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No.275/75, Prof.Stanley Wijesundara Mawatha,Colombo 7,Sri Lanka.
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Internet: Next wave of Disruption
Opportunities and Threats
Professor Induruwa pioneered academic and research networking and Internet deployment in Sri Lanka. He served as prime mover, Principal Investigator and Project Leader of the Lanka Experimental Academic & Research Network (LEARN), to provide data communications throughout the island in 1989. Just as impressively, he convinced the Sri Lankan government, which in 1989 was fighting two civil wars, to support that network.
With limited resources, Induruwa then introduced LEARNmail in 1990, deployed LEARN the first IP Wide Area Network in Sri Lanka and established Internet connectivity in 1995. He served as the administrative contact for the .LK domain until 1998. Today, LEARN connects all universities and research centers in the nation. His efforts paved the way for the later establishment of commercial Internet services in Sri Lanka.
Enhancing sustainable development in Sri Lanka
A key role for ICT
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe is Founder Chairman of the Munasinghe Inst. of Development (MIND), Colombo, and Vice Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace.
He is also Distinguished Guest Professor at Peking University, China, and Honorary Senior Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka.
He has earned post-graduate degrees in engineering, physics and development economics from Cambridge University (UK), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), and McGill University and Concordia University (Canada). Prof. Munasinghe has also received several honorary doctorates (honoris causa). Highlights from 40 years of distinguished public service include working as Senior Energy Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka, Advisor to the United States Presidents Council on Environmental Quality (PCEQ), and Senior Advisor/Manager, World Bank.
He has taught as Visiting Professor at several leading universities worldwide, and won many international prizes and medals for his research and its applications. Prof. Munasinghe has authored over 100 books and about three hundred technical papers on economics, sustainable development, climate change, power, energy, water resources, transport, environment, disasters, and information technology. He is a Fellow of several internationally recognized Academies of Science, and serves on the editorial boards of over a dozen professional journals.
Mehrnoush Salehpour is a qualified ICT and Business leader with extensive experience in product strategy, business development and digital transformation of workspaces.
With more than 10 years of experience in IT, Telco and Oil & Gas exploration industries she is considered as a thought leader in digital disruption. She is a regular facilitator at the industry events especially Bring Your Own Device and Enterprise mobility forums.
Mehrnoush works at Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications and Media Company.
She is currently based in Telstra's Hong Kong office and prior to her move to Hong Kong; she was also an elected member of the Australian Computer Society Board in Victoria. She served a 4 year tenure and in her position as a board member she lead a variety of initiatives to improve member engagement, drive strategic planning, advocate for policy development, build business relations, government and corporate advisory groups. She is also a passionate advocate for entry, progression and retention of women in ICT and is the past chair of ACS for Women in Victoria.
Mehrnoush holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering and double Masters in IT and Commerce.
Profile: Dr. Rashed Mustafa is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
He did M. Phil in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh (June 2010) and Ph.D. in Computer Application Technology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China (January 2015). Dr. Rashed has over 12 years teaching and research experiences in private and state Universities of Bangladesh. His current research is multimedia cloud computing. He has cutting edge research experiences in the field of data heterogeneity, inter-operable GIS, smart computer vision, object recognition and high performance computing. He published over 35 conferences and reputed journal papers. He visited India, China, Thailand, Australia, UK, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia for delivering lectures, presenting research ideas and sharing knowledge. He is supervising a number of post graduate students and leading some key national projects.
Chandrajith Ashuboda Marasinghe (goes by Ashu Marasinghe) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and Information Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Japan and visiting Professor at International University of Japan. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
M.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Aizu, Japan and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Aizu in 1997, 2001, and 2004 respectively. Prof. Ashu was educated at Ananda College, Colombo. Today Ananda College stands to be one of the greatest Buddhist high schools in Asia. He has worked in the University of Aizu, Japan, Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC), Tokyo, Japan, and Institute of Computer Technology (now School of Computing ), University of Colombo Sri Lanka. Prof Ashu`s research interests are: Public Health Informatics, Artificial Life and Intelligence,
Neuroscience, Neural Network, Fuzzy System, Intelligent Control System, Multi Agent System, Ubiquitous System, Social Informatics, and Kansei Engineering. He is the recipients of several prestigious fellowships include the Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship,
Japanese Government fellowship for Ship for world Youth Nippon Maru (SWY), the Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) fellowship, The Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) fellowship, Rotary Yonayama Foundation fellowship, and Hewa Nakagima Foundation fellowship. Prof. Ashu served as a General Chair in several International Conferences include ICBAKE 2009, HC-2008, KEAS`08, CDG`08, KEIS`06
He is now a Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Michelle Beveridge is the Chief Information Officer at Intrepid Group.
An experienced C-level executive and board director of 15+ years, Michelle has initiated digital strategies that stimulate business growth, maximize customer engagement and work in partnership with businesses to create efficient work systems. Her experience covers a vast array of industries including pharmaceuticals, logistics, financial services, international & online education, and now travel. Michelle has used her combined commercial and technology understanding to also contribute as a Director and Chairman in various boards including Vernet Pty Ltd, Australian Computer Society (Vic), Queen Victoria Women's Centre, CIO Executive Council and Victorian ICT for Women Network.
Michelle studied at University of New South Wales completing her Master Business Administration (Executive), and Charles Sturt University for her Bachelor of Business.
Dr Anirban Basu (www.anirbanbasu.in) is a BE and MTech in Electronics and received a Masters in Computer Science from Carleton University, Canada and a PhD in Computer Science for his work on High Performance Computing. He has more than 35 years experience in Academia, advanced Research &Development, commercial Software Industry, Consultancy and Corporate Training.
He has been formally trained in IRCA (UK) course on ISO 9001 Audit, by SEI on CMMI, and by STQC on Information Security. He is also a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has set up quality management systems and process maturity models in different organizations.
Besides being Chief Consultant to PQR Software, Bangalore he is Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and a Research Supervisor in several reputed universities guiding PhD research on Software Engineering, Cloud Computing etc..
He started his career in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in 1979, and joined CDAC in 1989 to play a key role in design, development, performance analysis of India's first Supercomputer PARAM. In 1993, he set up the Advanced Computing Training School of CDAC. From 1995 he worked in Siemens Information Systems Ltd., Computer Associates, etc. in senior/ top management positions.
He has published about 80 research papers in reputed national and international journals and in conference proceedings. Dr Anirban Basu has travelled widely all over the world, coauthored five books and serves as a Member of the Editorial Board/ Reviewer of several International Journals. Recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International, Dr Anirban Basu is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Senior Member of IEEE (USA), Life Member of Computer Society of India etc.. He is a recipient of a number of awards, which includes the prestigious 1985 Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship in Computer Science, Old Centralian Medal (for standing first in first class in faculty of engineering in BE examination), Computer Engineering Division Gold Medals of The Institution of Engineers (India), Significant Achievement Award of CSI etc..
He is Vice President cum President Elect (2015-2017) of Computer Society of India(CSI), India's largest and oldest body of IT professionals.
He is Member of the Board of Governors of Engineering Council of India 2014-2016.
In 2014, he has been awarded a project by the Vision Group on Science and Technology (headed by Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao) of the Government of Karnataka to work on Software Security.
He has authored a book on "Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Metrics" published by Prentice Hall India in June 2015
Prof. Dr. Dimiter Velev is with the Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Faculty of Applied Informatics and Statistics at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria (http://www.unwe.bg/en/). His main R&D and academic activities emphasize on different aspects of the application of information technology, including Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile Computing, Web technology.
He has over 150 publications such as papers in journals and conference proceedings, chapters in books and books. He is a regular chair and keynote speaker of many conferences in Asia and Europe and a member of many scientific societies.
Prof. Velev has joined the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) in 2010 as the Bulgarian national representative in Technical Committee 5 "Application of Information Technology". He is a vice-chair of the IFIP DCCC (Domain Committee on Cloud Computing), established by IFIP GA in Vienna, Austria, 2014. He has been appointed as a secretary to the new IFIP DCITDRR (Domain Committee on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction), proposed by IFIP GA in Daejeon, Korea, 2015. Under IFIP auspices, Prof. Velev has organized several conferences, all of them are registered in the IFIP list of Events.
