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Specialized Trainings & Conferences
MTI Communications trading as Snetworks designs specialized and personalized corporate training solutions for clients that guarantee optimal knowledge evolution, skill development, and business growth. The training courses cover diverse competency domains like Administration and Secretarial Courses, Human Resources Courses, Contract Management Courses, Finance, and Accounting Courses, Customer Service Courses, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management Courses, Management and Leadership Courses, Procurement and Supply Chain Courses, Project Management Courses, Soft Skills Training Courses, Health and Safety Courses, Oil & Gas Courses, and more.
We offer comprehensive learning solutions that provide flexibility from face-to-face training to online courses. With a diverse Course Portfolio in different topic areas, all of our practical and hands-on training courses zero in on the most critical information and skills that you need to get ahead and stay there!
We conduct market research with training decision-makers and develop each and every training course so that they are designed to meet the actual learning needs and skills gaps of your employees and your organisation. All of our Course Leaders are subject matter experts in their areas of expertise. We continually evaluate our course leader effectiveness based on their ability to create a positive learning environment and the ability to transfer meaningful job-related skills to the course participants. As a result, Snetworks is 100% guaranteed!
Bank Marketing Conference
03rd -04th December 2026
Southern Sun Rosebank Hotel, Rosebank South Africa
Summit Highlights
- AI Masterclass: The bank marketer’s playbook for winning before competitors do
- How high-performing teams generate more growth during a time of declining employee engagement
- Stop leaving revenue on the table: How precision marketing turns customer behaviour into strategy
- “Always here”: Driving low-cost deposit growth through authentic connection
- Guess less and grow more with predictive AI
- Your sales team needs more than flyers: How marketing can drive more loans, deposits and revenue
- Drive operational success with smart, data-driven marketing
- Sameness is expensive: Unlock growth with human creativity in banking
- More campaigns, faster compliance, better ROI: How AI agents are transforming bank marketing
- Your CEO wants results, not deliverables: Building performance-based agency partnerships
- How leading CMOs earn influence, budget and growth responsibility in today’s banking environment
- AI SEO: Winning the new front door to your bank
- Building brand through the branch experience
- Outcompete megabanks: Strategies to drive growth with data-driven offers and rewards
- Stop paying for pretty: How to build a brand that drives profitability and market share
- The state of bank marketing in 2026: Budgets, priorities and the growth agenda
Power Plant Summit
03rd -04th December 2026
Southern Sun Rosebank Hotel, Rosebank South Africa
Summit Highlights
- Maximizing Efficiency: Key Strategies for Power Generation Facilities
- Transforming power generation with AI
- Defending power plants against cyber threats
- Increase Power Plant Efficiency with AI
- Autonomous power plants: Shaping the future of power generation
- AI Predictive Maintenance for Power Plants: Reducing Unplanned Downtime
- The Role of Digital Technology in Power Plant Management
- Outage Management: The Make-or-Break Window
- Automation technology to modernize and future-proof power plant
- Plant Performance Optimization for power generation
- Leveraging AI Across the Utility Lifecycle
- Strategies to achieving deep decarbonisation in power generation
- How to Maximize Uptime in Power Generation Plants
- More Megawatts without New Buildouts: The Strategies for Plant Updates
Auto Finance Summit 2026
28th -29th May 2026
Southern Sun Rosebank Hotel, Rosebank South Africa
Summit Highlights
- How cutting-edge technology can optimize vehicle financing operations and drive success in the evolving world of motor finance
- Vehicle finance credit risk management strategies
- Rewriting the rules: how AI is transforming the vehicle finance journey
- Remote auto financing: it’s never been easier to buy and finance a car!
- The new fraud playbook: synthetic identities, bust outs, deepfakes, ghost customers and what’s next
- Driving a better consumer experience in auto financing
- How AI can steer a stronger future for auto finance
- Agentic AI: a new path to value in the auto finance industry
- Finding success in technology initiatives and fintech partnerships
- How environmental impact is shaping auto lending
- The future of auto financing: how AI and digital tools are reshaping the industry
- Under the microscope: ai credit decisioning
- Assets to intelligence: rewriting the economics of fleet finance
- Capital on the road: financing Africa’s commercial fleets
- Reading the signals: how early data is reshaping auto finance risk
- Residual roulette: financing EV when values won’t sit still
- Digital-first lending experiences
- Turning AI hype into measurable value: a strategic approach to risk, fraud, and automation
Meat Processing Summit
28th -29th May 2026
Southern Sun Rosebank Hotel, Rosebank South Africa
Summit Highlights
- The AI powered meat processor: driving efficiency, quality, and sustainability
- Ai-driven carcass management and deboning intelligence: setting new standards in transparency, control, and efficiency in modern meat processing”
- Red meat classification
- Predictive maintenance systems and AI-driven operations
- Developing an AI driven supply chain in the meat processing industry: impacts on profitability and sustainability
- Innovation in food safety for meat processing
- Automation and robotics in meat handling
Added value in meat processing through innovative data technologies - Ai-driven innovations in meat quality and safety: applications, challenges, and future directions
- Traceability within the complete value chain – from producer to consumer
- Why digital transformation in meat processing is different and more complex
- Emerging trends in meat processing equipment
- Meat processing plant: design and layout
- Mitigating risk and maintaining compliance at the meat processing plant
- Global meat production and consumption trends
A sustainable approach to waste management in meat processing - Meat industry 5.0 – a review of technological approaches and robotic systems in the meat processing industry
Next steps: harnessing flexible and future-ready meat processing solutions - Traditional meat processing methods and their limitations
- Sustainable equipment and waste reduction systems
Vehicle Finance Summit
26th -27th March 2026
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The future of auto financing: how ai and digital tools are reshaping the industry
- Digital-first lending experiences
- AI and data analytics in risk management
- The growing threat of fraud in auto lending and how to combat it
- How environmental impact is shaping auto lendingThe
