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The FITIS – Women in IT Association was formed by the Federation of IT Industries in Sri Lanka with the objective of developing and supporting women by enhancing their ICT skills. Through WIT, it is aimed at facilitating personal growth and careers of women which will lead to a better society for all.
Under the patronage of FITIS, the Women in IT Association (WIT) has outlined several events to attract women and youth to the IT industry as we believe that IT is a key enabler for women to balance life, work and family whilst contributing towards the growth of the economy.
With the said objective in mind the first-ever ‘Women in IT Awards’ (WITA) is planned for recognising the skills of women who have silently contributed to the industry over the years.
The leading women in diverse fields of IT were announced at an awards ceremony followed by a gala dinner at INFOTEL on 4 November. The audience consisted of IT and non-IT professionals of both genders as they rally together for INFOTEL exhibitions happening in the ICT week in November.
Entrepreneur of the Year: Lakmini Wijesundera, CEO, IronOne Technologies
A female leader of a technology, digital or e-commerce start-up that has demonstrated excellent growth in the last 18 months, with a coherent and sustainable strategy in achieving it. Judges examined demonstrations of growth (turnover, profit, employees, etc.), standout achievements and customer testimonials. Lakmini, Co-Founder and CEO of Iron One Technologies, is the driving force behind IronOne’s global success spanning over 20 countries with direct offices in Singapore, Malaysia, India, South Africa and USA. IronOne focuses on providing innovative IT solutions to large corporates and is well known for its BoardPac secure iPad enabled board automation solution used by over 1000 large corporations both locally and internationally. Agreements have been renewed and new agreements are being signed up as we speak in countries such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, South Africa, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.
BoardPAC enables paperless meetings. It saves trees and is a carbon-friendly product. Typically a 10-member board with board and committee meetings uses 60,000 papers which are discarded thereafter. However with BoardPAC and iPad enabled meetings the paper wastage is eliminated and trees are saved. Larger corporates have more than 10 members and they typically have 25-50 members and sometimes even 500 users as the numbers incrementally and significantly improve on the impact of paperless and green IT with BoardPAC. Lakmini holds many accolades, the most recent being Woman of Achievement in Industry and Entrepreneurship by the Zonta Club 1 of Colombo and she represented Sri Lanka in the Ernst and Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asia Pacific in 2017 being the first-ever representative from Sri Lanka.