Chamidu Atupelage received a BSc degree from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2004, an MEng degree from Hiroshima University, Japan, in 2009, and a PhD degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2013.
He received a research grant from Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 2013 and worked at Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory in Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2013 to 2015. From 2016 he is working as a post-doctoral researcher at Laboratory for Developmental Dynamics in Quantitative Biology Centre, QBiC RIKEN.
His research interests are image processing, machine learning and computational biology. At present, he is researching on quantitative patterns in cellular organelles during the cell development. He is a member of The Institute of Electronic, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in Japan, The Information Processing Society of Japan and Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
He is a visiting lecturer in International Political Economy for University of London in Sri Lanka at Royal Institute. Asanga has more than a decade of experience in Government, serving as the head of several Government Institutions to positions at the board level. He is a member of Regional Center for Strategic Studies.
He served as the Executive Director of the government think tank, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKIIRSS) from 2012-2015. He was the Director General of BIDTI, government diplomatic training institute. Asanga is an alumnus of the US State Department (IVLP) and the National Defense University Washington. He was the former Adviser to Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Finance.
Asanga has published many articles in international journals and media on foreign policy, security and geopolitics. He has delivered lecturers in many think tanks and Universities around the world. Asanga's latest book is Towards a better world order(2015).
He holds an MBA and BSC (Computer Science), he was educated at Harvard Kennedy School, Edith Cowan University Perth, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Asanga introduced I Paid A Bribe website to Sri Lanka a global site to fight corruption.
He was appointed Country Chair by His Royal Highness Crown the Prince of Norway to conduct the Global Dignity program in Sri Lanka in 2012. Asanga was recognised as a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum and was awarded Ambassador of Knowledge accolade along with Dr.Edward de Bono in Slovenia.
He is married to Kumudu with children and resides in Colombo.
Career technologist with over 18 years of IT experience, focused on accelerating business outcomes for client organization.
Primary focus has been to envision, consolidate, adapt and optimize Quality Assurance, Management and Testing services for beneficial business growth in traditional and millennial markets.
Chinthi Weerasinghe is Vice President and Global Head of Sales for Virtusa's Independent Validation Services practice which has over 4000 techno-domain-QA experts globally. She recently reverses migrated from the U.S. back to Sri Lanka to be close to her family, and operates out of Virtusa's Colombo Advanced Technology Center.
She is a dynamic industry and consulting QA practice leader with in-depth hands on experience directing teams of talented practitioners and consultants engaged in both consulting as well as operational IT projects. She is a creative yet pragmatic thinker with a disciplined style of communicating across both business and technical arenas to continuously create, manage, and execute a vision.
Her passion is to serve her community, specially other woman in the IT and help them progress in their career to be the best they can be.
Prior to joining Robi, Supun served as Chief Strategy Officer of Axiata Group. He had also served as the Head of Network Transformation Strategic Business Unit under which he provided leadership to Group Technology, Carrier Collaboration and Axiata Intelligence Unit (previously Axiata Management Services).
During this period, Supun assisted Axiata Group to craft its long-term strategic plan.
As the Group Chief Operating Officer (GCOO) of Dialog Axiata Plc, (Dialog) Sri Lanka's mobile market leader, he was instrumental in driving the team towards making Dialog the leading diverse Telco service provider in Sri Lanka.
He is a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), UK, and holds a B.Sc. in Accountancy and Financial Management from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He has an MBA from the University of Western Sydney, Australia and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School (AMP 182).
With over 30+ years in sales and sales management, Kumaran has experienced in building Business in South East Asia from ground up.
He created and managed Cisco Asia's first cross functional sales and business development team to address the ensuing telecoms business transformation toward broadband, video and core IP opportunities.
With Cisco's global team support he was able to structure non-standard, multimillion dollar contracts that required BOTs (Build Operate & Transfer), Managed Services, Managed Capacity, Revenue Share, JVs etc.
As a MD of Cisco Malaysia he turned around and transformed the country sales operation by 300% in less than 36 months. Realigned non-performing teams, infused new talent, focused on partner development, increased visibility of Cisco in the Malaysian market and aligning strongly with the HQ in introducing change management and infusion of corporate culture to fast track execution of plans.
He holds a master's degree in Computer Security from the University of Liverpool.
Prof. Bipin V Mehta is elected as President of Computer Society of India (CSI) having 73 chapters, more that 500 student branches, and 1,00,000 plus members including India's most famous IT industry leaders, brilliant scientists and dedicated academicians and students.
Prof. Bipin V. Mehta obtained Masters Degree in Business Administration in 1981 and degree in Civil Engineering in 1975 from the Gujarat University. He has 37 years of career in the IT field including 15 years in Higher Education in Information Technology.
Prof. Mehta is currently working as Director, School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India since 1999. Before joining Ahmedabad University, he has served MNCs and leading textile industry holding senior positions. He owned a leading software & consultancy firm in Ahmedabad during 1987 to 1999 providing services to various domains.
Prof. Mehta was conferred Fellow Award of CSI in 2007 for his contribution to CSI, IT industry and IT education. He is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), a member of IEEE- Computer Society and a member of Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)
He has served CSI in many capacities including Vice President, Hon Secretary, Hon Treasurer, National Student Coordinator and Member of Nominations Committee during last decade.He is invited as an Advisor to Managing Committee of Gujarat Electronics and Software Industries Association.
Prof. Mehta is nominated as an Assessor by National Assessment and Accreditation Council, Bangalore. He has visited many colleges as a member of Peer Team for Assessment and Accreditation process.
Prof. Mehta has organized many seminars and training programmes for various professional societies including CSI and Institution of Engineers (India). He has delivered many lectures in conferences, seminars, workshops, conventions hosted by various professional societies, universities and institutes. He has presented various technical papers in various conferences including Indian Science Congress.
Prof. Mehta is also actively involved in academic activities of various universities of Gujarat and DOEACC Society. He is actively associated with The Institution of Engineers (India). He was Hon. Secretary of Gujarat State Centre during 2002 to 2004. He was a Managing Committee Member from 1996 to 2008 representing Computer Engineering Division.
Prof. Mehta was a member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee, Government of Gujarat during 1999-2002. The committee was responsible in preparing the development plan for IT industries in Gujarat. He is associated with many academic institutes as advisor for IT education. He is a Secretary of Association of MBA-MCA Self-Finance Institutes of Gujarat and Vice Chairman, HL College Alumni Association.
Product of the Edith Cowan University Australia. Gained over 7 years experience in Marketing and Communication and 8 years experience in youth led organizations.
An ambassador for Toyota Way in Sales and Marketing, graduated in Nagoya 2013 and Graduated as a Global Net-worker in the 28th JCI Global Academy in Tokyo, 2015. In the profession he is the Business Head for Innovation and Integration of Toyota Lanka. National President of JCI Sri Lanka and the founder of JCI Bizmeet, the first ever national network for young leadersin Sri Lanka to promote ethics in business and Sustainability.
Chanuka sits on the Board of Directors at the Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka. He works as a Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that undertakes the additional responsibility for ICT related developments. His task is to provide high level strategic and policy advice to the ministry and staff in all its development work aimed at bringing the benefits of Information and Communication Technologies for the Sri Lankan public. This includes the areas of telecommunication, ICT Policy and Leadership, Institutional Development, Information Infrastructure, Computer Literacy, Re-engineering Government, ICT Human Resource Development, ICT Investment and Private Sector Development, and e-Society.
Chanuka is also a visiting lecturer at University of Colombo and Open University. He teaches Information Policy at the former and Disaster Communications, the latter.
Chanuka obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University of Colombo.
In the past he worked as a Senior Research Manager at LIRNEasia, an Asian think tank on policy and regulation and as a Program Specialist ICT4D at the United Nations Development Program and was posted in Colombo Regional Centre's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) initiative. His focus was to use Information and Communication Technology for poverty reduction and achievement of the MDGs.
