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Refresh Colombo January Meetup

January 22, 2013

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Refresh Colombo, the monthly meetup of technology experts and professionals will be happening on the 24th of January 5.30pm onwards. You can check out below the interesting topics that are going to be presented at this months event. This is the first meetup for 2013 and we are looking forward to the many informative Refresh Colombo meetups throughout this year.

Spark iT – Empowering ICT entrepreneurship across Sri Lanka
– by The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce

How to formulate a content strategy for your website.
– by Shaad Hamid
Great content is at the heart of every marketing campaign. How do you make sure your website’s content is relevant and how to leverage your content for your “brand awareness” and “direct response campaigns”.

The game of juggling balls (Balancing work & life)
– by Ms. Bernadine Jayasinghe
Bernadine is the CEO of Natural Reminders and also the Key to Success Academy and also currently working as an Executive in the corporate division at Union Assurance. She is a committee member of Reacreation Club of UA, Green Champion & the UA toastmaters secretary 2012/2013.

Colombo Agile Conference 2013

January 10, 2013

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On the 23rd of January get ready to learn on agile techniques with two international scrum masters at the Colombo Agile Conference 2013. This event which is organized by the Colombo agile community is the follow up to successful Agile Camp. The main aim of this event is to spreading knowledge, and improving skills related to agile methodologies within the Sri Lankan ICT industry.

The keynote speaker Ilan Goldstein is globally recognized Certified Scrum Trainer (SCT) and is highly experienced in the Agile landscape. He will be joined by Colin Tan, Director of Scrum Australia who has worked in many companies and startups on project management and user experience. These two experts will be presenting on a mix of valuable topics covering the basics as well as advanced areas related to agile management.

For more information on the speakers and the event, visit http://www.colomboagileconference.com/

If you are interested in agile management, this is an event you should not miss!

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CodeFest 2013

January 8, 2013

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To mark a year of successful PHP meetups, Webgurus have organized CodeFest 2013. This event will allow the meetup members the opportunity to team up and showcase their design and development skills. Tourism will be the theme of CodeFest 2013 and teams need to come up with a relevant innovative idea, implement it and finally present it.

CodeFest will be held for two days, on the 19th and 20th of January. The event will kickoff from a presentation on Tourism, then to idea brainstorming and implementation which will surely run through the night till the following morning. The final products and services would be presented on the 20th to judges who will pick a winner. The winning team stands a chance to obtain funding to bring their project to the next level.

Expecting to see a lot of creative and innovative ideas at CodeFest.

For more information visit : http://www.webgurus.lk/codefest2013/

Cyber security week 2012 – Sri Lanka

December 2, 2012

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The Cyber security week 2012 organized by Sri Lanka CERT|CC is underway and its 5th Annual conference will be held on the 5th of December. “Strategize….Plan….Act….A recipe for Effective Security” will be the theme of the conference. The conference will feature presentations from noted speakers, panel discussions and a lightning demonstration(an Electronic Banking hack)

On the 6th of December, Technical Workshop 1 will be held on the topic of “OWASP ESAPI: making it work for you”. It will be conducted by Mr. Wong Onn Chee, President, OWASP Singapore Chapter.

On the 7th of December, Technical Workshop 2 will be held on the topic of “Practical secured software security testing “. It will be conducted by Mr. Tin Aung Win, Application Security Advisory Board Member, (ISC)2®.

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Refresh Colombo November Meetup

November 22, 2012

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Refresh Colombo, the monthly meetup of technology experts and professionals will be happening today 22nd of November 5.30pm onwards. You can check out below the interesting topics that are going to be presented and today’s event.See you there!

New dimensions of personal computing with Windows 8 – by Wellington Perera (Director Developer Platform Evangelism, Microsoft Sri Lanka)

The rise of the Social-Phygital world: Where the digital socialsphere meets the physical world of products – by Lee Bazalgette (Director at Colombo Design Studio)

Handy Social Media Statistics for Sri Lanka- by Shehan Selvanayagam (CEO of Loops Solutions)

TED in Sri Lanka

November 20, 2012

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TED is an annual conference held to bring together some of the best intellectuals in the world to share their innovative and creative ideas. TEDx conferences which are organized by independent groups, brings that TED experience to a local stage. This year we have the privilege of having a TEDx conference right here in Colombo thanks to a group of energetic youths headed by Dilumi Dissanayake.

TEDx Youth@Colombo will be held on the 24th of November at Park Street Mews from 6pm onwards. It will boast a set of exceptional speakers giving presentations in the fields of film, business, social service, entrepreneurship, and innovation under the theme “Powerful Beyond Measure”. For registration and more information visit their site http://tedxyouthcolombo.com. Kudos to the organizing team for bringing this Idea storm to Colombo.