Reimagine Our Economy | Tilak Dissanayake | TEDxColombo

The dinosaur among the speaker of this year’s TEDxColombo. His jovial nature is to fool you before he hits you with theories, concepts and crazy ideas on how we can change Sri Lanka’s economy. Here’s his journey from Transport Drones, Electric Sports Cars to how it all fits in the bigger picture.

Tilak Dissanayake is an engineer and inventor in a variety of fields. His extensive product design, development and delivery experience of 37 years includes companies such as Boeing--12 years in the commercial and defense areas--, Xerox--7 years--, and 6 years in Silicon Valley startup companies, briefly including Netscape, during the Internet boom years. He holds a MSc and BSc with High Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii, and is a certified project management professional. Tilak is a volunteer with the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka and lectures on aerodynamics at their District Aviation Awareness Program events which are designed to attract rural youth to careers in aviation.

He is currently designing a fully automated robotic airplane and air traffic control system to alleviate, at end point, the problem of global, rural poverty via a low cost, environmentally friendly, air transportation network.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx