SLT-Mobitel teamed up with the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) as the Platinum sponsor of the 39th National Information Technology Conference (NITC) 2021.
Due to the prevailing Covid-19, this year’s conference was held virtually last week.
Minister of Youth, Sports and Development Coordination and Monitoring, State Minister of Digital Technology and Enterprise Development, Namal Rajapaksa was the chief guest at the inauguration and CSSL National ICT Awards. Secretary to the Ministry of Technology, Jayantha De Silva was the guest of honour.
President of CSSL, Damith Hettihewa said, “Our country needs to accelerate policy formation,legal enactments and research and design to adopt cutting edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things (IOT), Robotic Process Automation and Integration, Big Data and real time analytics, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain In the vital sectors of the economy. At this year’s conference, the Sri Lankan ICT fraternity will deliberate these aspects along with several global experts on these topics over a period of two days.” He said. SLT Group CEO LalithSeneviratne said, “SLT-Mobitel provides a range of ICT facilities including voice, data, broadband, wholesale, enterprise, cloud, international, and IPTV. Further, SLT-Mobitel has laid the largest fibre optic-based nation-wide telecommunication backbone network which is a veritable asset in propelling the country’s development to the next level.
The group’s efforts to expand the broadband footprint are supplemented by an array of technologies including carrier-grade Wi-Fi, and fixed and mobile 4G LTE technologies.
“Preparing Sri Lanka to embrace the latest technology, SLT-Mobitelsuccessfully showcased the deployment of 5G over a Mobile Network achieving record speeds. As the national ICT solutions provider, SLT-Mobitel strives to further expand its influence in NB-IoT, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Critical Communication technologies and solutions, thereby leading Sri Lanka towards the next phase of the digital revolution,” he said.