- used-vehicle market, balancing risk, growth, and fluctuating values
- Vehicle finance trends: competing through data-driven agility
- Improving collections and servicing through ai and automation
- How generative ai is reshaping auto finance
- How agentic ai in auto finance will shake up the industry
- Auto finance industry challenges & how to overcome them
- Finding success in technology initiatives and fintech partnerships
- Tapping into subprime growth with machine learning, alternative data in auto
- Empowering strategic collaboration between auto lenders and dealers
- From automotive finance to holistic mobility provider
- The future of automotive finance: digitization at the wheel
Mobile Wallet Summit
26th -27th March 2026
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Mobile money’s impact on economic growth
- Key trends for mobile wallets & payments in 2026
- A new age of billing and payments: mobile wallets, ai technology and billing
- AI and mobile payments: transforming transactions on the go
- Critical steps to secure mobile wallets: lessons from hardware security
- Understanding and mitigating mobile money fraud
- Mobile wallets for business: streamline sales and customer experience
- How mobile wallets are transforming the omnichannel customer experience
- From qr codes to biometric payments: the next phase of digital wallet security
- Security risk analysis and management in mobile wallet transaction
- Mobile money: revolution and challenges in the banking sector
- AML and mobile wallets: how to mitigate risks and comply with regulations
- Mobile money: hacking, fraud & how to build protection
- Artificial intelligence in mobile payments: the future of mobile wallets
- Mobile wallets and ai: creating smarter, safer online transactions
- Why mobile wallets are skyrocketing in emerging markets
Vehicle Finance Summit
11th -12st December 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The future of auto financing: how ai and digital tools are reshaping the industry
- Digital-first lending experiences
- AI and data analytics in risk management
- The growing threat of fraud in auto lending and how to combat it
- How environmental impact is shaping auto lending
- The used-vehicle market, balancing risk, growth, and fluctuating values
- Vehicle finance trends: competing through data-driven agility
- Improving collections and servicing through ai and automation
- How generative ai is reshaping auto finance
- How agentic ai in auto finance will shake up the industry
- Auto finance industry challenges & how to overcome them
- Finding success in technology initiatives and fintech partnerships
- Tapping into subprime growth with machine learning, alternative data in auto
- Empowering strategic collaboration between auto lenders and dealers
- From automotive finance to holistic mobility provider
- The future of automotive finance: digitization at the wheel
Agricultural Bankers Summit
30th -31st October 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Farm finances at a crossroads: navigating heightened uncertainty
- Revolutionizing agri-finance through AI
- Accelerating loan decisions for competitive advantage
- Mastering commodity prices: unlocking success with a dynamic, all-inclusive strategy
- Agricultural economics in an uncertain landscape
- Early stress signals in ag lending: practical detection and intervention strategies
- Emerging trends and lending challenges in African agriculture
- Fintech’s role in disrupting agricultural lending
- Data-driven decisioning for ag lenders
- Gen AI can shape the future of agriculture
- Navigating agricultural challenges in technology, labor and rising costs
- Strategies for supporting producers in financial record-keeping
- Cultivating prosperity through successful agricultural banking relationships
- Driving innovation in ag banking: navigating complexity with efficient solutions
- Sustainability as both risk and opportunity
- Strategic role of banks in agri transformation
The Beverage Summit
30th -31st October 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Small changes, big impact: unlocking sustainability through reliability
- How AI is changing the beverage industry?
- innovative strategies for beverage distribution
- Effectively building your beverage brand at retail
- From shelf to sip: exploring influence on beverage preferences
- Next-gen quality control – the impact of AI on beverage production
- Leveraging machine learning to explore and improve flavor
- The smart factory in the future beverage industry
- The future of the beverage industry with ERP integration
- Managing risks in the beverage industry
- Automation beyond the beverage industry trends
- Optimizing health benefits and shelf life through HPP and functional ingredients
- How AI is revolutionizing demand forecasting in beverage supply chains
- How container level intelligence reveals the source of waste, downtime, and damage
- Using AI and edge based analytics to achieve line balancing for optimize packaging and filling area
- Aligning technology investments with strategic business goals and organisational value
- Digital transformation in the beverage industry: how new technologies are serving innovation
- Streamlining profit and revenue management in the beverage with analytics
- Unlocking health benefits through functional beverages
Mortgage Summit 2025
18–19 September 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The Impact of AI Use and Innovation on the Mortgage Industry
- Unlocking the benefits of GenAI for next-generation Mortgage lending
- Modernize your mortgage lending platform
- Why mortgage lenders should invest in home equity offerings
- Best Practices for Loan Pricing & Structures
- The mortgage battlefield: why customers switch banks (and how to win them back)
- How Fast Will AI Bring Real ROI In Originations and Servicing?
- Rising Interest Rates, Market Volatility, Housing Affordability and AI Loom: Navigating the Challenges
- Transforming digital mortgage: AI’s impact on digital lending
- The Continued Rise of Technology and Automation: Revolutionizing the Mortgage Loan Industry
- Evolving Consumer Behavior: Catering to a New Generation of Borrowers
- Strategies for mortgage market success
- Digital Transformation in The Mortgage Industry
- The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology
- Cracking the code – Helping first-time buyers succeed in a tough market
- Digital Mortgages: Improving customer experience through digital mortgage
- The barriers to a successful digital mortgage transformation
Retail Summit Africa
21–22 August 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- future of shopping? Why retailers and CPG businesses need to prepare now for agentic AI
- How Cloud Physical Security Can Empower the Loss Prevention Team
- High Performance Retail in times of uncertainty
- Retail Efficiency: Best Practices in Retail Store Operations efficencies
- The Future of Merchandising: Tech-Enabled Teams
- How Retail Industry is Spearheading Digital Transformation Initiatives in 2025 & Beyond
- Drivers of sustainability for the retail industry
- Optimizing Retail: AI in Practice
- Forgetting Offline – Do Stores Really Need Special Treatment?
