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, CEO: Manufacturing Circle / Ms Peggy Drodskie,
COO: South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry
10:00 – 11:00 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)
11:00 – 11:30 Tea / coffee
11:30 – 12:30 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)
12:30 – 13:30 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)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:30 Case studies in public-private partnership to develop skills to underpin SA’s
industrial growth: the Intsimbi National Tooling Initiative and the National
Foundry Technology Network
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
15:30 – 16:30 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
16:30 – 17:30 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 Secretariat / African Agenda
Tel: +27 (0)21 683 2934 / Fax: +27 (0)86 542 4191
[email protected] | www.indutecconference.org.za
PROGRAMME
Thursday – May 21, 2015
GREENING THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN SA
08:00-09:00
Registration
09:00 – 10:00
The Industrial Symbiosis Programme, resource efficiency and the business
case for the greening of SA industry
Mr Ndivhuho Raphulu, CEO: National Cleaner Production Centre
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 – 12:30
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)
Funding for green technology initiatives: the Manufacturing
Competitiveness Enhancement Programme (MCEP) (TBC)
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:30
Carbon capture and carbon tax: which way forward for SA industry?(TBC)
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
15:30 – 16:30
Workshop 4: The status
of the lifting industry in
SA Hosted by Lifting
Equipment Engineering
Association of South
Africa (LEEASA)
Workshop 2: DTI product
designation and clusters
Hosted by Valve and
Actuator Manufacturers
Cluster of South Africa
(VAMCOSA)
Workshop 5: Duplex
Stainless Steels and 3CR12
Hosted by the Southern
Africa Stainless Steel
Development Association
(SASSDA)
Workshop 3: The A-Z of
the ECSA registration and
candidacy phase
Hosted by Engineering
Council of South Africa
(ECSA)
Workshop 6: TBC
Hosted by Black Business
Council