CENTIN incubate Yasmeen Butt start-up ‘The Support Group’ has secured Runners-up Position and a Wild Card Entry at Plan9 (the largest tech incubator in Pakistan) in the biggest entrepreneurial competition of the year ERUPT Lahore Finale organized by Plan9 in collaboration with Careem at Arfa Technology Park on 15th December, 2016. Around 200 ideas were pitched by 12 different universities (LUMS, FAST, COMSATS, Superior University, ITU, BNU, UCP and Bahria University). The event was composed of four rounds and the UMT teams excelled in all of them.
It was a moment of immense pride for the UMT community when Talal Burny, Manager Operations & Special Projects CAREEM and the man in-charge of the ERUPT '16, mentioned in his speech that participants from UMT had the best quality of ideas when compared to all other universities and it was hard for them to select only one student for the Champions Round. CENTIN is now a Network Partner with Plan9 and has established close ties with them.