Conferences

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I have participated in national and international academic conferences, presenting research and engaging in interdisciplinary discussions related to governance, leadership, and family business studies.​​

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• Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing (OGIS) Research Symposium
  Sithuni M. Jayasekara, S. Rijal, Eranga K. Galappaththi. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Sri Lankan Indigenous Villages Using NDVI (1988–2025) (Poster presentation, April 2026)

• American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2026
  Sithuni M. Jayasekara, Eranga K. Galappaththi, H. Jolly. We Share This World: Understanding Human–Wildlife Interactions and Lived Coexistence among Sri Lankan Indigenous Peoples (Oral/Poster presentation, March 2026, San Francisco, California, USA)

• Virginia Tech Office of GIS and Remote Sensing (OGIS) Research Symposium

       Sithuni M. Jayasekara, Eranga K. Galappaththi. Analyzing Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Sri Lankan Indigenous Villages Using             GIS and Remote Sensing (Poster presentation)

• SEDAAG (Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers) 
  Presented an abstract on Indigenous food system governance, Greenville, South Carolina, USA (November 2024)

• ODK National Leadership Conference 
  Participated in a three-day leadership conference, representing the Virginia Tech Circle (November 2024)

• ICBM (18th International Conference on Business Management) 
  Presented an abstract on family business succession planning (Virtual) (December 2021)

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International Workshops & Training

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• IPON In-Person Workshop, Accra, Ghana — Participated in a five-day international workshop with researchers from 17 countries; facilitated activities for Working Group 4 (Gender) and presented master’s research on Sri Lankan Indigenous Peoples; visited farming communities in the Anloga region (November 2025)

• IPON In-Person Workshop, Central Amazon, Peru — Participated in a five-day international workshop with researchers from 14 countries; facilitated activities for Working Group 4 (Gender) and Working Group 6 (Evidence Synthesis); engaged with Asháninka Indigenous communities to explore climate–food–health issues (October 2024)

• Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Workshop (Online) — Participated in a three-day training workshop on implementing the Intercultural Knowledge Dialogues data collection tool developed by PAHO (April 2024)

• Social Entrepreneurship Development Training Program, Kandy, Sri Lanka —  Completed a training program focused on social entrepreneurship, sustainable business models, and community-driven development initiatives (January–February 2022).