- Using Data and In-Store Media to Drive Retail Growth
- How Real-Time Retail Data Drives Retail Growth
- Retail Risk Management: Threats and Strategies to Mitigate Them
- Common Fraudulent Practices in Retail
- Customer Experience in Retail : Strategies and the Future of CX
- Crafting hyper-personalised customer experiences with AI
- The true cost of returns: Should retailers charge?
- Get Ready For Next-Gen Barcodes: Unlocking A World Of Possibilities For Supply Chain And Beyond
- Workforce Management in Retail:Why Now is the Time for Next-Gen Scheduling Software: Boost Efficiency and Stay Competitive
- How AI is reshaping Retail Workforce Management
- How Retail IS Building Connected Consumer Experiences with Data and AI
Investor Relations Summit
17th -18th July 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Best practices for investor engagement
- The state of ESG & sustainability reporting – challenges and recommendations for 2025″
- How to optimize data reporting in investor relations: effective datedriven IR strategy
- Measuring investor relations success: key performance indicators (KPIS)
- Revolutionizing investor relations: the transformative role of AI
- Navigating ai in investor relations: a pragmatic approach to implementation
- Dos and don’ts: mastering the investor presentation
- Scaling investor relations in the digital age
- Steps toward holistic investor relations
- Managing IR during time of crisis. Retaining existing and attracting new investors
- Digital transformation. Virtual investor meetings and roadshows; use of ai to enhance investor engagement; cybersecurity
- Building an effective investor relations strategy
- How to put on an award-winning investor day
- Importance of collaboration between investor relations and public relations
- Rethinking IR performance measurement: how ai and financial models can help calculate impact in dollars and cents
- Looking ahead: top investor relations trends for 2025
Corporate Security Management Summit
10th -11th July 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Transformation of Physical Security – A 21st Century Approach
- Future Of Biometrics: Trends, Innovations, And Challenges Ahead
- Ways AI is transforming CORPORATE security and operations
- Understanding the Risks and Rewards of AI in CORPORATE SECURITY
- Weaponising AI For Vulnerability Discovery: Staying Ahead Of Malicious Actors
- Convergence of Physical and Cybersecurity
- A Data Driven Approach To Security And Safety Process Optimisation Using Intelligence At The Edge
- The Future of Corporate Security
- Proactive Threat Detection and Response
- Enhancing Employee Experience and Operational Efficiency
- Compliance and Risk Mitigation in a Globalized World
- Integration of AI and IoT: The Smart Security Ecosystem
- Threat And Risk Assessment Approaches for Security Professionals in 2025
- Key Considerations for Designing and Developing an effective Corporate Security Strategy
- Emerging Physical Security Technologies Shaping the Future of corporate Security
- Fostering A Strong And Collaborative Security Culture In A Changing Security Environment
- Zero-Trust For Physical Access: Why Keys And Credentials Aren’t Enough
- The Evolving Role of Physical Security in Modern Corporate Environments
Civil Engineering Summit
27th -28th March 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Civil engineering in the digital age: top innovations shaping the future.
- Innovations in civil and structural engineering: navigating challenges and solutions.
- Emerging trends in civil engineering: what you need to know.
- How artificial intelligence is transforming civil engineering.
- Decarbonisation in civil engineering and e&m system design.
- How materials innovations are making a difference.
- New approaches critical to effectively navigate the data ecosystem.
- Cloud collaboration for civil engineering projects.
- Risk management and risk communication in civil engineering projects.
- How AI is revolutionising civil engineering.
- The role of digital transformation in safety, risk, and reliability.
- The next dimension: 3D modeling and simulation in civil engineering.
- What are the best practices for maintaining civil engineering structures?
Edible Oil Summit
24th -25th April 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Future Trend and Market Prospect Analysis of Edible Oil Industry
- Enhancing Edible Oil Refineries with Digital Solutions
- Harnessing the power of technology: Next-Gen Technologies in Edible Oil Production and Processing
- Revolutionizing the Edible Oil Industry with Cutting-Edge Automation
- Driving Sustainability in the Edible Oils and Fats Industry
- AI and Automation Impact on the Edible oil industry
- Emerging Trends in Vegetable Oil Market: Healthier Oils, Safety Challenges, and Sustainability
- Food safety aspects in edible oil processing
- Safety risk assessment and early warning of chemical contamination in vegetable oil
- Edible oil consumer behaviour
- Waste management technique for edible oil industry)
- An artificial intelligence approach to model and optimize biodiesel production from waste cooking oil using life cycle assessment and market dynamics analysis
- Edible oil manufacturing process: Key factors for optimal production
- Building a resilient supply chain in the cooking oil industry
- Keeping up with industry innovations: How to choose the perfect oil extraction unit for your business
- Advance safety measures & cutting edge technology for edible oil factory
- Maximizing Efficiency and Reducing Waste in Edible Oil Processing: Solutions and Strategies
- Edible oil refining process optimization & sustainability
- Higher yield and efficiency – for edible oil manufacturers
Air Cargo 2025
24th -25th April 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Emerging Technology”AI in Logistics: Harnessing Benefits and Mitigating Risks”
- Mitigating sustainability risks in air cargo operations
- How digitalisation in the airfreight industry is changing global trade forever
- The current and emerging use of AI in air cargo
- The Future of AI and Digitalisation in Air Cargo
- Air Cargo Automation Handling Systems and Technology
- Holistic air cargo warehousing automation solutions to optimise your terminal activities
- The growth of E-Commerce and Its Influence on air cargo transportation
- How technology is revolutionizing cargo handling in aviation
- Air cargo security: time is ticking for an integrated approach
- AIR cargo safety
- Cybersecurity: how secure is air cargo industry
- The importance of risk management for freight handlers
- Streamline your air cargo handling operations
- How to unlock the full potential of your cargo management system
- Unveiling the air cargo potential: Transforming airports into cargo powerhouses
- Circularity in air cargo: waste reduction for efficient operations
Hotel General Managers Summit
5th -6th December 2024
NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel, South Africa
- Managing & marketing your hotel successfully
- Hotel revenue management: solutions, best practices, management role
- Ai in hospitality: how artificial intelligence is transforming the hotel industry
- Mobile technology in hospitality industry – hotel operations!
