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iCIIT Conclave 2025: Agenda

iCIIT Conclave 2025: Small models – Big impact ~ Towards sustainable AI

Location: Room 7 LA, 7th Floor, IIT City Office, Colombo 3
Date: June 4th 2025
Time: 9.00 AM onwards
TimeAgenda ItemDetails
9.00 AM – 9.30 AMRegistration & Refreshments
9.30 AM – 9.40 AMWelcome, Intro & conceptDr. Ruvan Weerasinghe, Dean Academic, Computing School, Informatics Institute of Technology
9.40 AM – 9.50 AMPurpose of the iCIIT ConclaveMr. Mohan Fernando, Group CEO, Informatics Institute of Technology
9.50 AM -10.30AMKey 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 AMInvited 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 AMInvited Speech on “Retinome, AI and Precision Medicine: The VAMPIRE Project”Prof. Emanuele Trucco, University of Dundee
11.30 PM – 12.45 PMKnowledge 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 PMLunch Break
1.45 AM -2.15 PMInvited Speech on “Beyond Scale: Architecting Efficient LLM Systems for Real-World Use”Mr. Thiru Dinesh, Head of AI, RootCode
2.15 PM – 2.45 PMInvited 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 PMPanel 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 PMVote of thanks
4.20 PM – 5.00 PMNetworking & Refreshments
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