Entrepreneurs enticed at SLT-Mobitel Innovation Day

Showcasing creativity and forward-thinking, SLT-Mobitel successfully hosted the first Innovation Day 2023, supporting staff and budding external entrepreneurs. 
The event took place recently at the SLT-MOBITEL R&D Centre, The Embryo, Trace City, Maradana.
Fostering a culture of creativity and excellence, the event provided a platform to demonstrate cutting-edge solutions from the SLT-Mobitel R&D team, company intrapreneurs through the Intrapreneurship Studio and external entrepreneurs through the Entrepreneurship Studio. 

The finalists had the opportunity to exhibit their innovations and were presented with awards. SLT CEO Janaka Abeysinghe along with the senior management of SLT-Mobitel attended the event. They addressed the gathering, delivering motivating speeches. Attendees included staff, partners, tech start-ups, the tech community and invited customers.

In hosting Innovation Day, SLT-Mobitel cemented its position as an invention-driven digital services provider. The event successfully unveiled new product concepts for enterprises, provided a platform to generate growth opportunities, helped in building strategic partnerships, created business linkages with external partners and contributed to shape the future of digital innovation in Sri Lanka.

The Innovation Day featured an exciting line-up of exhibits at The Embryo R&D Unit and showcased novel products such as 5G demo items, Querio AI, Raccoon AI, Smart Agro, Univo, Portable Soil Tester, NBIoT Dev Kit, Smarter Q, IIoT CMS, Emy BOT, etc. Further, the solutions developed by the Intrapreneurship Studio finalists and Entrepreneurship Studio finalists were also exhibited.

One of the activities in the Innovation Day was the awarding of the Intrapreneurship Studio Programme — Cohort 2023/24. The programme was designed to empower internal innovators and entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into groundbreaking new products and solutions.

Honouring outstanding participants of the Intrapreneurship Studio Programme demonstrates the company’s commitment to recognising internal innovation efforts. It promotes an innovative mindset within the organisation by celebrating pioneering ideas, process improvements and solutions. Winners were presented valuable cash prizes.
Having undergone rigorous evaluation, finalists of the programmes demonstrated their innovations to event attendees and customers. The Entrepreneurship Studio Programme enables SLT-Mobitel to extend business support and form collaborations with external innovators.

Rs.1.5mn biz support package 

Through the Entrepreneurship Studio Programme – Cohort 2023/24, SLT-Mobitel was able to reach out to external innovators/start-ups. Outstanding winners from the programme were announced to receive a business support package worth Rs.1.5 million. The initiative aimed at supporting external innovation aligned to the organisation.