As a researcher, he co-authored the Sri Lankan chapters for the books Cyber Communities of Asia (AMIC, Singapore), Media in Asia (Sage Publications, New Delhi), Internet in Asia (AMIC, Singapore) and Digital Review of Asia Pacific (APDIP, Orbicom and IDRC). He was the lead researcher for Sri Lanka in a nine-country study on ICT for Human Development in Asia, by UNDP and is also a regular writer and commentator on ICT issues in the Sri Lankan media. He founded Pariganaka, the largest selling ICT magazine in Sri Lanka with a circulation of more than 40,000 copies where he worked as a consultant editor. He is a two-time recipient of the Science Writer of the Year Award, presented annually by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.
Rohan Muttiah is Chief Information Officer of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC where he was instrumental in the Bank becoming ISO27001 certified in 2009. He is also a member of the Bank CSIRT Steering Committee, and was a contributor to the Baseline Security Standard that governs Information Security across the Banking Sector
During his chairmanship, the Banks' CIO Forum developed guidelines for using Cloud infrastructure and services, and also contributed towards guidelines for Mobile PoS devices.
Rohan was previously CIO at John Keells Holdings and spearheaded ISO9001 certification of the Strategic Group Information Technology, establishment of a Project Management competency, and setting up of a Programme Management Office.
Prior to 2003, Rohan worked for 18 years in Australia at organisations such as IBM, Ansett Airlines, Lend Lease Corporation, and the Mayne Group.
Rohan is a graduate of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Chandika Mendis is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Engineering for Virtusa. He leads Engineering Excellence and Innovation for the company and is responsible for global engineering standards, metrics and tools as well as driving a technology innovation culture. Chandika is a veteran in the IT field with over 20 years of experience provides leadership to the teams that have created key productivity accelerators and differentiators for Virtusa. Prior to Virtusa, he was the Chief Software Architect for a global IT consulting organization, playing an instrumental role in setting up and leading their San Francisco office.
He has a first class honors degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and an MSc in Parallel Computers and Computation from the University of Warwick, UK. In 2013, he was the recipient of two Achiever Awards from the Department of Computer Science, University of Moratuwa, for Outstanding Contribution to the ICT industry, and for the Business Innovation of the year.
Kushil Gunasekera, a results-driven visionary, effects sustainable development in rural Sri Lanka through pioneering initiatives. He is the Founding Trustee of the Foundation of Goodness (established in 1999) which is based in his ancestral village of Seenigama in southern Sri Lanka and its work also extends to the north and east of the island via 30 empowerment activity sectors and in the past 15 years, has reached over 250,000 beneficiaries from 100+ villages, free of cost.
Through the Foundation, Kushil has rebuilt devastated villages in the post-tsunami south and post-war north of Sri Lanka, elevating them far above their original level, and empowering rural children, youth and women to go beyond all expectations through offering targeted opportunities and resources. In the process, he has created a one of a kind holistic community development model that is internationally recognized today, with many parties from around the world approaching him for consultation on value addition based development.
Passionate about cricket, Kushil maintains close ties with the game, and currently serves as Vice-President on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board Interim Committee.
As a successful entrepreneur, compassionate relief worker and ambassador for peace and reconciliation, Kushil is dedicated to the humanitarian cause, always leading by his own example.
Greater social impact on the BPO concept in villages
Rural youth, given the right opportunities, possess the talent and skill to achieve great things. To illustrate this, the Foundation of Goodness not only provides free of charge IT and English language courses to these youth, it has also established the Seenigama BPO and ArtBanc BPO which provide back office operations for international conglomerated like John Keels Holdings and international art auctions. The youth employed with the BPOs have been empowered to achieve their dream and succeed at their livelihoods without having to leave their own village or community in order to find work in urban centers such as Colombo. Rather than taking the youth out of the village, bringing these opportunities to them within their community has helped develop not just the individual, but also the entire village.
Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Director of YAMU (Pvt) Limited, a guide to Colombo and Sri Lanka. YAMU is currently available as a website, app and print magazine. It's gotten somewhat popular.
Prior to working at YAMU Indi worked at The Sunday Leader and Dialog. He blogs at www.indi.ca and founded Kottu, a blog aggregator with over a thousand members. He has done disaster and relief work for Sarvodaya and ACT Lanka and has volunteered for both UNP and SLFP political campaigns (depending on the candidate).
He is a dual citizen, born in Canada, raised in America and settled in Sri Lanka for over 10 years. He studied Cognitive Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He lives in Colombo 5 with his wife Shruthi Mathews and their dog Mercutio.
Currently, Shanaka works as the Director Advisory at Ernst & Young. He has over 17 years' experience in IT industry, and is specialized in areas such as IT strategy, ERP implementation strategy, solutions and applications design, software engineering, business process re-engineering, business analysis, cyber security and project/programme management in complex environments.
He holds a BSc degree from the National University of Ireland, a MBA from the Cardiff Metropolitan University, Msc from the University of Moratuwa. He also holds PMP (Project Management Professional) qualification from PMI, USA and CSM (Certified Scrum Master) from Scrum Alliance, USA.
Shanaka is a leading visiting lecturer for MBA/Msc/Project Management at many reputed state & private universities for the last 12 years. Furthermore he is the Vice President of Professional Development, PMI Colombo Chapter.
Mr Nishan Sembacuttiaratchy serves as the CEO of ESOFT Metro Campus and as a Director of ESOFT International Education. In line with his vision to make internationally recognized qualifications affordable and achievable for the many, ESOFT has branched out throughout the Nation with over 45 branches.
He has over 19 years of experience in diverse fields in ICT and in Management including development of ICT solutions and offers his services as a Consultant for local and multinational organisations in the fields of Social Media Management, Software Validation, Regulatory Affairs, and Network Solutions.
He is also a Senior Lecturer in a wide range of topics and subjects for undergraduate programmes, and is a sought after Project Supervisor.
He holds a Masters Degree in IT from Charles Sturt University Australia, a BSc Honours Degree in Information Systems from London Metropolitan University, and is a Fellow of the BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT, and a Member of the IEEE, and is presently reading for his PhD. He is a past pupil of Isipathana College.
(MBA in IT (Reading), BSc. Computer Science (Coventry), Adv. Dip. Multimedia Design (Col))Chief Executive Officer - ESOFT Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Achala has over 08 years of industry experience in the IT field as a web developer, software engineer and project manager. He is now a Director and the CEO of ESOFT Technologies (Private) Ltd (ET), the IT services & solutions arm of the ESOFT group, as well as a Director of ayubo.lk, a unique travel and tourism platform for Sri Lanka which he has founded and led from 2014. He currently works in collaboration with Dr. Dayan Rajapakse as Managing Director and Shageevan Sachithanandan (also CEO of mystore.lk) as CTO.
Achala has previously worked for the University of Peradeniya where he successfully coordinated a world bank funded implementation of a MIS and related knowledge dissemination tools for one of its post graduate institutes. Having also worked as a free lancer for foreign and local clients, he has gained experience in a wide range of technologies and tools from OOP design, database design (MySQL and SQLServer) and programming in PHP and .Net technologies.
At ET he leads a small yet dedicated team in a few different streams of related IT technologies, spanning the horizons bleeding edge from web, mobile and embedded solutions. He has also been able to enrich the services on offer by directing customers to see and enjoy the benefits of web based business intelligence (BI) tools which ET now develops in-house whilst implementing them with existing premium grade solutions.
He was also able to begin the development of one of Sri Lanka's first smart devices: the Emperor 360 time attendance and access control unit. After searching the markets for a similar product to cater for a client requirement, the team conceptualized and researched over many months on circuit design and PCB technology as well as smart protocols to deliver the requirement.
Achala is an avid user of social media and cautions a middle path when utilizing it for personal use but advocates its use highly for social activities, mass communication and social revolution. He is also the chairperson of Reforest Sri Lanka, a CSR activity he started with colleagues on the MBA in IT, University of Moratuwa. He has an intense desire to see technology used for good governance and optimized business processing, realising time is precious and it waits for no man.
