Guest Speeches


Capturing a new opportunity: Knowledge management
Dr. H. Manthrithilake
Senior Researcher
International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
Towards a sustainable future: Managerial reflections
Prof. H.H.D.N.P. Opatha
Senior Professor
Department of Human Resource Management (HRM), Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka.
A bottom up approach to design stable robots for unstructured environments
Dr. D.P.T. Nanayakkara
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Robotics Research (CoRe)
Department of Informatics, Kings College London (KCL)
Linking agriculture, nutrition, and health; Role of dietary transition
Dr. Sanath Mahawithanage
Health research – Where do we start?
Prof. Vasanthi Thevanesam
Agriculture mobile application for farmers
Prof. Gihan Wickramanayake
“Gone fishing”- Studying metal, molecules , metal junctions with Scanning Probe Microscopy
Prof. Simon Higgins
Professor at the Department of Chemistry
University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Plantation agriculture: A golden opportunity but need new dimensions to make them working
Dr. Dan Seevaratnam
National and global challenges for sustainable development
Dr. Saman Kalegama
Executive Director
Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS).