Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2015 starts today

4 August 2015 04:20 am Views - 2508

 

•     President to attend the summit’s closing session
•     Over 450 participants to attend the summit 
•     Top-notch speakers and resource persons lined up

Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2015, organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, will kick off today at 9:00 a.m. in Colombo and will be addressed by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The summit, which will be held at Cinnamon Grand Hotel, will see the participation of over 450 persons.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural session, while Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake and Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera will join in as members of the panel discussion, which will follow the Prime Minister’s speech. Ceylon Chamber of Commerce former Chairman Suresh Shah will moderate the panel discussion. 

Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Chairman Samanatha Ranatunga will deliver the welcome address of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit, which will run across two days and hold eight sessions, where various topics will come under discussion in relation to the summit’s theme of ‘Towards Exports of US $ 50 billion’.
The planned eight sessions will focus on areas such as ‘National Vision: Policy Implementation and Perspective’, ‘A New Global Economic Strategy for Sri Lanka’, ‘Driving Exports – Use of Social Media and Technology’, ‘Challenges In and Opportunities For Financing of Exports’, ‘Championing Value Addition in Agri Exports’, ‘Sustainability-Led Export Growth’, ‘Going Up the Value Chain – Export of Knowledge Services’ and will conclude with a CEO’s forum.

President Maithripala Sirisena will address the participants at the summit’s closing session, while closing remarks will be made by Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Vice Chairman Rajendra Theagarajah.

Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2015, which commenced 16 years ago, is the flagship event of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and focuses on discussing the most critical issues of the economy.

The Platinum sponsor of this year’s event is Sunshine Holdings PLC and the Gold sponsor of the event is CIC Holdings. Commercial Bank and Seylan Bank have come in as the Silver sponsors of the event, while LOLC, SLIIT and First Capital are the Bronze sponsors. 

The Strategic partners of the event are the Export Development Board, York Street Partners, Altair and Ironwood Capital Partners. Cinnamon Grand is the host hotel of the event while OmnicomMediGroup (OMD) is the Communications partner.