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| 07:30 - 08:30 | Refreshments & Registration |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | WELCOMEBob Williamson, Chairman, INTSIMBI FPTI & President, International Special Tooling and Machining Association (ISTMA World) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | OPENING ADDRESSMs Thandi Phele, Acting Deputy Director-General:Industrial Development, Department of Trade and Industry |
| 09:15 - 10:00 | OVERVIEW & POSITIONING OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR)Dr Harry Teifel, Platform Leader, Progressus |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Biological Transformation in Manufacturing – a New Perspective for Sustainable Industrial Value AdditionProf. Oliver F R A Damm, Senior Advisor South Africa, Fraunhofer |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Refreshments |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | INDUSTRY 4.0 – AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVEYanesh Naidoo, Director, Jendamark Automation |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING - ITS IMPACT ON TOOLING SYSTEMSDr Hein Moller, Director, Tiziri Advanced Manufacturing Technologies |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR 4IRDirk van Dyk, CEO, National Technologies Implementation Platform (NTIP) |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | IOT - ITS VALUE ON THE MANUFACTURING SUPPLY CHAIN: Redefining Business ModelsCraig Parker, Research Director, MEA, Frost & Sullivan |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Refreshments |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION BETWEEN SPEAKERS AND DELEGATES: (Summary of the day and its impact on South African manufacture)Chaired by: Tapiwa Samanga, CEO, INTSIMBI Future Production Technologies Initiative |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | NETWORKING COCKTAIL PARTY |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Refreshments & Registration |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | REVIEW OF DAY 1 AND OVERVIEW OF 4IRIlse Karg, Chief Director, Future Industrial Production Technologies, DTI |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | NANO & BIOTECHNOLOGY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT ON MANUFACTURINGProf. Suprakas Sinha Ray, Chief Research Scientist and Director, DST/CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | QUANTUM COMPUTING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MANUFACTURING CYCLEProf. Francesco Petruccione, SA Research Chair for Quantum Information Processing and Communication and Chairman, QZN Technology |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Refreshments |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS FOR THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL ERAPeter Erasmus, CEO, Directech (Pty) Ltd |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | NEW GENERATION VEHICLES AND ITS IMPACT ON THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRYDr Bradd Libby, Research Fellow, RethinkX, UK |
| 12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | EXPODENTIAL MANUFACTUREJohan van Tonder, Managing Director, Agustin Equity Management |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | THE ECONOMICS OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONJeffrey Dinham, Economist, Econometrix (Pty) Ltd |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Refreshments |
| 15:15 - 16:30 | INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION BETWEEN SPEAKERS AND DELEGATES: Final summary and lessons learned from the conventionChaired by: Tapiwa Samanga |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | CLOSING REMARKS - Bob Williamson |