Chairman, Dohatec

Ms. Luna Shamsuddoha is the Chairman of Dohatec. She secured Masters in International Relations and began teaching English at the British Council, and as a Lecturer at Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka. She started business in 1985 as Managing Partner of The Executive Centre. She worked as a Co-reporter for Australia Broadcasting Corporation, ABC. She is a software entrepreneur and Chairman, since 1992, of Dohatec New Media, a CMMI Level 3 company. She is the Managing Director of Global Voice Telecommunication Limited, an International Gateway Company. As Chairman, she leads the management team and is responsible for overseas marketing, quality and emerging technology, Project Implementation of overseas contracts. She has received recognition for her path breaking work internationally. Dohatec provides Software Solutions and services for international clients like The World Bank, World Health Organization, US Postal Service. She received two International Awards for Software by Swiss Interactive Media and Software Association (SIMSA) in 2005 in Basel, Switzerland. She was involved in the development of Voter enrolment solution and biometric de-duplication with Bangladesh Army in 2007 – 20008 national election. She was recognized at the inauguration of Microsoft’s Global Partners Conference WPC 2007 in Denver, for her achievements in the international software Industry. Her firm developed the electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) system and operations for Bangladesh and Royal Government of Bhutan. Her copyright solutions in the data management space, has been used by the World Bank Headquarters and other international organization for over decade. She is the Founder President of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT), Member of Council Global Thought Leaders on Inclusive Growth Switzerland, Trustee Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Trustee Underprivileged Children’s Educational Programs (UCEP) Bangladesh, Director SME Foundation and former Director Agrani Bank Limited. She is a member of Global Advisory Council of Think through Consulting (‘TTC’) India. Her endowment offers scholarships and supports cultural activities. She is founder member of Bangladesh Business Magazine. She is member of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services, MCCI, AMCHAM, SBCCI and BEF. Her International acknowledgements among others are Femina World Women Leadership Congress Super Achiever Award 2017, and Honorary Leadership Award 2013 - Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN) Award. She has received several recognition nationally among others; RTV Jaya Alokita Nari 2017, SAARC Women’s Association Women in Progress Award 2017, Annanya Best 10 Award 2013.

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Managing Director, Bd Venture Ltd

Mr. Shawkat Hossain is the Managing Director at BD Venture Limited. Mr. Hossain serves as a General Secretary of VCPEAB. He has 31 years of experience in his credit out of that 3 years in Venture Capital, 10 years as bankers and 18 years in financial management/ accounting profession. He worked for different sectors such as manufacturing, NGO, and banks and in different reputed organization such as BRAC, BRAC Bank, Prime Bank, and ICDDRB, among others. He is experienced to work in multicultural environment such as in Afghanistan for one and half years and was instrumental in setting up a foreign bank in Afghanistan. He served as Head of SME and Senior Executive Vice President of Prime Bank Ltd., leading a team of 250 staff located at 55 branches and 17 SME branches. He was Head of SME of BRAC Bank Limited and leading a team of 700 staff located at 250 marketing unit offices spread in 62 districts. He develops strategy to sell loan to small and medium enterprises. He was Head of Finance and Finance Manager at BRAC for six years. He worked for International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research for four years as Senior Cost Officer. He is also the Member of Board of Directors at BD Venture Limited. Mr. Hossain has completed his Masters in Development Management from Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines in 1994, where he received an ADB scholarship. He is a Fellow of Cost & Management Accountant of Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh.

Head of Youth Programme, Prothom Alo

Munir Hasan is an information technology consultant and open-source software activist. After graduating from Bangladesh University of Science and Technology, he worked there for more than a decade. Later on he moved into Prime Minister’s Office as ICT consultant and eventually to Ministry of Science and Information & Communication Technology of Bangladesh Government. Currently he is working as Head of Youth program at ProthomAlo, the largest daily newspaper in Bangladesh. He is also the Secretary of Bangladesh Math Olympiad Committee, and helped to reach the event in the way it is now. As the secretary of Bangladesh Open Source Network, he is working on promoting Bengali Wikipedia since 2005. He is a founding member of Wikimedia Bangladesh and currently serving as a Member in the Executive Committee. In 2008 he achieved the prestigious Ashoka Fellow in response to his contribution to changing the way math is taught and understand.