Vajira De Silva is the Manager - Business Solutions at Mobitel. He plays a key role in managing and driving new vertical products, business solutions, business models and strategies for Mobitel enterprise customers. He has over 11 years of extensive experience in telecommunication industry across multiple functional areas, which includes network planning & implementation, enterprise solutions, strategic partner management and supply chain & contract management.
Vajira has a B.Sc. (Hons) (Electronic & Telecommunication) from University of Moratuwa, M.Sc. (Hons) (Telecommunication) from University of Melbourne, Australia and a MBA from University of Leicester, UK.
Muhunthan Canagey, is the Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of the Information Communication & Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).
He has been in the ICT industry for over two decades and is one of the country's youngest entrepreneurs. He stepped into the field of IT at a very young age of 16. Canagey holds a Master's Degree in Information Technology from the University of Keelle (UK) and has extensive knowledge of the industry.
He was the founder and CEO of multiple technology enterprises and was the founder and CEO of a highly successful enterprise in the area of satellite communication and media: a first of this nature to be formed in Sri Lanka. He has been very successful in productising software applications developed in Sri Lanka and in formulating strategies and policies for taking local products to the international market.
Brian is a senior leader with over 17-years in diverse technology experience. Brian's innate curiosity and his passion for building sustainable, high performance organisations has seen his career span a diverse set of assignments in both the public and private sectors. Brian is currently the General-Manager of Microsoft's Sri Lanka and Maldives subsidiary with responsibility for all Microsoft's operations and engagements across the region.
Originally from Australia but with an international pedigree including business operations across Australia, the USA, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and South East Asia, Brian's various roles have included work with globally recognised organisations across internal operations, strategy, consulting and commercial management. He is a sought after mentor and advisor to senior officers in some of Australia's largest and well known organisations and a number promising start-up businesses; he has held numerous board and chair responsibilities for universities and industry associations. He holds undergraduate qualifications in Engineering and Technology and postgraduate studies in Risk and Information Assurance.View Profile
Champika is the ICANN's Regional Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Engagement Manager for the Asia Pacific. He is part of ICANN's Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) and SSR Teams and represents ICANN in Security, Technical, Law Enforcement and Capacity Building forums in the APAC region.
Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist and liaison roles at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. Champika started his career with IBM Corporation as a Systems Engineer and later worked in IT industry, academia, research, and training environments in the Asia Pacific. Champika received a number of excellence awards during his academic and professional careers and also served in various technical community groups and committees.View Profile
Professor Vajira Dissanayake is the Director of the Human Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
He graduated from the University of Colombo in 1996 and obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham in the UK in 2004. Since returning back to Sri Lanka in 2004 he has been instrumental in developing genomic medicine services as well as education and research in the fields of Genomic Medicine and Biomedical Informatics both in the public and private sectors. He was the Founder Secretary General of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka in November 1998, and has been serving as its President since September 2009. He was the founder of the MSc course in Biomedical Informatics at the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) in the University of Colombo. The course trains Medical Doctors and Dental Surgeons in Biomedical Informatics. The course has produced 90 MSc graduates who are now spearheading the implementation of eHealth in Sri Lanka. He was the Founder Chairperson of the Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics at the PGIM that runs the course. Building on its success the PGIM will be starting a MD course in Health Informatics in the academic year 2016/17 and the graduates of the MD course would be Board Certified as Specialists in Health Informatics. He was the President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2012. He was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka in 2013.
Dhanika Perera is an Award-winning Serial Entrepreneur & an Engineer with a great passion for innovation & aggressive execution. He founded his first company Bhasha Lanka (Pvt) Ltd in 2011 as a Sri Lankan technology company focussed on developing localized information technology solutions for Sri Lankan Masses & second company PayHere (Pvt) Ltd in 2016 as an eCommerce Payments Company to break the online payment accepting barriers in Sri Lanka.
He invented the Sinhala Unicode rendering technology on Android Mobile platform as his University individual project & later commercialized it, innovating "SETT Browser" as the first ever Sinhala/Tamil supported mobile web browser & "Helakuru" as the first ever Sinhala mobile keyboard for Android & iOS, enabling local masses to get the benefit out of ICT solutions in their own languages. With that innovation, he converted himself from an engineer to an entrepreneur starting up his own Company in 2011 while he was a 3rd year undergraduate at University of Moratuwa following his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering.
As an Engineer & an Innovator he was awarded the mBillionth South Asian Award in 2011 for innovating SETT Browser & later his company got awarded with 7 e-Swabhimani National Awards, 6 NBQSA National Awards & another mBillionth South Asian Award throughout the past years for the localized innovations we introduced for Sri Lankan masses.
As an Entreprenuer he has been recognized as the Emerging Entrepreneur in 2013 by the Computer Science & Engineering Society (CS&ES) of University of Moratuwa & as the Emerging ICT Leader of the Year in 2014 by the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL).
Recently he was honoured as The Most Innovative ICT Entreprenuer of the Year 2015 by SLASSCOM at National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) 2015 for his dedication & passion towards ICT innovations.
Chandika is the CEO & Co-Founder of Cinergix, the makers of Creately - Online Diagram & Collaboration Software. Chandika is an entrepreneur and an engineer, with experience in building products and bringing them to market over the years.
Chandika has lead Creately to become a globally recognized brand with over million users and has garnered thousands of customers including influential organizations such as NASA, Amazon, Disney, EBay, NatGeo, DHL and more.
Before Cinergix, Chandika was an independent consultant, a university researcher and has been part of software consulting organizations such as Virtusa Inc. helping world leading oraganizations build better software.
Chandika was also key member of the founding General Council of SLASSCOM and frequently speaks and mentors on topics around startups and technology.
Chandika holds a BSc. (First Class Hons.) from the University of London, a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing and a Master of Information Systems from the University of Melbourne.
A graduate from University of Moratuwa and a marketing professional with over 9 years' experience in Mobile Telecommunication industry with an engineering, marketing and strong financial background including wider knowledge in investment appraisal, financial instruments and Strategic product marketing.
Has being heavily involved in forecasting and developing long term business plans for mobitel. He is currently heading the Data and Device Business of Mobitel.
Saman Perera is the recipient of "CSSL CIO of the year 2015" award and is currently serving as Senior General Manager Information Systems for Mobitel. He is responsible for overall Information Systems strategy and infrastructure for the organization and also responsible for Product development and Customized solutions for Enterprise business.
Saman has over 24 years of experience in all areas of Information Technology from Software design, architecting and development to Strategic Management and Governance related to ICT domain. He has handled many transformational ICT implementation projects as well as development of large scale National level projects.
He holds MBA in Management of Technology from University of Moratuwa, Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Colombo and Bachelor of Science from University of Colombo.
Shageevan is an Accidental entrepreneur, top rated freelance web developer, a certified network administrator and an IT lecturer with over 10 years in experience.
He is the Co-Founder of MyStore.lk and ESOFT Technologies and the CIO of MyDeal Group looking after the tech aspect of each company."
Srinath a scientist, software architect, and a programmer that works on distributed systems.
He is a co-founder of Apache Axis2 project, and a member of the Apache Software foundation. He is a co-architect behind WSO2's Complex Event Processing Engine. Srinath has authored two books about MapReduce and many technical articles. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, USA, in 2009
Chamil is a Software Architect at Zone24x7 who is passionate about Software Design, Quality and TDD.
He's been in the industry for 9 years now with extensive knowledge in Open Source and MS technologies. His previous stints include WSO2, Apona and Navantis. Chamil also serves as an Academic Consultant and a visiting lecturer for many local universities.
Carries over 17 years' experience in ICT infrastructure discipline while holding various positions in Asian Emerging Countries and Indo China region.
The executed projects do expand in to FSI, Telco, Oil and Gas and manufacturing. Has a passion for business and digital transformation and storage systems. On voluntary basis involves in Storage system education as well. Academic background is from Electronics and Telecommunication and a full member of BCS, IET and IEEE. In addition holds a Master ASE for Storage systems.
