Shell Tameer Award is a nationwide competition, to recognize, celebrate and reward young talent making significant contribution in the national entrepreneurship space.
Out of the 253 ideas from all over Pakistan 30 Finalists were shortlisted to compete across six diverse categories.
The finalists were trained through Shell LiveWIRE’s International experts to deliver their final pitches before a panel of renowned industry and start-up leaders from Shell, Engro, Unilever, UBL, KE, Toyota Indus Motors, Katalyst Lab and NIC Karachi and Hyderabad.
The winners were announced at a grand ceremony of Shell Pakistan’s 75 years celebrations featuring Shell Tameer Awards.
The grand winners of Shell Tameer Awards 2022 are:
Circular Economy: Concept Loop – Dabeer Hemani | A tech-based start-up converting plastic waste into building materials and high-value lifestyle products through their sustainable data-driven and tech-empowered processes.
Clean Energy Solutions: Geoaircon – Muhammad Hassamuddin | A clean-tech start-up providing ground-sourced Climate Control technology. Utilizing temperate underground temperatures to dramatically cut down air-conditioning or heating costs by 35-75% for industrial, commercial, residential, and agricultural use.
Empowering Women: The Method – Insiya Meherally | A young start-up working towards women’s safety by providing self-defense training across corporate and private networks.
Technology Innovation: Crop2x Pvt Limited – Humaira Rana | A technology start-up advancing the agriculture sector by proving AI-based data-driven insights on soil, land, and weather conditions to increase yields and reduce operational costs.
Transport & Mobility: Motto Vest Pvt Limited – Zeeshan Shahid | A tech-based start-up aimed at providing safe mobility for bike riders through their AI sensor-based airbag vest to prevent fatalities and disabilities.
Bright Idea: Enviro Solutions – Abuzar Siddiqui | An eco-friendly idea converting plastic waste into road building material.
The runners-up include:
Davaam Life Pvt Limited from Circular Economy, Pak Bioenergy from Clean Energy Solutions, Asqurr for Empowering Women, Oval NFT for Technology Innovation, Juggernaut Pvt Limited for Transport & Mobility, and Bewise for Bright Idea.
Here is a quick recap of Shell Tameer Awards 2022.
Shell Tameer Awards 2022 - Highlights
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The 9th Shell Tameer Awards took place on the 18th of September at Shell House, a nationwide competition to recognise the best and brightest young entrepreneurs in Pakistan. The event was attended by young innovators, prominent business leaders, media journalists. The event was judged by a carefully selected panel of 15 highly seasoned industry experts to select 6 winners and 6 runner-ups across 6 categories. The event was live streamed for audiences across the country.
Shell Tameer Awards 2022 - Highlights Transcript
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{Animated opening frame, partner logos, infographics of Shell Tameer awards 2022 Proramme stats. }
253 entries , 30 finalists , competing across 6 categories, Shell Tameer Awards fuelling the am ition of young entrepreneurs by providing, networking opportunities, media exposure trainings, one- on- one coaching sessions with International experts }
Final Pitch Day
Shell House Building shot with Awards branding and back ground music Glimpses and animation of pitching sessions in progress .
Awards Night
Hotel Beach Luxury Venue shots and background music
Sidra Iqbal: Shell Tameer is Shell Pakistan’s oldest social investment programme that has been running since 2003. it has been envisioned to strengthen the local economoies by promoting entrepreneurship, innovation and meaningful employment.
Waqar Siddiqui: Our Tameer effort is one of our today’s investments. 2/3rd of our population is build up of our youth. And by design, (with all due respect) they are disruptive and they know how to get their ideas across. So to chanalise this energy for the future development of Pakistan Tameer is one step towards that.
Zia Mohiuddin: reciting Allama Iqbal poetry
Habib Haider: Tameer is a platform that supports entrepreneurship and it’s one of the oldest such platforms in the corporate sector. So we “ll be celebrating and rewarding Tameer Finalists across different categories
Winners and Runners -up shots receiving Awards from Shell Leadership and category sponsors
Dabeer Himani – Winner Circular Economy: Thank you for giving us this opportunity, I think programmes like this make us think in a different way.
