“Everybody can’t be innovators and entrepreneurs. Only a few become really successful. During the time of undergraduate, if you try to be an entrepreneur, you will learn about so many other areas within a short period of time and this is the best time to do innovations as a team”. Mr. Heminda Perera.The National Showcasing Team of AIESEC in Sri Lanka has commenced the second season of the Podcast Series named #ThroughTheEyesOfATrendsetter and the first episode was brought out with the honorable participation of the Guest speaker, Mr. Heminda Jayaweera, Serial innovator, Chief Operating Officer at Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC), Co-Founder and Director of Venture Frontier Lanka, Jendo Innovations (Pvt) Ltd. and Mora Ventures, a start-up incubator, Director of Ceylon Graphene Technologies and Effective Solutions (Pvt) Ltd, under the main topic, “If the opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”. As the moderator for the entire season, the National Director for Incoming Global Talent and Teacher, AIESEC Sri Lanka 20.21, Mr. Arfan Nazar participated adding more energy to this first productive discussion.

Mr. Heminda Perera
Getting to know oneself is much needed…
Giving a fresh beginning and starting off the debut episode with a very interesting question, ” According to you how would you define Heminda Jayaweera? ”, Mr. Heminda Jayaweera responding to that said that he didn’t know who he was in the beginning. He has jumped into various departments when he was working in Dialog Axiata in 2004. He started to work on a lot of areas, like project management, program management, marketing, corporate planning, quality area, process management, product management, innovation, embracing all the opportunities that came across, covering every area required for a business. Mr.Heminda goes on to say that grabbing all the opportunities have helped him to find who he was. He has realized to start his own thing rather than working in the corporate field and ended up starting a few startups. Adding to that he said, his best talent is actually which he has realized very lately, that he has the talent to find talent.Something different out of the ordinary…
Agreeing with the points of the multitasker, Mr. Arfan directed the next question, “What made you take the risk of implementing something different out of the ordinary?” Answering that, he explained his neediness to do something really new and fascinating, and that really has provoked him to get into his own things, stepping out of the corporate world taking risks into hands. He added saying that nothing is coming out from Sri Lanka in terms of innovations. Thus to begin with it, he started to step into entrepreneurship becoming a role model for young people.Becoming the First Unicorn in Sri Lanka…

Mr. Arfan Nazar