Lakmal Vithanage undertook the task of developing an IT system for the Multi-Disciplinary Cleft Clinic of the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children.
He is a versatile member of the LOLC Finance team. He has an amazing experience of how learning software design and development becomes easier and satisfying when intrinsically driven by the desire for betterment of society. He is keen to draw focus to ways in which the young, educated population can contribute to fulfil social needs by harnessing their skills, knowledge and passion. He Holds a Bachelor of IT degree from the University of Colombo and is currently reading for his MBA.
Mobility in Education
With close to 8 years' experience in the education sector Yashinka is responsible for developing the education landscape in Sri Lanka and Maldives from an ICT perspective so that teachers/faculty are able to utilize ICT tools more effectively in the classroom to create students who possess the skills set required for the 21st century workplace.
She has been instrumental in several key Public Private Partnerships between Microsoft and the Ministries of Education and Higher Education in Sri Lanka and Maldives where some of the flagship projects are: 'Innovative Teachers and Students Competition', 'Multipoint MouseMischief', 'Unlimited Potential Industry Specific Curricula', 'Innovative Schools Competition', 'IT Academy for Higher Education', 'Creating Industry Connections', supported by teacher training which has contributed towards the enhanced usage of ICT in the education system.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Yashinka held senior positions in the Market Research industry working for companies such as the Nielsen Company, Lanka Market Research Bureau, NFO-TNS. She specialised in Qualitative Research and worked with the leading Multinational and Blue Chip companies in Sri Lanka in understanding consumer behaviour and brand affinity which provided recommendations for strategic direction of product and services lines.
With a passion for teaching and learning Yashinka aspires to be a thought leader in the Education space and inspire teachers, students and decision makers to adopt technology in a meaningful manner which ultimately adds value to the country. The drive for customer obsession has led to her winning several prestigious awards from the Microsoft Corporation for superior performance in delivering customer value.
Yashinka holds a MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and has roots in Marketing, Psychology and ICT.
Engineer by Profession with a B.SC (Hons) degree in Engineering from UK MBA degree from Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura. Received "The Achievers Award "from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, Professionals Association for Outstanding contribution to the Profession, Business and Society.
Old boy of Trinity College Kandy
34 Years Experience in Information Communication Technology (ICT) field. Served as Director / CEO Metropolitan Computers and Head Of Human Resources and ICT of the Metropolitan Group.
Past President of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) the Information Technology ( IT ) Professional body and Past President of The Sri Lanka Computer Vendors Association, the IT Commercial body.
Competent Toastmaster, Competent Leader and Past President Colombo Toastmasters Club. Was an Area Governor of Toastmasters District 82P. A member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors.
Professional qualifications include Fellow Computer Society of Sri Lanka , Senior Member Australian Computer Society and Member Institution of Engineering Technology UK
Has served in many Information Technology forums in the country and has been an Executive Council member of CINTEC (The initial policy making body for IT in Sri Lanka ), Governing Council member of the Asian ICT Confederation and an Executive Council member of South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation.
Was selected to attended the Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship program on Corporate Management in Japan.
Has conducted many Communication and Leadership development programs for business Executives and Youth. Was a visiting lecturer, Business Communication at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) and a regular guest speaker at career development seminars of the University of Moratuwa , University of Colombo, University of Kalaniya, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and many other forums. A mentor for upcoming Professionals.
Has addressed large group of professionals in Bangalore, Chennai and New Delhi on Effective Corporate Presentations and Self Developments Skills.
Guest speaker at many forums including the Queens Birthday Banquet in Sri Lanka.
Married with two kids and Interests include reading, music, good food and staying fit.
Gihan Wikramanayake is a Science graduate from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and obtained his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from University of Wales Cardiff, UK.
He is a Professor, Director and Chairman of the Board of Management of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC). Gihan is a Chartered Fellow and Chairman of BCS The Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section. He held positions in professional associations such as, first Treasurer IEEE Sri Lanka Section and Student Councillor of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). Gihan is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering (IEEE). Professor Gihan is also a board of director of the SLSTB and Chairman of Theekshana a UCSC Company. He also serves on the Boards of IBMBB, NILIS and Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo & LEARN.
Prof. Dias graduated from the University of Moratuwa in 1985 and was awarded a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the UC Davis in 1992.
In addition to being a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka he serves as the Domain Registrar of the LK Domain Registry and the President of the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka – Software Chapter.
His a member of the Asia-Pacific Top-Level Domain Association (APTLD) board, a Trustee of the Internet Society and President of its Sri Lanka Chapter.
He has been active in several areas of computing, including computer networking, language technologies, security, distributed event processing, Internet identity and personal cloud.
He has assisted many public and private organisations to build, secure, and make best use of their computer systems. He was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013.
Mr. Luxaman Perera holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree, a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a MBA from University of Colombo. He is also a Member of the British Computer Society.
Mr. Perera counts over 28 years of extensive experience in IT in different capacities including Project Management, Handling disaster situations, Maintaining multiple data bases, Working with multiple Operating Systems, Configuring BOC network, Managing branch migrations, Branch Automation projects, Managing multiple Banking Applications.
Mr. Luxaman Perera is presently The Head of Information Technology - Bank of Ceylon. Prior to which, he had served Standard Bank South Africa.
Mr. Perera has been a Member of the CSSL from 1993 and has served its Executive Council from 2009 to 2014.
Mr. Chandana Weerasinghe has nearly 30 years of rich hands-on experience in the IT industry
He commenced his career at Data Management Systems Ltd., soon after graduating from the University of Moratuwa in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with a first class honours degree. As a field engineer, he was involved in one of the pioneering projects that brought National Language capability in both Sinhala and Tamil on Wang Minicomputer Systems. He moved to DMS Electronics (DMSE) in 1990 as the Engineering Manager and presided over the growth of DMSE's engineering services as the company transformed from a Microcomputer and Personal Computer Company to a fully fledged corporate solutions provider. Today as a Director / General Manager, he oversees a division that focus on System Infrastructure Software, Managed Services and Networking & Unified Communications.
In his professional life, Mr. Weerasinghe has served as the President of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), Sri Lanka's professional body for IT, in 2003. Prior to being elected President, he served on CSSL's Executive Council for many years holding numerous responsibilities, including the posts of Student Counsellor, Secretary and Vice President. He was closely associated with the National IT Conference and served as a Member and the Chair of the Proceedings Committee for a number of years.
Mr. Weerasinghe also counts wide teaching experience in Engineering, Information Technology and Professional Practice with a number of educational institutions and serves as a visiting lecturer at the University of Moratuwa. He is an elected external member of the Faculty Boards of the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Information Technology at the same University. He also serves on the Faculty / Industry Advisory Board of the Faculty of Engineering at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).
Saman Perera assigned duties as General Manager Information Systems on 10th January 2000.
He is responsible for overall management of information systems division and to ensure efficient, effective IT infrastructure and architecture to support demanding business requirements. Major achievements during this period include aligning the organizations information systems architecture to support technology changes from AMPS/DAMPA to GSM and 3G, architecting and deploying electronic reload system integrating with banks and distribution channels. Prior to Joining Mobitel, he was with Lanka Bell(a fixed wireless telecommunication service provider) as their Senior Manager Information Technology and was responsible for overall management of Information Technology Division. Played the role of Chief Architect and the Project Manager for their Customer Care and Billing Operation system development and deployment and managed the upgrade of Oracle Financials ERP system as part of the Y2K compliance requirements.
Prior to that Saman was the Systems Development Manager at Mobitel for 3 years. During that period he was responsible for Design, development and implementation of Customer Care and Billing operation system for Mobitel. Saman brings in over 17 years of experience in all areas of Information Technology ranging from technical to management. Early part of his carrier he spent time as a designer and software developer and has experience in participating in large project for local and overseas organizations. Later moved into technology management and has experience in managing highly qualified technical staff and managing large scale projects involving international vendors. Currently he is focusing deploying Information technology governance framework and making the IT organization an agile business unit with stable, scalable architectures to meet the growth demands. He holds MBA in Management of Technology from University of Moratuwa, Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Colombo and Bachelor of Science from University of Colombo.
