Manzil-e-Maqsood, is the founder and CEO of Oxbridge Innovative Solutions.  She has an MPhil in Education Research from the University of Cambridge, and has also been affiliated with Oxford University’s Center for Educational Assessment. Manzil joined the academia in 2004 and helped establish R&D centers in collaborations with industry to commercialize innovative ideas in education. She is an Assistant Professor at SEECS-NUST, and is part of the core faculty member of the graduate program titled Masters in Innovative Technologies in Education, which focuses on disrupting the educational landscape of Pakistan through the innovative use of ubiquitous technologies.

Manzil is interested in initiating projects for bottom of pyramid communities for spread of education in a more innovative manner. She is interested in solutions for women empowerment both in education and clean energy sectors, and is currently working with young women from impoverished areas to learn to teach girls in their communities.

She leads a project called ‘Chotay Sciencedan’ initially funded by UK Aid Ilm Ideas Education Innovation Program, and currently by Research Directorate NUST. Chotay Sciencedan is an interactive, gamified, application that aims to deliver and assess grade 5 science concepts in an immersive, constructive environment. To-date this application has been deployed in 5 public schools in low socioeconomic locations of Islamabad.

Manzil has also launched an initiative called Makerspace Islamabad that aims to provide a constructionist, highly immersive, and hands-on environment to young children so as to foster deeper level understanding of STEM based subjects inspired by daily, real life problems. Two summer camps were launched in Summer this year, and schools have started adopting STEM intensive education and working with Manzil to embed it in their curriculum.

Dr A H Nayyar is a prominent advocate of education policy and reforms. His critical analysis and report on Pakistans Public School curriculum led the government to revise it in 2003. He also played an active role in apprising and co-authoring the National Educational Policy published 2006.

Dr. A. H. Nayyar has served as the Executive Director of Developments in Literacy and as the Director of the Ali Institute of education Lahore. He obtained his Doctorate from Imperial College London and has been a visiting Research Scientist at the Princeton University since 1988. He is presently a faculty member at LUMS.

Prof. Dr Arshad Ali the Executive Director at Higher Education Comission (HEC) Pakisan was former Principal, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS).He is a prolific researcher and academicians. He has over 100 publications to his credit in national and international conferences & refereed journals. He has been awarded gold medal by Pakistan Academy of Sciences and COMSTECH for IT research, Presidents’ Gold medal for best NUST researcher of the year 2005 and “Distinguished Scientists of the Year 2006” award by Pakistan Academy of Sciences. So far, over 100 Pakistani scientists have been given these awards. Dr Arshad is also recipient of President’s pride of performance in IT research

Dr. Qaiser Durrani holds renown as an educationist, scholar and consultant in the field of Computer Science. He was the principal investigator in an adaptive English language program conducted by National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NU-FAST), Islamabad. The goal of the project was to develop a computer-aided language learning system for imparting English language skills to the students of class IX.

Dr Qaiser is one of the pioneers of National University Lahore and hold a doctorate from George Washington University USA. He is presently the Rector of GIFT University.

Dr Ghulam A. Furrukh is a visiting faculty at the university of agriculture Faisalabad and the virtual university, He has worked extensively in information and communication technology services.