Global IT Park Minami Uonuma celebrated its second year anniversary on October 16 in Minami Uonuma City, Japan. Several IT companies from Sri Lanka participated at the event.
Samantha Wijesekera, Minister (Commercial), Embassy of Sri Lanka in Japan attended the event representing Sri Lankan Ambassador to Japan, Professor Dhammika Ganganath Dissanayake. About 70 CEOs and executive members from Japanese companies in Tokyo and Niigata participated in the event.
Fujio Takano, Director General of Industry Promotion Division of Minami Uonuma mentioned in his opening remarks that Global IT Park has been playing a pivotal role in recent city development and the impact it has created on the small and medium industries in the Niigata Prefecture.
Kaushal Wawlagala, Founder/CEO Global IT Park gave the opening remarks from Global IT Park. “When we started Global IT Park in 2016, I had only concepts and ideas to share with you. We were trying to create a blue ocean, an uncontested market space in Japan being the First Global IT Park where Japanese companies work collaboratively with foreign IT companies. But today after completing two years of our journey in Minami Uonuma, I have real stories to share with you. Those stories consist of the beautiful business partnerships that we built with you in Niigata,” Wawlagala said.
Samantha Wijesekera, Minister (Commercial), Embassy of Sri Lanka in Japan read out the message from Professor Dhammika Ganganath Dissanayake. “I am happy to know the progress of some the Sri Lankan companies operating under IT Park and their strides towards the Japanese partners. I believe Global IT Park can greatly harness the potential of Sri Lankan resources to answer Japanese needs”, highlighted in his message.
Katsuhiko Murayama, Director, Ministry of Economy Trade and Industries was the keynote speaker of the event. He highlighted the Japanese government’s new vision for connected industries to achieve society 5.0.
He further said that why it is essential for Japanese companies to collaborate with Global IT Park companies when expanding to foreign markets and how Global IT Park companies can support them by providing technology and global know-how for their Japanese counterparts.
Noguchi, President of Siance Co, Ltd, shared his experience about working with Global IT Park companies and the collaboration with Evolve Technologies Japan for using bi-lingual IT engineers from Sri Lanka. In the current model, Sri Lankan engineers work onsite with the Japanese engineers for about six months to learn the system and continue the project from Global IT Park. He expresses his desire to expand this collaboration in the future.
Susumu Endo from NTK Co., Ltd also shared his views on NTK and Global IT Park collaborative projects. He highlighted the research and development projects and capacity building programs with Global IT Park members and the recent project in Sri Lanka with Sri Lanka’s National Road Safety Council to introduce a driver aptitude testing system to reduce traffic accidents in Sri Lanka.
Thareendra Kalpage COO from Epic Technologies Japan made a presentation about technologies and the product portfolio with a particular focus on DoxPro document management system. Epic Technologies recently signed a MoU with the largest Data Centre in Japan to provide SaaS solutions to government entities and private companies.
The Global IT Park will be demonstrating Sri Lankan IT companies products and solutions on October 18 and 19 at Niigata BizExpo, the largest business expo event in Niigata.
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