How Technology is Shaping the Future of Work

Date: 29 April 2020 (Wednesday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/715664902
Title: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Work
Speaker: Mr. Hamza Zia, CEO of GitStart Limited

About the Talk:

Hamza will talk about how technology is changing the future of work through crowdsourcing, remote work and the rise of the gig economy. And why perhaps the jobs of managers would be automated far before workers in the services industry.

He will also talk about his journey on how to go about creating a tech startup as a side project while having a full time job with zero personal capital and turn it into a sustainable venture backed company.

Speaker:

Hamza graduated as a BEng in Computer Science. While in university he contributed to the I-MOS research project and founded his first startup Parle which won HKUST Million Dollar Competition and secured 50k active users in Hong Kong at peak.

Outside of Hong Kong he joined Microsoft as an intern and then later as a full time engineer on the Windows Azure Team. Later he joined as the founding engineer for various startups in the future of work space, before founding GitStart in 2018. It has since got funded by Y-Combinator and now automatically screens and manages thousands of software developers across the globe.