- Role of artificial intelligence in revenue management and pricing strategies in hotels
- Addressing rising customer expectations in hospitality
- Emerging technology trends in hotels
- Powering efficiency: leveraging data analysis for sustainable hospitality
- Sustainability in hotels: creating a greener future for hospitality
- Balancing act: nurturing the human touch in the age of tech dominance
- Mastering the data dance: crafting an effective data strategy and governance foundation
- Hotel digital transformation: ideas and trends
- App-solutely essential: accelerating revenue and fortifying brand image through guest experience apps
- Cyber security in the hotel industry: raising awareness on security threats in the digital age
Smart rooms, smarter management: revolutionizing hospitality with cutting-edge tech
Poultry Summit Africa 2024
6th-7th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Emerging technologies in poultry operations
- Next generation coccidia monitoring
- Furthering genetic progress through innovative technology
- Using IOT data to drive economic value and performance on broiler sites
- 5IR in poultry production
- Using artificial intelligence to improve poultry productivity
- The poultry industry’s evolution towards a more sustainable future
- Rapid salmonella detection in poultry using nanoparticles
- Precision farming to streamline poultry operations
- Egg master plan and the land scape of the industry.
- Integrated technologies advancing RNA vaccines for poultry
- How heat on demand boosts sustainability, poultry welfare
- Machine learning models for poultry weight forecasts
- AI robotic automation key to poultry processing evolution
- How poultry health management will evolve in the future
- Technologies monitoring and improving the future of biosecurity
- Endolysins as an antibiotic alternative for necrotic enteritis
- Alternatives to formaldehyde for decontaminating hatchery eggs
- Microdroplets to improve food safety in poultry processing preharvest monitoring
- Digital tools to improve layer management and performance
- Increasing automation and food safety in poultry processing
Fuel Station Summit Africa 2024
19th-20th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Designing an effective fuel retail loyalty program
- Cash Protection and handling solutions within a fuel station and convenience store environment
- The transformative power of data in the fuel retailing industry
- The impact of AI in the fuel retail Industry
- Digital transformation at service stations: What does this mean for fuel retailers and the industry?
- Service stations sustainability strategies: What can fuel retailers do to contribute to global sustainability?
- Marketing strategies for petrol stations how to stand out in a competitive industry
- Smart fuel station solutions what fuel retailers need to know
- Future of convenience stores: Through new digital solutions
- Innovation at the fuel station: a new era of fueling up
- How technology will fuel the future of fuel station design
- Evolution of fuel stations: shifting towards energy hubs with sustainable alternatives
- Electric vehicles charging infrastructure
- Advanced data security protocols in fuel retail
- Occupational fatigue and health of gas station workers: health risk associated with the inhalation of harmful vapours for workers at a fuel station
Sugar Summit Africa 2024
19th-20th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Sugar mill performance at the core of our challenges
- How digitalization addresses sugar production challenges
- Modern milling technologies to minimize wastage in the sugar industry
- Taking control of sugar plant emissions
- Efficient use of sugarcane bio-energy for sustainable sugar production
- Leveraging digital innovations for sustainability
- Sugar and beyond: an integrated strategy for sugar and its by-products
- Sustainability in sugar sector for a circular economy
- Global trends and technologies for sugar and ethanol industries:
- Sugar industry process modeling and the role of software in achieving optimal efficiency
- AI in sugar processing
- Sweetening the future: the sugar industry’s embrace of biogas for sustainable energy
- Sugar plant automation and optimization
- Harnessing technology to optimize sugarcane harvesting
- Lowering energy consumption in the sugar industry with technology
- Ethanol For Africa – Technology, Economics and Diversification
- Revolutionary Bolt-On Technology for Muti-Feed Ethanol Process, Byproducts & Derivatives
FERTILIZER Summit
27th -28th June 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Sustainable fertilizer production
- Future fertilizers and disruption of established business
- Process Optimization and Energy Management in the Fertilizer Industry
- How circular economy practices help reduce the environmental impact of fertilizer production
- Africa fertilizer industry and potential for decarbonizing fertilizer production: pathways to sustainable food
- Digital process solutions for fertilizer plants: Optimizing the future of plant operations
- AI based solutions to optimize fertilizer production
- How to mitigate safety risks of fertilizer production
- Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Agri-Nutrients sector
- What are fertilizer producers doing to help enhance food security
- Challenges, opportunities and future directions of automation in the fertilizer industry
- How are fertilizer producers adapting their product offerings to promote sustainable agriculture and ensure food security?
- Quality control in fertilizer production: The laboratory automation revolution
- Waste management strategy of a fertilizer plant
- Strengthening and measuring sustainability in the fertilizer industry
- Driving EHS performance and operational excellence with technology in the fertilizer industry
- New applications and new strategies for fertilizer companies
- The importance of fertilizers & innovative technology for food security: strategic considerations to implement now for plant nutrition companies
Feed Mill Management
27th -28th June 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Reducing supply chain emissions: innovations in feed production and beyond
- How raw material identification can safeguard the feed mill intake process
- Save your energy: a manufacturer’s guide to energy efficiency
- The power of AI: using hidden data to increase feed mill margins, animal health
- How feed safety protocols will evolve in the future
- Protein of the future: scaling insect production
- How circular economics reduce waste in feed production, enhance animal nutrition
- Examining the future of feed manufacturing, technology
- how feed formulation software is going beyond nutrition
- Feed’s role in animal AG’s path to net-zero carbon emissions
- Feed mill inventory management, traceability trends
- Beyond biosecurity: new ways to keep viruses out of feed
- The future of antibiotic-free feed production
- Sustainability through feed formulation strategies
- How to leverage data to fill gaps in feed mill workforce
Cement Summit Africa 2024
18 – 19 April 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africaa
- Transforming the cement industry through sustainable technology: challenges and opportunities in cement industry
- Exploring alternative materials and technologies for sustainable cement manufacturing
- Waste management and co-processing in cement industry
- Circular economy practices in cement production
- Energy challenges in the African cement industry
- Cement production and quality and control
- Addressing health and safety challenges in the cement industry in Africa
- Dynamic analysis and approach to reduce acoustic vibrations of a cement mill,
- Revolutionizing cement manufacturing: technology and automation
- Using AI to achieve operational excellence
- How can lab automation improve African cement producer’s profitability and production efficiency?
