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All times are local (Pakistan Standard Time, Asia/Karachi). This schedule is provisional and will be updated as talk titles, abstracts and the panel topic are confirmed.
| 8:45–9:30am | Registration and Seating of Participants |
| 9:40–9:45am | Recitation |
| 9:45–9:50am | Welcome Address |
| 9:50–10:00am | Opening Remarks |
| 10:00–10:10am | Souvenir Distribution |
| 10:10–10:50am | Keynote Presentation — Neuro-Symbolic NLP: Combining the Power of LLMs with Logic and Knowledge |
| Prof. Dr. Muhammad Rafi — Professor and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, FAST National University Karachi |
| 10:50–11:30am | Technical Talk — Introduction to Kaggle Models / Gemma and Competitions Overview |
| Mr. Adnan Zaidi — Chief AI Officer, PROXIMA.PK, and 2× Kaggle GrandMaster |
| 11:30–11:50am | Tea Break |
| 11:50am–12:30pm | Technical Talk — From Low-Resource to LLM-Ready: Building High-Quality Datasets for the Era of Large Language Models |
| Dr. Wazir Ali — CEO, SoloGenAI, and Assistant Professor, QUEST Nawabshah |
| 12:30–1:10pm | Technical Talk |
| Raza Abbas — Data Science and Analytics Consultant, Veeam Software |
| 1:10–2:00pm | Lunch and Prayer Break |
| 2:00–2:05pm | Introduction of Panelists |
| Prof. Dr. Mutee-u-Rahman, Moderator |
| 2:05–2:35pm | Expert Panel Discussion |
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Topic: NLP and AI: Latest Trends, Local Challenges, and the Road Ahead
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Mutee-u-Rahman Panelists: 1. Dr. Ayaz Keerio — Director, IMCS, University of Sindh 2. Dr. Shaukat Wasi — Professor and Dean, Faculty of Computing, MAJU Karachi 3. Dr. Mukhtiar Ali Unar — Professor, Isra University Hyderabad 4. Dr. Mazhar Ali Dootio — Professor, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Karachi 5. Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan — Director, Centre for Research and Applications of AI Technologies |
| 2:35–2:40pm | Vote of Thanks / Closing Remarks |
| 2:40–2:50pm | Certificate Distribution |
| 2:50–3:00pm | Group Photograph |