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 The Annual General Meeting of the Future Marketers Association (FMA) was successfully held on 2 nd of September, 2020 at the Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies auditorium with the presence of the Head of the Department of Marketing Management- Dr. Ravi Dissanayake, panel of lecturers at DMM, former board members and Department undergraduates. The Meeting commenced with the gathering been officially welcomed and former board members taking seats at the head table. Following a video bringing back the eventful memories from the past year, the outgoing secretary, Ms. Gimhani Ekanayake read the minutes of the previous meeting, which was then approved by two participants from the last year’s meeting. Ms.Gimhani also extended her gratitude to the lecturers and all other individuals who guided and supported her throughout her term of work.

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A webinar on “Communication and Public Speaking” was conducted for the students of Diploma in People Skills programme of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 27th of July 2020 on the Zoom platform. The session was conducted by Mr. Tharindu Ameresekere who is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at TAC Social Media Agency.

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A webinar on “Business Process Integration & ERP Systems” was conducted for the students of Diploma in ERP of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 09th and 15th of July 2020 via Zoom. The resource person of this webinar was Mr. Nilanka Peiris, who is the Managing Director at Global Conventions (Pvt) Ltd. The areas covered in the webinar were evolution of ERP systems, advantages and disadvantages of implementing ERP systems, business processes and its inter-relationships.

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A webinar on “Information Systems & Better Data Management” was conducted for the students of Diploma in ERP of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 25th of June and 08th of July 2020 via Google Meets. The resource person of this webinar was Mr. Yasas Gunarathne, who is the Chief Executive Officer/ Managing Director at HasH 3 3 (Pvt) Ltd. The areas covered in the webinar were impact of information systems and data management in achieving competitive advantage, evolution of IT infrastructure and role of information systems in generating business intelligence. 

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A webinar on “Being Responsible” was conducted for the students of Diploma in People Skills programme of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 02nd of July 2020 on the Zoom platform. The resource panel of this webinar was Mr. Gajan Vinothan, the Co-Founder and CEO at Stripes & Checks Inc, Mr. Niraj Gomes, Head of Ecommerce Solutions at Hayleys Advantis Limited and Mr. Abdul Qadir Uvais, the Global Head of Compliance & Supply Chain Security at Expolanka Freight.

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The inauguration ceremony of the 5th batch of Diploma in People Skills (DPS) programme was held on the 26th of June 2020, on the Zoom platform. The keynote address was delivered by Ms. Enoka Sirimanne, the President, Human Resources at Nestle Lanka PLC. Gracing the event, Dr. P.N.D. Fernando, Dean - Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, Dr. Ravi Dissanayake, Head - Department of Marketing Management, Mr. S. Uditha Bandara, Coordinator - Diploma in People Skills, faculty members and the undergraduates of the Department of Marketing Management were present. 

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A webinar on “Role of Digital Transformation in Business Today” was conducted for the students of Diploma in ERP of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 20th of June 2020 via Microsoft Teams. This was conducted by Mr. Vajira Weerasekara, the Asia Architecture and Industry Services Lead in Microsoft Corporation covering areas of evolution of computing technologies, cloud computing, opportunities and threats faced with the emergence of Information Systems. 

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A webinar on “Excellence in Planning & Focused Implementation” was conducted for the students of Diploma in People Skills programme of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 18th of June 2020 on the Zoom platform. The resource panel of this webinar was Mr. Yasendra Amerasinghe, the CEO of Carmart Limited, Mr. Jiffry Zulfer, the Founder & CEO of PickMe (Digital Mobility Solutions Lanka (Pvt) Ltd) and Mr. Rae Devadason, the Founder of Babybear Boutique (Pvt) Ltd.

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A webinar on “Problem Solving & Being Action Biased” was conducted for the students of Diploma in People Skills Programme of the Department of Marketing Management of University of Kelaniya on the 11th of June 2020, on the Zoom platform. This was conducted by Mr. Vipula Dharmapala, the Co-Founder and CEO of InsureMe.lk and Mr. Jehan Mubarak who is a national cricketer and a certified cricket coach in Sri Lanka.

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We are pleased to announce that the 11th edition of International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI 2020) is scheduled to be held on 19th November 2020 which is organised by the Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. The goal of ICBI 2020 is to bring researchers and practitioners to share cutting-edge developments in all spheres of management to a common platform. We invite all the management researchers, and practitioners to send research papers/extended abstracts and case studies to this conference and make this conference a grand success. Given the prevailing situation in the world, the conference will run on a hybrid mode which includes virtual presentations.

Date: 19 November 2020

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The inauguration ceremony of the 5th intake of Diploma in ERP was held on the 4th of June 2020 via Zoom. The keynote address was delivered by Mr. Indika De Zoysa, the Vice President of Enterprise Business Group at Huawei Technologies Lanka Co. (Pvt) Ltd.  Dr. C. N. Wickramasinghe, the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, Dr. Ravi Dissanayake, Head of the Department of Marketing Management, Ms. Shanika Wijenayake, Coordinator of the Diploma in ERP, all the lecturers and the undergraduates of the Department of Marketing Management were present at this occasion. 

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University of Kelaniya is in a continuous effort to foster a comprehensive research culture among their learning partners. With this aim in mind, Department of Marketing Management (DMM) kept another step forward by introducing its student research conference to the academic fraternity in the year 2016. The prime objective of this initiative is inculcating a research mindset among the undergraduates and introducing a bunch of young researchers in to the society. This year, SRCM 2020 was organized by the Future Marketers Association (FMA) for the fourth consecutive time under the activity - Developing socio emotional skills of students through participation and involvement of the AHEAD project. The theme of the conference was “Marketing Dynamics for Digital Age Consumerism”. 

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