- Clean energy and alternative fuel solutions for the cement sector
- Embrace the future: cement plant digitization with generative AI
- Using AI/ML to optimize cement plant maintenance scheduling
- Smart cement factory solutions
- future trends and innovations in the cement industry: a sustainability outlook
Vehicle Finance Summit
26th -27th March 2026
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The future of auto financing: how ai and digital tools are reshaping the industry
- Digital-first lending experiences
- AI and data analytics in risk management
- The growing threat of fraud in auto lending and how to combat it
- How environmental impact is shaping auto lendingThe
- used-vehicle market, balancing risk, growth, and fluctuating values
- Vehicle finance trends: competing through data-driven agility
- Improving collections and servicing through ai and automation
- How generative ai is reshaping auto finance
- How agentic ai in auto finance will shake up the industry
- Auto finance industry challenges & how to overcome them
- Finding success in technology initiatives and fintech partnerships
- Tapping into subprime growth with machine learning, alternative data in auto
- Empowering strategic collaboration between auto lenders and dealers
- From automotive finance to holistic mobility provider
- The future of automotive finance: digitization at the wheel
Mobile Wallet Summit
26th -27th March 2026
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Mobile money’s impact on economic growth
- Key trends for mobile wallets & payments in 2026
- A new age of billing and payments: mobile wallets, ai technology and billing
- AI and mobile payments: transforming transactions on the go
- Critical steps to secure mobile wallets: lessons from hardware security
- Understanding and mitigating mobile money fraud
- Mobile wallets for business: streamline sales and customer experience
- How mobile wallets are transforming the omnichannel customer experience
- From qr codes to biometric payments: the next phase of digital wallet security
- Security risk analysis and management in mobile wallet transaction
- Mobile money: revolution and challenges in the banking sector
- AML and mobile wallets: how to mitigate risks and comply with regulations
- Mobile money: hacking, fraud & how to build protection
- Artificial intelligence in mobile payments: the future of mobile wallets
- Mobile wallets and ai: creating smarter, safer online transactions
- Why mobile wallets are skyrocketing in emerging markets
Vehicle Finance Summit
11th -12st December 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The future of auto financing: how ai and digital tools are reshaping the industry
- Digital-first lending experiences
- AI and data analytics in risk management
- The growing threat of fraud in auto lending and how to combat it
- How environmental impact is shaping auto lending
- The used-vehicle market, balancing risk, growth, and fluctuating values
- Vehicle finance trends: competing through data-driven agility
- Improving collections and servicing through ai and automation
- How generative ai is reshaping auto finance
- How agentic ai in auto finance will shake up the industry
- Auto finance industry challenges & how to overcome them
- Finding success in technology initiatives and fintech partnerships
- Tapping into subprime growth with machine learning, alternative data in auto
- Empowering strategic collaboration between auto lenders and dealers
- From automotive finance to holistic mobility provider
- The future of automotive finance: digitization at the wheel
Agricultural Bankers Summit
30th -31st October 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Farm finances at a crossroads: navigating heightened uncertainty
- Revolutionizing agri-finance through AI
- Accelerating loan decisions for competitive advantage
- Mastering commodity prices: unlocking success with a dynamic, all-inclusive strategy
- Agricultural economics in an uncertain landscape
- Early stress signals in ag lending: practical detection and intervention strategies
- Emerging trends and lending challenges in African agriculture
- Fintech’s role in disrupting agricultural lending
- Data-driven decisioning for ag lenders
- Gen AI can shape the future of agriculture
- Navigating agricultural challenges in technology, labor and rising costs
- Strategies for supporting producers in financial record-keeping
- Cultivating prosperity through successful agricultural banking relationships
- Driving innovation in ag banking: navigating complexity with efficient solutions
- Sustainability as both risk and opportunity
- Strategic role of banks in agri transformation
The Beverage Summit
30th -31st October 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Small changes, big impact: unlocking sustainability through reliability
- How AI is changing the beverage industry?
- innovative strategies for beverage distribution
- Effectively building your beverage brand at retail
- From shelf to sip: exploring influence on beverage preferences
- Next-gen quality control – the impact of AI on beverage production
- Leveraging machine learning to explore and improve flavor
- The smart factory in the future beverage industry
- The future of the beverage industry with ERP integration
- Managing risks in the beverage industry
- Automation beyond the beverage industry trends
- Optimizing health benefits and shelf life through HPP and functional ingredients
- How AI is revolutionizing demand forecasting in beverage supply chains
- How container level intelligence reveals the source of waste, downtime, and damage
- Using AI and edge based analytics to achieve line balancing for optimize packaging and filling area
- Aligning technology investments with strategic business goals and organisational value
- Digital transformation in the beverage industry: how new technologies are serving innovation
- Streamlining profit and revenue management in the beverage with analytics
- Unlocking health benefits through functional beverages
Mortgage Summit 2025
18–19 September 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- The Impact of AI Use and Innovation on the Mortgage Industry
- Unlocking the benefits of GenAI for next-generation Mortgage lending
- Modernize your mortgage lending platform
- Why mortgage lenders should invest in home equity offerings
- Best Practices for Loan Pricing & Structures
- The mortgage battlefield: why customers switch banks (and how to win them back)
- How Fast Will AI Bring Real ROI In Originations and Servicing?
