QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT 2019 QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT 2019
QUALITY & BUSINESS
EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
2019
QUALITY & BUSINESS
EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
2019
QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
2019
SLASSCOM QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT 2019
SLASSCOM Quality and Business Excellence Summit 2019 with the focus on the significance of enhancing quality across organizations through Quality Engineering and Business Excellence will take place :
On October 14, 2019 From 09:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m. At Shangri-La Colombo.
This year the theme of the Summit is ‘Accelerate End User Experience through Quality Engineering’. Organized by the SLASSCOM Quality Forum, the objective of the summit is to bring together the CXOs and quality practitioners to promote Sri Lanka as a destination for product engineering while focusing on driving the IT/BPM industries to the next wave of growth, developing enterprise capability with adoption of international standards of quality, security and governance.
The Summit will commence with three Key Speakers from the industry including two key note speeches in the morning session and the afternoon session will consist of two parallel track sessions focusing on Quality Engineering and Business Excellence.
The quality engineering track targets at Software Quality professionals, Business Analysts and Project Managers and the business excellence track is targeted at Process Managers, CXOs and Product Managers.
The Summit is expected to attract over 300 Engineers from the IT/BPM industry and needless to say, this experience presents a great opportunity for building relationships and networking in addition to acquiring invaluable knowledge on the topics tabled for discussion by industry experts. It’s an event not to be missed!
The Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) acts as
the catalyst of growth for the Sri Lankan IT and BPM industry by facilitating trade and business, propagation of education
and employment, encouragement of research and innovation, thereby supporting
the creation of a progressive national policy framework. SLASSCOM has a
membership of over 170 companies and these companies generate over 90% of the IT/BPM industry export revenue and
employment in Sri Lanka.
As an industry we have set an ambitious target as the vision for 2022.
• USD 5.0 billion of revenue• 200,000 direct jobs• Establish1000 IT/BPM startups
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Track Sessions
1. Business & Process Excellence2. Quality Engineering trends
08.30am - 09.00am
09.00am - 09.10am
09.10am - 09.55am
09.55am - 10.40am
10.40am -10.55am
10.55am - 11.40am
11.40am -12.15pm
12.15pm -01.15pm
01.15pm - 04.05pm
04.05pm - 04.50pm
04.55pm - 05.00pm
05.00pm - 05.15pm
04.50pm - 04.55pm
SESSION
AFTERNOON
MORNING
SESSIONRegistration/ Morning refreshments
Welcome address
Keynote 1 : Dan Cuellar, Founder- Appium
Keynote 2 : Dr. Rainer Deutschmann, Group Chief Operating Officer- Dialog Axiata PLC
Tea Break
Keynote 3 : Manoj Kumar, Lead Technical Specialist & Evangelist- Applitools
Panel Discussion
Networking Lunch
Guest Speaker- TBC
Presenting tokens of appreciation
Vote of Thanks
Fellowship and Closing of Event
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INDUSTRY RENOWNED LINEUP OF KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dan CuellarFounder, Appium
Dan Cuellar is the creator of the open source mobile automation framework Appium, and an ex-perienced software engineering and quality assurance manager. Previously, he headed the test organisation at Shazam in Lon-don and Zoosk in San Francis-
co, and worked as a software engineer on Microsoft Outlook for Mac, and other products in the Microsoft Office suite. He is an advocate of open source technol-ogies and technical software testing.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, with a minor in Music Technology, from the world-re-nowned School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Rainer helped high-tech, banking and telco clients to embrace digital technologies, while at Deutsche Telekom he built and led DT’s core product portfolio across 14 European markets, serving 90 million customers and 30 million households. Currently, as Group COO, Rainer is responsible for Dialog Axiata’s businesses, corporate strategy and M&A, driving the digital transformation of Sri Lanka’s leading telco, pay TV and digital services player into an analytics and data driven agile company. Passionate about technology, Rainer advises and invests in digital telco, analytics, fintech and blockchain compa-nies. He serves as Non-Executive Director at rain, South Africa’s digital mobile network operator. He holds a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics from the Univer-sity of Technology Munich and worked as a computation and neuroscience researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) / USA.
