The largest tech competition for women in Pakistan attracts hundreds of competitors.

Competitions involving three streams, including coding, testing,and design, were attended by both students and professionals.

More than 700 women from the technology industry took part in Women Tech Quest 2023, one of the biggest technological events for women in Pakistan, which was conducted in several cities across the nation. 

The idea of 10Pearls University, the event provides a venue for women to compete, study, network, and display their technological skills.

Students and professionals competed in the events covering the three streams of coding, testing, and design under the umbrella of Women Tech Quest (WTQ), which included two categories for participants. The competitors in the coding competition had a set of issues to complete, and they could do so using any computer language. While the design competition asked participants to complete a UI/UX challenge and had their approaches to user research, persona building, and user flows evaluated, the testing competition gave competitors a set of objectives to test database and automation concepts.

There were six winners from each city, for a total of 18 winners. All participants received certificates of participation, while winners earned monetary awards and shields.

Along with the competitions, the event featured a variety of speaker sessions and workshops where women in leadership positions in the industry, including Meighan Newhouse (SVP, Transformation and Enablement, Inspirant Group), Zartaj Ahmed (Director, PSSEC), Mehvish Waliany (COO, Alkaram Studio), Alice Bhagataney (Co-Founder, Upstream), Meenah Tariq (CEO, Metric), Usra Murtaza (Seni

Women Tech Quest was successfully held for the eighth year in a row, according to Syeda Sana Hussain, Head of People & Programmes - EMEA, 10Pearls. WTQ has launched and advanced the careers of more than 5000 women, strengthened Pakistan's talent pool, and given women an established platform to achieve awareness and demonstrate their boundless potential as one of our flagship initiatives for gender diversity and women empowerment.