SLT presents ‘TelcoNext – Empowering the Digital Economy, Together’

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 9 May, from 6 p.m. 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 program. 

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 endeavour of empowering the digital economy.

The ‘digital economy’ promises to create greater agility to accelerate e-commerce market development in Sri Lanka. When operating in a digital economy, experts say there are significant cost savings and expedited time to launch new products.

The keynote speaker of the program 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 and Operations, Mobitel Ltd. 

SLT Group Chief Marketing Officer Ajantha Seneviratne 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. 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.”

Access to ICT/digital infrastructure is critical to the development of all aspects of a nation’s economy and 2018 will continue to see the growth of the digital economy. Digital transformation is a key driver of sweeping change in the modern world. The telecommunication industry is at the heart of global digitalisation as a key enabler by providing the essential connectivity infrastructure for functioning in the digital economy.

Tickets for the program are priced at Rs. 2,250 and are available at www.slt.lk/e-teleshop.