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DevCon14
Established 2021 · Karachi · Lahore · Online

Careers and character, built in the same room.

DevCon14 brings IT students and industry professionals together — for honest career guidance, real collaboration, and work that outlives a semester.

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The point of the place

Meetups, career clinics, workshops and project pods — all of them run by members, open to every member, and free the way they have always been.

2,400+

Active members

120+

Events hosted

60+

Projects delivered

28

Partner organisations

Who we are

We are not a coding club. We are IT students and working professionals who decided that a career, a character, and a community are not three separate projects — and that none of them are built alone.

What we work on

Five objectives. Not a mission statement.

Everything the community runs sits under one of these five. If a proposal fits none of them, we do not run it.

A member presenting to the room at a monthly meetup

Objective 01

Networking

The gap between a final-year student and a working engineer is usually one introduction wide. We close it on purpose — through meetups, member circles, and a directory where a junior can find someone three steps ahead who remembers what it was like.

  • Monthly meetups, in person and online
  • A directory searchable by field, city and stage
  • Warm introductions, never cold outreach

2,400+Members connected

Two people talking across a table

Objective 02

Career help

CV reviews that are honest, mock interviews that are hard, and referrals that are real. No paid courses and no funnels. Members who have hired and been hired sit down with those still working out the first step.

  • One-to-one CV and portfolio reviews
  • Mock interviews with working engineers
  • A referral board and internship openings

340+Placed or promoted

A talk in progress, slides up and the room listening

Objective 03

Bridging the gap

A community that only talks to itself stops growing. We partner with universities, student societies, mosques and technology companies — sharing what we have, learning what we lack, and making sure our members are in rooms they would not otherwise enter.

  • University and student-society partnerships
  • Joint events with technology organisations
  • Speaker exchanges across communities

28Partner organisations

A small group working through a problem together

Objective 04

Work on projects

Members team up on real briefs from real organisations — non-profits, mosques, small businesses and university departments. You get the experience employers keep asking for, and the client gets something they genuinely needed.

  • Project pods of four to six members
  • Briefs from non-profits and local organisations
  • Mentor review at every milestone

60+Projects delivered

Colleagues gathered around a laptop

Objective 05

Work on products

Beyond client work we build and maintain our own products — tools the community needed and nobody had made. Members join a product team, own a slice, and ship something that outlives the semester.

  • In-house product teams with real users
  • Design, build, launch, then maintain
  • Revenue reinvested into the community

5Products in the open

In their words

01 / 04

I joined for the job help and stayed for the project pods. I did not expect a place where a student and a working engineer would be given the same brief and the same seat.

Batool Zaidi

Final year, FAST NUCES

Programmes run with

NED UniversityIBA KarachiFAST NUCESHabib UniversityAl-Mahdi InstituteSZABISTBahria UniversityIdara-e-Jaferia

Getting started

Three steps, and none of them cost anything.

Membership is free and always has been. What it asks of you is attendance and generosity, in that order.

Register
01

Register

Tell us who you are and which of the five objectives you came for. It takes two minutes and costs nothing.

02

Meet the community

You get an introduction to members in your field and city, and an invitation to the next gathering.

03

Pick something to give

Come to a meetup, take a CV review, mentor someone behind you, or join a pod. Membership here is a verb.