June 12, 2026  ·  Cinnamon Life, Colombo  ·  Sri Lanka 2026
Presented by
in partnership with
Amazon Web Services

Where Sri Lanka's
AI Strategy
Gets Built.

Date June 12, 2026
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Venue Cinnamon Life
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Audience CXOs & Senior
Decision-Makers
You'll Walk Away With ROI models, AI roadmap
& live AI use cases

A 3-hour executive symposium — live AI on real enterprise data, board-ready ROI & cost frameworks to take home, and an exclusive evening with Sri Lanka's most senior leaders. This is where the conversations happen that shape the next decade.

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The Opportunity in Context

There is a 12–18 month first-mover window in every sector. Enterprises that led AI adoption in comparable markets are generating 3× the return versus those that followed. The AI Catalyst Symposium replaces speculation with verified outcomes — shown live, in Colombo, on June 12.

3× ROI: first movers vs. followers
18mo Typical first-mover window
70% AI spend leakage, recoverable
3hr Symposium + Gala Dinner
A First Look — June 12, Colombo

A glimpse of what
awaits on the day.

See the kind of intelligence you will walk away with — built from real deployments, not projections.

Preview drops before June 12
AI Catalyst Symposium · Sri Lanka 2026
June 12 at Cinnamon Life, Colombo
What Sets This Apart

Four things that make
this day genuinely different.

Four principles make the AI Catalyst Symposium categorically different from any AI event Sri Lanka has seen.

01
Live Over Presented

Watch AI process real enterprise data, live in the room.

Every demonstration processes real production-grade enterprise data — banking risk, supply chain, demand forecasting — in the room, on screen, in real time. You do not watch a recorded output. You watch AI work on live data and see the result before the session ends.

Production-grade AI. Real enterprise data. Outcomes you can measure before you leave the room.
02
Frameworks Over Inspiration

Board-ready frameworks your leadership can act on Monday.

Every attendee leaves with a set of working documents: ROI models benchmarked against our live deployments, an AI spend leakage audit framework, a cost optimisation guide, and a build-vs-buy decision tool — all calibrated for Sri Lanka enterprise scale.

Built from 300+ verified deployments. Not a whitepaper. A working instrument.
03
Sri Lanka-First Intelligence

Intelligence built specifically for the Sri Lanka market.

Eight years of active delivery in Sri Lanka means the intelligence on this day is built for here — not adapted from a global template. NeenOpal understands the regulatory context, the talent landscape, and the investment realities your board navigates every day.

Local context. Global capability. The rarest combination in the AI advisory space.
04
Curated Peer Access

Sri Lanka's senior AI leaders, curated into one room.

Every attendee is reviewed before confirmation, so every conversation in the room carries real decision-making weight. The symposium closes with an exclusive Gala Dinner — giving the day's exchanges the space and company they deserve to develop into lasting peer relationships.

Peer density matters. The quality of a room changes everything about what gets decided in it.
See AI in Action

Live enterprise AI.
In the room. Not on slides.

A selection of what runs on June 12 — every solution already in production, with outcomes measured and verified. The full programme goes further.

Live Demo
RFQ Automation Agent
AI-powered Email to RFQ processing — faster, accurate quote turnaround at enterprise scale.
Live Demo
Employee AI Assistant
Unified AI assistant for employees and retail operations — deployed at scale across conglomerates.
Live Demo
AI Ops Diagnosis & Troubleshooting
AI-assisted ops troubleshooting for faster root-cause analysis and reduced mean time to resolution.
Live Demo
Customer Shopping Assistant
Conversational AI guiding discovery, comparison, and purchase — measurable uplift in conversion and basket size.
Live Demo
Flight Booking & Ops Agent
Autonomous agent for bookings, rescheduling, and ops efficiency — reducing manual load and improving traveller experience.
Live Demo
AI Video Persuasiveness Engine
AI system scoring and optimising video content for maximum audience engagement and conversion performance.
These are a selection — the full programme runs deeper. All demos run on live production data. Every outcome has already been measured in the field.
June 12, 2026 · Cinnamon Life, Colombo

Three hours that
reframe your AI horizon.

