‘SHE CAN – inspired women, inspire women’ organised by IIT on 15 March

The Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), the pioneer in providing British Higher Education in Sri Lanka, will be holding ‘SHE CAN – inspired women, inspire women’, at the Orchid Room of the BMICH on 15 March from 6.00 p.m. 

‘SHE CAN – inspired women, inspire women’ is a motivational knowledge-sharing conference which is organised by IIT to commemorate International Women’s Day. This conference will also serve as a platform which provides career guidance for women in different levels and supports, encourages and empowers women to pursue their higher education in the fields of IT and business.  

The conference will be addressed by eminent women who have made great strides and achieved much success in Sri Lanka’s corporate sector. The panel of speakers which will be addressing the gathering will comprise Nilusha De Silva - Managing Director, Skrumptious who will be speaking on ‘Women in Entrepreneurship’; Nilushi Jayatileke - Director Marketing, Personal Care – Unilever Sri Lanka who will be speaking on the topic ‘Let’s be the change we want to see’; Neloufer Anverally - Founder and Managing Director, Cotton Collection who will address the topic of ‘Women in Leadership’ and Shehani Seneviratne - Chief Operating Officer, 99X Technology Ltd. who will speak on ‘Women in IT’. 

The objective of this forum will be to inspire women to achieve great heights in their chosen career path and to gain an insight into the trials, tribulations, success, failures and lessons learnt from some of Sri Lanka’s top female corporate leaders. 

With the aim of empowering young women to obtain an all-round British higher education and achieve success in the corporate world, IIT is offering 20 scholarships valued at Rs. 35 million for girls who have performed exceptionally in their respective schools. 

Since the institute’s inception in 1990, IIT has produced many women who currently hold positions such as Marketing Director, Financial Controller, CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, IT Architects, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Software Engineers who are empowering their respective organisations and industries. 

For registrations contact Nisha on 0726868140 or [email protected].