Murshad Masud Qazi

Founder

In 2021 I declared my house in Buffalo, on Lake Ontario, a hub for Pakistani and international entrepreneurs. People came from Pakistan, from states across America, from Canada and from other countries — some to set up a business here, some to bring their existing business to America, and some simply for the counsel of others who had done both.

That was the year the thought took shape: a networking platform in the United States, so that our people in IT, in services, in business could give each other counsel — and so that Pakistanis abroad and Pakistani companies could build a genuine network with American businesses.

In 2022 we gathered formally for the first time. Around two hundred of us, from several US states and from Canada. We ate together, argued together, agreed to continue on a regular basis, and went home lighter than we came.

In 2023 we were thirty to thirty-five — a smaller, more deliberate year. For the first time we invited Pakistani students studying in America, so they could plan their careers and their businesses alongside people already running them.

By 2024 we were around a hundred people, from six or seven countries — England, Scotland, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Pakistan. Accommodation was arranged at the house and in the apartments across the street.

For those first three years the house on the lake was our venue, and the food came from my own restaurant in Buffalo, Clay Handi. It kept the costs down, and it kept the character intact.

In 2025 the event outgrew a family home. Five to six hundred people registered; visa refusals meant the final count landed at two hundred and fifty to three hundred. We moved to friends’ farmhouses in Pennsylvania, spread the programme over three full days, and our own team ran the kitchen. It was named the Pulse Summit — banner tagline "Bridging Borders for Entrepreneurial Leadership" — with support from Kangaroo Ventures, LIFT Pakistan, SkilledScore and Earnest. Straight after that summit we formed a core committee. This had ceased to be one person’s work.

Now we are bringing the programme to Dallas, Texas — for its international airport and for the way technology and business are growing across the state. Friday the sixth, Saturday the seventh and Sunday the eighth of November 2026. We expect around five hundred people from a dozen countries. Meals will run across the three days: Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and dinner, and a continental breakfast and lunch on the Sunday.

Every member of the committee gives their time voluntarily. The convention has always been ours, not mine. Thank you for being part of it.

Adapted from a recording the founder made in Urdu on 16 August 2026 for this website. His account, his figures and the names of the 2025 sponsors and organisers are kept intact; the sponsor and organiser names appear because they were the event’s public branding at the time.