Founder, Women in Digital

Mrs. Achia Nila is the founder, Women In Digital - Empowerment through Technology. As an skilled professional of digital production; she has set remarkable footprint in the emerging technology market of Bangladesh. Mrs.Achia Nila graduated from United International University on Computer Science and engineering. Later on, she received her M.Sc on computer science and engineering from Daffodil International University. She has served in some of the internationally recognized organizations such as Dell, Microsoft, HP, Epson, Colgate, HillsPet, J&J, HTC, HSBC, Vodafone, Sony, Unilever, Betfair and Nokia etc. As a local product she successfully launched Maya apa Mobile application. She specialises on IT product development (like, web, mobile app and game) and Product management, project management, team lead etc.
Beside her Tech business she has join as an international IT expert for International Telecommunication Union. She is the first person in Bangladesh who selected for this honorable position.
Recently She has join Women Who Code as a country Director. She have arranged “National Hackathon for Women” 1st time in Bangladesh and so many tech competition for women. Her organization run a accelerator program for women name “Digital Innovation Challenge for Women (DICFW)”   
As a leading technological professional, Mrs Achia Nila is obviously one of the inspiring role models for women in engineering education sector of Bangladesh.

Senior Manager, Pathao

In September 2017, Sayeda Nabila Mahabub left her job at a multinational company to work for a home grown start-up, Pathao. As the Head of Marketing at Pathao, Nabila has formed and led a dynamic marketing team of 24 talented individuals.

When she joined Pathao, the company only offered bike sharing service in the country’s capital - Dhaka. Eventually, Pathao expanded its service portfolio in multiple cities within Bangladesh and internationally with Pathao Food, Car, Parcel and became the country's fastest growing start-up with a valuation over $100M. Throughout the rapid growth of Pathao, Nabila has led her team to carry out marketing and PR activities efficiently and ensured brand visibility, user acquisition, and retention for business growth. She has worked extensively throughout her tenure to increase the brand value of the company.

Nabila emphasizes on being customer centric while working at the service industry. She believes Pathao enabled her to make a difference in the society and promote the vast potential of Bangladesh to the world. She believes Bangladesh can become a powerhouse of Asia if its potential is valued properly. As a person, she puts importance on integrity, sincerity, and commitment – as values.

After graduating from BRAC University, Nabila started her career as an intern at Unilever Bangladesh. She later worked as an Assistant Brand Manager at Radio Foorti. Later on, she worked at Banglalink in the brand team and as a Marketing Manager at Robi’s Yonder Music.

As a person, Nabila loves to take on new challenges. She is purpose driven and motivated.

Managing Director, Giga Tech

Samira Zuberi Himika is the MD of Giga Tech. She has worked in the United Nations Development Program after finishing her Master’s degree in Development Studies from Independent University Bangladesh (IUB). She was also the Deputy head of BBC World Service Trust, Bangladesh. Himika was one of the main people behind a project named GP House Art Hub which was the first curated art hub for any multi national company in Bangladesh. After spending 5-6 years working in the NGO sector, Himika decided to start her own venture-Team Engine.

Team engine supports policy makers, the Government, Private Sector entities and individuals by connecting them with the right entities and launching their campaigns-in simple terms, its a communication and campaign hub for social good. Starting her entrepreneural journey was not easy, it involved high risks and challenges. In recent years her organization has been working on projects using a “partnership model” by partnering with government and other organizations who share similar interests in certain projects.

Himika’s biggest strength in launching her own venture definitely has to be her strong portfolio of working for several top international organizations and NGOs. She had a rich network in these areas and strong networking means faster progress for your start-up.

Aside from her interests in entrepreneurship and the field of development, Himika is also an Executive Committee Member at BASIS-she’s a key figure in Bangladesh’s tech and start-up field where she actively takes part in community events and speaks at such events as well.

