SLASSCOM People Summit 2018 to kick off this February

The SLASSCOM People Summit 2018, which returns for the seventh time, aims to provide leaders at all levels with innovative talent management insights and perspectives from renowned global leaders, along with prime networking and experience sharing opportunities.

The event will take place on February 20th 2018 at the Shangri-La Colombo. This annual event aims to bring together over 300 HR professionals and business leaders representing IT/BPM and other industries.

The summit’s objectives are twofold – firstly, to expose the audience to international best practices, cutting-edge trends and insights delivered by renowned HR practitioners within the region. Secondly, it provides an excellent networking opportunity for attendees to meet and share experiences.

The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Transforming the way we Think, Work and Connect’ in alignment with the trends that are currently being viewed as the most challenging areas of global people management, such as building collaborative organisations, data analytics and leveraging automation and AI based technology towards future ready organisations.

The summit comprises of two main sessions: The CXO Breakfast Forum and the General Conference.  The conference will have three parallel breakout sessions focusing on gathering insights through data analytics to create value, creating future ready organisations using AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and building collaborative workspaces through concepts such as work-out loud and design thinking.

The workshops will be conducted by experienced speakers from renowned organisations. The keynote address will be delivered by Oracle Corporation Asia Pacific HCM Cloud Applications Head Yazad Dalal. Other speakers include Virtusa Executive Vice President and Global COO Keith Modder, Microsoft Asia Pacific Human Resources Director Kathy Tingate, University of Columbia Economics Professor Prof. Lalith Munasinghe, Great Place To Work India CEO Prasenjit Bhattacharya and Great Place To Work Sri Lanka Director and Oracle Corporation HR Asia Pacific Senior Director Rachna Sampayo