Women Tech Quest 2023 attracts Over 700 Women in Pakistan's Biggest Technological Event

More than 700 women from the technology industry took part in Women Tech Quest 2023, one of the biggest technological events for women in Pakistan, which was conducted in many locations throughout the nation.

The idea of 10Pearls University, the event provides a venue for women to compete, study, network, and display their technological skills. Students and professionals competed in the events encompassing the three streams of coding, testing, and design under the umbrella of Women Tech Quest (WTQ), which included two categories for participants.

The competitors in the coding competition had a set of issues to complete, and they may do so using any computer language. While the design competition asked participants to complete a UI/UX challenge and had their approaches to user research, persona development, and user flows evaluated, the testing competition gave competitors a set of objectives to test database and automation concepts.

There were six winners from each city, for a total of 18 winners. All competitors received certificates of participation, while winners earned monetary awards and shields. In addition to the competitions, the event featured various speaker sessions and workshops where accomplished women leaders in the industry, including Meighan Newhouse (Senior Vice President of Transformation and Enablement at Inspirant Group), Zartaj Ahmed (Director at PSSEC), Mehvish Waliany (Chief Operating Officer at Alkaram Studio), Alice Bhagataney (Co-Founder of Upstream), Meenah Tariq (Chief Executive Officer of Metric), Usra Murtaza (Senior Marketing Associate at Walee), Saba Kalsoom (Senior Manager of Markets and Enterprises at Fasset), Sadia Khan (Fintech Entrepreneur), and Humna Raza (Creative Director and Podcast Host at One8nine Media), shared their insights and stories to inspire personal and professional growth in others.

Women Tech Quest was successfully held for the eighth year in a row, according to Syeda Sana Hussain, Head of People & Programmes - EMEA, 10Pearls. WTQ has launched and advanced the careers of more than 5000 women, expanded Pakistan's talent pool, and given women an established platform to achieve awareness and demonstrate their boundless potential as one of the flagship programmes for gender diversity and women empowerment.