Founder Institute is set to hold a session on product development at National Incubation Center Faisalabad, built around the idea that a strong product is not created by adding more features but by correctly identifying and solving the right problem. The session will bring together Muhammed Bukhari, Co-Founder of Farmdar, and Muhammad Sultan Raja, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digital at Syngenta, giving participants a combination of perspectives drawn from a Pakistan based AgriTech startup and a global agricultural technology company.
The session will focus on helping founders understand how to move from early stage ideas toward practical, market ready products, covering the process of identifying genuine customer needs, testing assumptions before committing significant resources to development, and using feedback to continuously improve a product over time. This structured approach reflects a common framework used across startup mentorship programmes, aimed at reducing the risk of founders building products that fail to find genuine demand in the market.
Bukhari’s involvement brings direct founder level experience from Farmdar, an AgriTech company that has built its business around remote sensing and data driven solutions for agriculture, giving him firsthand insight into the product development challenges specific to building technology for farmers and agricultural businesses in Pakistan. His participation adds a startup founder’s perspective to the session, complementing the more corporate and applied AI viewpoint expected from Raja’s role at Syngenta.
Raja’s presence as Head of Artificial Intelligence and Digital at Syngenta brings a different vantage point to the discussion, given his position within a large multinational agricultural company actively applying digital and AI driven solutions at scale. His participation is expected to offer founders insight into how larger, more established organisations approach product development and digital transformation within the agriculture sector, potentially highlighting differences and overlaps between startup and corporate approaches to building products.
Organisers have invited participants to bring their own ideas, questions, and specific product challenges to the session, framing it as an interactive opportunity rather than a purely lecture based format. The event is supported by Ministry Of IT and Telecommunication and Ignite National Technology Fund, continuing the pattern of institutional backing behind Founder Institute’s ongoing cohort based training activities across NIC Faisalabad and other incubation centres in Pakistan.
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