The Colombo Defence Seminar held for the ninth consecutive year will begin at the BMICH under the theme ‘Evolving Military Excellence in the Contemporary Security Landscape’. The military expects around 800 participants to attend the Defence Seminar including participants from 42 countries.The programme will include 13 foreign and 14 local speakers over nine sessions following a trajectory of intellectual interactions and cover the sub themes; Contemporary security landscape, Conflict or cooperation, confronting terrorism, military modernisation and military readiness in the contemporary security landscape. The Defense Seminar will also include presentations of the participating experts and comments of the epert panel towards the culmination of the sessions.