization are mentored to customize and develop their ideas solving complex industry problems through innovation. After securing a bachelor's degree from FAST, Saran has managed his own entrepreneurial ventures alongside holding senior roles with multinational organizations such as Dell, Red Bull and USAID. Locally, he has worked with Government of the Punjab and National Incubation Center.
Sidra Jalil
Director Strategy, InspireMill Pvt Ltd
With over 15 years of experience in ICTs, digital policy, and capacity building, Sidra works at the intersection of tech, innovation, and AI. At InspireMill, she introduced AI tools for rural women entrepreneurs. At TikTok, she led AI-driven safety and policy efforts across South Asia. She has developed strategies to address AI-related risks during elections and is now focusing on the exploitation of children through AI which is a growing concern demanding stronger safeguards and ethical regulation in digital spaces.
Saro Imran
Founder & CEO, PINK Center
Saro is a Transgender Community Activist. She has done M.Phil. in commerce. She is a focal person for Skill Development of transgender people by the Social Welfare Department. She is lead of PINK Center, a social enterprise. Its vision is to make and build up a circle of innovative arrangements across different organized verticals to achieve a economic change for Transgender People in Pakistan
Aftab Ahmed
Co-founder, Wang Lab of innovation (WALI)
Aftab Roonjha is the Co-founder of WANG Lab of Innovation (WALI), a rural initiative dedicated to bridging the digital divide in Balochistan. WALI empowers youth and women by providing training in digital literacy, entrepreneurship, and climate resilience, enabling communities to thrive in the digital economy. Aftab holds a bachelor's degree in Education from Lasbela University.
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