International evaluation panel at SLASSCOM Innovation Awards 2018

The SLASSCOM Innovation Summit and Awards titled ‘Celebrate Ingenuity!’ is to be held on 14 June at the Cinnamon Grand, Colombo. 

An accomplished panel of international judges will moderate the selection process. 

The panel comprises Prof. Soumitra Dutta, Dr. Lourdes Casanova, Prof. Mike Hinchey - former Director of Lero (Irish Software Research Centre); Fredrik Syversen - Director of Industry Development at ICT Norway; Sanjeev Agrawal - President and CMO at LeanTaaS and former Head of Global Product Marketing at Google; Guillaume Alabert - CEO Prizle and Rene Gonzalez- Co-Founder and CFO, Bella Pear LLC.

The keynote speaker for the event, Prof. Dutta, is the Founder and Co-editor of the Global Innovation Index and the former Dean and current Professor of Management at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University. 

This will be followed by speakers and panelists including Dr. Lourdes Casanova - Senior Lecturer and Director Emerging Markets Institute, SC Johnson School of Business, Cornell University; Dr. Harsha Subasinghe - President and CEO of CodeGen; Dulith Herath - Founder and Chairman of kapruka.com and Heminda Jayaweera - Co-founder of Venture Frontier Lanka. The panel discussion will be moderated by Anushka Wijesinha - Advisor at the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade (MoDSIT).

The platinum sponsors of this event are Auxenta, Enabling Digital Transformation (www.auxenta.com) and Hatch, Transforming Sri Lanka’s Collaborative Workspace. The event is also supported by SLASSCOM’s Corporate Sponsor Dialog Enterprise, the Exclusive Enterprise Communications Partner. Other sponsors and partners include SimCentric Technologies, Bronze Sponsor, Daily FT - official newspaper, LearnTV – Education Learning Partner and ReadMe – Digital Media Partner.

Applications are now open for the following award categories:

• Best Product Innovation: Have you created a killer product/IP that has the potential to yield 100x on the investment?
• Best Startup Product/Service: Have you launched a game-changing product/service in the last two years? 
• Best Client Delivery Innovation: Has your client celebrated/recognised your innovation?
• Best Disruptor: Are you transforming your industry? Are you creating a ‘new normal’?
• Best Innovation in Internal Process: Have you innovated an internal process to produce outstanding results?
• Best Innovation in Business Process Management: Do you know your client’s business processes better than they do?
• Best Technology or Framework Innovation: Have you produced or defined the frameworks of your industry?

For more information, visit bit.ly/celebrateingenuity to apply. The closing date for applications is 25 May.