Chaminda Hettiarachchi
Chaminda Hettiarachchi is a Co-Founder and a Director at FabLanka Foundation, a Social Enterprise working on Industry 4.0 technologies including 3-D Printing for socio-economic development in Sri Lanka. Chaminda is also the CEO/Managing Director at Dil Consultancy, a research and management consultancy company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He teaches project management, strategy and e-business as a visiting lecturer for postgraduate programs at University of Colombo and University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.
Chaminda has been the Sri Lankan coordinator for IVAC Project (2021-2022) on Interactive digital simulations on digital transformation management between Hochschule Esslingen, Germany and University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Chaminda is a B.Sc. (Engineering) graduate from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (1996). He has an MBA from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan (2001) and an MBA (International Industrial Management) from the Graduate School of Esslingen University of Applied Sciences (FHTE), Esslingen, Germany (2002).
Session
Managing digital transformation is a key competence for companies in developing and industrialised countries, but the corresponding approaches differ in many aspects. As part of an IVAC-funded project, a multi-component didactic concept for virtual interactive learning with a specially developed Systems Thinking Simulation was created. Pilot lectures with mixed MBA groups from Esslingen UAS and the Univ. of Colombo were conducted and evaluated.