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About Me

Faisal is a technology and social entrepreneur from Pakistan. He is one of the early innovators of online businesses in Pakistan. Recently, during floods in Pakistan, he lead the flood incident reporting and mapping initiative Pakreport.org. In 2002, he co-founded technology enterprise Cogilent and BrightSpyre.

Faisal was finalist in the Nokia's Growth Economy Venture challenge in 2010 and MIT BAP in 2008. Faisal is Country leader at herdict.org ( Berkman Center) and Senior Fellow at TED.

Faisal's passion is to scale technology in the developing countries.

Location:
Pakistan, Islamabad
Current organization:
BrightSpyre.com
Past organizations:
Cogilent Solutions
Current role:
Co-Founder BrightSpyre.com, Co-Founder Cogilent Solutions, Found
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Web 2.0 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Startup Management, Innovation and creativity techniques
I am:
Connector, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Global soul, Idea generator, Inventor, Startup, Technologist, Web guru
Languages:
English, Urdu
My website links:
Corporate Website, Online Jobs in Pakistan, My Personal Blog
Universities:
International Islamic University, Pakistan, Punjab University
TED conferences attended:
TEDGlobal 2012, TED2012, TED2011, TEDGlobal 2010, TED2010, TEDIndia 2009, TED2009
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I'm passionate about

I am passionate about
1. Improving Pakistan and developing countries using the power of technology
2. Innovating solutions to change lives of billions

An idea worth spreading

Better implementation of the developed world innovations, ideas and solution sets in developing countries.

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People don't know that I'm good at

1. Implementations 2. My passion about changing lives of billion peope.

My TED Story

My TED story starts with one word i.e. "Change". For me this is not just attending a conference, visiting a new country or meeting new people but it’s a complete change of my life, thoughts and future actions. The story starts now, and I am in a totally different environment and thought process. How a 32 years life changes in just a few days. This inspired by TED, the people working at TED, TED fellows and people I will be meeting at TED.

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