Eminent panel of speakers to address the 5th Annual ACCA Conference
Monday, 16 September 2013 00:00
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The Annual Conference of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Students’ Committee will be held on the 21 September 2013, at the Kings’ Court, Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. under the theme of ‘Success through Synergy’.
The conference brings together an eminent panel of speakers comprising of Dialog Axiata PLC Group Chief Executive Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya as the Keynote Speaker. Guest speakers include Hayleys BPO Managing Director Dr. Arul Sivagananathan, Nations Trust Bank Chief Executive Officer/Director Renuka Fernando, Trainer/HRD Specialist (ranked amongst the top 20 speakers in the world) Dananjaya Hettiarachchi and Hatton National Bank Chief Operating Officer Dilshan Rodrigo.
The conference this year will cover topics to be applied to practical team working scenarios. The keynote address will take a birds-eye view of team working and achieving success followed by sessions that would look into the perception one should take towards change and how this would help to make one an ideal team player. Further, a session will also cover areas on the fears of managing obstacles and overcoming them both individually as well as a team, focusing specifically on the inter-personal synergies. Also the importance of sharing risks as well as responsibilities to achieve the desired results and the role of managing the differing interests and expectations of the group members would be addressed in a session. The conference will also highlight how positivity has a tremendous impact on one’s ability to think creatively to progress in their careers, cope with challenges and also work with others focusing directly on the strategies to drive enthusiasm, motivation and reinforce positivity within a group.
The above mentioned sessions would be followed by a panel discussion on the topic of ‘An engaged employee: Branding yourself’, moderated by Echelon Magazine Chief Editor Shamindra Kulamanage. The panel will compose of: Google Asia Pacific Sri Lanka Country Consultant Rohan Jayaweera, Ceylon Tobacco Co PLC HR Director Samanmali Chandrasiri, Brandix Head of Group HR Operations Ashanthi Fernando and Hemas Transportation Sector Managing Director Kasturi C. Wilson.
The panel would provide an insight into the effect of the individual brands of an employee on the overall brand of the organisation helping the audience to gauge the importance of their brand on the organisation’s brand.
The conference this year is sponsored by: Hatton National Bank (HNB) as the Official Banking Partner, American National College (ANC) and LG Smartphone as Co-Gold Sponsors and Associated Motor Ways (AMW) as the Exclusive Silver Sponsor. Daily Mirror, Daily FT and Sunday Times have come on board as the Exclusive Print Media Partners together with ART TV as the Official Television Partner and TNL Radio as the Official Radio Partner. The Official Photography Partner for the event is Dylan Seedin Photography.
Registrations and now open for the Conference and investment for the Conference is Rs. 2,000 for ACCA students and Rs. 2,500 for Corporates and non-ACCAs. For more details on the conference mail Maneesha on [email protected] or Devruwan on [email protected] .
