Corona Lost, OPEN SV Forum Won
It’s the largest regular gathering of Pakistani-American alpha males--and a few alpha females. It’s an annual Silicon Valley conference where you run into acquaintances you seldom see outside Facebook. It’s a convention where attendees get educated about the latest developments in technology and the technical jargon in vogue. It had become a yearly ritual for participants to find out what leaders of technology had achieved since the last meeting. And then the show was disrupted by a virus. There was no OPEN Forum 2020. But the virus could only hold the floodgates shut for that long. The virus lost this year; OPEN Forum came back with a bang. Under the leadership of Andaleeb Ahmed, OPEN Forum 2021, attended by around 400 masked and unmasked people, signaled the official end of the pandemic.
