YPC Events

	REGISTER HERE - 29 September 2020, 06:00 PM
	Katlego Letsoalo Topic: The Perfect Storm Katlego is a qualified mining engineer and currently works as a Monitoring and evaluation specialist. Mr Letsoalo was part of a team of 23 well selected young African Leaders under 40 in 2019 who are considered as the next generation of thought leaders in the Minerals and Metals sector by the University of Cape Town. Part of this UCT programme included analysing the African Mining Vision and addressing challenges faced by the extractive sector through the application of various policy instruments. Katlego is a Council member of Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and previously chaired the SAIMM YPC which represents just over 2000 professionals under 35 years in Southern Africa. He is a big advocate for young professionals and challenges facing the youth in the minerals and metals sector and continues to advocate for them in various platforms. Through his leadership, active YPC branches have been established in Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo. Katlego prides himself by continuously redefining boundaries and advocating for young professionals in the Minerals Sector.
	Zandile Mkwanazi Topic: Women belong in STEM NZandile is the Chairwoman and founder of GirlCode, a non-profit organisation aimed at empowering young girls and women through technology. Over the past 7 years, GirlCode has grown to be the largest women in ICT lead organisation in South Africa hosting the largest an annual All female Hackathon with over 300 participants accross 3 provinces. Through her leadership the organisation has grown immensely to host monthly coding and robotics workshops teaching over 3000 girls from primary and high schools. Proving vacation work opportunities to university students and job opportunities to hundreds of girls. In 2019, 8 of the GirlCode community members received job offers in the U.K as a result of partnerships formed by GirlCode with multinational corporations. Zandile is also the CEO and founder of EmpowerXx, a women in STEM focused tech recruitment startup whose focus is to accelerate women in leadership positions within coorporates across the Globe. Although still in its infacy, EmpowerXx aims to revolutionalise how organisations attract, train and retain their Female Talent. Zandile believes in creating opportunities that impact both the social and economic status for women as well as the progress and development of technology companies who are currently still predominantly white male dominated..
	With the aim of ensuring that we as Young Professionals have a voice in the future of mining. Join our YPC Connected Series as we talk to various industry topics hosted by young professionals, industry and thought leaders.

Online Conferences

Online Conferences

Whatever terminology you wish to use, it is obvious that the world of work is changing rapidly. Even more so now that we are in the COVID19 lockdown.

As a result, we have instituted a number of online conference events, which can be enjoyed from home, or anywhere. These have so far been very successful, and we are now embarking on a series of events, which create a virtual conference, but held over several sessions. See our list of upcoming online conferences below.

DIMI Women’s Month Online Webinar Series

International Mine Health and Safety Online Conference 2020

Renewable Solutions For Energy Intensive Industry 2020

3rd School On Manganese Ferroalloy Production

Collaborations

COLLABORATIONS

International Conference on “Heavy Minerals & Lithium” for Energy Security 

(REES Series – 2024)

29th - 30th August 2024
Kochi, Kerala

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Scope of the conference:

Heavy Minerals & Lithium both play important roles in enhancing energy security, albeit in different ways. They are characterized by their significant economic importance, high supply risk, and critical role in supporting key industries.

They are crucial components in various renewable technologies and energy-efficient applications and are the backbone of emerging green technologies and will be indispensable in the days to come in the background of COP 27. Besides, they find application in various sectors such as defence, aerospace, atomic energy, medical

Being an aspiring trillion-dollar economy and considering the development prospects in changing geo-political situation, the country is poised to leverage its resource for unleashing the niche values, for achieving self reliance in energy security of the country. Besides, there is a need to develop self reliance in these emerging technologies to achieve ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Make in India’ mission. 

REES 2024 is being organized jointly by REAI, SAIMM and ISMAA Kolkata Chapter with the objective to serve as an apt platform for exchanging ideas, networking and furthering academic and applied knowledge of Heavy Minerals and Lithium base  on inter-disciplinary knowledge/ experience for the development of value chain of Heavy Minerals and Lithium in the Country and globally.

Key Dates

Abstract submission closes on: 15^th May 2024
Acceptance of abstracts: 30^th June 2024

Free Webinars

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SAIMM WEBINAR SESSIONS

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This is an opportunity for the SAIMM to continue engaging and sharing knowledge with our members

DATE: 08 December 2020
TIME: 06H00 PM
COST: Free webinar
Topic: The Pursuit of the Digital Twin in African Mining

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Speaker Profile:  Jamie is CEO of pan-African mining technology platform Dwyka Mining Services with offices in South Africa and Botswana. Delivering cutting-edge solutions through the adoption and adaptation to the latest mining technologies with a focus on improving safety, health and environmental conditions, DMS is supporting Africa’s leading miner’s digitalisation journeys across the continent.

Topic info: Digitalization of mining assets into highly visual formats is key to unlocking hidden value by solving a widening skills gap and growing safety mandate. DMS has partnered with global pioneers in the remote sensing and visualization (UI) industry to deliver mixed reality capture and digital twin capabilities that augment mining team’s sight on- and off-site. This session will focus on digital twin developments and how these are applicable in African mining. Drilling down into the detail we will unpack real-world examples and a case study using Emesent’s Hovermap drone for GPS-denied scanning capability used to map the previously inaccessible and deliver ROI for the client.

For more information please contact:
Camielah Jardine
camielah@saimm.co.za

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