Sustainable Brands Cape Town announces its vibrant line-up of over 100 speakers who will lead the discussions into HOW to innovate your brand for sustainability NOW.
South Africa’s leading sustainability practitioners as well as select international business leaders will host interactive discussion groups, breakout sessions, plenary presentations and networking activities for the business delegates, creative minds and the country’s future leaders who will be in attendance at SB’16 CAPE TOWN.
Broadly based the speakers will address how to:
- innovate for regeneration through better business strategy and reporting
- examine the macro trends and drivers of emerging markets
- navigate behaviour change via effective communication
- reinvent supply chains, and
- enable sound enterprise development.
KoAnn Skrzyniarz, CEO and Founder of Sustainable Brands, will host the opening plenary of the conference and set the scene for four days of extraordinary learning, networking and sharing amongst the top thought leaders and their peers.
The speakers and topics include:
- Mohamed Samir, President: India, Middle East and Africa, Proctor and Gamble – “P&G’s best brand stories from Africa where growth and social development have become inseparable”
- Seapei Mafoyane, CEO, Shanduka Black Umbrellas – “Enterprise development and how innovation and entrepreneurship are key to social and economic transformation”
- Jason Drew, African Innovations Foundation Prize winner and mastermind behind the award-winning AgriProtein business that is transforming the animal feed market by using organic waste to generate protein-rich feed for livestock – “The Environmental Capitalist – how innovation is transforming energy and food security”
- Saint-Francis Tohlang, South Africa’s leading young business mind and trends analyst – “New pathways to development and how brands can emulate human qualities in creatively contributing to social and environmental solutions that will lead to new developmental pathways in emerging markets”
- Dr David North, Former UK Head: Corporate Affairs, TESCO, and now Group Executive: Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Pick n Pay – “How the food retailing industry has adapted to meet the new demands of managing food security and supply chains”
- David Schwartz, sustainability entrepreneur, designer and researcher from the United States, will share case studies from his personal international experiences with Fortune 500 organisations, NGOs and social enterprises – “Examining how design and development can influence entrepreneurs, policymakers and all others dedicated to the pursuit of social impact”
The details and topics of more speakers at Sustainable Brands Cape Town follow below:
Procter and Gamble are headline sponsors of the event being held in association with the NBI – South Africa’s National Business Initiative, MCI South Africa and the CHANGE AGENT COLLECTIVE. Other brands that will be participating on the platform include Santam, Dimension Data, Nike, Barloworld, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, PETCO, Trialogue, BASF, Frys and Nedbank.
Rashid Toefy, MD, MCI South Africa, says: “We are incredibly excited to bring this event to the African continent. Sustainability is a key development area in South Africa and a field in which our country has shown global leadership. It is also quite significant that the event will take place in Cape Town, a city that has been at the forefront of innovation in terms of sustainability.” During his tenure as CEO of the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Toefy was instrumental in ensuring that the centre was one the world’s leading sustainable convention centres.
“This conference will be the business networking event of 2016,” states Joanne Yawitch, CEO, NBI. Deon Robbertze, Programme Director, Sustainable Brands Cape Town, and Director, CHANGE AGENT COLLECTIVE, notes: “The programme for this first event on the African continent has been carefully curated to showcase and inspire how sustainability-led innovation is the core focus of brands that are leading a new economy based on transparency, innovation and purpose.”
The programme will also offer lively debates, showcase products and solutions in the Activation Hub and offer intriguing Inspiration Tours.
Contact Taryn Brookes at taryn.brooks@mci-group.co.za to discuss alternatives for companies wishing to participate in the conference, conversations and debates around a series of topics in The Activation Hub.
The event begins on 15 May and continues to 17 May 2016. Registration is now open and space is limited. Engagement opportunities are still available for speakers and companies looking to explore HOW SB’16 CAPE TOWN can benefit their brand NOW.
Further information, including a programme overview for the conference, can be found at http://events.sustainablebrands.com/sb16ct/.
MORE SB’16 CAPE TOWN SPEAKERS AND TOPICS:
- Dr Anthony Turton, hydrology expert and conflict resolution specialist – “The Coming Age of water – the impacts of the water crises on mining and the economy”
- Chris Coulter, President, Globescan – “The latest research into developing road maps for regeneration”
- Cormac Cullinan, environmental advocate and author of Wild Law – “Wild Law – a discussion on issues relating to environmental governance and the shifting landscape of compliance in relation to policy”
- Christelle Marais, Procurement and Sustainability Specialist for Africa, SAB Miller – “Better Business – insights into how SAB Miller is developing and implementing responsible sourcing and building authentic relationships within supply chains”
- Carla Tavares, Programme Marketing Manager, The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC International) – “How certification can develop trusted brand recognition and verifiable supply chains”
- Dr Jaisheila Rajput, value chain specialist and CEO, TOMA – NOW (Tomorrow Matters Now) – “Mapping and developing value chains – looking at how companies that have their house in order can look forward to sustained growth and adapt to new market challenges and opportunities”
- Andrea Ferry, sustainability consultant – “The role of organisational change agents and how their influence enables brands to shift direction to face the new challenges within the economy and brand development”
- Claire Janisch, biomimicry expert – “How to develop strategies for abundance by exploring life’s principles and emulating nature’s success strategies from the perspective of the pioneer species within mature ecosystems”
- Dr Geoff Kendall, CEO and Co-founder, Future Fit – “Entrepreneurship and innovation”
- David Katz, Founder, The Plastic Bank – “Recycling and its impacts on innovation and poverty alleviation”
- Davide Stronati, Head: Strategy, Mott Macdonald (global engineering, management and development consultants) – “Strategy and leadership across countries in the developing world”
- Ingun Berget, Former CEO, Amer Sports Norway (with brands like Salomon, Atomic, Suunto and Wilson in the portfolio) and now CEO, BRIGHT, a company that aims to be a global brand in innovation and social responsibility with their range of solar lights – “Renewable energy and how it impacts the innovation and entrepreneur landscapes”
- Jakob Trollback, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Trollback and Company – “The Global Goals for Sustainable Development – the new language being created to communicate organisational change including targets, outcomes and representation of data”
- Jeff King, Senior Director for Sustainability, CSR and Social Innovation, The Hershey Company – “Hershey’s Energise Learning programme in Ghana”: This project, in partnership with the Ghana School Feeding Programme and non-profit organisation Project Peanut Butter, is developing and distributing a highly-fortified groundnut nutritional supplement called “Vivi” to help improve education performance, increase school attendance, and boost domestic food production and farmer food security.
- Joanne Yawitch, CEO, The National Business Initiative – “Socio-economic sustainability and governance”
- Jonathon Hanks, CEO and Founder, Incite – “Leadership, shared value and transparency and its implications for new business leaders tackling the ever-changing business landscape”
- Justin Smith, Group Head: Sustainability, Woolworths – “A Perfect Storm: Food Security, Affordability and Drought as South Africa is in the grips of a water and food crisis”
- Kevin James, CEO and Founder, Global Carbon Exchange Africa – “Corporate approaches to the economic, social and environmental imperatives and how risk and opportunity are flipsides of the same coin” (How to address such issues to ensure that the risks become opportunities, will be presented in a practical, measurable and economically feasible way.)
- Lisa Parkes – Project Manager, Cape Craft and Design Institute – “The Appreciative Enquiry model utilised in The Better Living Challenge (BLC), a five-year project that implements design solutions and the commercialisation of these solutions for low-income housing to improve living conditions”