Thank you community, volunteers, partners and sponsors — Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC) is a global community of women in technology fields hailing from Pakistan and their global allies with the aim of collaborating, empowering, inspiring, celebrating, mentoring and creating opportunities for each other. PWiC was initiated as a Facebook community in 2015, but it was not until…

PWiC 2019 Annual Report — Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC) is a global community of women in technology fields hailing from Pakistan and their global allies with the aim of collaborating, empowering, inspiring, celebrating, mentoring and creating opportunities for each other. PWiC was initiated as a Facebook community in 2015, but it was not until…

On Oct 26th, the monthly mentoring series for the PWiC Silicon Valley Chapter continued with Sheeba Malik, Sr. Engineering Program Manager at Apple as the featured mentor. Being a female leader herself — the topic of Sheeba’s session was “Women Leaders: Navigating organizational challenges”. …

On August 3rd, PWiC Lahore hosted its first local event in the area. The event consisted of a panel discussion and mentoring circles and concluded with a networking session. More than 40 people from industry and academia alike attended the event. …

On September 16th, the Silicon Valley team held its monthly mentoring circle with Javeria Khan. The topic of this session was career transitions and focused on the challenges involved with making a switch from one role to another. The team met at a local coffee shop and we had 10…

On June 19th, 2019, PWiC was invited by Wogrammer to serve on #OwnYourStory Panel. The event was organized by Wogrammer in partnership with Facebook at the Facebook Seattle office. Wogrammer is an online media platform. Its mission is to break stereotypes and inspire women and girls to pursue careers in…