NBQSA 2009 winners won special merit awards at the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards competition held from 14 - 17 December 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.

APICTA competition consists of sixteen categories and each member country is eligible to nominate up to 3 products for each category. After a rigorous judging process the winner of each category is awarded a trophy, while the 2nd placed product is awarded the Merit Award, provided the difference of the points received by the 2nd is not more than 5% of that of the winner.

Four Sri Lankan participants won Merit awards at the APICTA 2009 which is one of the highest number of merit awards won by any country that participated APICTA 2009. They are:

NBQSA 2009 Awards Night and Gala Dinner will be held today at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla. This is the 11th time NBQSA is being held after starting with only a few participants back in 1998.

Today NBQSA features forty innovative ICT products competing in fourteen categories and seventy tertiary student projects, all competing to win the overall Gold trophy. NBQSA is the only national event which enables ICT professionals and companies to showcase their products in the National arena and obtain the NBQSA seal of excellence.

Some of the winning entries will go through to compete in this year’s Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) to be held in Melbourne, Australia in December.

You can follow us on twitter for the latest updates on NBQSA proceedings and get up to the minute results of who won.

This is a red carpet event
So formal wear is essential so
Shine for our photographer

Smart dress ladies sleek and stylish
Gentlemen no caps hooks or trainers

Top prize for king and queen of the ball
Give aways Prizes and Surprises

Date and Time
1st November 2009
7.00 pm - 11.00 pm

The Venue
Cinnamon Lakeside former Trans Asia

Tickets - Rs 1,000

The BCS together with its sponsors is organizing a CEO power breakfast and panel discussion titled “Synchronizing Business Solutions for Business” on 21 July at Cinnamon Grand Colombo. Business success often depends on IT based Business Solutions in place to run your business, sometimes the business solutions in place are focused towards one area of the business like Finance and not synchronized with the all business functions. In addition due to changing market conditions and opportunities the business plans and direction change, these business changes bring misalignment with the business solutions already in place. The synchronization of business solutions with the business is a key to business success. This is best achieved with the direct involvement of the CEO in the synchronizing process. Often CEO’s do not see the importance of IT and concentrate their effort and time more on Finance and Marketing. The purpose of the panel discussion is to listen to the thoughts of the panel members and share the experiences of the CEO’s in the audience and create a dialog on IT challenges for CEO’s in Sri Lanka.

We have an experienced and knowledgeable panel. Mr. Thomas Peterson is flying down from Sweden for the event and would be joined by Ranjith Fernando and Jay Keller and the moderator would be Mr. Jayantha De Silva a past president of BCS Sri Lanka Section.

We look forward to seeing you at the evening. Our guest speaker at this event is Dr. Prasad Wimalaratne he would be talking on Virtual Reality Applications. Prasad Wimalaratne obtained his Ph.D. in Virtual Environments from the University of Salford, United Kingdom. His research interests include virtual reality, computer graphics, mobile computing and semantic web.

Virtual reality generally refers to a computer generated 3D spatial environments that involves the real-time user participation using multimodal interaction. A continuum of applications ranging from the virtual environments to varying degrees of mixed reality application is available in the literature. The scope of the presentation includes an introduction to the virtual reality technologies and its example application in domains such as medicine, engineering, entertainment etc,. The spectrum of applications from desktop entertainment to fully immersive applications and the future directions of VR will be presented during the presentation.

This is going to be an interesting lecture, it is different from the ERP sessions we had in the past. This is a good session to renew your contacts and make new contacts within the IT community. We once again remind you the cost is subsidized and the event is limited to members and their spouses.

Members evening is organised to be held on 30 April 2009 for our section members. The BCS members evening is an informal gathering of members to network and learn something new in the process. This is an opportunity to meet members from different industries and different companies. An opportunity to learn how people manage IT in different companies. To learn what should be done differently and what should not be done differently. Since, membership of BCS is limited to IT professionals and networking with other IT professionals will be useful.

To start the event we will have a guest speaker. The topic will be notified in due course.

The cost is subsidized and the event is limited to members and their spouses. Looking forward to seeing you.

Date :

30 April 2009

Time :

6 .00 PM onwards

Place :

Hilton Residencies (JAIC Hilton)

Investment :

SLR 1000. (Subsidized rate - Current Membership # needed)

For further details contact Harsha or Nilukshi on 011266526 1/ 2 or e-mail bcs@infotel.lk Please confirm at your earliest.

A discussion forum on implementing of ERP Applications will be held on the 21st August 5:00pm - 7:30pm followed by cocktails at the King's Court - Trans Asia, Colombo.

Guest panelists include ...

• Mr. Hemaka Amrasuriya - CEO, Singer Sri Lanka
• Mr. D.K Rajapaksha - Managing Director, DSI Group
• Mr. Jay J Keller - CIO, MAS Holdings
• Mr. Manohara Athukorala - GM Finance & Admin, Toyota Lanka
• Dr. Anura Ekanayake - Vice Chairman, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
• Mr. Ramesh Shanmuganathan - Executive VP/CIO, John Keels Holdings

Facilitated By ...

• Dr. Ajith P. Madurapperuma - Senior Lecturer, Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa
• Mr. Jayantha De Silva, Past BCS Chairman

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Around 450 students who have taken British Computer Society (BCS) professional examinations graduated at a ceremony in Colombo. Handling the Sri Lanka class of 2007 their certificates will be John Orton, BCS Director of Membership & Professional Products. Below, he describes the rapid speed of technological changes in computing during the past 25 years as the BCS celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

The 12th Annual General Meeting of the British Computer Society Sri Lanka Section was held on 4th June 2007, commencing at 6.30 pm at the Hilton Colombo Residencies. Over eighty members of the society attended the AGM and the dinner which followed. BCSSL section committee members and section officers for 2007/8 were elected at the AGM.

The NBQSA Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner was held at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla on 22nd November 2006. A large gathering of over 450 persons attended.