Azfar Rizvi

adp.com — If you look at my current role at ADP, you might be surprised with my professional background. For a decade, I was a journalist and a screenwriter traveling and producing films for global news and media networks.

adp.com — In one of his letters, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”  That quote summarizes the journey in conversational AI – with chatbots starting ambitiously and, as time passed, aligning more with market expectations.  Visit the article for more details.

Ministry of Counter Narcotics — Lead a creative behavioral marketing team to produce radio, tv, print, and ancillary products supporting a counter-narcotics narrative.

playingforkeeps.ca — A legacy program of the 2012 Ontario Summer Games, Playing for Keeps Neighbourhood Games are locally organized, playful and joyful activities that bring people - neighbours, co-workers, friends and/or family - and yes, even strangers - together to share an experience, have fun and play. Neighbourhood Games cover a full range of activities such as sports, arts, music and food - everything from basketball to hopscotch, from community gardening to grandmas and tot walks, from street dancing to mega glee clubs.

Toronto Community Foundation — Almost 2,500 of Ontario’s best young athletes marched into Varsity Stadium on August 16 to the cheers of thousands of spectators for the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Ontario Summer Games (OSG) – Ontario’s largest multi-sport event.

TV ONE — ‘Hope Floats’ is a series of documentaries based on Azfar's travels through the Oct. 2005 earthquake effected region in Northern Pakistan and the relief activities he coordinated from ground. Series includes interviews from UNDP officials, Army personnel, doctors, survivors and volunteers. He went along on dangerous, often unchartered terrain air dropping relief supplies from Bell 412 helicopters. Miracles kept happening every day. Four children, aged between a few months and nine years, were pulled alive out of the rubble eight days after the landslide leveled their home.

United Nations Workshop — Station 58 includes first-hand accounts by professional firemen of devastating fires that not only endangered their lives and those of their colleagues, but also affected them on an emotional level in terms of the human devastation that they had caused. They remember colleagues that died during rescue efforts and speak candidly about the uncertainty of their lives and the lack of basic medical services that they get.

WWF / HotDocs Doc Shop — A documentary chronicling a struggle for control between extremists and Dhodial Pheasantry in Northern Pakistan. Established in 1984 at Dhodial in Mansehra District on the Karakoram Highway adjacent to Hazara University, the pheasantry also provides a breeding ground for species such as tigers, chinkara, oryal and other protected animals for their reintroduction to their habitats. The pheasantry is the largest pheasantry in Asia, housing 32 of the 52 known species of the bird. The documentary has also been featured in HotDocs DOC SHOP

adp.com — Career Journey from a Filmmaker to a Conversational Designer (CxD) By Azfar Rizvi, the Conversational Designer If you look at my current role at ADP, you might be surprised with my professional background. For a decade, I was a journalist and a screenwriter traveling and producing films for global news and media networks.