CSSL launches NITC 2021–Accelerate Technology Diffusion
View(s):Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) launched the 39th edition of the National Information Technology Conference (NITC), themed ‘Accelerate Technology Diffusion’ on Wednesday 31th March 2020, at a Press Conference held at CSSL Secretariat 275/75 Prof. Stanley Wijesundara Mawatha, Colombo 7. NITC is the Sri Lanka’sflagship ICT Conference organized by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) and will be held on 12thand 13th October 2021 at Shangri- La Hotel, 1 Galle Face, Colombo 2.
This year’s National IT Conference theme, “Accelerate Technology Diffusion” reflects on the government’s vision on of Technology Diffusion. At CSSL, we welcome the government of Sri Lanka placing a high priority for technology and CSSL would like to emphasize the need for Sri Lankan ICT professionals to play the catalyst role in accelerating the technology adaptation and diffusion,leveraging the NITC as a platform’ said Damith Hettihewa, President of Computer Society of Sri Lanka.
We are on the eve of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Industry 4.0 will create new wealthy nations similar to Europe, the Americas, and Japan which became rich nations as a result of the first three industrial revolutions, respectively. If Sri Lanka is to leverage this new opportunity to become a wealthy nation, technology diffusion and early adapting of frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Robotic Process Automation and Integration, , Big Data and real time analytics, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, is imperative. Our country needs to accelerate,Research &Design, policy formation, and legal enactments to adopt and leverage frontier technologies in the vital sectors of the economy.At this year’s conference,the Sri Lanka ICT fraternity will deliberate these aspects along with several global experts on these topics over a period of two days“said Damith Hettihewa.
NITC 2021 is organized under the leadership of Mr. Damith Hettihewa, President of CSSL, while Vice President Dr. Ajantha Atukorale is spearheading the academic track and colloquium of the conference.
For the first time after almost four decades of NITC legacy, NITC 2021 will feature an inaugural NITC CEO Conclave. The CEO Conclave is an exclusive session for CEOs on technology trends and its impact on conventional business models. A global Technology leader and several local and foreign domain experts will share evolution strategies such as open innovation for CEOs to transform businesses to survive digital disruption on conventional business models.
NITC 2021 will also feature the CSSL Awardsand the annual CSSL Colloquium track. More than a dozen research papers will be shortlisted after an assiduous selection process will be presented by prominent local and international researchers on the second day of the conference.The objective of research colloquium is to connect research community with the industry to commercialize and contribute to foreign exchange earnings and contribute towards national objective to achieve ICT exports of 3 billion US dollars.