3:30 PM
Executive Arrival & Welcome
Registration, opening conversations, and pre-session briefing
4:00 PM
Opening Keynote
What our global deployments reveal about Sri Lanka's AI opportunity — and the measurable cost of delay
4:30 PM
Live AI Demonstration I
Production-grade AI processing real enterprise data. Every question answered in the room.
5:10 PM
The Financial Case — What the Numbers Actually Show
Where AI investment leaks, what genuine ROI looks like at Sri Lanka enterprise scale, and the board-ready frameworks each attendee takes home.
5:50 PM
Live AI Demonstration II
A second deployment track — different sector, same production-grade fidelity.
6:30 PM
Infrastructure Showcase & Closing Remarks
The AWS infrastructure powering every demonstration in this room — and what that means for your organisation's roadmap.
7:00 PM
Private Networking → Gala Dinner
An exclusive evening for confirmed attendees. Business formal. The conversations that start here tend to continue for years.
The Venue

Cinnamon Life at
City of Dreams, Colombo

Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams, Colombo
Date June 12, 2026
Time 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
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Designed For

Sri Lanka's executive AI leadership — gathered in one room.

The symposium is designed for professionals who carry real accountability for how their organisations adopt and deploy AI. If that describes your role, this event was made with you in mind.

Seniority & Functional Roles
Chief Executive Officer Chief Information Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Data Officer Chief Digital Officer Chief Analytics Officer Chief Operating Officer VP / Director – Data & Analytics Director – Digital Transformation Director – AI / Data Science Director – IT Strategy Head of Data Platform Head of Customer Experience Head of Supply Chain Head of Risk & Fraud Analytics Head of Marketing & Growth
What You Bring to the Room
Decision-making authority
You influence or directly determine technology, data, or transformation strategy at your organisation.
A live question to answer
You are actively navigating an AI investment decision, or building the internal case to accelerate one.
A perspective ready to be sharpened
You are actively shaping how your organisation approaches AI and looking for peer intelligence — not just vendor presentations — to sharpen the decisions ahead.
Convened By

The organisation behind every demonstration in this room.

NeenOpal
Amazon Web Services
Symposium Organiser & AI Delivery Partner  ·  Infrastructure Partner: Amazon Web Services

NeenOpal is a global Data and AI consultancy that has built and deployed enterprise AI across banking, retail, manufacturing, and the public sector. We don't advise on AI — we build it, we measure it, and we stand behind the numbers. The live demonstrations in this room are not concept prototypes. They are production deployments from our active portfolio, running on real data, with outcomes already measured and verified. Eight years of delivery in Sri Lanka means we understand this market, its regulatory context, and the business realities your leadership team navigates every day.

300+
Data & AI Projects
50+
Deployable AI Use Cases
10 yrs
Proven Track Record
Verified Deployments · Real Outcomes

Every number shown on June 12
comes from a live deployment.

Not a vendor projection. These are outcomes from NeenOpal deployments already running in production — the same solutions we will demonstrate in Colombo.

Banking & Financial Services
Default rates fell 28% in the first year.
AI-powered credit risk scoring deployed across a leading private bank's retail lending portfolio. 85% of applications now processed without manual review — approval time compressed from days to minutes, accuracy measurably improved.
Net interest margin +40bps · Annual impact $22M
Retail & Consumer Goods
Inventory write-offs reduced by 34% in two quarters.
AI demand forecasting for a regional retailer across 400+ stores. Real-time stock rebalancing based on local demand signals, weather, and promotional calendars — ending the overstock cycles that had been eroding margin for years.
Working capital freed $18M annually · Gross margin +3.2pts
Telecommunications
Churn reduced 22%. Revenue per user grew 8%.
AI churn prediction for a major telco with 12 million subscribers. At-risk customers identified 60 days before departure. Precision retention offers deployed before the customer considers leaving.
Revenue impact $40M annually · CAC reduced 18%
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Unplanned downtime cut by 45% in year one.
Predictive maintenance AI across production lines — identifying failure signatures weeks before breakdown. Maintenance moved from reactive to proactive. OEE improved and the impact reached EBITDA directly.
EBITDA improvement 8pts · Maintenance cost −30%

“Sri Lanka's enterprises operate in every sector represented above. The question is not whether this technology works here — it is who deploys it first.”

On June 12, you will see each of these deployments running live at Cinnamon Life, Colombo.

Media Partners

Coverage across Sri Lanka's
leading broadcast networks.

Hiru TV
Rupavahini
Sirasa TV
Swarnavahini
Derana TV
June 12 · Cinnamon Life, Colombo

Sri Lanka's AI decade
has a starting point.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Once the 50 seats are confirmed, the list closes. The window is open right now.

Registrations open  ·  Limited seats

Enquiries: corporate@neenopal.com