Shantha Fernando is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, and the Director, Center for IT Services, University of Moratuwa.
He also served as the Director, Engineering Research Unit, University of Moratuwa. He is one of the founders and the Chief Advisor of TechCERT, a division of LK-Domain Registry. He obtained BSc Engineering Honours from the University of Moratuwa in 1993. He obtained his Master of Philosophy from the same university in 2000. His PhD was obtained from the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands in 2010. He became the first Chartered Engineer in Sri Lanka in the field of IT in the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL). He also served in the Council of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). His expertise are in Computer and Information Security, Information Systems, and e-Learning. He has provided advisory services for many government and commercial organisations in the areas of his expertise since 1994.
Dr. Lokuge holds over twenty four years of ICT experience in high growth public and private sector organizations, both in Sri Lanka and Overseas. He obtained his PhD from Monash University, Australia in the area of Artificial Intelligent Agents & Business Intelligence Systems.
Dr. Lokuge's experience in a few key positions includes: Chairman/Managing Director – EmpiricalMinds Pvt Ltd, CEO/Director – ESOFT International, Consultant/CIO - Terminal Link, Malaysia & France, Director of the MIS Department (Sri Lanka Ports Authority), Director (IDM Software International) and MIS Consultant for World Bank & Asian Development Bank funded projects. As an IT consultant, he has involved in many large IT projects in France, Malaysia, Australia, Korea, China, Syria, Vietnam and Middle East countries.
He has also worked as a Lecturer at Monash University and Central Queensland University, Australia. He has also worked as a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa.
He is a chartered member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and holds the membership of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). He is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) USA and a professional Project Manager (PMP). He is a certified ITIL V3 foundation expert and Certified ISTQB tester for systems and software. He was the President of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka in 2008.
Vishaka graduated from University of Moratuwa, with a first class in Computer Science and Engineering in 1994 and joined the same Department as a lecturer.
She obtained her Technical Licentiate from Chalmers University of Technology. She was the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for six years and is currently a senior lecturer there. During her sabbatical leave she worked as the Dean, Faculty of Electrical and Information Technology at Northshore College of Business Technology and as the deputy project director of the Higher Education for the twenty first century (HETC) Project of the Ministry of Higher education of Sri Lanka. She is very passionate about expanding and improving the skilled IT work force in Sri Lanka.
Dr. Prasad Wimalaratne is the Director Career Guidance Unit, University of Colombo, from 2005 to date.
He is also the Vice Chair, IEEE Sri Lanka Section, 2006 Economy Coordinator for Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) Competition 2005, Chiangmai Thaniland. Economy Coordinator/member of Judging Panel for Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) Competition 2006, Macau, China. He also served The Computer Society of Sri Lanka Executive Council and Executive Council Member representing UCSC at Sri Lanka Association for the Software Industry (SLASI) from 2003 to date.
Chinthaka Indikadahena graduated from University of Peradeniya has more than 30 years of IT experience, living and working in Sri Lanka, New Zealand and U.S.A.
His experience during the period from 2000 to 2014 was with Virtusa, a leading solutions provider for local and international clients, as a Quality Assurance and Testing professional. He ended up becoming the Head of QA at Virtusa. He is a Director in Sri Lanka Software Testing Board (SLSTB) that conducts ISTQB exams in Sri lanka and actively runs the Software QA Special Interest Group (SQA SIG) at Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). Chinthaka currently works an independent consultant in Software QA & Testing.
All Foreign Registered Delegates are invited to the Inauguration at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo Sri Lanka on 8th of August 2016 and the Full conference on 9th & 10th of August 2016.
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An experienced C-level executive and board director of 10+ years, Michelle has developed her capabilities in the Government and Private sectors in industries including pharmaceuticals, logistics, financial services, international, education and now travel.
Initially pursuing a career in accounting and later in Information Technology, Michelle has leveraged these combined skills to facilitate significant business change and growth programs. Similarly Michelle has used this combined commercial and technology understanding to contribute as a Director and Chairman in various boards including Vernet Pty Ltd, Australian Computer Society, Queen Victoria Women's Centre, CIO Executive Council and Victorian ICT for Women Network.
Michelle is a Fellow and Certified Professional of the Australian Computer Society, a Certified Professional Accountant, and a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Michelle studied at University of New South Wales completing her Master Business Administration (Executive), and Charles Sturt University for her Bachelor of Business.
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|Common Session
|Session Chair: Mr Niranjan de Silva - Former Director and CEO of Metropolitan Computers.
|Hon. Prof. Ashu Marasinghe (M.P.)
|Ms. Michelle Beveridge - "Leveraging Cloud"
|Morning Tea
|Session chair: Mr Mano Sekeran - Chairman, SLASSCOM
|Mr Supun Weerasinghe - "Affordable Internet as a catalyst for broadband adoption and economic growth"
|Prof. Mohan Munasinghe - "Enhancing sustainable development in Sri Lanka - A key role for ICT"
|Professor Lalith Gamage - "Evolutionary Computing for Industrial Automation"
|Parallel Sessions
Leveraging Cloud
Quality Assurance
Session chair: Mr Ruwan Amarasekere
Session Chair: Mr Wasantha Weerakoon - President, FITIS
Mr Dhamithra Jayasuriya
Ms. Chinthi Weerasinghe - "Reimagining quality in a highly dynamic and agile environment, focused on driving a richer customer experience through digital disruption"
Mr Chandika Jayasundara - "Consumerization of Enterprise Software. Riding the next wave"
Mr Chamil Kirieldeniyage
Dr Lalith Liyanage -"How Active Student Engagement can make Learning Effective"
Ms Asanthika Imbulpitiya - "Test Automation Frameworks for Handling Requirement Changes In Web
|Afternoon Tea
Open source
Sessiono chair: Dr Malitha Wijesundera
Session chair : Mr Chandana Weerasinghe
Mr Asanga Abeygoonasekara - "Digital Disruption to fight Corruption : I paid a bribe"
Dr. Srinath Perera - "What can opensource and open data can do for Sri Lanka?"
Mr Sajeewan Sachiththanandan - "IOT in real Life"
Dr. Rashed Mustafa - "Current Trends and Research Challenges of Multimedia Cloud Computing with Open Source technologies"
Dr. Kuntal Patel - "Critical Study and Analysis of Usefulness of Massive Open Online Courses "
Mr R.Muralitharan - "Open Source Mobile Network"
|Raffle Draw
|Common Session
|Session chair: Dr Dayan Rajapakse - Presdient CSSL & Chairman / M.D. of Esoft Metro Campus
|Mr. Kumaran Singaram - "Leveraging Cloud"
|Ms. Mehrnoush Salehpour - "Digital Disruption and User Experience"
|Morning Tea
|Session Chair: Mr Dinesh Sattrukulasinghe
|Dr. Anirban Basu - "IoT, Big Data and Analytics"
|Prof. Abhaya Induruwa - "Internet: Next wave of Disruption - Opportunities and Threats"
|Mr. Saman Perera - "Digital Value Fabric: The Cornerstone of Digital Business"
|Parallel Sessions
Healthcare ICT
Smart Payments
Session chair: Mr Rasantha Hettithanthrige - TBA
Session chair: Mr Lakshman Perera - Head of IT
Prof Vajira Dissanayake - 'Digital Health: The Health Care of the Future'.