Manoj KumarLead Technical Specialist & Evangelist, Applitools
Manoj is a Lead Technical Specialist and Evangelist at Applitools, a Selenium committer and a member of the project leadership committee.
He is an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to different libraries that shall help test the apps better with libraries like Selenium, ngWebDriver, Serenity and Protractor. He is also the author of a Selenium blog AssertSelenium and an Accessibility enthusiast.
Dr. Rainer DeutschmannGroup Chief Operating Officer, Dialog Axiata PLC
Rainer has designed, built and run telecommunication and digital businesses for the last 20 years in mature and emerging markets.
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INDUSTRY RENOWNED LINEUP OF GUEST SPEAKERS
Christina ThalayasingamAssociate Quality Engineering LeadSysco LABS
Christina is an Associate QE Lead with 5 years of with experience in both Automation and Manual Testing. She also possesses strong skills in Test Automation in both functional and non-functional testing. She has been talking at various meet ups and Selenium Conf 2016 - London, Selenium Conf 2017- Austin, TX, Selenium Conf 2018 - Chicago - IL, the Colombo Test Automation 2017 - Sri Lanka and PerfGuild 2019.
Dushan DayaratneLean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Dushan is the Head of Business Ex-cellence for Midas Sri Lanka and has over 15 years of experience in Process Improvement. He has formerly been attached to Penguin as the Chief Op-erating Officer and at Brandix Lanka as a Senior Manager in Process Improve-ment.
Dushan is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (BMG University) with ACMA (UK) and a BSc in Physical Sci-ence from University of Sri Jayawarde-nepura.
Srinivasan SekarAppium Member, Lead Consultant- ThoughtWorks
Srinivasan Sekar is a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks. He loves contribut-ing to Open Source. He is an Appium Member and Selenium Contributor as well. He worked extensively on testing various Mobile and Web Applications. He specializes in building automation frameworks. He has also spoken at var-ious international conferences including SeleniumConf, AppiumConf, Belgrade-TestConf, and FOSDEM.
Dileepa JayathilakeManager Research- 99X Technology Pvt Ltd
Dileepa is the Co- Founder of Blockchain based food traceability startup Tracified. He has also architected the two blockchain based products BlockEvent & Jigsaw developed by 99X Technology. He leads many teams in 99X Technology focusing on Blockchain, Mobile and Web. During his 16 year career he has developed numerous software products and enterprise systems.
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Heshan PereraAssociate Architect and Manager of Remote Monitoring and IoT Platform, Zone24x7 (Private) Ltd
Heshan has delivered many enterprise grade solutions in the field of IoT, Re-mote Monitoring and Management and Robot Fleet Management in the U.S. His involvement is in the development and delivery of an autonomous ground robot combining teams of software engineers, embedded systems engineers, mechan-ical engineers and robotics specialists expanding from software test engineer-ing to robot test engineering.
Achala AthukoralaElectronics Engineer, Zone24x7 (Private) Ltd
Achala specializes in Robotics Hardware Design. He is involved in key electronics designs for autonomous robotics solu-tions. He is an expert in ROS and was instrumental in developing the firmware test suites, designing and implement accelerated life tests for longevity, and bringing up software simulations of robots to solve resource contention problems in robotics projects.
Achala has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engi-neering, Electronics and Telecommuni-cation Engineering.
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Dr Rajitha Navarathna AI Consultant/ Scientist
Dr Rajitha is a former Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Disney Company in USA. During the last decade he worked with scientists/engineers/professors from different institutes and companies such as CSIRO in Brisbane, QUT in Brisbane, AutoCRC in MelbourneAustralia, Walt Disney Imagineering in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh in USA and Disney Research Zurich. During the last few years, he also collaborated with Walt Disney Studios & Pixar, Disney Research Zurich in Switzerland and ABC television media networks in USA. In 2016, his research has been tech-transferred to ABC television media networks to create a fully data science lab to understand audience behavior for TV shows.
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PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
PLATINUMGOLD
Time Line Benefits PLATINUM GOLD
Pre Event Logo in main event flyer/website Featured as Platinum Sponsor Featured as Gold Sponsor
Branding in FB event page Yes Yes
Branding in event webpage (and RSVP Page) Yes Yes
Branding on SLASSCOM FB page Yes Yes
Branding in three print advertisements Yes Yes
Mention in all pre-event communication in print and digital media Yes Yes
Social Media Coverage
Onsite BackdropTitle association and Logo
prominently displayed on stageFeatured as Gold sponsor and
prominently displayed
Mentions by compere/host 6 4
Two minute AV feature presentation 3 Screenings 2 Screenings
Complimentary invitations 5 3
Distribution of promo literature/white papers etc. Yes Yes
Complimentary event desk or promo booth Yes Yes
Option for a speaker with strong domain experience to be featured at the event Yes Yes
Invitation for a panelist Yes -
Post Event Access to attendee database (with an option provided for attendees to unsubscribe from your emails) Yes Yes
PR coverage in print and digital media Yes Yes
Social Media Coverage
Branding in ‘Thank You for participating’ email Yes Yes
Investment Excluding VAT 15% + NBT 2.04% Rs. 750,000 Rs. 500,000
SponsorshipQUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
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PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
SILVERBRONZE
Time Line Benefits SILVER BRONZE
Pre Event Logo in main event flyer/website Featured as Silver Sponsor Featured as Bronze Sponsor
Branding in FB event page Yes Yes
Branding on SLASSCOM FB page Yes -
Branding in three print advertisements Yes Yes
Mention in all pre-event communication in print and digital media Yes -
On Site BackdropFeatured as Silver sponsor and prominently displayed
Featured as Bronze sponsor
AV feature presentation (min. 2 screenings) 1 Min AV 30 Sec AV
Complimentary invitations 2 1
One of the following options are available: Yes -
a. Docket, bag or mini-backpack containing branded merchandise (Pens, Notebooks, Flyers etc.) -
b. Provision of a gift item for conference participants (300 nos.) -
Post Event PR coverage in print and digital media Yes Yes
Social Media Coverage
Branding in ‘Thank You for participating’ email Yes Yes
Investment Excluding VAT 15% + NBT 2.04% Rs. 300,000 Rs. 250,000
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Sponsorship QUALITY & BUSINESS EXCELLENCE SUMMIT
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PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY
ACADEMIC BOOTH
Time Line ACADEMIC SPONSOR
Pre Event Logo in main event flyer/website - Featured as Academic Sponsor
Branding in FB event page
On Site Logo in backdrop - Featured as Academic Sponsor
30 sec. AV feature presentation (min. 2 screenings)
Post EventAccess to attendee database (with an option provided for attendees to unsubscribe from your emails)
PR coverage in print and digital media
Investment LKR 100,000 + Taxes (VAT 15% + NBT 2.04%)
CONTACT US
Shehani SeneviratneChief Operating Officer- 99X Technology Pvt Ltd
Tharindra JayamahaAssociate QA Architect- 99X Technology Pvt Ltd
Wathsala Wijekoon/ Didula PereraHR & Programme Manager- SLASSCOM/ Associate Manager
+94 776227330/ +94 [email protected]/ [email protected]
Time Line INFORMATION BOOTH
On Site 8x8 space for an information booth with good visibility
A table with two chairs or a demo station with branding can be placed in the provided space at the entrance to the conference hall.
Access for two persons to manage the booth
Investment LKR 50,000 + Taxes (VAT 15% + NBT 2.04%)