- Rising Interest Rates, Market Volatility, Housing Affordability and AI Loom: Navigating the Challenges
- Transforming digital mortgage: AI’s impact on digital lending
- The Continued Rise of Technology and Automation: Revolutionizing the Mortgage Loan Industry
- Evolving Consumer Behavior: Catering to a New Generation of Borrowers
- Strategies for mortgage market success
- Digital Transformation in The Mortgage Industry
- The Mobile “Must-Haves” Reshaping Mortgage Technology
- Cracking the code – Helping first-time buyers succeed in a tough market
- Digital Mortgages: Improving customer experience through digital mortgage
- The barriers to a successful digital mortgage transformation
Retail Summit Africa
21–22 August 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- future of shopping? Why retailers and CPG businesses need to prepare now for agentic AI
- How Cloud Physical Security Can Empower the Loss Prevention Team
- High Performance Retail in times of uncertainty
- Retail Efficiency: Best Practices in Retail Store Operations efficencies
- The Future of Merchandising: Tech-Enabled Teams
- How Retail Industry is Spearheading Digital Transformation Initiatives in 2025 & Beyond
- Drivers of sustainability for the retail industry
- Optimizing Retail: AI in Practice
- Forgetting Offline – Do Stores Really Need Special Treatment?
- Using Data and In-Store Media to Drive Retail Growth
- How Real-Time Retail Data Drives Retail Growth
- Retail Risk Management: Threats and Strategies to Mitigate Them
- Common Fraudulent Practices in Retail
- Customer Experience in Retail : Strategies and the Future of CX
- Crafting hyper-personalised customer experiences with AI
- The true cost of returns: Should retailers charge?
- Get Ready For Next-Gen Barcodes: Unlocking A World Of Possibilities For Supply Chain And Beyond
- Workforce Management in Retail:Why Now is the Time for Next-Gen Scheduling Software: Boost Efficiency and Stay Competitive
- How AI is reshaping Retail Workforce Management
- How Retail IS Building Connected Consumer Experiences with Data and AI
Investor Relations Summit
17th -18th July 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Best practices for investor engagement
- The state of ESG & sustainability reporting – challenges and recommendations for 2025″
- How to optimize data reporting in investor relations: effective datedriven IR strategy
- Measuring investor relations success: key performance indicators (KPIS)
- Revolutionizing investor relations: the transformative role of AI
- Navigating ai in investor relations: a pragmatic approach to implementation
- Dos and don’ts: mastering the investor presentation
- Scaling investor relations in the digital age
- Steps toward holistic investor relations
- Managing IR during time of crisis. Retaining existing and attracting new investors
- Digital transformation. Virtual investor meetings and roadshows; use of ai to enhance investor engagement; cybersecurity
- Building an effective investor relations strategy
- How to put on an award-winning investor day
- Importance of collaboration between investor relations and public relations
- Rethinking IR performance measurement: how ai and financial models can help calculate impact in dollars and cents
- Looking ahead: top investor relations trends for 2025
Corporate Security Management Summit
10th -11th July 2025
Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre
- Transformation of Physical Security – A 21st Century Approach
- Future Of Biometrics: Trends, Innovations, And Challenges Ahead
- Ways AI is transforming CORPORATE security and operations
- Understanding the Risks and Rewards of AI in CORPORATE SECURITY
- Weaponising AI For Vulnerability Discovery: Staying Ahead Of Malicious Actors
- Convergence of Physical and Cybersecurity
- A Data Driven Approach To Security And Safety Process Optimisation Using Intelligence At The Edge
- The Future of Corporate Security
- Proactive Threat Detection and Response
- Enhancing Employee Experience and Operational Efficiency
- Compliance and Risk Mitigation in a Globalized World
- Integration of AI and IoT: The Smart Security Ecosystem
- Threat And Risk Assessment Approaches for Security Professionals in 2025
- Key Considerations for Designing and Developing an effective Corporate Security Strategy
- Emerging Physical Security Technologies Shaping the Future of corporate Security
- Fostering A Strong And Collaborative Security Culture In A Changing Security Environment
- Zero-Trust For Physical Access: Why Keys And Credentials Aren’t Enough
- The Evolving Role of Physical Security in Modern Corporate Environments
Civil Engineering Summit
27th -28th March 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Civil engineering in the digital age: top innovations shaping the future.
- Innovations in civil and structural engineering: navigating challenges and solutions.
- Emerging trends in civil engineering: what you need to know.
- How artificial intelligence is transforming civil engineering.
- Decarbonisation in civil engineering and e&m system design.
- How materials innovations are making a difference.
- New approaches critical to effectively navigate the data ecosystem.
- Cloud collaboration for civil engineering projects.
- Risk management and risk communication in civil engineering projects.
- How AI is revolutionising civil engineering.
- The role of digital transformation in safety, risk, and reliability.
- The next dimension: 3D modeling and simulation in civil engineering.
- What are the best practices for maintaining civil engineering structures?
Edible Oil Summit
24th -25th April 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Future Trend and Market Prospect Analysis of Edible Oil Industry
- Enhancing Edible Oil Refineries with Digital Solutions
- Harnessing the power of technology: Next-Gen Technologies in Edible Oil Production and Processing
- Revolutionizing the Edible Oil Industry with Cutting-Edge Automation
- Driving Sustainability in the Edible Oils and Fats Industry
- AI and Automation Impact on the Edible oil industry
- Emerging Trends in Vegetable Oil Market: Healthier Oils, Safety Challenges, and Sustainability
- Food safety aspects in edible oil processing
- Safety risk assessment and early warning of chemical contamination in vegetable oil
- Edible oil consumer behaviour
- Waste management technique for edible oil industry)
- An artificial intelligence approach to model and optimize biodiesel production from waste cooking oil using life cycle assessment and market dynamics analysis
- Edible oil manufacturing process: Key factors for optimal production
- Building a resilient supply chain in the cooking oil industry
- Keeping up with industry innovations: How to choose the perfect oil extraction unit for your business
- Advance safety measures & cutting edge technology for edible oil factory
- Maximizing Efficiency and Reducing Waste in Edible Oil Processing: Solutions and Strategies
- Edible oil refining process optimization & sustainability
- Higher yield and efficiency – for edible oil manufacturers
Air Cargo 2025
24th -25th April 2025
The NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel
- Emerging Technology”AI in Logistics: Harnessing Benefits and Mitigating Risks”
- Mitigating sustainability risks in air cargo operations
- How digitalisation in the airfreight industry is changing global trade forever
- The current and emerging use of AI in air cargo
- The Future of AI and Digitalisation in Air Cargo
- Air Cargo Automation Handling Systems and Technology
- Holistic air cargo warehousing automation solutions to optimise your terminal activities
- The growth of E-Commerce and Its Influence on air cargo transportation
- How technology is revolutionizing cargo handling in aviation
- Air cargo security: time is ticking for an integrated approach
- AIR cargo safety
- Cybersecurity: how secure is air cargo industry
- The importance of risk management for freight handlers
- Streamline your air cargo handling operations
- How to unlock the full potential of your cargo management system
- Unveiling the air cargo potential: Transforming airports into cargo powerhouses
- Circularity in air cargo: waste reduction for efficient operations
Hotel General Managers Summit
5th -6th December 2024
NH Johannesburg Sandton Hotel, South Africa
- Managing & marketing your hotel successfully
- Hotel revenue management: solutions, best practices, management role
- Ai in hospitality: how artificial intelligence is transforming the hotel industry
- Mobile technology in hospitality industry – hotel operations!
