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The fourth consecutive edition of Sri Lanka’s most sought after SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards which seeks to recognise and celebrate innovation in the IT/BPM sector of the country is all set to take centre stage on 25 February 2022, hosted by the Sri Lanka Association of Software Services Companies (SLASSCOM).
SLASSCOM has placed emphasis on encouraging innovation-centric students, start-ups, SMEs, established IT-BPM companies and the corporate sector as a whole to apply and benefit from this opportunity to publicly showcase their digital innovations and disruptions. The awards ceremony will recognise participants across all nine provinces in the country, then moving on to the national level culminating in its grand finale.
Applications are now officially open for interested participants to compete across twelve award categories. They are; Best Disruptive Product Innovation, Best Client Delivery Innovation, Best Innovation in Internal Processes, Technology or Framework, Best Start-up, Best Innovative Product/Project – University, Best Innovative Product/Project – School, Emerging Woman Technopreneur of the Year, Best Global Business Service/BPM Entrepreneur, Most Innovative Global Business Service/BPM, Best Global Services/BPM Transformation Award, Best Global Business Services/BPM on Regional Expansion, and Best UN17 SDG Initiative/Software Solution in the IT/BPM Sector.
Commenting on the outlook of the fast-growing IT-BPM sector in Sri Lanka, SLASSCOM Chairperson Sandra De Zoysa said: “Inspiring new brigades to enter our industry remains as one of the key driving forces of the future forward attitude of the sector. Sri Lanka has positioned itself on par with other benchmark nations in terms of IT-BPM advancements.
“As we look towards the future, the SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards seeks to celebrate such accomplishments and progress. The growth enjoyed by the sector so far needs to be accelerated. We can take our island of ingenuity forward by inspiring more people to join, invest and grow with us, and this is exactly what the SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards strives to achieve.”
Meanwhile, SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards 2022 Conference Lead Charindra Wijemanne stated: “SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards is a platform that will bring out the best innovators in the IT-BPM industry of Sri Lanka. This will open doors for businesses of all sizes, start-ups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, Universities and School students to be recognised for their innovative thinking and contributions to uplift our industry.”
The SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards 2022 is supported by Wiley as Platinum Innovation Sponsor, ADL and Pearson as Platinum Sponsors, while IFC will support the event as a Technical Partner. LSEG and Hayleys Advantis will support the event as Gold Sponsors. ADA, ISMAPAC, hSenid, Nagarro and SDB have pledged to be Award Category Sponsors.
Event Partners include Export Development Board, Board of Investment, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Lankan Angel Network (LAN), Uva Start-up, Northern Chamber of IT, Council for Start-ups, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka Nordic Business Council, British Computer Society, Computer Society of Sri Lanka, North Eastern Chamber for ICT, National Chamber of Commerce, and National Chamber of Exporters. PwC Sri Lanka join hands as the Process Governance Partner.
