Lahore: How can a student turn an idea into an app that reaches millions of people? That question brought Google’s industry experts and Pakistan’s developer community to LUMS for Pehla Qadam: App Edition Bootcamp 2026, hosted by Google Developers Group Lahore at the LUMS Centre for Entrepreneurship (LCE).

LUMS Provost Dr. Tariq Jadoon welcomed the Google team and congratulated them on the opening of Google Pakistan’s first office in Karachi. Badar Khushnood, former Google Country Consultant and a Faculty Member at LUMS, facilitated Google Developers Group (GDG) Lahore’s efforts to host the event at LUMS.

The Google delegation was led by Emre Dogan, Farhan Qureshi and Fasieh Mehta, alongside........

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