Founder, CMED Health

Khondaker A. Mamun received his Ph.D. in Computer and Biomedical Engineering from University of Southampton, UK. After that he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the PRISM Lab with joint appointment from Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He also worked as a lecturer and then assistant professor in the Department of CSE, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology from 2002 to 2007, and as a researcher in the College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia from 2007 to 2008. Since October 2014, he is working as an Associate Professor and then Professor at the Department of CSE, United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He is the founder and Director of Advanced Intelligent Multidisciplinary Systems Lab (AIMS Lab) at UIU, where he actively performs research in areas of machine learning, intelligent System, healthcare, disabilities and education as well as human machine interface (HMI), brain computer interface (BCI), rehabilitation engineering, and mobile technology for health care and rehabilitation applications. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed international journal and conference papers. He has invented a number of digital healthcare and rehabilitations service delivery architecture and mobile based solutions for developing countries. His research and innovation has also been featured in a number of local and international news outlets including New Scientist and BBC.

His contribution in the innovation and development is recognized internationally and by the government of Bangladesh. He is the founder of CMED Health, a startup that focuses on preventive and primary healthcare through ICT. CMED Health is the Winner of DBS-NUS Social Innovation 2018 (Singapore), SeedStarWorld Global Innovation 2018 (Switzerland), Bangladesh Innovation 2018, BASIS National ICT 2017, Startup Challenge 2017 and GP Accelerator 2016 Award. He also received National ICT and APICTA Awards for Autism Barta (Smart Phone App for Autism Screening) and Bolte Chai (Smart Phone App for enhancing communications for nonverbal children).

He is the organizer and general chair of the first medical engineering conference, MediTec 2016 (International Conference of Medical Engineering, Health Informatics and Technology) in Bangladesh supported by IEEE EMBS. He is also the organizer and chair of the first International Neuroscience School (IBRO APRC 2017) to develop future neuroscience researcher in Bangladesh, sponsored by International Brain Research Organization (IBRO). With the IBRO support, Prof. Mamun has introduced first Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s patients in Bangladesh through National Institute of Neuroscience and Hospital with active support from Prof. Tipu Z. Aziz, University of Oxford, UK.

He is a member of the Institute of Engineers Bangladesh (IEB), IEEE; Founder Chair, EMBS Bangladesh section; Fellow, Bangladesh Computer Society (BCS).

Director and COO, Star Computer Systems Limited (SCSL)

Rezwana Khan is one of the Directors and the Chief Operating Officer of Star Computer Systems Limited. She is leading the company specializing in Web, E--?Business, E-- ?Governance, Financial Management System, ERP, Customized Software Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Services, Multimedia, ICT Consultancy Services and ICT Training. She has been leading the company through stringent reorganization since she joined from 2004 and plays a crucial role in the company strategy, operations, business development, organizational design and technology. She is currently working in parallel as Lead ICT Expert under the Capacity Development for Local Governments Project funded by SDC for last 2 years for Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development (BARD), Rural Development Academy (RDA) and National Institute of Local Government (NILG). Amongst her other notable accomplishments, she has
provided national consultancy for E-Governance Services to set up an efficient and cost effective Child Labour Information Monitoring System in MOLE. She has also provided Services for the Development of web portal for Food Security for Ultra Poor (FSUP) Programme, European Union . She has also provided consultancy services for Privatization Commission's component of IDA to assist the Institutional strengthening of BEPZA, BOI, PC and BSCIC. Currently she is Providing Consultancy Services as a Lead ICT Expert under the Capacity Development for Local Governments Project funded by SDC. Rezwana Khan holds a bachelors degree from the North South University, Bangladesh where she majored in Computer Science with a minor in Management Information Systems.

CEO, Shohoz

Maliha has extensive experiences in digital services and investment banking industry. She recently ran Vistaprint's digital business in global emerging markets out of Singapore. Prior to this, she worked for Nokia, taking care of strategy and business development for an emerging market focused digital content service called Nokia Life Tools across multiple geographies. In the early part of her career, Maliha worked in Investment Banking, in Utilities Mergers and Acquisition team of Morgan Stanley in New York and San Francisco, and also in Debt Capital Markets of Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA in Computer Science and Economics from Smith
College (USA). 

