SLASSCOM’s People Summit 2021 to showcase how organisations can build a resilient workforce

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Virtusa Chief Information Officer Madu Ratnayaka

SLASSCOM Chairman Channa Manoharan

hSenid Group of Companies Chairman Dinesh Saparamadu

IFS EVP and COO Ranil Rajapakse

Daily FT Editor in Chief Nisthar Cassim

Brandix Group Chief People Officer Ishan Danthanarayana

NDB Vice President Group HR Lasantha Dasanayaka

Dialog Chief Customer Officer Sandra De Soyza

LOLC Group Chief Human Resources Officer Pradeep Uluwaduge

hSenid CEO/Director Sampath Jayasundara

The annual flagship event of the HR forum of Sri Lanka Association for Software Services Companies (SLASSCOM) – People Summit – is set to take the stage on 19-21 January from 3 to 6 p.m.

With a bigger, virtual and more global platform under the theme ‘Building Resilience in your workforce in the new norm’, the event will be attended by over 500 participants both locally and globally.

The summit will include several keynote speeches from globally renowned gurus namely, Building A Resilient Organisation: A Leader’s Role by Dr. Sven Hansen – Founder of Resilience Institute, Strategic Agility: Aligning culture with the strategy to build more resilient organisations by Dawn Metcalfe – Workplace Culture Advisor and Author, New Rules of Resilience by Dr. Taryn Marie – Chief Resilience Officer at Resilience Leadership, How Purpose Helps You To Become More Resilient by Lasse Wrennmark Partner – Oxford Leadership, and Growth Mindset for a Complex and Fast-Changing World by Eduardo Briceño Global Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator on Growth Mindset.

Several thought-provoking panel discussions will be held on the first and second day of the summit. These include ‘Leading with resilience in a volatile world’, moderated by Daily FT Editor in Chief Nisthar Cassim, with panellists SLASSCOM Chairman Channa Manoharan, IFS EVP and COO Ranil Rajapakse, Virtusa CIO Madhu Rathnayake and hSenid Group of Companies Chairman Dinesh Saparamadu.

The second day of the summit will showcase another panel discussion on the topic of ‘Resilience Learnings from Sri Lankan Companies’ moderated by SLASSCOM HR Forum Lead and hSenid Business Solutions CEO/Director Sampath Jayasundara, with panellists LOLC Group Chief Human Resources Officer Pradeep Uluwaduge, Dialog Chief Customer Officer Sandra De Soyza, NDB Vice President Group HR Lasantha Dasanayaka and Brandix Group Chief People Officer Ishan Danthanarayana.

People Summit 2021 has also lined up several out of the box topic areas to help individuals and business leaders think differently about resilience: The Cold and How Stress Can Become Your Secret Weapon In Living a More Resilient Life by Lieven Van Linden – Biohacker, Entrepreneur and Health and Performance coach for global leaders and a speech by Andrew Tarvin, the World’s First Humour Engineer, and a discussion on Strength Based Resilience with Ryan Wolf – Physical Wellbeing Lead at Gallup and Jana Dawson – Director of Academic and Training Development at The School of Positive Psychology.

Participants will also be guided through a real-time yoga session on the last day of the summit by RYT 500 teacher – Certified Yoga Alliance and Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) Movement Specialist Aaron Wickramasekara.

All participants will also have the opportunity to gain access to their own resilience test and to generate a report for themselves to evaluate their resilience, which will be provided to them by Dr. Sven Hansen.

Organised by the HR forum of SLASSCOM, the summit is hosted in tandem with Corporate Sponsor Dialog Enterprise, Main Sponsor Pearson, Silver Sponsors Exetel and 99x, Bronze Sponsor hSenid Biz, Education Partner Informatics Institute of Technology, Media Partner Daily FT and Event Partners AT Link and ACCA.