The welcome speech was delivered by SLASSCOM
Chairman Mano Sekaram – followed by Laugfs Chairman
H. Wegapitiya, Microsoft Country Head Wellington
Perera and Millennium IT Founder and Ustocktrade
Participants networking with Haridhu Abeygoonaratne
Mentors of the bootcamp were Microimage Founder/
CEO Harsha Purasinghe, Wavenet and Wifyer CEO Suren
Pinto, Calcey Technologies CEO Mangala Karunaratne,
Cingergix CEO Chandika Jayasundera, Capaxus Ltd. CEO
Shahani Markus. SLASSCOM Vice Chairman Ruwindhu
Pieris said, “Successful entrepreneurs are those that can
effectively manage the paradox of optimising the currently
available resources to deliver efficiently while constantly
looking ahead for opportunities to innovate and investing in
them.”
Suren Pinto, Dinesh Saparamadu & Dr. Prasad Samarasinghe
mentoring the startups
Chairman/CEO Tony Weerasinghe addressing the
audience with SLASSCOM Vice Chairman Ruwindhu
Peiris moderating the Q & A session.
“To become a successful entrepreneur you have to have the
hunger and the drive to make it happen even when others
don’t see it happening. Whatever adversity you face always
stay focused and don’t change your business,” said Tony
Weerasinghe.
The subject experts for the Disrupt 2.0 Bootcamp included
Regus Country Manager Dr. Michael Nirmal De Silva,
Orion City CEO Jeevan Gnanam, Lanka Bell MD Dr. Prasad
Samarasinghe, Sudath Perera Associates Senior Partner
Sudath Perera, SECQUERO CEO Naresh Abeyesekera,
PwC Advisory Leader/COO Channa Manoharan, WSO2
VP Marketing Dilendra Wimalasekere, hSenid Group
Founder and CEO Dinesh Saparamadu, Storylize Founder
Nayana Samaranayake and SimCentric Technologies COO
Haridhu Abeygoonaratne.
H. Wegapitiya said, “Trying to be a jack of all trades isn’t
a crime. As an entrepreneur you have to dream big and
articulate your dream into reality. If you don’t work on your
dream someone else will hire you to make theirs.”
main objective of gaining insights
into understanding the current state
and most pressing needs of the Sri
Lankan Startup community.
SLASSCOM
INITIATES
START UP
SURVEY
The survey is targeted at four
separate groups and captures unique
perspectives from each: Current
startups, those actively looking to
start a startup, investors of startups
and support groups of the startup
ecosystem.
An initiative by the SLASSCOM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum,
the Startup Sri Lanka Survey www.slasscom.lk/startupsrilanka, has the
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The results of the survey will help
obtain quantified data and ground