Zeeshan Shahid – Winner Transportation & Mobility: Thank you to the management, specially for your efforts over 3 months to help us prepare, it’s all because of the learnings that we acquired.
Winners and Runners -up shots receiving Awards from Shell Leadership and category sponsors
Salman Tariq Runner up – Circular Economy: Shell Tameer was an amazing opportunity. it’s very heartening to see that Shell Tameer is giving space to important issues like circular economy. Just like us there are others entrepreneurs who have been acknowledged through this platform.
Nousheen Barkat Runner up – Empowering Women: Thank you so much Shell for proving us such an opportunity of networking and learning
Group of winners and runners up chanting Shell Tameer , Fuel your ambition
Shell Tameer logo followed by Shell pectin
Judges’ soundbites
{Mohsin Termezy –- CEO – Finclide Shell Tameer Award Winner 2003}
{I “ll bring back what I hv learned over the last 18 years and what I can give back to them for their journey and improvement of their entrepreneurial ideas. nter the speaker’s dialogue}
{Madiha javed – Director Communication and Public Relations - Careem
it would be good to see whose ideas are interesting and bring change to the people of Pakistan.
{Mehreen Shoib – CEO – Stimulus (Pvt.) Ltd.
I think umm I am looking forward to hearing a better quality of impact umm I am looking forward to hearing energetic more innovative solutions.
Jehan Ara – CEO and Founder – Katalyst Labs
It’s amazing that you meet these young people who have come up with different ideas. It just makes you wonder why some of these solutions havn’t come up before.
Noor Afshan – Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications K- Electric
It’s extremely exciting to be looking at all the project that have been submitted all the initiatives, they are going to make a visible difference for our community for our society.
Fathema Zuberi – HR Director -Unilever
I think this is just a phenomenal forum that Shell has established over the years. We have seen many success cases coming out of here and I think as a country we are not short of great talent and great ideas
Favad Soomro – Director Engro Foundation
I think entrepreneurship is the way Pakistan’s economy has to grow. Platforms like these give a path to budding entrepreneurs to improve their business ideas and and grow their businesses.
Aliya Ahmed – Head of Digital Communications and Consumer Analytics UBL
Fifty-five % of our population is less than 30 years of age. So program like these actually help young entrepreneurs to come up with new innovative ideas.
Yasir Ali– Business Development Manager Mobility – Shell Pakistan
The positive contribution that Shell is playing in terms of harnessing entrepreneurship in the country, umm I think there have been some very great success cases.
Sidra Iqbal – Media Communication Expert
The platform to interact with the very best and what I am really excited about is the CEO panel and discussing with them what exactly is the role of entrepreneurship and innovation I the future of Pakistan.
Umer Farooq – Boltay Huroof – Winner Shell Tameer Bright Idea Awards
The most impressive thing about Shell Tameer programme was its business that benefitted us in the grooming of our start-ups mentoring programme that was the best part.
Sahar Akbar – Learniovate – Finalist
My message to young entrepreneur is to always always believe in your dreams , never never give up
Saad Ahmed – Operations Manager Mobility – Shell Pakistan
What are the Tameer Awards ? and how does the Tameer Programme helps young entrepreneurs? Today the whole day we”ll tell you about it. There are some great entrepreneurs that we can’t wait for you to meet also there are some great stories that we can’t wait for you to hear. Today marks an important day on our calander.
Afshan Pasha – Programme Manager Shell Tameer
Today is actually our 8th Tameer Awards Programme and ever since our launch in 2003 we have hosted these nationwide competitions every two-year
Panel Discussion starts ….
Sidra Iqbal – Medi Communication Expert
What does the innovation means in Pakistani context and what could be its role in Pakistan.
Inam -Ur -Rehman CEO Dawood Hercules Group
Countries and Nations are known for what their people do.
