SLASSCOM WTech Forum celebrates IWD 2022

Recognising the need to promote greater gender equality in the tech entrepreneurship space, the SLASSCOM WTech forum has over the past year, been taking a lead role in powering women to embrace entrepreneurship and in supporting every stage of their entrepreneurial journey from ideation, starting up, scaling to becoming established.

Taking this initiative even further to enable greater female representation in tech entrepreneurship, the WTech Forum will be holding a series of events organised under the theme ‘WTech Fest’ that would comprise of a series of virtual panel discussions specially curated with rural women participants in mind. 

Carried out in Sinhala and Tamil and targeted at female entrepreneurs as well as female students, graduates and undergraduates with career aspirations foraying into the tech and BPM industry, it features learnings on successful female entrepreneurship journeys, their great wins, challenges and pitfalls, useful tips and insights  that will serve as guidance in navigating successful businesses in the tech and BPM arena for a plethora of rural women.

The panel discussions will be held in collaboration with some of SLASSCOM’s invaluable long-term regional partners, namely Uva Startup Hub, Central Startup Hub, Sabaragamuwa Startup Hub and Jaffna NCIT and SLASSCOM’s Regional Development Forum. 

The forum also plans to launch three long-term, sustainable entrepreneurship development programmes in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE) and other sponsor partners. 

Among other initiatives and activities rolled out by the SLASSCOM WTech Forum for IWD 2022, a database of on-demand mentors along with their areas of expertise will be featured on the SLASSCOM WTech official webpage, providing opportunities for aspiring women technopreneurs across all regions in the country to reach out to these mentors and be guided on emerging technologies, delivery excellence and how they could grow into technology leaders who provide creative and innovative products and solutions to the world.