99X Technology Quiz Team crowned champions at Biz Quiz 2017
The 99X Technology Quiz Team, after hours of a tense battle among some of the most knowledgeable masterminds in the corporate sector, emerged victorious and was crowned the Overall Champions at the fifth Glitz Biz Quiz. The company also won the sector award for the IT and Software Category – retaining this title for the fifth consecutive year at the May 7 event at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo.
While the 99X Technology Quiz Team has come close to gaining this hotly-contested title in previous years, this marks the first time it has won at one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious mercantile quizzes. The team battled it out against 40 highly competitive teams that included Sri Lanka’s premier corporate quiz teams including Dialog Axiata, People’s Bank (2016 overall champions), Hatton National Bank, DFCC Bank, Seylan Bank, IFS, MillenniumIT and SriLankan Airlines, among others, the winning company said in a media release.
With the overall title clinched by 99X Technology, Dialog Axiata came in second place followed by SriLankan Airlines and Moody’s Analytics sharing third place. In the IT and Software Category, sector winner 99X Technology was closely followed by IFS and Millennium Information Technologies in second and third places respectively.
The team from 99X Technology was represented by Associate Technical Lead Shirantha De Alwis, who captained the team, Associate Technical Lead Rangitha Kuruppu, Technical Lead Sabry Moulana and CEO Apprentice Raveen Ubeysekera.
99X Technology is an award-winning software product engineering company. Headquartered in Sri Lanka, the company also has offices in Oslo, Norway.