In the global run towards economic growth and building a healthier and safer world, emerging tech has transformed almost every business. In order to help Sri Lankan businesses to keep up with this fast-accelerating trend, SLASSCOM is hosting the first-ever conference on emerging technologies to be held in Sri Lanka, from 8-9 December 2021.
The event’s panellists include R3’s Vivek Gupta, who will be speaking on a blockchain roadmap for Sri Lanka, Brandon Quittem, who will be focusing on cryptocurrency and bitcoin, Axiata Digital Labs’ Namal Jayathileke, who will be talking about digital and AI application in telecommunications, Dr. Kalana Withanage from Lockheed Martin who is set to cover the topic of “Advanced Computer Vision”, Global Wavenet’s Suren Pinto, whose topic is “Low code, no code application in telecommunications”, Vega Innovations’ Dr. Beshan Kulapala, whose key focus will be the future of the electric vehicle industry, Arvind Neelakantan, who represents Epic Games/Unreal Engine, will cover extended reality AR/VR in gaming; a representative from Huawei who will be talking about 5G and IoT; and Alchemy AI’s Jennie-Marie Larsen, who will be covering AI and sustainability.
Two panel discussions will take place on the exciting topics of gaming, featuring Arimac Director and Head – Game Development Thilina Premasiri, Ingame Entertainment CEO and Sri Lanka eSports Association President Raveen Wijayatilake, and an esteemed speaker from the Indonesian Gaming Association. The second panel on the space industry and technology, will feature Kavindi De Silva, Isi Casad del Valle, Sue Kaur, and Abilasha Purawar the likes of who are representing Space Hero and the International Space University.
SLASSCOM Chairperson Sandra De Zoysa stated: “Providing a supportive platform for businesses in emerging tech to scale up and expand is one of SLASSCOM’s five key focus areas aimed at developing and growing the industry to $ 5 billion by the year 2025. As a catalyst for growth in the Sri Lankan IT and BPM sphere, we hope to continue facilitating trade and business, propagating education and employment, and encouraging research and innovation. This conference is just one step in our long-term efforts to bring Sri Lanka’s IT/BPM industry to the forefront on the global stage.”
SLASSCOM Technology Forum Lead, Calvin Hindle highlighted that “the science fiction part of movies is now becoming a reality. The speed of innovation and disruption is unprecedented. The SLASSCOM Emerging Technologies Conference 2021 will help the attendees to understand the practical use cases and the potential opportunities of these technologies, and it will also highlight how Emerging Tech can be used to solve challenges around sustainability.”
This event is supported by platinum sponsor Axiata Digital Labs, gold sponsor Global Wavenet, silver sponsor Huawei and corporate sponsor Dialog Enterprise.
SLASSCOM to host first ever conference in Sri Lanka on emerging technologies
29 Nov 2021
SLASSCOM to host first ever conference in Sri Lanka on emerging technologies
29 Nov 2021
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