Mr. Balathasan Sayanthan

MR. BALATHASAN SAYANTHAN

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AT APPTIZER. INC

Colombo
Sri Lanka

Biography

Sayanthan is the Director of Operations at Apptizer. Inc, CBDO at hSenid Mobile and Founding member of Yarl IT Hub. He did his Bachelor of Science specialising in Computer Science at the University of Peradeniya. He is also a Passed Finalist of CIMA(UK) and a Chevening Rolls Royce Science and Leadership Innovation Fellow from the University of Oxford. 

He has more than 10+ years of experience and a lot of that has been in Leadership positions in the Tech industry. Sayanthan’s interests and expertise are in the areas of Business Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship, Business Modelling, Software and Telecommunication. He believes in building ecosystems need to be created to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. Yarl IT Hub’s work revolves around building a community who lives the shared dream of making Jaffna in to an innovation Hub, which he passionately believes in. 

Title of the Speech

“Future of work and how do we prepare ourselves for it” 

Abstract

The talk would cover both a Scientific and Strategic analysis of the future of work. This is in the context of the expected future growth in Technology including Machine Learning,  artificial intelligence, etc and how it would impact us in the next 40 years. The talk would include recommendations on how we could best prepare ourselves for it, not just to survive but prosper in the context of the future challenges and opportunities.