Young Business Technology Entrepreneurial Researchers Congress 2013

September 26th 2013 was another day filled with excitement for final year business technology undergraduates.on that day second annual student congress of YBTER  was held at university premises.The topic was" An analysis of fruit and vegetable supply chain in sri Lanka."

On 1st of June 2103 the ten researchers accompanied by Dr. Nalaka Wickramasinghe and Mr. Harshaka Hettiarachchi went to dambulla dedicated economic center. There they did  interviews with the farmers, traders and also the past & present president of dambulla dedicated economic center.Using the information found by the  researchers,they  prepared articles about the  vegetable and fruit supply chain in sri Lanka.

The efforts were displayed on 26th of September by presenting what they found out and most importantly researchers gave recommendations to the foreseen problems .

Dr.L.P .Rupasena was the guest speaker for the event. he is the additional director (research) of hector kobbakeduwa agrarian research and training institute .Dr.D.M. Semasinghe ,dean of faculty of commerce and financial management  , Dr.C.Pathirawasam,head of the department  of commerce and financial management ,senior lecturers,heads from other departments, lecturers,students were among the gathering.

Days proceedings started with lighting the oil lamp by distinguished guests .Gathering was welcomed by the president of association of business technology ,Lahiru Sampath. Dean of the faculty and head of the department addressed the gathering .

After that the book was launched at the event which was the most highlighted item of the event.The congress proceedings began soon after the entertainment item by Ashan Suranga.

Researchers presented the chapters while explaining them an interesting way .To clarify more facts ,an interview session was held with Dr.Rupasena .He explained everything in simple manner and further he agreed with the suggestions which were given by the researchers.

Congress ended successfully with the vote of thanks by Idudunu Gunathilake .It was indeed a memorable day for business technology students as they always work beyond the tradition.

           

Guest Lecture on Future Developments in Databases

         May 30th of 2013 was another remarkable day for Association of Business &Technology. Third year students of ABT organized a guest lecture on future developments of database management. Lecture was done by Mr. Prabath Kumarasinghe who is a senior tech lead at Ensiz (Pvt) LTD, obtained his bachelors degree from university of colombo in computer science, and M.sc in web technology from university of Southampton (UK). 

Lecture was about rational database management systems, NoSQL databases, cloud databases and graph databases and its respective developments. He started with the basic explanations about database transactions, normalization and discussed about RDBMS products starting from with its history, milestones and features. Further he stated about advantages and challenges of NoSQL. Products and its features were among other topics he discussed. When discussing about cloud databases, he spoke about amazon cloud databases and Google cloud SQL. He winded the lecture after talking about graph databases.

First year, third year and final year students participated to the lecture along with the lecturers Dr. Nalaka Wickramasinghe, Ms. Lakamali Jayarathne, Ms. Chamari Jayarathne and Mr. Harshaka Hettiarachchi. At the end of the lecture token of appreciations were presented to Mr.Prabath by Dr.Nalaka and a third year student.It was indeed a valuable lecture for all of the students , and our sincere gratitude goes to Mr. Prabath .

Annual General Meeting 2013

The annual general meeting of Association of Business Technology was held on 2nd of may 2013 at the new building. After reading the minutes of the previous AGM, the new office bearers were appointed.

President - Mr. Malaka Madushanka
Vice President - Mr. Milan Kodiththuwakku

Secretary - Ms. Deepika Kanchana
Vice Secretary - Ms. Lalanka Senadeera

Senior Treasurer - Dr. Nalaka Wickramasinghe
Junior Treasurer - Ms. Erandi de Silva

Cordinators - Ms. Madushani Rajapakshe
                     Ms. Prithika Chandani

Committee Members - N.A.S.perera
                                   Sashika Chandrasekara
                                   G.B.D Tharaka
                                   H.A.P Siriwardana
                                   I.U.Patterson
                                   S.A.S.Hansika
                                   S.W.V.R.S Deshapriya
                                   R.R.L.R.R.R Pathirana.

 after appointing the committee members, Dr. Nalaka Wickramasinghe and Thimothy Pathuma Kumarathunge addressed the gathering.

Internship Certificate Awarding Ceremony - 2013

The Internship certificate awarding ceremony organized by Department of Commerce and Financial Management, University of Kelaniya was held on 27th February 2013.


Internship certificates were awarded for 2007/2008 batch students who were successfully concluded their final year degree requirement of Internship training for below degree programmes.

• Bachelor of Commerce (Special) Degree in Business Technology
• Bachelor of Commerce (Special) Degree in Entrepreneurship
• Bachelor of Commerce (Special) Degree

The objective of this certificate awarding ceremony was to emerge a platform to meet Commerce students academia with corporate sector representative. This event greatly enhanced the networking among all stakeholders. As per the objective of this certificate awarding ceremony, Department of commerce and Financial Management felicitated the internship training partners and celebrated the success of more than 100 interns who have completed their internship programme by having experience as well as exposure on different industries.

Dean, Dr. D.M Semasinghe, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya was the chief guest and Mr. Kishu Gomes, Country chairman,Chevron Lubricants Lanka PLC was the guest of honor of this occasion. Mr. Sujeewa Rajapakse, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, industry representatives and academic staff of the university were also participated for this grand occasion.

Project 02 - BT T-Shirt Released

   As our 2nd project of financing and promoting ourselves, we were successfully introduced a very attractive t-shirt to our university. Hence all most all the t-shirts were sold within a limited timeline and considerable margin gathered to finance our future endeavors.

Thank you for everyone for their contributions in making this success.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT !!!!

       This is not related to any of the subject we learnt in the university. But this is a very important lesson for our lives.

Below speech was given by Mr. chetan bhagat. He is an author, columnist and a speaker in India who is 38 years old. His books remains best sellers, and three books have inspired Bollywood films including "3 Idiots".

He was awarded the society young achiever's award in 2004, publishers recognition award in 2005, and he was listed in the world's 100 most influential people in 2010.

"Don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order. There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions. "Life is one of those races in nursery school where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same is with life where health and relationships are the marble.

Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die… One thing about nurturing the spark - don't take life seriously. Life is not meant to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? … It's ok, bunk a few classes, scoring low in couple of papers, goof up a few interviews, fall in love, little fights with your spouse. We are people, not programmed devices...”

"Don't be serious, be sincere."!!!