Programmes
Eight ways TechKhwa connects students with the industry, from a weekly open call to six-month mentorships.
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8:00 PM PKT · Zoom
TechKhwa Mehfil
An informal hour where academia and industry actually talk to each other.
Bring a question about your degree, your first job, a certification or a market abroad. Guests have joined from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Australia, Afghanistan and the UK, alongside professionals from across Pakistan. Recent topics include using AI in daily work, the cybersecurity roadmap, network security, web development and cold outreach.
- Zoom link shared in our community group
- Guests from the industry most weeks
- Paused during Ramadan, back after Eid
- When
- Every Friday, 8:00–9:00 PM PKT
- Where
- Online, on Zoom
- Cost
- Free
- For
- Students, educators, professionals
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
Your first serious step into cloud computing, with the official AWS Academy curriculum.
A beginner-friendly bootcamp for students, career switchers and IT staff who want real AWS skills. You get official AWS Academy enrolment, hands-on labs in a sandbox account, the student guide and every lecture recorded.
- Official AWS Academy enrolment
- Hands-on labs with sandbox access
- Student guide + recordings
- Limited seats per batch
- Format
- Live online training
- Status
- Batch 02, from 8 Sep 2026
- Fee
- PKR 3,000
- Led by
- Kashif Ali
Digital Events Series
Short, focused sessions with people who are doing the job right now.
Past sessions include Web Technologies 101 with Umer Amin (Head of Product, DG Group), a CCNA and networking career roadmap, VMware Cloud Foundation and AIOps, personal branding with Lali Zarafshan Farooqi, interview skills with Aalia Khan, and Career Crafting with Fawad Khan (CEO, Apexa).
- Live Q&A in every session
- Career-focused, not just tools
- Follow us to hear about the next one
- Format
- Online, usually evenings
- Cost
- Mostly free
- Register
- Through Luma
- Since
- July 2026
Robotics & Digital Innovators
Robotics, coding and AI inside real classrooms, so students learn to build, not just use.
The Digital Innovators Program at Tiny Flowers School, Peshawar is in its second three-month batch. Our three-day Robotics & AI workshop at The City School, Peshawar was featured by BBC Pashto, and the team took part in RoboCamp 2026 at Bloomfield Hall School.
- IT fundamentals, coding, AI and robotics
- Logical thinking and problem-solving
- Programmes sized for your school
- Who
- School students
- Format
- In class, hands-on
- Length
- Workshops to 3-month programmes
- Leads
- M. Anas Khan, Muhammad Bilal
Free · 20 seats
Creative Fellowship
A structured, mentor-led path from first design tool to a portfolio you can send to clients.
Led by Muhammad Amad, TechKhwa’s Graphics Lead. Fellows learn professional tools, work on real briefs, get critique, and learn the basics of freelancing and client handling. The first cohort started on 28 February 2026, and its top performers were Hafsa Anees, Anees Khan and Abdul Wali.
- Professional design tools
- Real projects and critique
- Portfolio and freelancing basics
- Length
- 6 months
- Where
- Online, on Google Meet
- Cost
- Free
- Seats
- 20 per cohort
DevOps Mentorship
Personal, production-level mentoring for people who want to run real infrastructure.
Mentees go from the basics to advanced work in Linux system administration, virtualization, Docker, Kubernetes and containerisation, inside a real production-style environment rather than slides.
- Small cohorts, personal attention
- Production-style environment
- Basic to advanced
- Length
- 6 months, full-time
- Focus
- Linux, virtualization, containers
- First cohort
- 5 mentees, from Nov 2025
- Led by
- Farman Orakzai
6 months · full-time
Cyber Safety for Everyone
Practical digital safety: spotting scams, protecting accounts and using social media responsibly.
Sessions at SBB Women University and the University of Buner, and “Digital Buner: Safe Today, Secure Tomorrow” at Buner Gul Da Namair 2026, planned with the support of the District Public Prosecutor Buner.
- Real-world examples, no jargon
- Online scams and account safety
- Responsible social media use
- Who
- Students, families, citizens
- Format
- Awareness sessions
- Where
- Peshawar, Buner and beyond
- Cost
- Free
Campus Technology Awareness
Industry-led sessions that show students what modern infrastructure actually looks like.
We’ve run workshops and talks at CECOS University, IMSciences, UET Peshawar, Islamia College Peshawar, the University of Agriculture, AUP, Comsats Abbottabad and more. Sessions range from VMware vSphere labs and “From Hypervisors to Cloud Computing” to career clarity talks for final-year students.
- Hands-on labs where possible
- Career guidance alongside the tech
- CV reviews at job fairs
- Topics
- Cloud, virtualization, data centres, AI
- Format
- Seminars and hands-on labs
- Reach
- 18+ institutions so far
- Cost
- Talk to us
Not sure where to start?
Come to a Friday Mehfil and ask. That’s what it’s for.
