Forward Newsletter - Issue 21 | Page 13

nCinga is in the mission of driving 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) by unlocking the power of data. Representing for Xeleration are Imal Kalutotage (CEO) and Martin Strommer (Co-Founder). in Silicon Valley, where he held various Internet engineering and management roles at Fortune 1000 technology companies and dot-coms. In addition to Calcey, he founded eConceptions, RideLanka, OneClickTel, thrive.li and a few other companies. Mangala Karunaratne who is the CEO of Calcey Technologies will be the Managing Director for the program who will be with the startups in Singapore to learn from their acceleration program as well as the startup eco-system in Singapore to localise it to a local context thereby creating a Sri Lankan accelerator program. Mangala started his career Xeleration is an initiative supported by SLASSCOM, ICTA, Lanka Angel Network (LAN) and Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). OUSL has opened up a dedicated space at it Colombo campus to host selected startups for acceleration. SLASSCOM SIGNS MOU WITH DHARMAVAHINI FOUNDATION SLASSCOM Director and SAKS CEO Hariharan Padmanaban (centre) after signing the MoU with Dharmavahini Foundation Patron Bhikkhu Mettavihari. DMV Governor Ruwan Senanayake, SLASSCOM Executive Director Dharshan Cooray and SLASSCOM Project Executive Anas Akram are also seen 13