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Why are tech companies so intent on building digital personal assistants? Chamantha De Silva explores this through the J.A.R.V.I.S phenomenon popularly depicted in pop culture, and slowly bleeding into real life.

Sysco LABS has joined Educate Lanka on its Mentorship and Skills Development Program in an effort to support the next generation of Sri Lanka’s professionals. This student empowerment program is based on a unique social-private partnership model developed by the Educate Lanka Foundation. It leverages a network of corporate partners and their employees to develop

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

Hiranya Samarasekera, Vice President – Engineering at Sysco LABS provides an interesting overview of the restaurant industry from an economics standpoint.  

Nathan takes a seat at his desk early on a Monday morning, glances at his watch and suddenly remembers that he has two meetings, a conference call and an appraisal… all before lunch. He opens his laptop to start his daily routine of checking his mails but a red flagged email catches his eye. The

We’ve all been there; craving food, we call our favorite restaurant, place an order, and then wait… and wait… and wait… checking our watch wondering, where our food is… and then finally the doorbell rings, you pay for your food, and you dig in. If you break down this process, it’s pretty simple; the call is answered in a call center, which then places the order in the branch closest to the delivery address,

From Uber eats to Google Voice, Rajeev Jayawardena, Director Delivery, CAKE Core at Sysco LABS provides an interesting look at how restaurants are integrating technology into their business.  

React Native is a language that specially caters to Mobile Application Development. But what are the pros and cons of using this language? And what exactly is Native Base? In this innovation session, Nilaksha Rathnayake explains exactly that. If you’re thinking of using React Native for your next project, there are three main advantages that

Most applications that are created today have one thing in common – users. We are more familiar with the term when its usage applies to end users – for example, on Facebook users can mean people like you and me who’ve created profiles on the platform. However, the term ‘user’ within the context of this

The inaugural Engineering Nexus meetup was hosted at the Sysco LABS engineering center recently, marking the launch of another initiative to help grow and develop the software engineering and technology development practice in Sri Lanka. Unlike other meetups, the Engineering Nexus intends to solve tech problems by bringing together ideas and methodologies from different disciplines

In this Sysco LABS Innovation Session, Rohana Kumara, Vice President – Engineering and Architecture  at Sysco LABS talks about how Artificial Intelligence is helping the foodservice industry overcome some of its longstanding issues.  

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.