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Hasitha Liyanage Senior Director – Technology and Architecture at Sysco LABS provides an intro to Flutter, an open-source mobile application development SDK created by Google.  

Eric Fleming provides an interesting perspective on the Blockchain phenomenon in this Sysco LABS Innovation Session.  

Nirmal Kumarasiri, Director – Operations at Sysco LABS provides us with an in-depth understanding of the restaurant industry in the USA, and the direction it’s headed.  

In this Sysco LABS Innovation Session, Nisal Weerakon from the Sysco LABS CAKE Core team provides some great insights and a helpful framework to overcome the classic fear of speaking publicly.  

Earlier this year, Applebee’s – a bar and grill restaurant in the US – was hacked. This panel discussion examines the causes and affects of such a breach from multiple angles, and the possible measures that can be taken to prevent a breach from occurring, and what to do if it does.  

Thiwanka Wimalasuriya speaks at the IEEE IAS Sri Lanka Chapter on grid 2.0 – an updated version of the power grid that uses solar and wind to generate power – and the challenges of adopting this technology in Sri Lanka. Full session:  

DevOps is a software engineering culture and practice that aims at unifying software development (Dev) and software operation (Ops). The main characteristic of the DevOps movement is to strongly advocate automation and monitoring at all steps of software construction, from integration, testing, releasing to deployment and infrastructure management. DevOps aims at shorter development cycles, increased deployment frequency, more dependable releases, in close alignment with business objectives. This

From a 6 member team to 600, here’s our story:  

Malinga Perera from the Sysco LABS Data and Analytics team talks about Distributed Computing including ETL Frameworks and Apache Storm as an ETL Tool. Watch full video, below:  

In this Innovation Session, Keet Sugathadasa delves deep into cyber security and talks in detail about security best practices, analyzing and breaking encryption schemes, hacking and how it plays out within the Sri Lankan legal system. Watch full video below:    

Our operations engineering team handles the development of tools such as Pulse Assist, to help our support teams perform to their maximum potential. They’re working on some cool new features such as being able to analyse information from support calls and past issues, making smarter suggestions as to the potential causes of problems, and providing

In this Innovation Session, Priyath Gregory and Sandaruwan Nanayakkara from Sysco LABS deconstructs bitcoins and blockchain technology in order to investigate and explore the two ideas as independent entities. They start the session by walking the audience through the different systems – from centralized to distributed to the decentralized peer system that is blockchain. Then they dive deeper