IBA Centre for Entrepreneurial Development is hosting an exclusive session titled Building Winning Products: The Global Playbook for Startups on Saturday, June 13, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at LT Hall A on the 12th Floor of Aman Tower at IBA City Campus in Karachi. The session is designed as a hands-on product strategy masterclass for founders, startup teams, and product leaders who are working through the transition from early customer discovery into structured, scalable execution. It features three practitioners from Fleek, Miles Norris, Hannah Sims, and Valeed Kidwai, each of whom brings a distinct combination of international product leadership experience and Pakistan-market perspective to the content.
Miles Norris, Product Leader at Fleek and former Chief Product Officer at Bumble, brings to the session a track record of leading product development at one of the world’s most recognisable consumer technology platforms. His experience at Bumble, where product decisions operate at a scale that affects tens of millions of users across multiple markets simultaneously, gives him a perspective on what disciplined, user-centred product thinking looks like when it is applied under the conditions of genuine commercial scale rather than the more forgiving environment of early-stage experimentation. Hannah Sims, Product Lead at Fleek and formerly of Airtasker, adds the perspective of someone who has worked within marketplace and platform product environments where the challenge of serving multiple customer segments simultaneously creates a particular kind of product complexity that single-sided product teams rarely encounter. Valeed Kidwai, Director at Fleek with prior experience at Bazaar and Unilever, brings a locally grounded perspective that connects the global product frameworks the session will introduce to the specific realities of building and scaling in Pakistan’s market.
The session content spans the full arc from product-market fit through to scaling, addressing the sequential disciplines that determine whether a startup can move from a promising early product into a business with durable market position and operational capacity to grow. Product-market fit and roadmap planning form the foundational content of the session, giving participants the frameworks to assess whether they have achieved the degree of market resonance needed to justify accelerating investment in their product and the tools to translate that assessment into a prioritised roadmap that reflects both customer needs and business strategy. Agile execution and go-to-market strategy are covered as the operational and commercial disciplines that take a well-designed product from development into the market effectively, addressing the common disconnects between what product teams build and what sales and marketing teams can actually deliver to customers. Scaling high-performing teams rounds out the programme, addressing the organisational dimension of product-led growth and the specific challenges of building and maintaining the team capabilities needed to sustain execution quality as a startup grows beyond its founding team.
IBA CED’s decision to bring practitioners of this calibre to its Karachi audience reflects the centre’s commitment to providing Pakistan’s startup and product community with the kind of international-standard, practitioner-led learning that has historically required travel or access to global conference circuits to obtain. For the founders and product leaders attending the June 13 session at IBA City Campus, the three-hour masterclass format provides a concentrated and structured engagement with product strategy knowledge that is grounded in real experience of building and scaling technology products at a global level, and that can be applied directly to the product and strategic decisions they are navigating within their own ventures.
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