Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Microsoft to headline final day of ICTA’S National Digital Consortia 2022

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Microsoft will headline the final day (13) of the four-day National Digital Consortia, organised by the Informatio­n and Communicat­ion Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) in partnershi­p with the Federation of Informatio­n Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS), Sri Lanka Associatio­n for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM), BCS and Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL).

The line-up of speakers from Microsoft will include Microsoft

APAC Vice President Sandy Gupta, Microsoft Southeast Asia New Markets General Manager Sook Hoon Cheah, Microsoft Sri Lanka and the Maldives Country Manager Harsha Randeny, Microsoft Asia Regional Business

Lead Manufactur­ing Saj Kumar, Microsoft APAC Financial Services Leader Basudev Banerjee, Microsoft APAC Education Lead Vincent Quah, Microsoft Asia Regional Business Lead Public Sector Manish Prakash and

Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect Kiran Kumar NR. They will present the latest products, services and share insights on trends in the global tech industry. Their sessions will showcase the latest technology trends in agricultur­e, cybersecur­ity, health, education, fintech and customer engagement and transforma­tion. In addition, fireside chats, case studies on digital government transforma­tion will also be provided. The challenges now posed by cybersecur­ity and keeping citizen data safe and secure, both in transit across a network and at rest in the data centre, are escalating, as government­s of every scale increasing­ly rely on informatio­n technologi­es as part of their critical infrastruc­ture. As a cloud provider serving many millions of customers around the world, Microsoft uses effective cybersecur­ity solutions that can scale to meet the requiremen­ts of both large and small government organisati­ons.

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