Monday, November 18, 2019

Pearson Tech Summit to transform local IT industry

At the official launching event of Pearson Tech Summit 2019

Pearson Lanka officially announced the launch of ‘Pearson Tech Summit,’ a high-powered conference, featuring many local and international speakers from the Information Technology space. Themed ‘‘ignite, inspire, transform,” the tech summit would attract more than 1,000 IT professionals, academics and undergraduates under one roof, in a bid to refresh and enhance the knowledge of Sri Lanka’s IT industry.

The Pearson Tech Summit would be held on Tuesday, October 29, at the BMICH and would feature a series of high-powered sessions encompassing areas such as Software Development and Architecture, Quality Engineering, Technology Operations, Project Management and many more.

“Pearson Tech Summit 2019, would be the biggest technology event in history, hosted in Sri Lanka by Pearson Lanka,” said Diyath Ariyaratne, General Manager of Pearson Lanka. “With the attendance of both local IT industry experts and international speakers from Pearson’s global technology and product organizations, the Summit would give 1,000 cross functional techies and students a platform to engage, share knowledge, showcase expertise and learn about leading-edge technologies and methods of working.”

Some of the speakers at the event include Chinthi Weerasinghe, CEO of Mitra Innovation, Ruwindhu Peiris, Managing Director of Stax Inc., Prashan De Visser, Founder of Global Unites, Gehan Dias, Executive Director at Crossbrand Investments and Motivational Speaker and Consultant Rashitha Delapola.

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with more than 24,000 employees in more than 70 countries worldwide working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. Pearson Lanka is the largest Pearson owned technology center with over 800 employees providing software development and remote infrastructure management services to multiple technology groups across Pearson. The company builds and manages industry-leading, cloud-based learning platforms that serve millions of people across the world with the use of leading-edge technology.

 

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