BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.177.157//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240426T150824EDT-2093nuuOjZ@132.216.177.157 DTSTAMP:20240426T190824Z DESCRIPTION: \n\nYou are invited to hear Abdaal Mazhar Shafi\, co-founder o f UpstartED share his experience about starting his not-for-profit company and on “Empowering Youth for a Better Tomorrow.”\n\nAbdaal (B.Eng\, ’14) is a co-founder of UpstartED\, a non-profit teaching Montreal’s youth and educators about technology and entrepreneurship to better prepare them for the future. He balances this with a full-time role at SimActive\, a softw are developer processing aerial image data\, which he helped expand to ove r 100 countries. He has traveled to 20+ countries over 4 continents as a p roduct specialist in the nascent commercial drone industry. His talk will focus on the skills necessary to succeed in our tech-infused society\, wor king across cultures\, and on how to balance a passion project with full-t ime work.\n\nRefreshments will be provided.\n\nRSVP Required.\n DTSTART:20180320T213000Z DTEND:20180320T230000Z LOCATION:Room 276\, Macdonald Engineering Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H 3A 0C3\, 817 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Entrepreneurship-in-Action Speaker Series URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/engineering/channels/event/entrepreneurship-actio n-speaker-series-285433 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR