(UTV|COLOMBO) – Pearson Lanka 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 29 th October at the BMICH 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.
“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 organizations, 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 center
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.
Entrance to Pearson Tech Summit is free of charge but through exclusive invitation only. For
more details and registrations, contact Sharmali on 0767405194.
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