Young Minds Forum runs hackathons, workshops and founder meetups across Islamabad for young people who want to build with AI and start companies.
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Next event
The evolution of the technical role. An online session with Naved Haqqi, founder of Obizworks, on the architecture and auditability behind governed AI systems, and the rise of the AI Systems Engineer.
Teams take an idea to a working product in a day or a weekend, with mentors, AI credits and prizes.
Islamabad Hack 2026 · YMF × Replit AI Buildathon · YMF × Bilt.me Hackathon · Build with Manus 2.0
Engineers from Easypaisa, Qvantel, Addo.ai and others teach the tools they use at work.
Claude Code · n8n Automations · Databricks ELT · Security Operations
Founders and operators talk about building companies in Pakistan, on stage and off the record.
Networking Summit 1.0 · Off the Record · Agentic AI Meetups
Meetups, networking syncs and a padel retreat, so members get to know each other outside the workshops.
Community Meetups · Networking Sync · Padel Networking Retreat
10 October 2026 · Flagship
A hackathon with a PKR 100,000+ prize pool and free credits for every team to build their projects. Winners were awarded on stage at the closing ceremony.
Hackathons
Build. Ship. Compete. Teams went from an idea to a working mobile app and presented it to the judges.
Hackathons
A one-day build sprint with Replit under the theme "Move beyond theory. Start shipping." Teams built AI products, demoed them and took home prizes and certificates.
7 December 2025 · Pak-China Friendship Centre, Islamabad
Our first summit. Nine founders and CEOs took the stage to talk about building companies, careers and products in Pakistan, followed by networking.
Founders, CEOs and engineers from Pakistan's startup ecosystem who have spoken at YMF.
Ahmed AbuBakar
CEO, ImagineArt
Ibtisam Babar
Head of Zindigi Prize
Raza Ahmed Sukhera
Director Skills & Capacity Development, PSEB
Iftekhar Yazdani
CEO, Aflak
Shehroze Sameja
CEO, Solution
Ibraheem Ahmad
CEO, GOAL Trainings
M Habibullah
CEO, Elevana
Saim Iqbal
Founder, PinkFly
Abdullah Ahmed
CEO, Devnauts
Huzaifa Khan
CEO, Comeb/ck Pakistan
Hamza Ayub
Replit Ambassador, Pakistan
Talks and workshops from YMF events, on our YouTube channel.
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