Pakistan International Business Forum is hosting the Gen Z Entrepreneurship Partners Forum on June 23, 2026, at 3:00 PM at Amin Hall, Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in collaboration with the Startup and Business Incubation Committee of LCCI. The forum is being convened specifically to build strategic partnerships in support of the PIBF GenZ Entrepreneurship Initiative, a programme with an ambitious mandate to create 100,000 Gen Z-led businesses across Pakistan by 2030. Registration is open at forms.gle/vz4U6CKqKrYSFaTt8, and the gathering is described as a high-profile event bringing together stakeholders whose collaboration will be central to the initiative’s ability to reach its scale targets.
The Gen Z Entrepreneurship Partners Forum is framed explicitly around the theme of empowering the next generation to innovate, collaborate, and grow, reflecting the initiative’s underlying premise that Pakistan’s Gen Z population, broadly understood as those born from the mid-1990s through the early 2010s, represents a uniquely positioned cohort for entrepreneurial activity given their digital fluency, comfort with rapidly evolving technology, and coming of age during a period of significant economic and technological transformation in Pakistan. The scale of the initiative’s target, 100,000 Gen Z-led businesses by 2030, signals an ambition that goes considerably beyond conventional incubation or accelerator programming, positioning the initiative as a mass-scale entrepreneurship development effort that will require coordination across government, private sector, civil society, and educational institutions to have any realistic chance of approaching its stated goal.
The forum’s purpose as a partnership-building event rather than a programme delivery session reflects the recognition that an initiative of this scale cannot be executed by any single organisation operating independently, regardless of its resources or institutional capacity. Among those confirmed to attend are Syed Waqas Anjum Jafri, Secretary General of Alkhidmat Foundation Pakistan, Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Mangat, President of Pakistan International Business Forum, Ejaz Tanveer, Secretary General of Pakistan International Business Forum, and Ayesha Zaman, National Director of the PIBF GenZ Entrepreneurship Initiative. The involvement of Alkhidmat Foundation, one of Pakistan’s largest welfare and development organisations, alongside the leadership of Pakistan International Business Forum itself, suggests an intent to combine the commercial and business networking strengths of a business forum with the grassroots reach and community trust that a large welfare organisation brings, a combination that could prove significant for an initiative aiming to reach Gen Z populations across diverse economic and geographic contexts rather than concentrating exclusively on urban, already-connected youth.
The collaboration with LCCI’s Startup and Business Incubation Committee situates the forum within Lahore’s established business community infrastructure, giving the initiative access to the institutional credibility, networks, and resources that one of Pakistan’s most significant chambers of commerce can provide. For organisations, mentors, investors, and institutions interested in contributing to an entrepreneurship initiative of this scale and ambition, the Gen Z Entrepreneurship Partners Forum on June 23 represents an opportunity to engage directly with the initiative’s leadership and to explore the specific forms of partnership and collaboration that could support its progress toward the 100,000 business target. Those interested in attending can register at forms.gle/vz4U6CKqKrYSFaTt8 ahead of the event at Amin Hall.
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