IEEE Newsletter - University of Peradeniya Volume 2 (March 2019) | Page 21

An Entrepreneurship Workshop organized by Venture
Fron er Lanka, in collabora on with the IEEE Student
Branch of University of Peradeniya, IEEE Women in
Engineering, Young Entrepreneurship Society and the
Innovators' Club of University of Peradeniya, was held
at EOE Pereira Theatre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, on 6th of October 2018.
Entrepreneurship Workshop
The event was a ended by
students from University of
Peradeniya, Wayamba University
and SLIIT.
Na onal partner LOLC Group was
a key enabler of the event.
Mr. Heminda Jayaweera, Co-
founder and Director of Venture
Fron er Lanka, addressed the
gathering giving details of the
sessions and explained the
purpose of the event.
“Don’t worry about being successful but work towards
being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
Speaker
Mr. Chris Doering,
Design Thinking
Expert of Venture
Fron er Lanka,
introduced the
university students
to the design
thinking process
through an
interac ve session on designing a wallet, based on the interests
of the person seated next to them.
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Mr. Sachindra Samararathne, Program manager
of the Tandem ICT Agency, Sri Lanka, conducted
a session on collabora on and networking in
which he explained that the event itself was a
form of collabora on and networking
opportunity to all the par cipants.
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