Our conference was attended by over 250 for a full day of high-profile speakers, panel discussions, networking and socializing. We boasted an impressive line-up of speakers featuring many successful entrepreneurs and business executives, as well as an addition to this year event is OPEN-Chicago iGNITE Session – it featured 6 early-stage entrepreneurs pitching their ideas to potential customers and investors. In one case, a pitch received a seven-figure investment!

Mr Javed Ahmed Umrani, Consul General of Pakistan, Midwest
H.E. Ali Jehangir Siddiqui, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States
M. Raghib Hussain, Chief Strategy Officer, Marvell Semiconductor
Aiman Akhtar, CEO, 3D Smiths & Co-Creator, Fungisaurs
Hwa Kinoshita Kim, Co-Creator Fungisaurs
Sarah Abbasi, Founder & Creative Director, Sahroo
Omar Javed, Founder, Unduit
Asim Farooq, Co-Founder, Enablei
Raees Ebrahim, Co-Founder, Nannies4us
Nida Shekhani, Cofounder, Nannies4us
Mr Aslam Khan, Vice Chairman, TGI Fridays
Amna Shah, Founder i-Card Inc, CFO AHS Consulting
Tariq Khan, Founder & CEO Global Diversity Marketing
Jibran Ilyas, Managing Director, Stroz Friedberg
Vivek Mehra, Founder & CEO Parqex
Zain Jeewanjee, CEO Insure123 Insurance Agency