Hamdard University’s Faculty of Management Sciences is hosting the Entrepreneurial Launchpad, a full-day event at Hamdard University City Campus on June 6, 2026, bringing together aspiring entrepreneurs, student innovators, and future business leaders for a day of learning, networking, and growth. The event is organised by Aiman Sami Khan and features a panel of three practitioners whose backgrounds span startup founding, corporate marketing, and skills development, giving attendees access to a range of perspectives on what building and growing a business actually involves across different sectors and contexts. The event’s programming spans startup insights, entrepreneurial growth content, networking opportunities, and industry connections, making it a practically oriented gathering rather than a purely academic exercise.
The panel brings together three voices with distinct but complementary profiles. Kapeel Kumar, Founder of The Founders Space and Regional Head of Underwriting at State Life, represents the intersection of entrepreneurship community building and corporate financial services, a combination that gives him a perspective on startup building that is grounded in both the founder experience and the risk and financial assessment frameworks that investors and insurers apply to businesses. His involvement in The Founders Space, a platform dedicated to supporting early-stage entrepreneurs, means he brings direct familiarity with the challenges and decisions that aspiring founders in the room are navigating or are about to navigate as they move their ideas toward execution.
Jawwad Ali, Deputy General Manager of Marketing at LuckyOne Mall, contributes a corporate marketing and consumer engagement perspective from one of Karachi’s most prominent retail and commercial destinations. For student entrepreneurs building consumer-facing businesses or seeking to understand how established brands think about customer acquisition, experience, and retention, the insights of a senior marketing leader from a large-scale commercial environment provide a practical counterpoint to the startup-focused content the panel also covers. The combination of startup and corporate perspectives on the panel reflects a deliberate attempt to give attendees a rounded picture of the business landscape they are entering rather than a purely startup-oriented view that leaves the broader commercial context unaddressed.
Asma Imran, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Proskills and Arzoo, brings the founder perspective in its most direct form, having built two ventures that address skills development and consumer services respectively. Her presence on the panel gives student attendees a model of what it looks like to build multiple ventures simultaneously and to navigate the specific challenges of founding and running businesses in Pakistan’s market as a woman entrepreneur. For the student community at Hamdard University’s Faculty of Management Sciences, the Entrepreneurial Launchpad represents an opportunity to engage with practitioners who have made the journey from idea to functioning business and can speak honestly about what that journey involves, making June 6 a genuinely useful investment of time for anyone seriously considering entrepreneurship as a path forward.
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