Loading ...Systems Ltd is one of the oldest IT companies in Pakistan, and certainly one of our assets! Ashraf Kapadia, the MD of Systems Ltd, talks to Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA about the amazing technology timeline as it grew in Pakistan before many of us even knew computers existed! From the first mainframe that was powered in his office, to the way software was developed and sold to local enterprises, this interview is worth listening to considering it is one of those which helps to preserve our own history.
Ashraf was also the former President of the Pakistan Software Houses Association and discusses where the local industry is right now and where it is headed. A truly inspirational discussion you must be sure and watch!
Leave your comments and let us know what you thought of this discussion!
[...] Limited is one of Pakistan’s oldest software companies and perhaps the biggest. The CEO, Ashraf Kapadia, has been featured on Jehan Ara’s In The Line Of Wire. Systems had a stall at the ITCN 2009 and stopped by the CIO Pakistan WebStudio to talk to us! [...]
Hi. Thanks ZeeShan. Glad you enjoyed the show. Great suggestion. We already have a MentorNet application on the P@SHA website. We should activate that and ensure that people like Ashraf Kapadia are available to young entrepreneurs for consultation.
Ashraf is a very helpful person and is always willing to spare some time to advise youngsters. Will get that going.
Fine trip down the history of our industry. Very informative! One of the major problems we have is the lack of experience. As our IT industry is very new, people like these are hard to come by. It was a privilege hearing someone who believed in the power of IT long before many of us were even here!
I am sure there would be much to learn just by bouncing ideas off people with such experience. Can you guys arrange an online mentorship program or something? Where people can ask questions and present business cases and have the input/guidance of our seniors. It can be a public forum, I am sure great ideas and collaborations will emerge.
Thank you for a wonderful video!
[...] this episode of ITLoW, Ashraf takes us through a brief journey of his early years at IBM and the slow but sure emergence [...]
It is a great interview. I enjoyed it. I especially liked what he said about the caliber of our teams and the superior work that they deliver.
Of course his laptop looks absolutely inferior to mine – simply because it is!