- Symposium · Hosted with AWS
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AI Catalyst Symposium: Sri Lanka 2026
Move beyond the hype and lead the AI-enabled shift. Sri Lanka’s first invitation-only AI conference for enterprise CXOs took the room from AI awareness to AI production: every system demonstrated on the night runs in production today.
100+ CXOs · 15 speakers · Powered by AWS
About this event
Where AI ambition met production reality
The gap between what looks good on a conference stage and what works inside a business is where most AI investment fails. 85–90% of AI initiatives stall at proof of concept, and Sri Lanka’s AI adoption sits at an estimated 10–15%.
We partnered with AWS to host Sri Lanka’s most defining AI dialogue, bringing together 100+ CXOs, leaders and AI practitioners to turn AI ambition into measurable business impact. The afternoon looked at AI through the lens of outcomes, risk and scale: live AI in action, board-ready frameworks drawn from 300+ production deployments, and real enterprise case studies.
What you’ll get
What the recording gives you
- The full three-hour programmeKeynotes, the executive panel, the Singer fireside chat and both showcases, as streamed on the day.
- Four production AI systemsLive deployments for RFQs, executive analytics, employee support and manufacturing diagnostics, each with its measured result.
- What leaders took awayLessons on data readiness, governance and fitting AI to your processes, in the speakers’ own words.
- How to size AI spendThe ROI session on pricing AI against the cost of delay, not just the investment.
Watch the livestream
The full programme, from the opening note to the ROI session, as it was streamed on the day.
- 100+
- CXOs and enterprise leaders
- 15
- Speakers from industry, AWS and NeenOpal
- 4
- Production AI systems demoed live
- 3 hrs
- Keynotes, panel, fireside chat and showcases
What leaders took away
- Price the cost of delay, not the investment.
Organisations that successfully scale AI see 1.5x higher revenue growth.
- Data readiness comes before the model.
“If you don’t get the right data set, you don’t get the right data structures.”
- Build governance in from day one.
“Governance is not a barrier. It’s a necessity. It’s the very foundation of AI adoption.”
- Fit AI to your processes.
“Don’t try to rebuild your company to suit AI. Get AI to do the best out of your existing processes.”
Live on the floor
Four systems, all in production
Every demonstration in the room was a live deployment that is measured and generating returns.
- Sales & procurement · RFxIQRFQs generated in minutes, not daysAutomates email-to-RFQ workflows: requirements extraction and quote generation at scale.5x quote throughput
- Executive intelligence · Smart AI AnalystFrom question to insight in secondsNatural-language questions over enterprise data, with no dependence on dashboards.~77% faster decision cycles
- Employee productivity · AI Employee AssistantUp to 60% of internal queries automated24/7 access to policies and SOPs, resolving HR, IT and operational questions.~400 hours saved a month
- Manufacturing · Operations diagnosticsDowntime reduced with AI-led diagnosticsRAG-powered AI reads machine data and logs for real-time troubleshooting guidance.~83% less diagnostic testing time
What was covered
12 June 2026 · Sri Lanka time- Executive high tea, networking & AI experience booths
Four production AI systems, live on the floor.
- Opening note: The enterprise AI imperative
“Things that were taking days are being done by agents in minutes.” Pavel Gupta, NeenOpal
- AWS featured keynote
Biswajit Das on moving from experimentation to scale, responsibly.
- Executive panel: From ambition to action
The three blockers named were data readiness, people and governance.
- Fireside chat: Singer Sri Lanka’s AI journey
A 2018 partnership, 20 years of ERP data, and RFQs cut from 48 hours to under 2.
- AWS AI showcase + NeenOpal AI Catalyst showcase
Production agents for RFQs, lending, supply chain and analytics.
- The true cost of AI: ROI beyond the hype
Anish Gangwal and Raghav Kedia on sizing AI spend against the cost of delay.
- Gala dinner & networking
Who was in the room
- CEOs & Managing Directors
- CFOs & COOs
- CIOs & CTOs
- Digital transformation heads
- Public-sector ICT leaders
Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams, Colombo
The Studio at Cinnamon Life: the setting for Sri Lanka’s defining AI conversation.
Get directionsSpeakers
Practitioners, not presenters: leaders who have shipped AI.
Mahesh WijewardeneGroup Managing DirectorSinger Sri Lanka
Daminda PereraGroup Managing DirectorSwisstek (Ceylon) PLC
Jayantha RangamuwaManaging DirectorVallibel Finance
Damitha SerasingheDirector – Information TechnologySinger Sri Lanka
Chanaki MallikarachchiDirector (ICT)Ministry of Digital Economy
Biswajit DasHead – India Specialists, AI & Data GTM LeaderAWS
Anil AroraGenAI and ML SpecialistAWS
Santanu DuttaEnterprise Account ManagerAWS
Anindya BhattacharyaPrincipal Solutions AdvisorAWS
Pavel GuptaCo-FounderNeenOpal
Subhojit DeyPrincipal ArchitectNeenOpal
Akshat AgrawalAssociate Principal AI ArchitectNeenOpal
Raghav KediaAssociate Principal – EngagementsNeenOpal
Anish GangwalAssociate Principal – EngagementsNeenOpal
Dhruv ChowdaryAWS Alliance LeadNeenOpal
Inside the room
Executive panel on adoption barriers 
Fireside chat with Singer Sri Lanka 
The Studio, Cinnamon Life
In the press
Coverage in Sri Lanka’s leading business papers, with broadcast partners Sirasa TV, TV Derana, Swarnavahini and Rupavahini.
Continue the conversation
Case studies, blog posts and services that pick up where this event left off.
