Education
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Dr. Kapila Bandara
Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.
Title of speech: “Future is not an encounter but a creation of Education”
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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
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Dr. Lesley Dick
Manager English Language Training (ELT) Projects, British Council
Title of speech: “Lessons from lockdown : Online teacher training in Sri Lanka”
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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
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Prof. Bala Rajaratnam
Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA.
Title of speech: “Mining Correlations from Big Data”
Natural Sciences
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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”
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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
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Prof. Gameela Samarasinghe
Department of Sociology, University of Colombo
Title of speech: “Beyond Psychologizing – Addressing Psychosocial Needs of People in Sri Lanka”
Law
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Dr. Asanga Gunawansa
Lead Legal Counsel for Colombo of Colombo Law Alliance
Visiting Professor – University of Moratuwa
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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
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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”