[EO16] “Sus­tain­able struc­tures and fire: Impor­tance of dis­as­ter-resilient struc­tures in achiev­ing SDG 11,” Glob­al Engi­neer­ing Con­fer­ence 2024, McMas­ter Engi­neers With­out Bor­ders, McMas­ter Uni­ver­si­ty, ON, Cana­da, Mar. 16, 2024.

[EO15] “Get­ting Future Ready – Nov­el Tech­niques for Struc­tur­al Fire Test­ing,” Civ­il Engi­neer­ing Sym­po­sium, Lake­head Uni­ver­si­ty, Thun­der Bay, ON, Cana­da, Dec. 9, 2022.

[EO14] “Build­ing a Sus­tain­able Prince George,” Pan­el dis­cus­sion, 2022 UNBC Cli­mate & Jus­tice Teach-In as part of the Bard Col­lege and Open Soci­ety Uni­ver­si­ty Net­work’s World­wide Ini­tia­tive, Prince George, BC, Cana­da, March 23, 2022.

[EO13] “Struc­tur­al Fire Engi­neer­ing,” Uni­ver­si­ty of Man­i­to­ba Webi­nar, Win­nipeg, Cana­da, March 14, 2022.

[EO12] “Struc­tur­al Engi­neer­ing against Nat­ur­al & Man-made Haz­ards,” EBUS Acad­e­my × UNBC Research Talks, Zoom Webi­nar ses­sion, March 10, 2022.

[EO11] “Per­for­mance Based Struc­tur­al Fire Engi­neer­ing,” UBC Struc­tures Sem­i­nar, Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia, Van­cou­ver, BC, Cana­da, Feb. 17, 2022.

[EO10] “Per­for­mance-Based Design for Struc­tures under Fire,” Annu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing of the Cen­tral Inte­ri­or Branch, Engi­neers and Geo­sci­en­tists British Colum­bia, Prince George, BC, Cana­da, Feb. 8, 2022.

[EO9] “Sus­tain­able struc­tures ver­sus fire haz­ards — the cur­rent score,” UNBC Inter­dis­ci­pli­nary Week­ly Sem­i­nar Series, Uni­ver­si­ty of North­ern British Colum­bia, Cana­da, Sep. 24, 2021.

[EO8] “Inter­sec­tions of Struc­tur­al Resilience and Data Sci­ence in a Nat­ur­al Haz­ards Con­text,” Depart­ment of Civ­il Engi­neer­ing, SRM Easwari Engi­neer­ing Col­lege, Chen­nai, India, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, May 19, 2021.

[EO7] “Oppor­tu­ni­ties of growth in the Engi­neer­ing Sec­tor of Pak­istan,” Dhanani School of Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing, Habib Uni­ver­si­ty, Karachi Pak­istan, online sem­i­nar ses­sion, Apr. 20, 2021.

[EO6] “Research oppor­tu­ni­ties with­in Struc­tur­al Fire Engi­neer­ing,” Amer­i­can Con­crete Insti­tute, ACI Stu­dent Chap­ter at the NED Uni­ver­si­ty of Engi­neer­ing & Tech­nol­o­gy, Karachi Pak­istan, online sem­i­nar ses­sion, Apr. 5, 2021.

[EO5] “Build­ing a Resilient Pak­istan,” STEM For­ward 2020 Vir­tu­al Job Fair, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, Nov. 20–21, 2020.

[EO4] “Tech­nol­o­gy for improv­ing Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment and Plan­ning,” Built­By­Her Hackathon, Nation­al Incu­ba­tion Cen­ter, Karachi in col­lab­o­ra­tion with The Asia Foun­da­tion & The US Depart­ment of State, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, Oct. 6 2020.

[EO3] “Resilience of Com­mu­ni­ties and Civ­il Infra­struc­ture against Extreme Haz­ards,” Inau­gu­ración de la Sem­ana Inter­na­cional de Inge­niería, Uni­ver­si­dad Tec­nológ­i­ca Cen­troamer­i­cana (UNITEC), Hon­duras, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, Aug. 31 2020.

[EO2] “Fiery Data: Safe­guard­ing Future Cities against Fire Haz­ards,” Inter­na­tion­al Tech­nol­o­gy Data Sci­ence Boot­camp, IEEE Soci­ety of Social Impli­ca­tions of Tech­nol­o­gy Madras Sec­tion, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, Jun. 4 2020.

[EO1] “Design of Struc­tures for Fire,” Guest Lec­ture Series at Nation­al Engi­neer­ing Ser­vices Pak­istan (Pvt.) Ltd. Lahore, Pak­istan, Dec. 15–17, 2017.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

[EDI9] “What does it mean to be an engi­neer of the 21st cen­tu­ry? — Engi­neer­ing and EDI,” UNBC Ori­en­ta­tion and Wel­come-back pro­gram­ming for Win­ter 2022 semes­ter, online work­shop ses­sion, Jan. 13, 2022.

[EDI8] “Keynote: Role mod­els – a pow­er­ful tool to empow­er­ment,” Launch of the pub­li­ca­tion: How to over­come gen­der bias in the Pak­istani con­struc­tion sec­tor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Inter­na­tionale Zusam­me­nar­beit (GIZ) GmbH, Islam­abad Pak­istan, online Keynote ses­sion, Oct. 26, 2021.

[EDI7] “Built­by­her Work­shop: Devel­op­ing solu­tions around STEM,” Nation­al Incu­ba­tion Cen­ter, Karachi in col­lab­o­ra­tion with The Asia Foun­da­tion & The US Depart­ment of State, online con­fer­ence ses­sion, Oct. 5 2021.

[EDI6] “Cel­e­brat­ing the Cham­pi­ons for Change in South Asia: Gen­der Equal­i­ty in Lead­er­ship,” Webi­nar con­duct­ed by the World Bank South Asia Team, Mar. 9, 2021.

[EDI5] “Knowl­edge-shar­ing and Les­son-learn­ing: devel­op­ing STEAM edu­ca­tion for Afghan women,” Lucy Cavendish Col­lege, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, UK, Invi­ta­tion-only, Vir­tu­al Research/Expert Round­table, Feb. 4 2021.

[EDI4] “WiSE Spot­light: Ram­la Qureshi, founder of Women Engi­neers Pak­istan”, Uni­ver­si­ty at Buf­fa­lo Women in Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing, Nov. 18, 2019.

[EDI3] “STEM Edu­ca­tion – Inter­ac­tive Game-based Learn­ing,” First Region­al Con­fer­ence Women in Pow­er Sec­tor Pro­fes­sion­al Net­work in South Asia, World Bank, Kath­man­du, Nepal, Feb. 20–21 2019.

[EDI2] “Women on Web,” Inter­na­tion­al Lead­er­ship Con­fer­ence ILC2018, IEEE Women in Engi­neer­ing, Vir­tu­al Track, May 9, 2018.

[EDI1] “Work­ing for Diver­si­ty & Inclu­sion,” 4th Annu­al Glob­al Women in STEM Con­fer­ence and Awards, San Fran­cis­co, CA, Sep. 11 2017.