SATC [ Programme & Speakers ]

home

satc 2023

conference

papers

The 42nd Annual Southern African Transport Conference 2024

VIRTUAL PROGRAMME:

Click here for SATC 2023 Virtual Final Announcement & programme

IN PERSON ATTENDANCE:

Click here for SATC 2023 final Announcement & Programme

programme & speakers

41st ANNUAL SOUTHERN AFRICAN TRANSPORT CONFERENCE SATC 2023
provisional programme

We are excited to share the programme for the Southern African Transport Conference and Exhibition.
The event will run from 10 - 13 July 2023.
On-line registrations are open.
Each day’s proceedings will officially start at 08h30 and end at 17h00.
The exhibition booths may be visited at any time during the day and will be open from 08h30 to 17h00 each day.

OPENING ADDRESS:

Hon. Sindisiwe Lydia Chikunga

MINISTER OF TRANSPORT

Information will be available soon.

plenary Speakers:

MONDAY 10 July:

Ms Karla González Carvajal

World Bank

Karla González Carvajal is a specialist in the subject of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. She obtained her MBA with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of San Diego in California and holds a degree in Law from the University of Costa Rica.

Her work over the last decade has provided her with extensive experience in the area of public service. She has specialized in Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods and is currently a member of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje y Conciliación Comercial (International Center for Arbitration and Commercial Conciliation). She was a member of Road Safety Committee, which is led by the Fundación Internacional de Automovilismo (International Automobile Foundation). As Minister of Public Works and Transportation in Costa Rica she achieved a fourfold increase in the investment of public works, the resumption of construction at the national airport, which was stalled due to conflicts, the transformation of the driver’s license system, the promotion of a new traffic law and the inclusion of road safety components in the design of road infrastructure. She is currently the World Bank's Practice Manager for Transport in Europe. Karla is also leading the Gender Task Force for the World Bank's Transport Global Practice, working to operationalize the gender agenda in the transport sector.

TUESDAY 11 July:

Prof Andrè Roux

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

Prof André Roux was the Director of the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) at the University of Stellenbosch from 1996 to August 2015. André is now in the full-time employ of the US Business School, where he lectures on economics and is also the programme head for the School’s postgraduate programmes in Futures Studies. He also teaches on various executive education programmes in South Africa and, from time to time, in Australia, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria. André is a visiting professor at Vlerick Business School (Belgium) and at the Beijing Business School (China).

He is also a guest lecturer on post-graduate programmes at the School of Public Management (Stell) and the Post-graduate diploma in Managing HIV and AIDS in the workplace. André holds a PhD in Economics and is responsible for more than 150 popular publications; 1 book (14th edition); 6 chapters in scientific books; 10 publications in scientific journals; 25 papers presented at domestic and international conferences. He is a regular guest on radio and television programmes. He has supervised 6 PhD theses and more than 150 postgraduate students. Awarded prize for best lecturer at Business School (2016-2018).

WEDNESDAY 12 July:

Dr Kevin Trenberth

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH, NEW ZEALAND

Dr Kevin Trenberth is a Distinguished Scholar at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research and an honorary faculty member at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. From New Zealand, he obtained his Sc. D. in meteorology in 1972 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a lead author of the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Scientific Assessment of Climate Change reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which went to the IPCC. He played a major role in the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) from 1985 through 2020. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is widely published and cited, and has a new book published in 2022.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

THURSDAY 13 July:

Ms Logashri Sewnarain

SMEC South Africa, CEO

Information will be available soon.

Conference Secretariat - Jacqui Oosthuyzen

Mobile: +27 (0) 83 324 9622 | Fax: +27 (0) 86 293 7432 | Email: info@satc.org.za