The Program
Innovative Solutions for IT Advancement
| Location: Room 7 LA, 7th Floor, IIT City Office, Colombo 3 |
| Date: June 4th 2025 |
| Time: 9.00 AM onwards |
| Time | Agenda Item | Details |
| 9.00 AM – 9.30 AM | Registration & Refreshments | |
| 9.30 AM – 9.40 AM | Welcome, Intro & concept | Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Dean Academic, Computing School, Informatics Institute of Technology |
| 9.40 AM – 9.50 AM | Purpose of the iCIIT Conclave | Mr. Mohan Fernando, Group CEO, Informatics Institute of Technology |
| 9.50 AM -10.30AM | Key Note speech on “Towards Sustainable AI” | Dr. Hans Wijesuriya, Chief Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka on Digital Economy |
| 10.30 AM – 11.00 AM | Invited Speech on “Less is More: Interpretable and Sustainable Machine Learning” | Prof. Kerstin Bach, Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 11.00 AM – 11.30 AM | Invited Speech on “Retinome, AI and Precision Medicine: The VAMPIRE Project” | Prof. Emanuele Trucco, University of Dundee |
| 11.30 PM – 12.45 PM | Knowledge Sharing Session on “Agentic AI” | IronOne Team: Main speaker Theekshana Samaradiwakara, Senior Machine Learning Engineer supported by Narada Wijerathne, Senior Machine Learning Engineer |
| 12.45 PM -1.45 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1.45 AM -2.15 PM | Invited Speech on “Beyond Scale: Architecting Efficient LLM Systems for Real-World Use” | Mr. Thiru Dinesh, Head of AI, RootCode |
| 2.15 PM – 2.45 PM | Invited Speech on “Scaling Impact, Not Compute: Driving AI Innovation with What We Have” | Lushanthan Sivaneasharajah, Head of Data Science, IronOne Technologies |
| 2.45 PM – 4.15 PM | Panel Discussion on “Small models – Big impact ~ Towards sustainable AI” | Moderator: Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Dean Academic, Computing School, Informatics Institute of Technology Panelists: Prof Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Nuwan Senaratne, Founder & CEO of ColomboLabs Inc., Lushanthan Sivaneasharajah, Head of Data Science, IronOne, Thiru Dinesh, Head of AI, RootCode |
| 4.15 PM – 4.20 PM | Vote of thanks | |
| 4.20 PM – 5.00 PM | Networking & Refreshments | |
