The Living Business seminar organised by HSBC for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises will be held on Wednesday, 14 November 2007 from 3.30 pm onwards at the HSBC Moratuwa Branch, following a very successful programme held in Kandy in March 2007.

The workshop will be conducted in Sinhala. During this time, participants will be given the opportunity to interact with three professionals, gaining insight on the various methods of how to expand and develop their businesses, while paying attention to corporate social responsibility. Practical and simple solutions to improve business functions will be discussed and participants can raise their own queries to be addressed as well.

The guest speakers who will share their expertise with the audience are Prof Ajith de Alwis from the University of Moratuwa who will speak on “Energy Excellence is Business Excellence”; Ms Geehanthi Weerasinghe from the National Cleaner Production Centre who will talk on ‘The Triple Bottom Line’, “The Roadmap to Sustainable Business in a Global Economy” and Mr Harsha Wickramesinghe, the Chief Executive Officer of the Energy Conservation Fund who will discuss the importance of the conservation of energy and the necessity to record and document the usage, in order to improve margins.

The inaugural Living Business seminar held in Colombo last November 2006 and the second seminar held in Kandy in Sinhala in March 2007 was an absolute success. A survey done at the inaugural Living Business Seminar revealed that 98 per cent of respondents had found the seminar to be of immense benefit to them, as they had been made aware of the different approaches that can be taken to lower costs and increase profits. Targeted especially for the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises, this programme has already proven to be very popular in the industry and many are expected to attend the seminar.