Keynote Speaker
Professor Muthu De Silva
Welcome To ICME 2025
Entrepreneurial Bricolage: Steering Volatile Markets through Improvised Strategies and Innovative Thinking
Research Conference
31st July 2025
ICME 2025, under the theme of “Entrepreneurial Bricolage: Steering Volatile Markets through Improvised Strategies and Innovative Thinking” is to create a forum for academics, researchers, and practitioners across the globe to debate and share their knowledge on business institutes, particularly related to the ongoing global recession and their impact on the economy and contemporary management practices. This conference aims to provide a platform for knowledge exchange and the development of actionable insights that will not only contribute to academic literature but also have practical implications for businesses and policymakers worldwide. Moreover, the conference will contribute to academic discourse by fostering dialogue on the role of improvisation in innovation, the interplay between resource constraints and opportunity identification, and the mechanisms through which businesses can steer through crises. It will also explore how innovative thinking, and unconventional strategies can address challenges such as supply chain disruptions, economic downturns, and competitive pressures in global markets.
Undergraduate Research Forum
31st July 2025
The Undergraduate Research Forum (URF) creates a platform for undergraduates who are undertaking their bachelor’s at any of the higher education institutes in the world to showcase their valuable independent and collaborative research findings. Undergraduates may have done some research work as partial fulfillment of their in-class assessments, independent studies, community projects, creative projects, or experiential learning etc.
Idea Cloud
31st July 2025
Idea Cloud is a business start-up idea competition where tertiary education students and school level students can pitch their innovative ideas that provide solutions for social and economic development in Sri Lanka as one of the efforts of the faculty is organized annually. Idea Cloud 2025 is the fifth consecutive year in which Idea Cloud will be rolled out. The competition is organized to be held in parallel to the International Conference on Management and Economics (ICME 2025).