Microsoft to headline final day of ICTA’s National Digital Consortia 2022

Microsoft will headline the final day (13) of the four-day National Digital Consortia, organised by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) in partnership with the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS), Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM), BCS and Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL).

The line-up of speakers from Microsoft will include Microsoft APAC Vice President Sandy Gupta, Microsoft Southeast Asia New Markets General Manager Sook Hoon Cheah, Microsoft Sri Lanka and the Maldives Country Manager Harsha Randeny, Microsoft Asia Regional Business Lead Manufacturing Saj Kumar, Microsoft APAC Financial Services Leader Basudev Banerjee, Microsoft APAC Education Lead Vincent Quah, Microsoft Asia Regional Business Lead Public Sector Manish Prakash and Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect Kiran Kumar NR. They will present the latest products, services and share insights on trends in the global tech industry. Their sessions will showcase the latest technology trends in agriculture, cybersecurity, health, education, fintech and customer engagement and transformation. In addition, fireside chats, case studies on digital government transformation will also be provided.

The challenges now posed by cybersecurity and keeping citizen data safe and secure, both in transit across a network and at rest in the data centre, are escalating, as governments of every scale increasingly rely on information technologies as part of their critical infrastructure. As a cloud provider serving many millions of customers around the world, Microsoft uses effective cybersecurity solutions that can scale to meet the requirements of both large and small government organisations.