Fitness Consultant | Combat Gym

You may find many fitness centers in Dhaka but this Gym brings something special to you. The Chief instructor Shamima Akhtar Tulee is a multi-talented personality. She got various international awards. She is the first Bangladeshi woman who got Black belt in Shotokan Karate in Japan in 1989.

She has many more awards in her bag. These awards are;

Certified Yoga Instructor, Ghosh’s College in India in 2007
Certified in Tactical Krav Maga, TKM College in Australia in 2008
Certified Fitness Trainer, ISSA in USA in 2008
Competition of Stott Pilates Instructor IMP in Pilatique, Malaysia in 2010
Holistic Stretch Management Specialist, Spencer Institute in USA in 2009
Certified Spencer Pilates Instructor in NESTA, USA in 2009
Certified TRX Suspension Trainer, FIT in Thailand in 2012
Certified Sports Yoga Instructor in NESTA, USA in 2011
Holistic Life Coach, Spencer Institute in USA in 2011
Certified Pregnant and Post-Partum Client Trainer, FIT in 2012
Certified Diet & Nutrition Advisor, Stonebridge College, UK in 2015
And 5 times National Karate Champion from 1989 to 1993

Don’t miss the chance to meet this incredible lady of Bangladesh, Shamima Akhtar Tulee, who can also be your gym trainer if you choose this gym.

CEO, Emrazina Technologies

Emrazina Islam is a Graphic Designer and tech entrepreneur from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has been studying fine arts since her college days, and later on, transferred her skills into digital artwork and illustration. She is known for her illustration work on the film Whipping Boy (2014). She has also received several awards for her work and contribution to the tech industry in Bangladesh. She is a Co-founder at Emrazina Technologies, which is an on-demand agency covering back-office operations and design outsourcing services. She is also working as the Bangladesh Brand Ambassador of an international fintech company, Payoneer.

CEO, AlgoMatrix

Forhad Ahmed is the founder of AlgoMatrix which has a team of world class developers and problem solvers, among them there are ACM-ICPC World Finalists. AlgoMatrix aims at solving the problems that every startup has to go through. It provides simple, reliable and scalable services to people.

Forhad Ahmed, the CEO of AlgoMatrix, has completed his graduation in Computer Science and Engineering from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. He worked as a Researcher and Developer at Pipilika Search Engine from April, 2012 to August, 2013. Later he joined TigerIT Bangladesh Ltd as a Software Engineer and started working on fault tolerable distributed system. He is also a former Software Engineer of Google.

Country Head | Marks & Spencer

Ms. Shwapna Bhowmick is the Country Head of Marks & Spencer. She has joined Marks & Spencer in 2006. M&S Bangladesh has made an example in M&S Global operations due to her dedicated supervision. Her sincerity, strong will of bringing more business to Bangladesh and her ways of managing people are highly appreciated by Marks & Spencer globally.

She has completed her graduation and Masters from the Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka. She also has a Diploma in Fashion Merchandising from the BUFT (former BIFT).

After completing an internship with Araf Apparels, she started working in the British multinational clothing brand “Next”. She also has the experience of working with Walmart. Shwapna has also been assigned to the additional role of the Country Manager for Myanmar Marks & Spencer Operations.

Story Coach
Benaul the Piper

Hasan Benaul Islam is the Founder and Story Coach of “Benaul the Piper” the first professional Storytelling and Story Coaching Agency in Bangladesh. Benaul has over 15 years of experience in Storytelling, Story Coaching for Youths, Entrepreneurs and Government, Private, Multinational Companies.

Besides that, he has experience in the field of Development Communication, ICT for Development, Content Cooking, Social Media Management, Creative Writing, Campaign Design, and TV Programme Hosting.

Benaul loves to introduce himself as a Storyteller and Story Coach as he believes Storytelling can move mountains. As a Story Coach Benaul helps people finding and telling their stories better.

