Cutting-edge insights for entrepreneurs and exporters
View(s):Cutting-edge insights for entrepreneurs and exporters at Kandy IT/BPM Week on June 11 With the aim of empowering budding Lankan entrepreneurs, the IT/BPM Export Forum and Entrepreneurship Workshop, facilitated by SLASSCOM’s Kandy IT/BPM Week, will provide valuable insights on leveraging the local ecosystem to build up successful companies and how to take them to the global marketplace. This full day session, which will take place on the second day of the Kandy IT/BPM Week, will feature a top line-up of Sri Lanka’s established and upcoming entrepreneurs and top professionals representing the Export Development Board (EDB), who will speak on an array of topics ranging from their own life experiences in building up successful business to the support that can be extended to business people by the EDB, the organisers said in a media release.
Held on June 11, 2016 at Queen’s Hotel, Kandy, the first half of the day will consist of the IT/BPM Export Forum, which will see top officials from the EDB delving into useful areas such as the support available from the EDB to exporters to the potential of BPM in Kandy. The Information and Communications Technology Agency of Sri Lanka will deliver an eye-opening session on the national IT/BPM outlook and the support it can offer to Lankan exporters. This will be followed by case studies of IFS’s Kandy operation and Square Mobile, along with a SLASSCOM study on the potential for setting up a BPM operation in Kandy. The second half will feature a number of top entrepreneurs and thought leaders at the Entrepreneurship Workshop, targeting those who are planning to start up their own business and people who already run their own businesses in Kandy and around the country.
Speakers and panellists at the IT/BPM Export Forum include IFS World Vice President and COO Ranil Rajapakse, Square Mobile Founder Tharindu Dasanayake, ICTA Program Manager Sachindra Samararatne, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka EDB Director – Export Services Saman Maldeni, 99X Technology Co-Founder and CEO Mano Sekaram, OpenArc Chairman/CEO Daya Hettiarachchi and Ernst & Young Senior Director Praveen Ruberu. Calcey Founder and CEO Mangala Karunarathne, Stax Inc Managing Director Ruwindhu Peiris, SAIG and Orion Director/CEO Jeevan Gnanam, Cinergix Co-Founder & CEO Chandika Jayasundara, iHelmet Inventor Ganindu Nanayakkara, and Talliance Director Ashique M. Ali, among others, will feature at the Entrepreneurship Forum. Both sessions will be facilitated by the Export Development Board and supported by SLASSCOM.