Pearson tech summit set to ignite, inspire and transform local IT industry

Pearson Lanka has 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 will attract more than 1,000 IT professionals, academics and undergraduates under one roof in a bid to refresh and enhance the knowledge of the Sri Lankan IT industry.

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

“Pearson Tech Summit 2019 will 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 organisations, the Summit will give 1,000 cross functional techies and students a platform to engage, share knowledge, showcase expertise and learn about leading- edge technologies and ways 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 centre 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 using leading-edge technology.