FITIS announces launch of Digital Excellence Awards and Conclave

From left: Subash Chandra Bowes Country Director- (Sri Lanka and Maldives) BPC Banking Technologies, Nuwan Dias Vice President & Deputy CTO WSO2, Fairoz Habeeb President-FITAS Software Chapter Chairman- Digital Excellence Awards and Conclave Chief Operating Officer Silverleap Technology (pvt) Ltd, Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe Chairman-Federation of IT industry Sri Lanka Managing Director-Lanka Bell Limited, Head of Advisory for Sri Lanka and Maldives Ernst & Young EY- Arujana Herath and Transformational Leader Digital Transformation Evangelist ICTA Sameera Jayawardena
Pic by Nimalsiri Edirisinghe

The Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) is organizing the FITIS Digital Excellence Awards and Conclave for the 2nd consecutive year in Colombo on February 23rd at the Shangri-La Hotel Colombo.
The event is positioned as one of the premier digital excellence awards and conferences that will hold panel discussions, fireside chats, presentations, and business matchmaking with an agenda to draw insights from participants with respect to digital transformation and exponential organizations (ExO).

The Digital Excellence Awards will be the culmination of the event, the grand finale which would recognize and applaud business enterprises who have adopted digital technologies and have transformed themselves to become Exponential Organizations contributing towards economic prosperity for the industry and country.
The event hopes to attract more than 800 delegates from private and government organizations locally and regionally to a common forum and gain insights on how their companies can benefit through digital transformation and move forward amidst a competitive market space. 

Themed ‘A Digitally Transformed Sri Lanka’, the event will feature a star-studded line up of global speakers from across the globe who can inspire and guide enterprises to migrate from Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0. The Speakers will share their insights, success stories and pragmatic approaches in spearheading transformational change to sustain and grow businesses in today’s disrupted world. 

“FITIS is proud to organize Digital Excellence Awards and Conclave for the second time,a very timely initiative to recognize the enterprises for their efforts on their digital transformation journey,” said Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe Chairman of FITIS. “Widespread adoption of digital technologies will no doubt lead to higher productivity and higher exports, which is imperative as Sri Lanka looks to export its services and products overseas, in a bid to attract more foreign exchange in the country.This initiative aligns well with the Sri Lanka’s vision of drive the Digital Economy Sri Lanka and we invite all organizations to partner with us in making Sri Lanka’s digital economy a success”. 

A unique feature of the Digital Excellence Awards & Conclave that it will include a range of workshops, demos, success stories, which will provide delegates a holistic learning experience. FITIS Digital Excellence Framework will be used for assessing the digital maturity of the organization covering four (4) major categories including, (i) Digitized Customer Experience, (ii) Digitized Products/Services, (iii) Digitized Operations and (iv) Digitized Organization. 

Each main category is grouped in to two sub-categories. A further four more unique categories, (i) Fully Transformed Organization (ii) Born Digital Organization and (iii) Corporate IT Awards (iv) Public Sector Awards, have also been added.
Entries will be evaluated by an eminent panel of jury members who have been pioneers in their respective fields and have contributed in the development of the industry and economy. The stage of digital transformation maturity for each domain ranges from Merit, Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Chairman of the Digital Excellence Conclave and Awards, Fairooz Habeeb said, “Despite the pandemic, Sri Lanka is at a crucial juncture in our digital transformation journey. 
Therefore, as much as we must focuses our attention in harnessing the powers of innovation and continuing to promote a national digitalization implementation strategy, it is paramount that we also honor organizations which have been at the forefront in transforming digitally one corporate at a time. Because brilliance must never go unnoticed”
The Gold Sponsor of the Digital Excellence Conclave and Awards are WSO2, BPC Banking, while the ICTA Agency Sri Lanka and EDB will be the National Partners and EY and Open ExO are knowledge partners.