SLASSCOM thought leadership session
SLASSCOM (Sri Lanka Association of software and services Companies)
together with Australian Technical & Management College (ATMC) will be
holding a thought leadership session on August 15 at Taj Samudra Hotel,
On Golden Pond, 5.30pm onwards.
This session will feature Dr. John Harvey, Adjunct Professor at the
University of Ballarat and an Executive Director of IBM Australia
speaking on IBM’s impressive journey. This session will be followed
thereafter with a networking event among the participants. The event
targets not only SLASSCOM member companies but also entrepreneurs,
academics, business leaders and professionals.
The session will highlight IBM’s impressive journey for any company
facing challenges within the rapidly changing global economy. The IBM
Story demonstrates the transformative power of collaboration and the
potential to exploit that power to create competitive advantage on the
world stage, and chronicles the steps that took IBM from Australia’s
leading manufacturing exporter in the 1990s to become the leading
exporter of IT services a mere decade later.
“We are happy that Dr. Harvey would be sharing his experience with
the IT/BPO industry professionals. SLASSCOM targets to have many
international industry leaders share their experience and believe the
knowledge transfer will benefit all in building competences within the
IT/ BPO industry. Over the next few months, SLASSCOM has planned many
more thought leadership sessions and encourage SLASSCOM members and
other industry professionals to benefit by taking part at this session
which is followed by a networking event’, said Sanath Fernando, SLASSCOM
Board member and head of the Entrepreneurship Forum, commenting on the
proposed knowledge share session
The Sri Lankan IT and BPO industry export earnings have been
estimated to be US$ 390 million for 2010. Sri Lanka has set a target of
US$ 1 billion revenue with employment of 100,000 by 2015 in the IT/ BPO
industry.
SLASSCOM acts as the catalyst of growth for the Sri Lankan IT and BPO
industry by facilitating trade and business, propagation of education
and employment, encouragement of research and innovation. |