Bangladesh Youth Symposium held at UAP

 

Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs (YSSE), a youth-led non-profit organization, organized “Bangladesh Youth Symposium 2019” in association with Directorate of Students’ Welfare, University of Asia Pacific at the UAP auditorium on 27th June 2019.

Professor Dr. Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor, Primeasia University, and Mr. Ashfaq Zaman, Mentor of Queen’s Young Leaders addressed the session as special guests respectively.

Khondaker A. Mamun, PhD, Professor, United International University and Founder and Chairman of CMED Health; Md. Tajdin Hassan, Head of Marketing, The Daily Star; and Md. Sohan Haidear, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Smartifier Academy were resource persons in the symposium. The speakers at the occasion discussed with the future entrepreneurs and inspired them to work in social entrepreneurship area. Later, an “Elevator Pitch Challenge” was arranged where 12 selected business-ideas were presented. In the elevator pitch round, Sanjida Ahmed, Jahangirnagar University, Md. Shariful Alam Rana, Department of EEE, UAP, and Md. Suhas Khan Anik, ACCA were 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.

UAP Entrepreneurship and Career Development Club was the club partner of the event.