LNBTI team wins first place in Port City Colombo Ideathon

One of the Lanka Nippon Biztech Institute (LNBTI) teams placed first in the top three finalists at the Port City Colombo Ideathon. The teams consisted of Sadeeka Tharushi and Mishen Dilruk Perera from Batch Five students studying ICT at LNBTI.

Port City Colombo Youth Speak Forum 2021 was organised by AIESEC in Sri Lanka with Port City Colombo. The main objective of this event was to give a place for Sri Lankan youth to express their ideas and educate themselves on sustainable development.

As an internal event linked to the Port City Colombo Youth Speak Forum, the Port City Colombo Ideathon was held. Through the Ideathon, the Sri Lankan youth aged 16 to 30 were given the opportunity to pitch their breakthrough ideas. The ideathon was based on three main categories: urban development and green cities, technological advancements and smart cities and urban livelihood and social well-being. Both individual and team applicants were encouraged to participate.

From LNBTI, two teams participated in this event under the category ‘technological advancements and smart cities’. Through the participation, they gained considerable knowledge on sustainable development and different technological models related to the smart city concept. Further to that, they went through crash courses in technical writing, research and presentation as part of the work they did for the ideathon. Further to that,they also got the chance to take part in knowledge sessions organised by AIESEC Sri Lanka.

LNBTI is a premier higher education institute in Sri Lanka, offering Japanese quality ICT programmes. Incorporated by the dynamic collaboration between Metatechno Inc. and hsenid ventures, LNBTI is the only institute in South Asia to offer ICT degree pathways leading to Japanese universities, which are UGC recognised. It produces world-class ICT professionals with Japanese morals/ethics and business mannerism. By adopting Japanese educational practices, LNBTI always strives to deliver the benefits of Japanese management models as well as technologies to the students.

As a higher education body that focused in ICT education imbuing Japanese quality standards, its aim is to equip the future generation with one of the refined, technologically sound ICT Programmes in Sri Lanka and to mould the promising young minds to be competent go-getters in the future world. LNBTI’S intention is to develop Japanese quality ICT professionals who can confidently join the lucrative and a rapidly growing ICT industry as ICT professionals in Japanese companies internationally or locally.