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PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY – MAY 20, 2015
BUILDING A DYNAMIC, GROWING & GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN SA
08:00 – 09:00
REGISTRATION
09:00 – 10:00
The SA manufacturing landscape: prospects, challenges, trends and technologies
Mr Coenraad Bezuidenhout, Executive Director: Manufacturing Circle
Ms Peggy Drodskie, COO: South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry
10:00 – 10:30
What role is government’s trade and industrial policy playing in fostering a
dynamic and competitive SA manufacturing sector?
Mr Mbofholowo Tsedu, Assistant Programme Manager: Trade and Industrial Policy
Strategies (TIPS)
10:30 – 11:00
TEA / COFFEE
11:00 – 11:30
Government-industry collaboration to drive growth, global competitiveness and
employment: the case of the automotive industry and the Automotive Production
and Development Programme (APDP)
Mr Robert Houdet, Executive Director: The National Association of Automotive Component
and Allied Manufacturers (NAACAM)
11:30 – 12:30
Industry-research sector (universities, science councils) collaboration to drive
innovation, competitiveness and growth in SA manufacturing through technology
transfer and commercialisation
Mr Tebogo Machethe, R&D Outcomes Manager: CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing
Dr Zolani Dyosi, Director – Applied Research, Innovation and Collaboration: National
Research Foundation (NRF)
12:30 – 13:30
LUNCH
13:30 – 14:45
Case studies in public-private partnership to develop skills to underpin SA’s
industrial growth.
Mr Dirk van Dyk, CEO: National Tooling Initiative Programme
Mr Steve Jardine, Project Leader: National Foundry Technology Network
Mr John Davies, CEO: South African Institute of Foundrymen
14:45 – 15:15
TEA / COFFEE
15:15 – 15:45
Increasing local and global market access, with specific focus on SA and African
localisation initiatives and intra-Africa trade
Adv Leslie Sedibe, CEO: Proudly South African
15:45 – 16:15
Promoting foreign and domestic investment in the SA manufacturing sector:
strategies and programmes, successes and challenges
Ms Kanyi Ntloko, Executive Manager – Investment Promotion: Trade & Investment
KwaZulu-Natal
INDUTEC Conference 2015 Secretariat: African Agenda
Tel: +27 (0)21 683 2934 • Fax : +27 (0)86 542 4191
info@indutecconference.org.za • www.indutecconference.org.za
THURSDAY – MAY 21, 2015
GREENING THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN SA
08:00 – 09:00
REGISTRATION
09:00 – 09:30
The Industrial Symbiosis Programme, resource efficiency and the business case
for the greening of SA industry
Mr Ndivhuho Raphulu, CEO: National Cleaner Production Centre
09:30 – 10:00
Clean technology innovation for SMEs and start-ups: the SA context
Mr Gerswynn Mckuur, National Project Manager: Global Cleantech Innovation
Programme for SMEs in SA
10:00 – 11:00
Towards a circular economy: how far still to go for SA industry?
Mr Hermann Erdmann, CEO: Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South
Africa (REDISA)
Dr Raylene Watson, Deputy Director – Industry and Energy Business Unit: Royal
HaskoningDHV
11:00 – 11:30
TEA / COFFEE
11:30 – 12:00
Driving energy efficiency across industry: lessons from the Private Sector Energy
Efficiency (PSEE) programme
Dr Peter Mukoma, Head: Private Sector Energy Efficiency (PSEE), National Business
Initiative (NBI)
12:00 – 12:30
Funding for green technology initiatives: the Manufacturing Competitiveness
Enhancement Programme (MCEP)
Ts’episo Makgothi, Chief Director: Competitiveness Incentives, DTI
12:30 – 13:30
LUNCH
13:30 – 14:00
Carbon capture and carbon tax: which way forward for SA industry
Mr Thulani Maupa, CO2 Storage Pilot Project, South African Centre for Carbon Capture
& Storage
14:00 – 14:30
Can behavioural change save energy? The case of Energy Management Systems
Mr Alf Hartzenburg, National Project Manager - Industrial Energy Efficiency
Project: National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC) and UN Industrial Development
Organisation (UNIDO)
PARALLEL INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS
14:30 – 15:30
WORKSHOP 1:
Mega Trends shaping or
moulding the plastics
industry – with a focus
on Nigeria, Kenya & SA
Hosted by Frost & Sullivan
WORKSHOP 2:
DTI product designation
and clusters
Hosted by Valve and
Actuator Manufacturers
Cluster of South Africa
(VAMCOSA)
WORKSHOP 3:
The A-Z of the ECSA
registration and
candidacy phase
Hosted by Engineering
Council of South Africa
(ECSA)
15:30 – 17:00
WORKSHOP 4:
The status of the lifting
industry in SA
Hosted by Lifting
Equipment Engineering
Association of South Africa
(LEEASA)
WORKSHOP 2:
Duplex Stainless Steels
and 3CR12
Hosted by the Southern
Africa Stainless Steel
Development Association
(SASSDA)
WORKSHOP 6:
TBC
Hosted by Black Business
Council