- Role of artificial intelligence in revenue management and pricing strategies in hotels
- Addressing rising customer expectations in hospitality
- Emerging technology trends in hotels
- Powering efficiency: leveraging data analysis for sustainable hospitality
- Sustainability in hotels: creating a greener future for hospitality
- Balancing act: nurturing the human touch in the age of tech dominance
- Mastering the data dance: crafting an effective data strategy and governance foundation
- Hotel digital transformation: ideas and trends
- App-solutely essential: accelerating revenue and fortifying brand image through guest experience apps
- Cyber security in the hotel industry: raising awareness on security threats in the digital age
Smart rooms, smarter management: revolutionizing hospitality with cutting-edge tech
Poultry Summit Africa 2024
6th-7th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Emerging technologies in poultry operations
- Next generation coccidia monitoring
- Furthering genetic progress through innovative technology
- Using IOT data to drive economic value and performance on broiler sites
- 5IR in poultry production
- Using artificial intelligence to improve poultry productivity
- The poultry industry’s evolution towards a more sustainable future
- Rapid salmonella detection in poultry using nanoparticles
- Precision farming to streamline poultry operations
- Egg master plan and the land scape of the industry.
- Integrated technologies advancing RNA vaccines for poultry
- How heat on demand boosts sustainability, poultry welfare
- Machine learning models for poultry weight forecasts
- AI robotic automation key to poultry processing evolution
- How poultry health management will evolve in the future
- Technologies monitoring and improving the future of biosecurity
- Endolysins as an antibiotic alternative for necrotic enteritis
- Alternatives to formaldehyde for decontaminating hatchery eggs
- Microdroplets to improve food safety in poultry processing preharvest monitoring
- Digital tools to improve layer management and performance
- Increasing automation and food safety in poultry processing
Fuel Station Summit Africa 2024
19th-20th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Designing an effective fuel retail loyalty program
- Cash Protection and handling solutions within a fuel station and convenience store environment
- The transformative power of data in the fuel retailing industry
- The impact of AI in the fuel retail Industry
- Digital transformation at service stations: What does this mean for fuel retailers and the industry?
- Service stations sustainability strategies: What can fuel retailers do to contribute to global sustainability?
- Marketing strategies for petrol stations how to stand out in a competitive industry
- Smart fuel station solutions what fuel retailers need to know
- Future of convenience stores: Through new digital solutions
- Innovation at the fuel station: a new era of fueling up
- How technology will fuel the future of fuel station design
- Evolution of fuel stations: shifting towards energy hubs with sustainable alternatives
- Electric vehicles charging infrastructure
- Advanced data security protocols in fuel retail
- Occupational fatigue and health of gas station workers: health risk associated with the inhalation of harmful vapours for workers at a fuel station
Sugar Summit Africa 2024
19th-20th September 2024
Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
- Sugar mill performance at the core of our challenges
- How digitalization addresses sugar production challenges
- Modern milling technologies to minimize wastage in the sugar industry
- Taking control of sugar plant emissions
- Efficient use of sugarcane bio-energy for sustainable sugar production
- Leveraging digital innovations for sustainability
- Sugar and beyond: an integrated strategy for sugar and its by-products
- Sustainability in sugar sector for a circular economy
- Global trends and technologies for sugar and ethanol industries:
- Sugar industry process modeling and the role of software in achieving optimal efficiency
- AI in sugar processing
- Sweetening the future: the sugar industry’s embrace of biogas for sustainable energy
- Sugar plant automation and optimization
- Harnessing technology to optimize sugarcane harvesting
- Lowering energy consumption in the sugar industry with technology
- Ethanol For Africa – Technology, Economics and Diversification
- Revolutionary Bolt-On Technology for Muti-Feed Ethanol Process, Byproducts & Derivatives
FERTILIZER Summit
27th -28th June 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Sustainable fertilizer production
- Future fertilizers and disruption of established business
- Process Optimization and Energy Management in the Fertilizer Industry
- How circular economy practices help reduce the environmental impact of fertilizer production
- Africa fertilizer industry and potential for decarbonizing fertilizer production: pathways to sustainable food
- Digital process solutions for fertilizer plants: Optimizing the future of plant operations
- AI based solutions to optimize fertilizer production
- How to mitigate safety risks of fertilizer production
- Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Agri-Nutrients sector
- What are fertilizer producers doing to help enhance food security
- Challenges, opportunities and future directions of automation in the fertilizer industry
- How are fertilizer producers adapting their product offerings to promote sustainable agriculture and ensure food security?
