Sri Lanka - Norway ICT matchmaking workshop

in collaboration with:

Norwegian Open Source Competence Center

Business association for ICT suppliers

Workshop in Oslo, October 12th and 13th, 2011
focusing on ICT supported innovations and business partnerships.

Thanks to all for a fruitful workshop!

Press article from the workshop in Digi (Norwegian text)

Presentations are uploaded and linked to the speakers name or session title below.

Invitation to Norwegian participants (Norwegian text)

Invitation to Norwegian participants (English text)

list of SL companies participating in Oslo (you can search for keywords etc.)

eMatch Extranet for additional information and files from the participants (require Google login)

Advance Business Partner AS invites to a business workshop under the Sri Lanka - Norway Business Matchmaking (BMMP) Programme. The programme is sponsored by NORAD (Norwegian Assistance for Regional Development) and will be conducted together with our collaboration partner from Sri Lanka, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

Venue:

Thon Hotel Opera,

Addess:

Christian Frederiks plass 5

Oslo, Norway

In collaboration with

Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
NORAD (Norwegian Assistance for Regional Development)
Advance Business Partner

The venue hotel and the Opera House

Agenda

Tuesday Oct. 11th

19:30

Social gathering for the Sri Lanka delegation and Norad at the Oslo Opera House. Tapas and drink will be served in the Bar.

Wednesday Oct. 12th

09:00	Opening and Welcome. By Bjørn Holter Eriksen, Director Norad and Hans H. Thaulow, Senior Advisor Norad.
09:10	Welcome address. By Hon. Rodney Perera, Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Norway
09:20	Address by the Sri Lanka delegation leader, Prema Cooray, CEO CCC Solutions
09:30	NORAD’s Business Matchmaking Program. By Project Director Inge Reithaug
09:40	Workshop introduction and logistics. By Bård Krogshus, CEO Infosector
09:50	Sri Lanka business experiences. Jetha Chandrajith Ekanayake, COO at John Keells Computer Services. Jan Petter Hagberg, QA Manager at SuperOffice.
10:20	Coffee and fruits
10:35	Getting High-Yield From Your Multi-cultural Environments. How to benefit effectively from multicultural work environments while staying out of the potholes. Finn Worm-Petersen, CEO at Exilesoft (Sri Lanka)
10:50	Short company introductions (2 min. each) based on their eMatch profiles.
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 16:00	Business speed-dating sessions
17:00 - 18:00	Guided tour at the Parliament Building visitor Center. Required pre-registration at workshop check-in. Free admission. Max. 30 participants. The Norwegian Parliament, address: Karl Johans gt. 22, main entrance.
From 19:00	Social meet at Oriental. Address: Arbeidergata 2. Individual payments.

Thursday Oct. 13th

09:00 - 12:00	Individual meetings - on demand. One can use the lobby at the Thon Hotel Opera.
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch at the Thon Hotel Opera, Tosca Bar. Individual payments.
14:00 - 16:00	Individual meetings or Social event with sightseing. Contiki-Fram-museet, Open from 10.00-16.00. Boat Helena from the Opera 13.15 (20-25 min). Boat Back 15.15. Individual payments in NOK. Boat fare (both ways) NOK 175. Entrance fee at the Fram museum: NOK 45 for groups > 15 persons - else NOK 60.
17:00 - 18:00	Wrap-up meeting with the Sri Lanka delegation. Place: NORAD. Address: Ruseløkkveien 26, at the meetingroom "Auditoriet". Coffee and mineral water will be served.
From 19:00	Social 'basecamp' at Café Albertine, Stranden 3, Aker Brygge. 10 min. walk from NORAD towards the sea.

Friday Oct. 14th: open program and return flights

Practical issues:

Registration deadline for Sri Lanka companies for the Oslo workshop: 25th of August to Khema (see reg. form below)
Registration deadline for Norwegian companies: 25th of September. Send request or confirmation to srilanka@ematch.eu or to Bård Krogshus (see details below)
All companies need to register a free eMatch company profile on www.ematch.eu for matchmaking purposes.
See updated list of Sri Lanka ICT eMatch profiles here. You will find these SL eMatch profiles sorted by keywords at the end of this page.
For access to eMatch Intranet for additional files, discussions etc., log into Google, click on projects.ematch.eu and send access request

Management and consultants of Norad’s Business MatchMaing Programme (BMMP)

Norwegian companies
- Workshop registrations, speed-dating logistics/meeting requests:
  - Cornelia Bjåen, mob. (+47) 90568796, email: cornelia.bjaen@advance-as.com
  - Bård Krogshus, mob. (+47) 958 55555, email: baard@infosector.no
- Matchmaking issues:
  - Mogens Møller, Advance Business Partner, email: Mogens.L.Moeller@advance-as.com, mob. (+47) 91346715
  - Inge Reithaug, Advance Business Partner, mob. (+47) 90 89 27 45, email: inge.reithaug@advance-as.com

BMMP consultants present at the Workshop

+ Tom Albrigtsen tom.albrigtsen@advance-as.com 47 - 901 06 308

+ Bjørn Edvardsen Bjorn.Edvardsen@nor-kon.no 47 - 911 80 899

+ Tore Karlstad tore.karlstad@advance-as.com 47 - 900 52 567

+ Stein Raae stein.raae@advance-as.com 47- 913 39 806

+ Mogens Linnet Møller Mogens.L.Moeller@advance-as.com 47- 913 46 715

Sri Lanka companies (workshop registrations, program, travelling, financial assictanse, speed-dating logistics)
- Khema, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, email: khema@chamber.lk Phone(+ 94) 11 55 88 713

Mandatory company profile registrations for speed-dating sessions.

All participants must create a business and innovation profile on www.ematch.eu/reg - for efficient profiling and matchmaking. There will be produced a Workshop Company Catalogue with extracts from the eMatch Profiles of participating companies. Remember to select 'accepted for publishing'.

Invite - and communicate - with potential partners using the eMatch Message System

When you are logged in with your eMatch account, you can use eMatch Message - an internal B2B mail system for communicating with other eMatch contacts, suggesting speed-dating sessions etc. When logged in, you can select companies by business and innovation categories and click the name of the contact persons you select - to send an email. When ready, please send speed-dating preferences to your national contact point - who set up the speed-dating meeting-plan.

An invitation text to potential Norwegian, SriLanka partners could be:

"Dear <name>, we find your eMatch Profile (paste profile URL of Norwegian profile here) interesting for potential business partnering. We like to discuss the interest and options to meet on Oct. 12th in Oslo (se program on http://ematch.eu/srilanka). Our eMatch Profile is (past your profile URL here). We are looking forward to a swift response. Best regards, .."

Speed-dating logistics

Each participating Norwegian company has a numbered place/table with announced meeting slots for speed-dating sessions. Meeting requests can be sendt to srilanka@ematch.eu.

See the online updated meeting matrix here. Editing of the matrix is done by Khema (for SL companies) and Bård (for Norwegian companies).

Workshop Company Catalogue

A Workshop Company Catalogue with be printed, based on business descriptions and innovation interests extracted from the eMatch Profiles of participating companies.

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