A meeting was held between senior officials of the NSF and TVEC to discuss the way forward on empowering the TVET sector by introducing training courses addressing the global demand and the 4IR, which was held on 07th July 2025 at the Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission. Potential opportunities for tapping expertise of the Sri Lankan expatriates abroad who plays a leading role in academia as well as industry was discussed at the meeting with special attention to further refinement of the curriculum already developed by the NSF for a Diploma-level Data Science course for Tertiary and Vocational Technological (TVET) courses with expertise contribution from a team of expatriate Sri Lankan scientists from Australia and USA. This was an initiative under the NSF Global Digital Platform of overseas Sri Lankan scientists and professionals.