- Quality control in fertilizer production: The laboratory automation revolution
- Waste management strategy of a fertilizer plant
- Strengthening and measuring sustainability in the fertilizer industry
- Driving EHS performance and operational excellence with technology in the fertilizer industry
- New applications and new strategies for fertilizer companies
- The importance of fertilizers & innovative technology for food security: strategic considerations to implement now for plant nutrition companies
Feed Mill Management
27th -28th June 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Reducing supply chain emissions: innovations in feed production and beyond
- How raw material identification can safeguard the feed mill intake process
- Save your energy: a manufacturer’s guide to energy efficiency
- The power of AI: using hidden data to increase feed mill margins, animal health
- How feed safety protocols will evolve in the future
- Protein of the future: scaling insect production
- How circular economics reduce waste in feed production, enhance animal nutrition
- Examining the future of feed manufacturing, technology
- how feed formulation software is going beyond nutrition
- Feed’s role in animal AG’s path to net-zero carbon emissions
- Feed mill inventory management, traceability trends
- Beyond biosecurity: new ways to keep viruses out of feed
- The future of antibiotic-free feed production
- Sustainability through feed formulation strategies
- How to leverage data to fill gaps in feed mill workforce
Cement Summit Africa 2024
18 – 19 April 2024
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africaa
- Transforming the cement industry through sustainable technology: challenges and opportunities in cement industry
- Exploring alternative materials and technologies for sustainable cement manufacturing
- Waste management and co-processing in cement industry
- Circular economy practices in cement production
- Energy challenges in the African cement industry
- Cement production and quality and control
- Addressing health and safety challenges in the cement industry in Africa
- Dynamic analysis and approach to reduce acoustic vibrations of a cement mill,
- Revolutionizing cement manufacturing: technology and automation
- Using AI to achieve operational excellence
- How can lab automation improve African cement producer’s profitability and production efficiency?
- Clean energy and alternative fuel solutions for the cement sector
- Embrace the future: cement plant digitization with generative AI
- Using AI/ML to optimize cement plant maintenance scheduling
- Smart cement factory solutions
- future trends and innovations in the cement industry: a sustainability outlook
LAB Management Summit 2023
7th- 8th December 2023
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
Course highlights:
- Implementing a digital lab management strategy
- Strategic planning for the lab
- Meeting industry demands through automation
- Renovating a lab to support end-to-end automation
- Handling waste effectively
- Digital strategies to effectively manage your samples
- Best practices for maintenance to keep your lab equipment in optimal condition
- Building an effective lab sustainability strategy
- Beyond results—how operational metadata will influence labs of the future
- Advancing lab operations through scientific asset performance management
- Advancing lab operations through scientific asset performance management
- Expanding your lab: how to ensure operational oversight
- Getting started with data-driven asset management
- Key benefits of effective asset management processes
- Benefits of artificial intelligence in the lab: how it is changing the landscape
- Harnessing innovative AI solutions in your lab
- Using key performance indicators to drive laboratory performance
- Getting more done with less: ways to stretch your lab budget
- Lab safety management roles and responsibilities
- Improving operations through effective lab leadership
Waste Management 2023
Date: 20th – 21st July 2023
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg.
Course highlights:
- Setting up a Reuse Strategy for the City
- Trends in Landfill Management
- Cracking Down on Waste Crime
- How Ai is Revolutionizing Waste Management
- E-waste and Weee Recycling
- The Future of Plastic Waste Management
- Organic Waste-to-energy: Solutions for Solids and Liquids
- Smart Waste Management for Making Waste Collection an Effective Process
- Municipal Solid Waste Management: Dynamics, Risk Assessment, Ecological Influence, Advancements, Constraints and Perspectives
- Sustainable Waste Management in Cities
- Digital Transformation and Waste Tracking
- Benchmarking Waste Management in Africa – How Does It Compare Internationally?
- Accidents and Injuries in the Waste Management Sector
- Towards a Circular Economy: Addressing the Waste Management Threat
General Counsel Summit 2023
Date: 4th-5th May 2023
Venue: Grand Palace Hotel, Lusaka Zambia
Course highlights:
- Understanding the changing role of in-house counsel
- Innovation and ip in a crisis
- Building efficient & strategic relationships with outside counsel
- Leveraging your technology resources to work better for you and your team
- Driving innovation as an in-house lawyer
- Building efficient & strategic relationships with outside counsel
- Creating a strong culture of compliance across the business
- The in-house counsel’s role as business risk manager – balancing risk tolerances and strategic objective
- Ethical considerations for in-house counsel – bridging the divide as business partner and organisational guardian
- Bridging the gap between regulatory compliance and customer experience
- “you have the right to remain silent, but…” why strong partnership between legal and communications teams is a company’s best defense
- Metrics, data, analysis – how legal can show value in advancing the business
- Doing more with even less: best practices for reducing legal spend
- Crisis response and the role of general counsel
- Legal agility & resilience: building the optimal team to navigate change
- Trusted advisor: influencing key decisions & delivering business value
- Acting rapidly in the aftermath of a cybersecurity hack
Mill Management Summit 2023
Date: 12th- 13th October
Venue: Hilton Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg South Africa
Course highlights:
- Milling digital transformation for maintenance and operations
- Milling diagnosis using artificial intelligence approaches
- In-line and on-line analysis of raw material, intermediate product and final product.
- Challenges, opportunities and future directions of automation and smart milling
- Controlling infestation: poison free pest control through heat treatment
- Operational excellence through digitalization and IOT
- Smart milling
- Reducing waste, improving efficiency, and creating accountability with asset management software in milling operations
- Increasing milling efficiency and productivity: a sustainability perspective
- Factors affecting efficiency and energy management in the mills
- Future of African flour and milling
- How to deal with context to build a sustainable purchasing strategy
- The effect of strategic supply chain management on the profitability of mills
- The balancing act: people and automation not people vs automation
- Industry 4.0 challenges that can lead to digital transformation failure
- Digital transformation in the milling industry -the value of an ecosystem for continuous improvement
- Operations & maintenance – the perfect partnership
- Creating a more efficient safety management system that avoids ‘safety clutter’ and aids long-term asset integrity
- Leading a successful cultural transformation in mill facilities
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