CIM Sri Lanka 16th Annual Conference on 28 and 29 June

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The 16th Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Marketing Sri Lanka is scheduled to be held on 28 and 29 June under the theme ‘Disruptive Innovation’. The conference will be inaugurated on Tuesday, 28 June at 6:30 p.m. and the technical sessions will be held on Wednesday, 29 June from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Waters Edge Battaramulla. The keynote speaker of the event will be Dr. Prafulla Agnihotri, Founder Director and Professor of Marketing and Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli.

One of the sessions at the annual conference will be facilitated by Professor Wong Poh Kam, Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) on Nurturing Disruptive Innovation. The speaker will address the tension point of corporates by bringing live examples of organisations which have used game changing strategies to bring in a more innovative culture. The speaker will draw the attention of the audience towards the process of changing a company culture and what companies should do to create an ‘innovation culture’ in organisations.

Profile of the speaker

Wong Poh Kam is a Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation strategy with a special focus on Asia. He is also a Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Faculty of Engineering at NUS. He obtained two BSc’s, an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has published extensively in leading international refereed journals on entrepreneurship and innovation such as Organisation Science, Information Systems Research, Research Policy, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Technovation and Small Business Economics. His publications have attracted close to 2000 citations on Web of Science and over 7600 on Google Scholars as of end March 2016. He has consulted widely for international agencies such as the World Bank, OECD and Asian Development Bank, various government agencies in Singapore and many private corporations in Asia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Oxford University, and a Pacific Leadership Fellow at UC San Diego.

In addition to his academic position, he is also concurrently the Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, where he spearheads the university’s experiential entrepreneurship education programs. He was the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) and the annual Asia Business Angels Forum (ABAF), and is an advisor to a number of venture capital funds. He received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) Award from the Singapore Government in 2013 for his contribution to education in Singapore, and the ‘Entrepreneur for the World’ Award (Educator Category) from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in 2015.

CIM Sri Lanka prides itself for being the first international branch of CIM UK and comprising the largest number of students and members of CIM outside the UK. Celebrating its 20th anniversary the regional institute has campaigned constantly for greater recognition and excellence in the marketing profession in the country through education, training and development.