CCC closes registrations for SLES 2018

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) announced yesterday the close of registration for Sri Lanka Economic Summit (SLES) 2018.

The country’s foremost economic event – SLES 2018 – will be held for the 18th time on the theme ‘On the Fast Track to a Turnaround’. This event, organised by the CCC, is taking place on September 13 and 14, at Cinnamon Grand Colombo.

The CCC announced over 400 participants signed up to attend. Fifty top expert speakers and panellists are lined up to speak at SLES 2018, forming a high standard intellectual debate on issues that relate to the state and private sector efforts of driving an economic turnaround.

The CCC also announced the winners of Economy. lk Essay Competition 2018, which was conducted for university students in the lead up to SLES 2018.

The essay topic for the competition was ‘The importance of free trade agreements for investment and business in Sri Lanka’ and 46 essay submissions across Sinhalese, Tamil and English languages were received. The competition was held with the aim of engaging youth in the discourse of the nation’s economy.

The essays were judged by the Economic Intelligence Unit of the CCC and five winners were selected. The winners are: Ashen Hirantha Rajakulathilaka of University of Colombo, Dilmini Abeyrathne of University of Kelaniya, Olinda Moraes of Asia Pacific Institute for Information and Technology (APIIT), Sathiyaseelan Janani of University of Colombo and Shashiprabha Rajapaksha of University of Sri Jayewardenepura.

Each of the winners has been awarded a free pass to attend SLES 2018, where they will be awarded a certificate and cash prize for their achievement.