16th Annual General Meeting of the BCS-SL Section
The 16th Annual General Meeting of BCS the Chartered Institute for IT – Sri Lanka Section (BCSSL) will be held on Thursday 15th December, 2011 at 6.00 pm. at the “Anthurium Room”, Galadari Hotel, Colombo 01.
The Annual General meeting will be followed by a fellowship and Dinner. The price of the dinner has been fixed at a subsidized rate of Rs. 1,000/=. Please confirm your attendance by handing in the slip given below together with your cheque by 30th November, 2011. Cheques to be drawn in favour of “BCS the Chartered Institute for IT – Sri Lanka Section”, A/C payee only.
Please note that you may bring your spouse and guests at the same rate.
Professor Gihan Wikramanayake Elected to the Council of BCS the Chartered Institute for IT
Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/21/2011 - 19:03
Prof. Gihan Wikramanayake was elected to the all important Council by the member groups and the international sections at the election held on the 31st March 2011. At the very highest level, a group of elected officials is responsible for the Institute's annual direction and strategy. BCS is governed by its Trustee Board, which is in turn elected by the BCS Council, a representative body of its membership.
Professor Gihan Wikramanayake is the Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and the Chairman of Theekshana the UCSC owned IT Company. He is a Director of Sri Lanka Software Testing Board and Lanka Education and Research Network and been a consultant for UNICEF, World Bank and Asia Development Bank projects.
He graduated from University of Colombo with First Class Honours and obtained his Masters and PhD in Computer Science at Cardiff University, UK. He has over 25 years of academic and industry experience with many published articles in his expertise fields of Database and e-Learning Technologies.
He is the Chairman of the BCS Sri Lanka Section and has served the section committee for seven years in addition to serving other professional bodies such as IEEE Sri Lanka Section and Computer Society of Sri Lanka.
He has been a judge for the section’s flagship ICT Awards - NBQSA the National Best Quality ICT Awards since its inception in 1998. He has been a judge at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) since 2003 and was one of the main resource persons in formulating the judging criteria for APICTA. He has been the Team Leader of the National Informatics Olympiad for over a decade.
BCS The Chartered Institute for IT initiates seminar series on career advancement with Cutting Edge Technologies
Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/09/2011 - 23:20BCS The Chartered Institute of IT Sri Lanka Section in association with the BCS Regional Office have initiated a project in order to create an awareness among the BCS members about cutting edge technologies and help them to climb higher in their careers. As the initial step, a seminar on “Latest technologies that can help you climb higher in your career” is organized at the British Council Auditorium on 12th of February from 2.30P.M to 3.30P.M. This is open to BCS members free of charge. The first of the seminar series will be addressed by Mr. Wellington Perera, Director DPE of Microsoft Sri Lanka. The section plans to organize a series of seminars about latest technologies in the industry in different fields and how members can be equipped with knowledge to climb higher in their careers.
BCS The Chartered Institute for IT produces around 150 graduates every year. None withstanding this, the Sri Lanka Section has also taken an initiative to help their continuous professional development by starting this seminar series. Industry leaders from different tracks in IT are expected to address the members.
