Sri Lanka Telecom presents one of the globally emerging topics of the Digital Economy, through a knowledge sharing program themed, ‘TelcoNext - Empowering the Digital Economy, Together’.
The program is to be held at the Cinnamon Lakeside Colombo on 9th May, 2018 from 6.00pm onwards. The Company expects to share its expertise among the tech savvy professionals in the corporate, IT, BPO, BPM, public sectors as well as academics through the programme.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) also will join hands with SLT to support this worthy endeavour of Empowering the Digital Economy in Sri Lanka.
The keynote speaker of the programme will be Eng. Anuradha Udunuwara – A visiting Industrial Fellow of the University of Hertfordshire UK, Faculty of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization UK, A guest lecturer at the University of Peradeniya and a Senior Telecommunications Expert.
The panellists are Dr. Himal Suraweera, Senior lecturer, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Peradeniya and Eng. Rasantha Hettithanthrige, Senior General Manager, Engineering & Operations, Mobitel (Pvt) Limited.
Commenting on this programme, Mr. Ajantha Seneviratne, Group Chief Marketing Officer of SLT said, “As the national ICT solutions provider, SLT continues to add to its iconic status in Sri Lanka by strengthening the country’s state-of-the-art ICT/digital infrastructure. By seizing the opportunities brought about by the digital economy, SLT is well poised to lead Sri Lanka into the digital future.
“We too believe that, digital is not just a part of the economy — it is the economy in the future. It has enormous potential to fast forward progress on the Global Sustainable Development Goals and improve people’s lives in fundamental ways,” he said.