Exceptional tech stars get crowned at P@SHA ICT Awards 2018

Keeping up with its tradition to honor exceptional companies and entrepreneurs illuminating the tech space of Pakistan, P@SHA has announced its tech stars for the year 2018.

Over the past weekend, the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES (P@SHA) held a bright industry event to declare winners for its 15th P@SHA ICT Awards.

The P@SHA Awards, which are the premier event of the IT industry, brought together business leaders from various sectors along with the diplomats and media to point just the right limelight at the winners. The Chief Guest for the awards ceremony was the Honorable Minister of IT&T, Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.

In his address to the audience, Minister of IT&T, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, expressed his pleasure upon seeing a large representation of Pakistan’s dynamic IT industry at a single platform and assured his support and solidarity to his constituency.

Chairman P@SHA, Barkan Saeed, also congratulated the position holders and emphasized the importance of activities like P@SHA ICT Awards for the confidence building and morale of future architects of the IT Sector.

The Secretary-General P@SHA, Shehryar Hydri emphasized the importance of partnering with the government to push for reforms and incentives that are severely needed for the exponential growth of the IT sector, which has become a backbone of our economic growth.

Every year, the widely renowned P@SHA ICT Awards commemorates the best innovation Pakistani IT Industry has to offer. This year too, hundreds of contestants sent in their submissions which were then evaluated by a team of competent judges hailing from leading tech companies.

This year the award categories were changed to make it more coherent with the standards being followed by APICTA internationally. There were a total of 9 main categories and 33 subcategories for which the awards were given to the winners and runner-ups. The participants came from all across Pakistan and represented large IT companies, entrepreneurs as well as students.

These teams will now travel to Guangzhou, China to represent Pakistan in the 18th APICTA Awards, competing with the top companies from 17 countries.

The details of the awards are mentioned below:
[table style=”table-bordered”]

Category	Winner	Runner Up
Head Category – Consumer
Media & Entertainment	TelloTalk	TPL Maps Election Portal
Banking/Insurance/Financial	Investors Lounge	Easy Insurance
Real Estate	Seerab Maps
Retail & Distribution	Work Force Management – LMKT	Nimbus – Lumensoft
Digital Marketing Strategy & Advertising	Text Whizard by Love For Data	Happilac Paints – Competitive Edge
Tourism Hospitality	Wisdom – Sybrid	Peekaboo Guru – Fetch Sky
Head Category – Inclusions & Community
Community Services	Connect Hear	Athan – VentureDive
Indigenous Services	EPIC (Smart Epilepsy Notification Ban) – Rise Tech	District Management System – Sybrid
Regional, rural and remote services	Digitizing Rural Retailers – Price Oye	Stella EHR
Health and Wellbeing	CureMD	TrashIT Compost
Education	Family Educational Services Foundation	EDUPI
Head Category – Industrial
Agriculture	Meri Zameen – LMKT
Resources, Energy & Utilities	Engro Digital	Step Solar
Supply Chain Logistics	Systems Limited	iDx – Love For Data
Sustainability & Environment	TrashIT	Fruges
Head Category – Business Services
Finance & Accounting Solutions (Fintech)	Love For Data	E-Khata
ICT Services Solutions	Abacus Consulting	Intelli X – Contegris
Professional Services	Web HR – Verge Systems	Food Bucket – Integrated Units
Security Solutions	T-eye Threat Intelligence Platform – Trillium Information Security Services	V-Secure – LMKT
Marketing Solutions	PriceOye	Funnel
Head Category – Public Sector
Digital Government	Cipher – Avanza Innovations
Government and Citizen Services	SECP SDMS App – RAR Multibiz	Rapid Response System App – RAR Multibiz
Head Category – Student
Tertiary Student	IoT based Industry 4.0 compliant for manufacturing industry	RiseTech – EKKO
Junior Student	Tinker Box	Fly Mail
Head Category – Service
Best in BPO	Sybrid	Systems Limited
CSR	Maison Consulting & Solutions	Sybrid
Export Growth	Sybrid
Gender Diversity	Ten Pearls	Transparent Hands
Head Category – Technology
Artificial Intelligence	Risetech – Retro Vision	Base-H – Dante AI Writer
Internet of Things	IoT based Industry 4.0 compliant for manufacturing industry
Big Data Analytics	Xylexa – PyxelDX	V-Hive – LMKT
Head Category – Cross Categories
Startup	Engro Digital	Wukla
Research & Development	KeepTruckin	Engro Digital

[/table]

The Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT & ITES ( aka P@SHA) is Pakistan’s only trade association which represents the IT and IT Enabled Services sector. The association has been working for more than 20 years and functions in close connection with the government on policy issues as well as with all other stakeholders to promote the IT sector in Pakistan.