Strategic Planner and Soft Skill Specialist

Mr. Masud is a strategic planner and soft skill specialist. He has completed his Graduation and Post-Graduation from University of Dhaka in Statistics, Biostatistics and Informatics. Besides, he was the district topper of Munshiganj district in SSC. He has significant expertise in strategic planning, business development, business monitoring, brand communications, etc. with a Google certification on digital data analytics. Currently, he is leading the Business Intelligence and MIS team of The Daily Prothom Alo. He involves himself with different voluntary activities of youth programs and entrepreneurship. Furthermore, he has been writing news articles on career, training, ICT and so on for many days for the top newspaper of Bangladesh.

Head of Digital Business, Prothom Alo

A growth hacking marketing communication professional with 10 years of experience in the field of Communications, Brand Management and Digital Business in International and local organisations. Currently he has been working for Prothom Alo Digital, the largest digital media business of Bangladesh as the digital business manager. He earned double MBA and BBA with marketing concentration from the top business schools of Bangladesh like IBA-DU, Dept. of Marketing-DU and IBA-JU. Throughout the way he has been leading numerous community and voluntary platforms in both local and international level. He is also the Community Manager for Google Developer’s Group Bangla. He represented Bangladesh in the world’s top leadership & knowledge sharing conference in Silicon Valley where his leadership model was instigated globally after it was showcased in front of Google’s Developer community leaders from 110 countries.

Managing Director of Interactive Artifact Ltd

Nusrat Jahan, Managing Director of Interactive Artifact Ltd. who is one of the dynamic and self-motivated entrepreneurs of Bangladesh and as an active entrepreneur, she is not being afraid of delegating tasks and managing time efficiently. The value of time is well understood by her. Visualizing goals and success is very significant to her. She prefers listening and communicating others.

She has completed her masters (M.Sc) in Usability Engineering from Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She did her Bachelor in Marketing (Bachelor of Business Administration) from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. After her under-graduation, she served for an Organization (around two years) in Bangladesh where she has developed her communication, negotiation and decision making skills. Her aspiration to experience a different culture has driven her to move Germany and her strong desire for User Experience, Usability stimulated her to study masters in Usability Engineering. She worked in the area of Market Research, UX Design in Germany. After coming back to Bangladesh, she has worked for a software firm as a Usability Engineer.

Personally, she regards herself as a by-born fighter since she is a single-handed person.

Product Manager at weDevs

Sr. Manager (F &A) & Head of HR & Admin, Finance & Accounts

Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT)

Kazi Shaila Sharmin has been working in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM), Finance and Accounts, and Administration having more than 17 years of vast experience in different reputed national organizations and institutes.
At present, she is the acting Head of HR and Admin at Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) where she joined as Senior Manager (Finance & Accounts) in 2015. Her major responsibilities include developing policy and executing strategic plan for HR and Admin, and ensuring compliance/legislative affairs as well as preparing annual budget for the GTT Board, among other relevant operations.
Prior to this, she worked for a UKAid-DFID funded organization named Institute for Inclusive Finance and Development (InM) [formerly Institute of Microfinance (InM)] as the Head of Finance & Accounts (Acting) and Senior Assistant Director (Finance & Audit) for more than 8 years. She has also served for Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF), the apex development organization for sustainable poverty reduction by the Government of Bangladesh (GoB).
In her entire career, she specializes on income tax, VAT, customs, procurement, budget, SAP-FI, etc. by receiving various training(s). She is also experienced in conducting HRM and Finance related training programs as a master trainer. Being a strategic planner as well as finance and accounts management expert, she has the expertise in facilitating skill development programs for young entrepreneurs/startups. Recently, she facilitated a day-long training program for the young startups conducted at the Business Incubation Centre (BIC) of BRAC University, the leading private university in the country.
In her academic life, she completed her Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree with major in Finance. She also completed her Master and Bachelor degrees in Accounting. Currently, she is affiliated with the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts (CIMA) pursing the online degree from CIMA Global.