ICME 2019, is the 8th International Conference on Management and Economics, a series to provide, researchers a forum to advance their knowledge and experiences in both Management and Economics fields.
A core element of the conference is to develop researchers’ network, fed by Asian culture and roots in their diversity and their specificities to facilitate, promote and foster the research on both Management and Economics. ICME facilitates management and economics learning and teaching research competences and cross-national research groups in globe to work together to pose innovative research questions to gain new understanding of Management and Economic processes.
The theme of the ICME 2019, 8th conference, is ‘Navigating Cyberspace for Socio-Economic Transformation and Redefining Management in Light of Digital Economy’ to address the need of innovative management practices as to survive in turbulent economic environment. It is expected that the 8th conference would continue to create a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners across the globe to debate and share their knowledge on digitalization and its impact on the economy and contemporary management practices. Moreover, ICME 2019 aims to foster research on management and economics and hence encourage submission to contribute to innovative applications of established and new models, methods and approaches.
The 1st International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2012) was held at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology of Sahiwal Campus in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on February 11-12, 2012 under the theme of ‘sustainable growth through independent development in less developed and emerging economies’. The 1st conference was indeed a success as the conference could bring leading researchers in the fields of management and economics together. The 2nd International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2013) was held at the Faculty of Management and Finance of University of Ruhuna in Sri Lanka on February 26-27 2013, under the theme of ‘Managing Turbulence in Economic Environment through Innovative Management Practices’. ICME-2013 was an excellent platform for researchers to share their knowledge and experiences. Researchers from different countries like United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Kuwait and Sri Lanka participated in the conference.
The 3rd International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME – 2014) was conducted at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka on February 26-27 2014, under the theme of “Reshaping Management and Economic Thinking through Integrating Eco-friendly and Ethical Practices”.
ICME-2014 was organized by the Faculty of Management and Finance, Unversity of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in collaboration with University of Nordland, Norway; University of Agder, Norway, and University of Stavenger Norway.
The 4th International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2015) was conducted at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka on August 26-27 2015, under the theme of “Insights for Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies”.
ICME-2015 was organized by the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. The 5th International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2016) was conducted at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka on August 26-27 2016, under the theme of “Exploring the Global Market Opportunities through Knowledge Management”.
ICME-2016 was organized by the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. The 6th International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2017) was held at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka on November 09-10 2017, under the theme of ‘Confronting Development Challenges through sustainable and innovative management thinking’.
Last year, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna organized the 7th International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME-2018) under the theme of ‘Entrepreneurial Eco-System: Regional Policy, Innovation, and Sustainability’.
The keynote speakers of ICME 2019 was Professor Rotem Shneor and Dr. A.R. Weerasinghe. Prof. Rotem Shneor is an Associate Professor at the University of Agder (UiA) School of Business and Law in Norway. He is the Academic Director of the University’s Centre of Entrepreneurship, a member of the Cambridge Alternative Finance Leadership Board and currently serving as the head of the Nordic Crowd-funding Alliance. The alliance he is leading is currently comprised of five crowd-funding platforms and two stakeholders in the Nordic crowd-funding scene, which are dedicated to the promotion of a crowd-funding-friendly Nordic region through collaborative efforts. His own expertise are a variety of issues related to Entrepreneurship, Crowd-funding, as well as International Strategy and Marketing. He has a long track record of teaching, researching and supporting entrepreneurship. Thus far, he has published in various academic journals, trade magazines and has contributed a number of chapters to research-focused edited books.
Dr. A.R. Weerasinghe is a former Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing, he has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Management and Science University of Malaysia (MSU), visiting Faculty at the Umea University of Sweden and Dean of the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka. He is a past ERCIM Fellow in France’s INRIA Labs and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. After serving in various capacities at the UGC, MoHE, NSF, ICTA, LEARN, ISOC, IOI, SLSI, LSF, LKNIC and SLASSCOM, recently, he has been on national committees for up scaling the talent pool in data science, for setting up of a Bio-technology Park, for forming a National Export Strategy in the ICT sector and for developing a policy for promoting Knowledge Services. His primary research interests are in Computational Linguistics including Machine Translation and particularly in techniques employing statistical methods and machine learning using large data sets. His research interests expand naturally to Artificial Intelligence and more recently, Bio-informatics.
ICME-2019 is organized by the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in collaboration with University of Nordland, Norway; The University of Fiji, Fiji and University of Management and Technology, Pakistan.
The official Print Media Partner is Lake House and official Electronic Media Partner is Derana. ICME 2019 will be held at Marriott Resort, Weligama.
According to the theme of ICME 2019, the rapid and disruptive technological developments are leading us into a global all-encompassing transformation. The main driver today is the progression of the information and communication technology and artificial intelligence. With that growth comes associated challenges, at this conference, scholars have a platform to discuss briefly anticipated paradigm shifts in economy and business and proposes new business models connected with Cyber-Reality.
We are still in the midst of the transformation created by digitalization and many people and organizations are trying hard to cope with it. The speed, scope and depth of the transformation are increasing as well as the contextual changes. In line with this researchers argue that it will affect the social, economic, cultural and even political foundations of our civilization. Business represents the applied part of economy, which means we have to look at the future model of economy as well. Since we are looking beyond ten years, a large part of the thoughts and ideas presented herein are of an exploratory character. Nonetheless, the latter allows working on future design and scenarios towards a hopefully desired future.
As a Dean of the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, I warmly welcome you to the 8th International Conference on Management and Economics 2019, at the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. With a record number of participants expected this year, we are delighted to see that these annual conferences are becoming larger and more substantial every year.
I am equally excited about the record number of sessions and the wide variety of ideas that scholars and practitioners will bring to our fold. This richness of ideas bodes well for the management and economics field.
(The writer is a Dean Faculty of the Management and Finance University of Ruhuna)
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