Education
Dr. Kapila Bandara
Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.
Title of speech: “Future is not an encounter but a creation of Education”
Prof. Shironica P. Karunanayaka
Professor in Educational Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka
Title of speech: “Converging Technology and Pedagogy in the Digital Age”
English language and literature
Dr. Lesley Dick
Manager English Language Training (ELT) Projects, British Council
Title of speech: “Lessons from lockdown : Online teacher training in Sri Lanka”
Dr. Reva Ramiah
English Language Development Coordinator, Senior Lecturer – Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University
Title of speech: “Enabling learning through language across the curriculum – what every subject teacher needs to know”
Mathematics and Statistics
Prof. Bala Rajaratnam
Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA.
Title of speech: “Mining Correlations from Big Data”
Natural Sciences
Prof. Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran
Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Title of speech: “A sustainable filtration system to remove arsenic from water in Vietnam”
Dr. Ian J. Tetlow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Title of speech:”Starch: A Polyglucan with Versatile Functionality”
Psychology
Prof. Gameela Samarasinghe
Department of Sociology, University of Colombo
Title of speech: “Beyond Psychologizing – Addressing Psychosocial Needs of People in Sri Lanka”
Law
Dr. Asanga Gunawansa
Lead Legal Counsel for Colombo of Colombo Law Alliance
Visiting Professor – University of Moratuwa
Justice Saleem Marsoof PC
Non-Resident Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
Nursing and Health Sciences
Prof. S.S.P. Warnakulasuriya
Dean, Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo
Title of speech: “Revitalizing nursing education and research for future trends in health care”