SA Digital Week Sri Lanka 2022

Sri Lanka’s National Security – Make, Guard and Preserve
The analogies for Sri Lanka with all of its natural assets, and with proper management and investment, has become the ideal location for offshore data centres. In the wake of modernising and guarding its data protection framework, Sri Lankan Cabinet has drafted two bills – the ‘Defence Cyber Commands Act’ and a bill for imposing cyber protection law. Once implemented, these regulatory policies will serve as the defence frontier for Sri Lanka’s digital security and will enable them to achieve their digitalisation goals while keeping investment and operating expenses low. This keynote address will discuss the government’s and regulatory bodies’ plans and initiatives to push Sri Lanka onto a global market in terms of data and cyber reliability, boosting a digitally resilient culture, talent and workforce and enable the frameworks for a digitally inclusive Sri Lanka and .
Keynote Speaker
Chanuka Wattegama, Head of Policy, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka

Next-Gen Energy Efficient Data Centres – What It Takes For Sri Lanka To Be In The Global Race!
To establish the most secure and scalable data infrastructure and to position Sri Lanka as a leader in this digital age, building another standard data centre won’t do! Atleast, the post-pandemic era clearly demands us to re-think! So, here, we try to answer the question of how one can re-invent the data centers of the future that are not only digitally supreme but are resilient, sustainable, efficient, and adaptive in nature. This power panel discussion will focus on how to prepare your network and workforce for the next-gen sustainable data centres, secure them and create globally resilient strategies. The discussion will shed some insights into how to radically simplify digital infrastructure challenges for local and regional enterprises and drastically improve the speed at which they conduct their business
Panelists

Forces Shaping Sri Lanka’s Digital Economy
A country’s market forces and policies define the demand and growth for data centers and its other pockets. Sri Lanka’s plunge into acquiring high-end digital data infrastructure built on world-class enterprise solutions providers will necessitate a larger use of the globally competitive data hosting capabilities. The key enterprise players and the public and private interests for this global push will enhance the provision of a secure and reliable data hosting facility and cloud computing services in Sri Lanka. This panel discussion will share insights into the contributing forces behind Sri Lanka’s evolving data centre ecosystem and how the increasing consumption of this era’s new digital behaviour will naturally stir the demand for data centre services, and drive new requirements.
Moderator
Venkatesh Ganesh, Deputy Editor, W.media

Panelists
Azain Ghany, Group Chief Information Officer, Emjay Penguin
Ruwanthi Fernando, Chief Information & Process Officer, Hela Clothing
Navin De Croos, Senior Manager – Globe IS/IT, Nestle Lanka PLC
Nishan Thevathason, Vice President, John Keells Holdings PLC
Irshad Deen, Deputy Chief Digital Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC

Adopting An Unified Environment For Cloud Migration
The increased adoption of cloud-based services has been driving the demand for the data centre in Sri Lanka. Critical enterprise applications are migrating towards the cloud for improved security, service assurance, operational efficiency, network connectivity, management, and seamless scalability. This presentation will talk about providing businesses with a unified cloud experience and emphasises the necessity to systematise their hybrid multi-cloud environments, taking into account migration, security, compliance, data, performance, scalability, and network requirements.

Building A Cyber Resilient Sri Lanka With AI
The core foundation of developing countries and developed countries is having a successful digital economy. A successful digital economy is defined by the extension of investment in digital infrastructure – fibre and wireless connectivity and high-end technologies – and its expansion. As it is increasingly becoming important to safeguard the nation’s digital security, government and private organisations have taken steps to address the new cyber threat landscape. However, with expanding concerns over cyber security, the progress to counter has been too slow. While cyber attacks are considered negative disruptors, AI is considered as a disruptor of a new hyper tech era. With looming concerns about digital sovereignty and the resilience of vital operations, deploying AI to safeguard organisations against AI-augmented hacking attempts has therefore become a necessary part of cyber security defense protocols. This panel will discuss how organisations can use AI to become more resilient to cyber crime and anticipate and respond to changes in the threat landscape over time.

Moderator
Sujit Christy, Director, President, (ISC)2 Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka

Panelists
Suresh Emmanuel, Chief Information Security Officer, Hatton National Bank PLC
Shehan Savio, Senior Manager – Information Security, Cargills Bank Limited
Sunari Dandeniya, CISO, Commercial Bank of Ceylon