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THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS OF SRI LANKA
SEPTEMBER 2021

CPM Sri Lanka 2021 International Management

Conference (Virtual) was a Well-crafted Exploration of

Current Disruptions and Implications for

Business: Managing & Leading

PM Sri Lanka has set the tone unveiling academics need to come forward and address
its ambitious speakers and panelists some of the key thematic areas that need
lineup from diverse countries for this pondering since they offer valuable considerations
Cyear’s International Management for both managers and leaders to realign their
Conference held on 23rd and 24th February 2021. activities. We need more and more leaders who
The conference was a much-awaited event in see the big picture through what appears to be
the Institute’s calendar which was focused rudimentary notions. The COVID -19 is transitional
on Current Disruptions and Implications and transformational testing imperative for us to
for Business: Managing & Leading. learn fast and lead appropriately.
The conference was conducted virtually The technical conference head Dr. Samantha
in line with health precautions of the Rathnayake summed up the speech on both
current ‘New Normal’ situation. However, days with a novel analogy of bringing
over 800 participants from Sri Lanka and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
overseas were connected this conference test, which is the antibody
which was consists of two technical sessions testing and the dominant way
in 23rd and 24th February 2021 from 02.00 pm global healthcare systems
to 05.00 pm in both days via zoom technology are testing citizens for the
and participants were access the conference free Covid-19. He postulated
of charge. as Philosophical
Contended
The Founder and President of CPM Sri Lanka,
Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala gave opening Realist test. It
remarks. Dr. Samantha Rathnayake, a states that P
Governing Council member of CPM Sri Lanka,
a Faculty member from the Postgraduate
Institute of Management of the University of Sri
Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka played the role of
the technical design of the conference and
the summing up on both days.
There is profuse attention to curtailing
the spread of COVID-19 and the
economic downturn. We need to
shed light on a wide array of human
activities from households to the
corporate sphere. Management
professionals, thinkers, and

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