Mr Varuna Jayalath
Dr Chamidu Atupelage -"Computer Vision for Biomedical Informatics"
Dhanika Perera - "Digital Payments for a Smart Future"
Mr Lakmal Vithanage - "Effective Solution for Multi-Disciplinary Management of Cleft Lip and Palate"
Ms Thilini Weerasooriya - "Solving Sinhala Language Arithmetic Problems using Neural Network"
|Afternoon Tea
Safety & Security
Affordable Internet
Session chair: Dr Prasad Wimalaratne - Head, Department of Communications & Media Technology - UCSC
Session chair: Prof Gihan Dias - Professor - University of Moratuwa - Domain Registrar - LK Domain Registry
Professor Bipin Mehta - " Societal Impact of Digital Disruption"
Mr. Yasiru Abeygunawardana - "Affordable Internet"
Mr. Champika Wijayatunga -"Internet Identifier Systems Security and Abuse Handling"
Isuru Samarage - "From Disruption to Sustainable Growth"
Mr Lahiru Amalka N Yapa -"Real time road sign detection using hybrid colour segmentation and invariant shape detection"
Mr Tharanga Nandika Silva - "A connectivity sub-system to Enhance existence of Internet of Things in Remote Areas of Sri Lanka by using Wireless Communication interface"
|Raffle Draw


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Research Country Contact (Personal Names, Addresses, Phone) Information (Denmark)
The context of this work is in relation to the country of Denmark.
Please refer to the attached document full requirements with examples and general requirements.
Data Requirements
- Personal Names
- Make sure to describe all forms a name can take in official and non official documentation
- List of First Names ordered by popularity using native character set (if possible 1000, more is better)
- List of Last Name ordered by popularity using native character set (if possible 1000, more is better)
- Pattern Logic (Country specific)
- Describe any rules regarding composite names (eg, names separated by hyphens), either first or last. How many composites are allowed?
- For example, German might have a "von" prefix for some last names as in "von Ludwig"
- For example, U.S: Middle name would consist of similar names as First name list
- Context
- Different way name, first name, given name, last name, family name, maiden name is referred to in the country language
- What is the official way to address someone?
- Mr, Mrs, etc.. (also list the typical shorten forms that are used if different)
- Is some form considered disrespectful, preferred, etc...
- List of characters used in names (Upper case, lower case, romanized, other cases)
- Mailing Addresses
- Format (Structure) of Address (all possible combinations)
- Context - Ways any part of the address is referred to in the country language
- Examples of Address Form formats (image of form (physical or online) + typed out version in language with English translation)
- Pattern
- Pattern Logic
- Postal Codes structure broken up with their area code
- A list of common street prefix or postfixes with their abbreviation (For example, Street, St, Str, Road, Rd, Way, Path)
- A list of all States, Cities and Towns in possible for address
- Country specific logic
- For example, In Germany the postfixes might be joined as part of the street name.
- "Hauptstraße", where "Haupt" = Main + "straße" = "Street"
- Germany has different spelling names of cities in English which are also commonly used and cannot be converted directly. Give a list of all (e.g. "München" = "Munich")
- Common patterns, Addresses with:
- Apartments
- PO Box
- On the Road (km instead of street #)
- etc
- Telephone Number
- Format
- Country Code
- Trunk Code
- Area codes for all locations within the country with their descriptions, eg in 212 is one of New York's area codes
- Subscriber numbers
- Mobile operators, do they have different dialing prefixes?
- Minimum and Maximum number of digits in a phone number.
- All possibly dialing prefixes.
- For example, is there a different way to dial a mobile number inside the country vs outside.
- For example, in US, to dial a mobile or a regular number is the same. However both can be prefixed with '1', the US country code. In Australia, the number format for mobile numbers and land lines differ. So dialing from outside the country is also different for each one.
- All common ways to write a phone number down in both official and non official documentation. Provide references if possible.
- Context - Different ways phone number, phone or handphone (cellphone, mobile) is referred to in the country language (For example, German "Handy", "Telefon")
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5 Nature Books for Your Summer Vacation
Looking for a good book to hit the beach with this summer? Staff at The Nature Conservancy have reviewed some of the latest non-fiction releases on the environment—from water conservation and ocean management to trendier topics like hunting your own food and how environmental economics can save the planet.
Check out these 5 books this summer and catch up on your environmental reading. Note: these books won't leave you snoozing in the sun!
Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know by Ray Hilborn, with Ulrike Hilborn
Put plainly, this is the best book on a "conservation topic" I have read, ever. Why? It is wonderfully unpretentious, authoritative, engagingly written, concise and easy to read. I wish someone would turn this into a series: "Deforestation: What Everyone Needs to Know," "Green Infrastructure: What Everyone Needs to Know," "Climate Stress and Extreme Weather: What Everyone Needs to Know," "Payments for Ecosystem Services…" you get my point.
Sadly, there are too few Ray Hilborns in our world. Ray has worked on fisheries for 30+ years. He is analytical and skilled at modeling and understanding the ways statistics and data can be abused. He is fearless and unconcerned with political correctness. He is a terrific writer. But most of all, he is a Zen master of his topic: fisheries. You need depth and wisdom to reduce a complex topic to 130 pages of crystal clear thinking and information. The rest of us experts write long books filled with jargon and non-essential information to cover up for our lack of true insight. Every person who is in any way concerned with or working with fisheries needs to read this book.
I want to offer a few quotes from the book to capture its flavor:
"But it is good to keep in mind that the standards we have set for maintaining biodiversity in fisheries management by groups advising consumers are much higher than the standards we have set for agriculture."
And: "Fisheries should be a source of great wealth to all coastal countries as they are already in Iceland, Norway and New Zealand. It is truly sad to see so many countries squandering potential wealth of their fisheries through excess capacity and over-harvesting."
—Reviewed by Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of The Nature Conservancy
Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pelligrini
Georgia Pelligrini's Girl Hunter, an account of her discovery of hunting and eating what she kills, does an outstanding job of reaching a new audience for conservation. The author is a woman in her 20s who lives in New York City, and she is writing for people like herself—many of whom have probably never considered going hunting before.
In this hybrid travelogue and cookbook, she describes a long list of hunts for dove, squirrel, boar, elk, woodcock, duck, turkey—even coot—which were conducted under the careful attention of guides at high-end hunting lodges throughout the United States and in England. She celebrates the hunting lifestyle: rich dinners with fine wine and good whiskey, classic sporting apparel, and the jaunty look of a side-by-side shotgun over the shoulder. Her stated message is that we should be more in touch with the food we eat and that hunting is part of understanding where our food comes from.
Throughout her book and blog, the author presents the sporting life as an aspirational pursuit: living the good life, looking fabulous while doing it, and being proud that you know how to kill, skin and enjoy the taste of a squirrel. Pelligrini makes the outdoor life glamorous. Although "Girl Hunter" rarely touches upon conservation themes, her writing helps to make the field and forest trendy among a new audience of urban, adventurous eaters—and this is very good for conservation.
—Reviewed by Joe Smith, conservation ecologist, The Nature Conservancy in New Jersey
But Will the Planet Notice? How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Gernot Wagner
This is a great book by Environmental Defense Fund economist Gernot Wagner. Right off the bat—starting with the book's title—Wagner asks exactly the right and most important question: How do we scale up environmental initiatives so they really move the needle and have a measurable impact on the planet?
Wagner is an economist who more or less believes what you're taught in Econ 101. He spends a good amount of the book helping readers understand externalities, focusing especially on climate change. Of course he respects market power, so he lays out a powerful case for putting a significant price on carbon. Take taxes, for example. Economists have always agreed: We should tax activities we want to discourage, not encourage. But in the United States today, we tax income. We tax (i.e., discourage) work and jobs. Why not deal with our fiscal deficit challenges instead by taxing carbon? If we did, we'd discourage use of the fossil fuel-based energy that is cooking the planet. And we'd move toward leveling the playing field so that clean forms of energy could better compete.
We did this once. Well, to be precise, OPEC did it to us. I'm old enough to remember the OPEC oil crisis in the 70s. I remember the lines at gas stations in my high school days. By reducing oil supply, OPEC sharply raised gas prices. It was as if OPEC imposed a carbon tax. Except in this case, the tax revenue went to OPEC, not us. What happened when the tax (i.e., the price shock) was imposed on U.S. consumers? At first it was quite a shock to the U.S. economy, and growth stalled. But after a very short adjustment period, consumers changed their behavior. Faced with sharply higher gas prices, both business and man-on-the-street consumers quickly focused on energy efficiency and materially reduced their energy consumption. Fuel-efficient cars, for example, became the rage. And economic growth in the U.S. quickly resumed. Once OPEC faded, we could have kept the country on this energy-efficient trajectory through a carbon tax (but we would have kept the money this time).