We are delighted to announce the entrepreneurs shortlisted for the Shell Tameer Awards 2022. Top 30 finalists have been shortlisted across six award categories out of 253 valid entries from across the country. These 30 finalists will receive mentoring and coaching from Shell’s international consultants DAI, before pitching their business to an expert jury at the Grand Finale.
The BIA category is designed to recognize aspiring entrepreneurs that display great potential for future growth by having a compelling/winning idea. This early stage innovation can come from any of the Shell Tameer Award categories but must be at a prototype stage.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name | Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sadaf Tagar | Upcycled | A disruptive circular economy idea to convert poultry waste into plastic polymers and organic fertilizer |
| Maliha Abbas | ECOSOL | A unique climate literacy and action platform, aimed at building an environmentally literate community that understands the use and design of eco-friendly products. |
| Muhammad Farooq | Biodegradable Cutlery | A bright idea aimed at revolutionizing the food industry by producing biodegradable cutlery to improve hygiene and reduce plastic waste. |
| Abuzar Shoaib Siddiqui | Enviro Solutions | An ecofriendly idea converting plastic waste into road building material. |
| Shoaib Hasan Rizvi | BeWise | A passionate young entrepreneur working towards empowering rural women through an online platform that provides resources to channelize their skills and abilities into meaningful livelihood opportunities. |
T&M category recognizes enterprise providing disruptive solutions around low-carbon transport solutions and transport sharing model. Designed to provide solutions to address direct and indirect environmental and socio-economic impacts of the traditional transportation sector.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name |
Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Zeeshan Shahid | Motto Vest Trading Pvt Ltd | A young start-up aimed at providing safe mobility for bike riders through their AI sensor-based airbag vest to prevent fatalities and disabilities. |
| Wajahat Naqvi | E-Ladeen | E-ladeen aims to localize the control of public transport through their mobile the business will directly connect the commuters with local transport services to ensure affordability, convenience and safety of the commuters. |
| Muhammad Kamil | Metre 360 Pvt. Ltd. | A data driven Vehicle Health Tech Platform that empowers vehicle owners to minimize maintenance & repair costs while driving better valuations through their predictive AI-enabled master mechanics. |
| Arshad Khan | Dropclick | Dropclick is a crowdsourcing platform that connects business and independent transporter for instant & scheduled delivery services. The tech-based platform offers efficient operations, reliability and real-time monitoring to serve their B2B and B2C customers. |
| Zohaib Matloob | Juggernaut Pvt Ltd | A tech-based start-up offering disruptive solutions to advance the cargo and trucking industry through technology. |
CE recognizes enterprises that help shift the world to a circular economy future to deliver positive environmental change.
Innovations may include but are not limited to: Sustainable packaging; Solutions to eliminate or reduce waste; Turn waste into a new resource; Innovative re-use models; minimise water usage; protect and enhance biodiversity; Products and services to improve quality.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name |
Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Syed Salman Tariq | Davaam Life (Private) Limited | A technology driven start-up providing smart dispensing stations that cut down single use plastic at source while providing solutions for waste collection, materials recovery facilities and end-use recycling. |
| Dabeer Hemani | Concept Loop | A tech-based start-up converting plastic waste into building materials and high value lifestyle products through their sustainable data driven and tech-empowered processes. |
| Ayan Raza | EFG Construction | A young start-up converting plastic into construction materials to provide affordable, green housing to communities while reducing the dead-weight of building structures |
| Angel Imdad | Irverde-GoGreen | A female environmentalist providing responsible waste collecting solutions while educating and incentivizing communities for adopting environment friendly practices and behaviors. |
| Abrahim Shah | Mobiliti | A social enterprise using plastic waste to manufacture bionic prosthetics and assistive devices to mobilize people with limb loss and disabilities. |
TI category recognizes enterprises using innovative tech solutions to change the way things have been done traditionally. Technology Innovation may include but is not limited to E-commerce, Fintech or Smart solutions to make lives smarter, easier quicker in the fields of Medicine, Health, Education, IT and other Business sectors.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name |
Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Humaira Rana | Crop2X Private Limited | A technology start-up advancing the agriculture sector by proving AI based data-driven insights on soil, land and weather conditions to increase yields and reduce operational costs. |
| Batool Aamir | Oval NFT | A Blockchain technology startup, providing NFT solutions with embedded smart contracts using blockchain technology, to help brands strategize & implement the launch of their NFTs. |
| Shabih e Zainab | SpotGame | A sports enthusiast using technology to promote a healthy lifestyle and create a digital market space for lifestyle trainers, coaches, facilities, and outdoor enthusiasts to buy, sell, manage and market their products, services, and sponsorships. |
| Ahmad Abdullah | SAY Global | A social start-up aimed at enabling people with speech disfluency by providing modern speech therapies and mental health solutions to help them overcome their social barriers and inclusion challenges. |
| Muhammad Muneeb Tahir | Humming Hyve Technologies | A tech-driven start-up providing smart beehive monitoring solutions through their IoT device to maintain an ideal temperature for increased production and quality. |
EW category celebrates enterprises aimed at creating opportunities to advance gender equality and to enhance the socio-economic status of women in our society. We are looking for an enterprise focused on empowering women in the workplace, marketplace and their community, enabling them to earn a sustainable livelihood and improve their standard of living.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name |
Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Romesa Aqeel | Kati Katai | A bright idea supplying pre-cut vegetables and fruits to benefit women through their online platform. |
| Armeen Hassan | Smart self-defense against assails | A young female entrepreneur offering self-defense trainings and a complete safety and security solution through their innovative app-based platform to protect women against assaults. |
| Nausheen Barkat | Asqurr | A female led organic honey brand with a focus on empowering women and contributing towards a balanced ecosystem through sustainable bee farming. |
| Insiya Meherally | The Method | A young start-up working towards women safety by providing self-defense trainings across corporate and private networks. |
| Maham Wareesha | Smart Women | A female led start-up enabling rural women through their app-based solution that educates them on self-defense techniques, learning based mini games and online educational videos. |
The Clean Energy Solution category invites energy innovators that are providing disruptive solutions within the clean energy space. Energy Innovations may include but are not limited to: Access to Energy; Clean energy; Off-grid solutions; Energy distribution and Energy efficiency.
| Entrepreneur | Business Name |
Business Description |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Hassamuddin | GeoAirCon | A clean-tech start-up providing ground sourced Climate Control technology. Utilizing temperate underground temperatures to dramatically cut down air-conditioning or heating costs by 35-75% for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural use. |
| Huzaifa Bin Umer | Renewed Energy | A clean-tech start-up offering renewable energy solutions through their innovative double stage Savonius type wind turbines to produce energy at low air velocity. |
| Syed Wamiq Ali | Bio-Being | An innovative idea converting cooking oil waste into environment friendly biofuels. |
| Muhammad Mohsin Kareem | Pak BioEnergy | A clean energy innovator using Biomass fuel as an environment friendly alternate to conventional heating energy solutions for domestic, commercial and industrial clients. |
| Zohaib Ullah Khan | Ingenuity Solutions - Ikhtiar | A tech-based start-up providing solutions for smart electricity consumption and real-time bill monitoring through their innovative mobile app. |
You are eligible to apply if you:
Submitting an entry:
All finalists will receive:
Date and location for the awards night to be announced later.
Shell Tameer trainings and workshops help with the development of enterprise skills essential to starting a business. The trainings are designed to provide guidance on how to transform business ideas into sustainable ventures, and networking opportunities that can aid in acquiring financing or highlighting avenues for business growth.
The Shell Tameer Volunteer Programme acts a bridge between experience and passion. As a Shell Tameer Volunteer you will get an opportunity to interact with some of the brightest young Pakistani entrepreneurs and be the part of Shell Tameer’s journey towards a progressive tomorrow!
Having access to information and skills is vital when undertaking any enterprise but also being able to call upon a mentor to talk through the process. A mentor can help cast an independent eye over business plans and advise on marketing or sales assumptions and plans thus providing additional support to the entrepreneur
