Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of IronOne Technologies and BoardPAC, Lakmini Wijesundera was the first local entrepreneur to be a panelist at the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women (EWW) 2018 event in Tokyo recently.
The EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asian-Pacific program is an leadership platform for selected dynamic female entrepreneurs who are founders of the region’s leading high-growth companies helping them to sustain and accelerate their potential.
In recognition of her status as a leading regional woman entrepreneur, and contributing architect in tech disruption, Wijesundera had also created history previously as the first Sri Lankan to attend the Ernst Young Top Women Entrepreneur 2017 Programme and Conference.
This year Wijesundera attended the EY EWW 2018 conference as a panelist and earned the mantle of being the first local entrepreneur to represent the nation at such a panel.
Participating in a session titled ‘Business Transformation through the Power of Digital’, three business leaders including Wijesundera shared their insights on creating a digital strategy today to be effective tomorrow.
Participating at the panel were Sakie Akiyama, CEO and founder of Saki Corporation, Phyllis W. Newhouse Founder CEO of Xtreme Solutions, Inc., and Annette Kimmitt, Asia-Pacific Program Executive, Global Growth Markets Leader, EY who served as the moderator.
Wijesundera outlined how organisations embrace digital transformation and its success in relation to human adoption. She pointed out that the success of any digital transformation comes down to human adoption, human interface and how humans interact with technology, while senior executives need to be educated on the importance of embracing technology paying attention to the needs of stakeholders.
“As the first Sri Lankan entrepreneur to participate in this prestigious event and showcase Sri Lanka has been a true honour. I firmly believe this will open doors for many other local women entrepreneurs to become a driving force in national development,” Wijesundera said. As a pioneering digital entrepreneur having built high impact businesses, Wijesundera drives BoardPAC and IronOne Technologies. These companies operate across 20 countries across the globe. BoardPAC provides board meeting automation solutions to over 20,000 users across the globe.The company is recognised as the preferred choice for Board meeting automation among a multitude of fortune 500 companies and has quickly garnered the largest market share for board meeting automation in the Asia Pacific region.