Instead, we did the politically expedient thing, allowed gas prices to fall, and set up the opportunity for SUVs and Hummers. We could still address this challenge today—that was the core idea behind a carbon tax or cap and trade. But instead, we (perversely, in my view) subsidize the use of fossil fuels.
Please excuse this rant (essentially mine). But Wagner provides an interesting framework for thinking about issues like this and the role of market forces in guiding environmental actions. He does so in a very clear style, while showing off his great sense of humor and excellent writing. Who says economics needs to be the "dismal science?"
—Reviewed by Mark Tercek, president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman
The Big Thirst is not only a book about water. It is a book about change. By taking the reader on a world tour of water, Fishman shows how humans currently view and use water and how that has to, and will, change in the future. From American suburbia to the streets of Delhi, Fishman illustrates both the ultimate power of water in economic and personal development and the apathy with which we view this resource—that is, until it becomes hard to get or disappears. And that's when people begin to see water's value and begin to change. They change by innovating around conservation, as in Las Vegas where, ironically, water is used much more wisely than almost all of America. They begin to innovate around water pricing and delivery, as in India, where homegrown water delivery innovation in some slums has spurred micro-economies and made standing in line to wait on a truck a thing of the past.
When these changes happen, growth happens; but until that time, we face the oncoming dilemma of falling groundwater levels, rivers that no longer flow to the sea, and threatened biodiversity. As a scientist concerned with and working on water issues, I related strongly with Fishman through his journey. And I think this book will resonate with anyone who is concerned about the human use and biodiversity effects of our current water system and the opportunities that are possible if we change how we think about water.
One thing that I particularly liked about The Big Thirst is that Fishman does not use these pages as a platform for a "gloom and doom" scenario. Rather, he points out that, unlike many other complicated problems that humans face (e.g., energy, climate change), water issues are local, with local solutions, and that localness should give us real hope. For example, water use in Louisiana does not affect someone in Shanghai, or even Florida for that matter. And because they are local, water problems are very solvable within a short period of time. But to solve them, we must change.
—Reviewed by Bryan Piazza, director, freshwater and marine science, The Nature Conservancy in Louisiana
Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue by William Stolzenburg
Like stranded teenagers cavorting in a B-grade horror movie, island birds come ill prepared to deal with menace. In his latest book, William Stolzenburg opens with the gruesome fates that await native birds confronted with a seemingly endless parade of introduced rodents, cats and foxes. Consider Gough Island, off the South African coast: "Gangs of mice were rushing from out of the dark to attack birds three hundred times their size. The mice were chewing holes in the rumps of seventeen-pound albatross chicks as they sat, eating the living birds from the inside out."
Islands, small and contained, make the dangers of invasives particularly severe. But the small and contained nature of islands also allows conservationists to set things right. Stolzenburg—one of conservation's most astute chroniclers—tells this as an adventure story, full of characters, failed missions and easy-to-despise villains.
Through trial and a lot of error, conservationists now employ the latest research and technology to eradicate the invaders. It's an often remarkable story of success, of turning biological desert covered in rat turds into an island paradise echoing with the chorus of baby birds.
But even in paradise restored, there can be uncomfortable truths. Conserving birds means many furry mammals must die, often painfully. While rats and foxes make convenient villains, they're really just following their own evolutionary paths. Stolzenburg briefly mentions the concerns of animal rights activists, but is rooted firmly in the "ends justify the means" camp. He also fails to address the very real possibility that a new generation of rats might recolonize these islands, thereby starting the whole cycle anew. But these are minor quibbles: it's a well-told, well-paced tale, that rare conservation book that is suited for the beach. Just watch out for what's nibbling on your toes.
—Reviewed by Matt Miller, senior science writer, The Nature Conservancy
(Image: Man reading by lake. Source: Flickr user santheo via a Creative Commons license.)


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Grizzlies get road win over Thunder to extend winning streak to six
OKLAHOMA CITY — Something had to give Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena as two teams with five-game winning streaks faced off in an early-season match-up.The Memphis Grizzlies were coming off a trouncing of the NBA Champion Miami Heat 104-86 on Sunday, and were off to the best start in the history of the franchise at 5-1.Meanwhile, the Oklahoma City Thunder have turned things around after a 1-2 start to the season. The Thunder has played an NBA-high seven games this month and five in the past week.Fatigue showed in the first half for the Thunder, especially late in the first half as the Grizzlies turned a 30-20 deficit after one quarter into a 56-45 lead at halftime.Memphis still led 81-71 through the third quarter. The Thunder could get no closer than six in the final period and fell 107-97 to Memphis.The Thunder travels tonight to New Orleans for a match-up with the Hornets at 7 p.m.


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A driver and her passenger who has critical injuries were transported to a hospital Friday afternoon after an accident that started at a license checkpoint.
MIDWAY | A driver and her passenger were transported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem on Friday afternoon after an N.C. Highway Patrol trooper alleges they fled from a license checkpoint.
The one-vehicle accident occurred at Hidden Creek Road at 12:42 p.m.
Trooper Jeff Boozer said the woman was fleeing from another trooper manning a license checkpoint on the U.S. Highway 52 off-ramp for Hickory Tree Road and crashed on her own. He confirmed the passenger had critical injuries and the driver was conscious and alert when she left the scene.
Pam Kearns, a N.C. Highway Patrol spokeswoman, identified the driver as Tameka Sherri Rhyne, 38, of Winston-Salem, and her son, Daquan Rhyne, 19, as being involved in the chase with Trooper Austin Beck. A WFBMC spokeswoman said Tameka Rhyne was in the emergency room about 5 p.m. Friday, and she had no condition available for her. The hospital spokeswoman said she also didn't have any information regarding Daquan Rhyne.
The chase with the Highway Patrol went about 2.5 miles before the woman lost control as she headed on Hickory Tree Road toward N.C. Highway 150, said Mike Craft, chief of the Midway Volunteer Fire Department.
Craft said it appeared the woman was sliding sideways when she hit a brick column that serves as the entrance sign for the Hidden Creek subdivision. After hitting the brick column, it appeared the vehicle went airborne, striking at least five trees and overturning on its top. The impact caused the engine to come out of the Pontiac Grand Prix and catch on fire.
A trooper put the fire out and assisted Tameka Rhyne with getting out of the vehicle, Craft said. It appeared Daquan Rhyne was ejected from the vehicle and had life-threatening injuries, he said.
Craft said Tameka Rhyne initially refused medical treatment and then "acted like she was going in and out of consciousness."
"As hard of a hit as they took, they should both be dead, really," the chief said.
Beck, the investigating trooper, was not injured, and his vehicle was not damaged.
"From what we understand her license was suspended, so as of right now, that's the only thing that I know of," Boozer said as he discussed why the woman led the trooper on the chase. "There really isn't a whole lot that we can pinpoint right now."
The chase, Boozer said, reached "every bit of 90 (mph) if not faster."
Boozer said he was not immediately behind the trooper as the woman crashed. He was the "secondary trooper" in assisting with the chase.
"(Beck) was on the radio," Boozer said. "I could hear him, and I was chiming in trying to catch up to him, getting (to) him and trying to make sure everything was going to come out the best you could hope for."
Boozer said he and other troopers were checking licenses. That's when the trooper who was involved in the chase asked the driver to produce her license. Boozer said the trooper told her to pull over onto the shoulder and try to find it, at which time she took off.
"I heard gravel being thrown, so I took off as well, once I knew my other trooper was involved," Boozer said.
Boozer said the weather did not play a factor in the accident.
"If she wouldn't have run, she wouldn't have wrecked," the trooper said.
Kearns said the crash remains under investigation, and charges are pending.
Darrick Ignasiak can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 217, or at email@example.com.