Sri Lanka Investment Summit March 16 th, 2017 Hong Kong International Lead Sponsor Lead Sponsor Co Sponsor Supporting Organisations
Draft Agenda [Time, speakers and sessions are subject to change] 08:00 Registration and refreshments 08:50 Chairman s welcome Jim McCabe, CEO, Standard Chartered Sri Lanka Dumith Fernando, Chairman, Asia Securities 09:00 Keynote Speech Macroeconomic policy targets, fiscal consolidation plan and recent track record The Honourable Ravi Karunanayake, Minister of Finance, The Government of Sri Lanka 09:20 Panel discussion Macroeconomics Panel: Current state and outlook for inflation, rates, trade, currency and financial system Outlook for inflation and rates External position and developments in Trade Assessment of the current financial system Lakshini Fernando, Economist, Asia Securities Dr. Saman Kelegama, Executive Director, Institute of Policy Studies Dr. Eteri Kvintradze, Resident Representative, IMF (TBC) Dr. Nishan De Mel, Executive Director, Verite Research (TBC) or Senior Economist from Standard Chartered Bank 10:20 Networking Coffee Break
10.40 Panel discussion The sector Crystal Ball: Examining the medium term trends and opportunities across the following sectors: Banking Property & Construction Healthcare, Leisure and Logistics Renewables ITO / BPO Kanishka Perera, Head of Research, Asia Securities Steven Enderby, CEO, Hemas Holdings Christopher Joshua, CEO, Access Engineering (TBC) Keith Modder, Global COO, Virtusa (TBC) Financial sector CEO, (TBC) 11:40 Presentation and Q&A Colombo International Financial City CHEC 12:15 Panel discussion Business operating environment in Sri Lanka Key advantages and the challenges in operating across various sectors in Sri Lanka Anushka Wijesinhe, Chief Economist, The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Jim McCabe, Country CEO, Standard Chartered Bank Gavin Walker, CEO, Singer Asia Shivani Hedge, CEO, Nestle Sri Lanka (TBC) Senior rep. from China Merchants (TBC) Senior rep. from IFC (TBC)
13:00 Networking Lunch Stream 1 Direct Investments Stream 2 Portfolio Investments 14:00 Panel discussion Investment and Trade Initiatives Panel discussion Accessing the Equity Markets Outlook for new trade agreements The reintroduction of GSP+ Priority sector targeting for FDI Current status of the equity market Outlook and opportunities for 2017 Key risk factors Thilan Wijesinghe, Chairman, TW Corp Pvt Ltd, Former Chairman, Board of Investment of Sri Lanka Harsha De Silva, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Sri Lanka Dr. Saman Kelegama, Executive Director, Institute of Policy Studies Duminda Ariyasinghe, Director General, Board of Investment Sri Lanka Sakthi Siva, Credit Suisse (TBC) Dumith Fernando, Chairman, Asia Securities Dr. Naveen Gunawardane, Managing Director, Lynear Wealth TBD, Matthews Asia (TBC) 14:50 Panel discussion MNC entry Case studies Nishthar Cassim, Founding Editor, Daily FT Panel discussion Opportunities in credit markets Current status of the fixed income market Outlook and opportunities for 2017 Opportunities in private debt Key risk factors Nadika Ranasinghe, Vice President, Fitch Ratings
CHEC Shangri-La CICT Shyam Bohra, MD, LIOC S. Renganathan, COO OR P. Prins, Treasurer, Commercial Bank of Ceylon Dhanuka Liyanagamage, Deputy GM - Investments, Sri Lanka Insurance Corp. (TBC) Tom Holland, ADM Capital 15:35 Networking Coffee Break 16:05 Panel discussion The anatomy of a successful Sri Lankan investment: This final session will discuss a recent successful investment throughout its life cycle from sourcing to exit, highlighting opportunities, challenges and risk mitigation Matthew Thomas, Editor, FinanceAsia Patrick Fisher, Managing Partner, Creation Investments Roshan Egodage, CEO, Commercial Credit and Finance 17:00 Close of conference and Cocktail Reception