What does Sri Lankan Agriculturalist and Perfumer from India have in Common?
He touched lives as an engineer, inventor and agriculturalist With one of his home-built helicopters The Dr Ray Wijewardene Memorial Oration for 2023 will be on Friday, September 8 at the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) auditorium at Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo 7 at 5.15 p.m.View(s): 361 Ray Wijewardene pioneered the use of technology in farming Lakmini Wijesundera, Founder & Executive Director BoardPACInc and IronOne Technologies will deliver this year’s oration on the topic ‘Globalizing Sri Lankan Technology: The BoardPAC Journey’. She is the first woman to be invited to deliver this annual oration. The Dr. Ray Wijewardene Memorial Oration was established in 2011 by the Ray Wijewardene Charitable Trust (RWCT) in collaboration with the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL). Every year the engineering community of Sri Lanka comes together to remember Dr Ray’s invaluable contribution to the world and to acknowledge the decades of innovations around the world. Each year ...
