IPM NHRC 2016 brings an international flavour to HRM in Sri Lanka

International speaker Alan Owens at the NHRC 2015  

IPM Sri Lanka has made arrangements to host the National Human Resources Conference (NHRC) - the largest conference in South Asia dedicated to the human resources management sector – with an international flavour with the participation of a large contingent of international delegates, speakers and special invitees.

“It is imperative that we understand how people are managed in other competitive nations while respecting the local view point. This will help us to keenly re-look at our own perspectives in order to successfully strategise and achieve a competitive regional positioning for Sri Lanka” said IPM Sri Lanka President Rohitha Amarapala.   

Guest of Honour Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI) President Erman Tan will deliver the key note address. IPM Sri Lanka’s flagship event – the NHRC 2016 - is expected to attract over 1,000 HR professionals, managers and non-HR managers from the private as well as public sector. Several delegates from India, Bangladesh, Singapore and Japan, the prominent foreign speaker lineup including Aditya Birla Group India Chief Human Resources Officer Gautam Chainani -Creativity Consultant, Catalyst and Speaker, Adjunct Professor of Workplace Creativity of Drexel University-USA, 

Experience Design Think Design Collaborative Ltd India  Co-Founder, Director  Rama Brahmam Aleti, Microsoft Sri Lanka & Maldives Managing Director Brian Kealey,Joint Managing Consultant of SBF Group of Consulting Companies Singapore former Senior Banker Goh Ai Yat, National HRD Network India Chairman, TVRLS & Founder Prof. T.V.Rao, PT People Power International-Singapore President/Director 

Dr. Suresh Marcandan, National Institute of Personnel Management India President Somesh Das Gupta, 

and Bangladesh Society for Human Resource -Council Member Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed will bring about an international flavour to the Conference. “The key reason for including many international speakers and business leaders to share their knowledge, experience and insights on HR and other related areas at the conference is to give an opportunity to the participants to get insights into global thinking to create HR professionals with a global mindset” said IPM Sri Lanka Chairman, International Affairs Committee Janaka Kumarasinghe. Eminent Sri Lankan speakers Hela Clothing Chairman Dian Gomes, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Director and Chairman of the Board of Management of the Postgraduate Institute of Management, Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri, Controller General of Immigration & Emigration Sri Lanka Nihal Ranasingh, Ministry of Agriculture Secretary B. Wijayarathne and 361 Degree Holdings Chairman & CEO Ruki De Silva will no doubt make the proceedings of the National Human Resources Conference 2016 complete. The NHRC 2016 will be followed by a post-conference breakfast meeting on “Human Resource Management Challenges of Regional Nations” with international HR professionals on Thursday, 23rd June meeting to discuss and recognise each country’s macro human resource management challenges and action to handle them and to create a platform to interact with HR professionals from different countries.