APRIL 2016
Building Digital Products in a Modern Way
Our first event of the year was a great success. Thank you to all that attended to hear two well known experts in the mobile technology field share their strategies on building digital products in a modern way using real user feedback.
Meet Our Speakers ...
Farhan Thawar is the CTO and Co-Founder of a new Artificial Intelligence focused mobile startup based in Toronto. Most recently he was the CTO Mobile at Pivotal and the Vice President of Engineering at Pivotal Labs. Farhan is best known for scaling Xtreme Labs from 10 to 350 people and building the most popular mobile apps in the world. He is an avid writer and speaker and was named one of Toronto's 25 most powerful people. Prior to Xtreme, Farhan held senior technical positions at Achievers, Microsoft, Celestica and Trilogy Software. Farhan completed his MBA in Financial Engineering at Rotman and Computer Science/EE at Waterloo.
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Aziz Kara is the Head of Product at Loblaw Digital, a fast-paced startup arm of Loblaw. He oversees a product team which uses lean and agile methodologies to build products that almost one-third of Canadians interact with on a daily basis. Prior to Loblaw Digital, Aziz was the Director of Product Management at Xtreme Labs and Pivotal Labs where he built some of the world's leading mobile products. Aziz holds an MMath in Mathematics and Quantum Computing from the University of Waterloo.
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