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Shahroz Ahmed
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Google I/O Extended 2023

🚀Attended Google I/O Extended Karachi 2023 at IBA City Campus

A rich learning experience with industry insights. Valuable talks provided impactful advice for life's journey. Below mentioned are my key takeaways!

🚀 Talk: Moonshot Thinking by Raza Matin (Bransverse)

This talk revolved around the startup ecosystem, how startups work, their challenges, and solutions.

  • You don't need to be a perfectionist, as it's not a destination. You can continuously improve yourself day by day to achieve excellence.
  • Any organization will not rise higher without a stable foundation and a constructive culture within.

🚀 Talk: Challenges Entrepreneurs Are Facing in the Current Environment by Omer Adiden (TMT Ventures)

This talk revolved around the brutal facts regarding partnerships, startups, and fundraising, which every individual should know before taking the step.

  • Don't be overly concerned about your idea being stolen nowadays; it's not like the old times.
  • Nowadays, you need to have a stable product to get funded. Investors are not interested in funding just an idea that you want to build with their money.

🚀 Talk: Optimizing Core Web Vitals for Your SPAs by Mashhood Rastgar (Sastaticket.pk)

This talk revolved around how you can optimize your web apps to be blazingly fast, lightweight, and user-friendly with the techniques endorsed by Google as Core Web Vitals.

  • Understanding LCP, FID, and CLS for web apps.
  • Your assets take the most time to load if they are not well optimized.
  • You can use native mobile and desktop hardware APIs in your web apps to enhance your web experience.

🚀 Talk: How To Find Remote Jobs by Wajahat Karmi (Nebula)

This talk is in high demand and revolves around the misconceptions regarding the buzzword "Remote Job".

  • A remote job is more than just working from home; it's about effectively managing your life.
  • Cracking a remote job is challenging if you don't work on its fundamentals, but with your best effort, you can land your first job. The speaker himself applied for more than 1,000 jobs.

🚀 Talk: Building Your Side Projects Using A.I by Saad Pasta (Sadapay)

This talk revolves around how the AI-driven tech industry changes the ways to build something great with less effort.

  • Nowadays, you don't need to reinvent the wheel; just do research, and use the available tools effectively.
  • Don't need to discard your idea if it already exists; you can learn from the existing one, make some improvements in your stuff, and launch.

I feel thankful to Harris Solangi for leading this event and to his team who put a lot of effort into making it a success.

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