Conference Programme
 
Day One: 24 October 2011

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP INCLUDING SECTOR CODES
Jan Munnik, Managing Director, EES-SIYAKHA; Murray Chabant, Director, BEEXchange

Overview of the BEE Codes

  • Why BEE
  • How it is meant to work
  • Rules of the game

Scorecard in Detail

  • Management Control
  • Employment Equity
  • Skills Development
  • Preferential Procurement
  • Enterprise Development
  • Socio-Economic Development

Sector Codes
Verification and Verification Agencies
 
Day Two: 25 October 2011

Chair

Israel Noko, Executive Director, BEESA Group

07h30 – 08h50

Registration/Tea and Coffee

08h50 – 09h00

Welcome and contextualizing the conference – Israel Noko, Director, BEESA Group
09h00 – 10h30

Evaluation of BEE Compliance against Transformation and Growth and The National Planning Commission Report: The Role BEE can play to close the poverty gap – Duma Gqubule, Executive Director, KIO Advisory Services
10h30 – 11h00 Tea and Coffee

11h00 – 12h00

Keynote Presentation: Evaluating South Africa’s Economic Policy against Transformation: Who is benefiting from our current economic condition? – Chris Hart, Chief Strategist, Investment Solutions

12h00 - 13h00 Lunch
Chair Thabo Masombuka, Executive Head Transformation Services, Siyakha Consulting

13h00 – 14h00

BEE from the DTI’s Perspective: Report on the DTI’s year BEE Activities – Takalani Tambani, Director for Black Economic Empowerment, the dti

  • Challenges and issues dealt with in the past year
  • Current and future challenges – what has been to done and is envisaged
  • Status on BEE Sector Codes
  • Consistency in Verification
  • DTI interaction channels with employers
  • Proposed amendments
  • BEE after 2017

14h00 – 15h15

Panel Discussion: Addressing concerns currently faced, progress which is being made to address these concerns and challenges faced; DTI interaction channels with employers: proposed amendments to the Codes

Chair – Thabo Masombuka, Executive Head Transformation Services, Siyakha Consulting
Panel: Chris van Wyk, Chairperson, The Association of BEE and Verification Agencies (ABVA); Nomonde Mesatywa, Chief Director, BEE, the dti; Dionne Kerr, Chairperson, National Association of BEE Consultants (NABC); Kganki Matabane, Director, Transformation, BUSA; Leila Moonda, Managing Director, The BEE Institute
15h15 – 15h30 Tea and Coffee

15h30 – 16h15

Managing BEE Strategically at Executive and Board Level– Vincent Maphai, Executive Director: Corporate Affairs and Transformation, South African Breweries, and National Planning Commission Member

  • The general function of the Board in relation to the Executive Team responsibilities, and stakeholder wants
  • Board excellence in relation to enterprise-wide risk, audit, capital investment, and reputational risk
  • Board lapses in relation to BBBEE, compared to above, and lack if ownership in governance structure and substance
  • If BBB-EE was up there with all other innovation and austerity measures, how would it show at Board level?
  • The role of IODSA

16h15 – 16h30

Chairperson’s wrap up and summary of Day Two
16h30 Networking and Cocktail Function

Day Three: 26 October 2011

Chair

Israel Noko, Executive Director, BEESA Group

08h00 – 08h30

Tea and Coffee

08h30 – 10h00

The Evolution of BEE Measurement: 2010 Survey – Sandile Hlophe, Managing Partner, KPMG Services

10h00 – 10h30 Tea and Coffee

 

STREAM CHANGE

10h30– 11h15

Human Capital Value Chain
Chairperson: Jan Munnik, Managing Director, EES-SIYAKHA

Product Value Chain
Chairperson: Israel Noko, Executive Director, BEESA Group

Case Study: Attracting Black Talent Best Practice – Rose Nkosi, General Manager: Global Diversity and Transformation,  Sasol

  • Sasol’s Strategic Talent Planning Framework
  • Implementing measures to drive the achievement of the EE Plan
  • Accelerating diversity through strategic talent sourcing
  • Strategies to ensure success

Case Study: Nedbank’s Preferential Procurement Strategy – Sakkie O' Neil, Divisional Executive: BEE, Nedbank

  • Our strategic approach to preferential procurement
  • Mechanism uses in support of suppliers and qualifying enterprises
  • Success stories and lessons learnt

11h15 – 12h00

How to set and manage achievable EE Goals aligned to EE and BEE – Jan Munnik, MD, EES-SIYAKHA

Case Study: ArcelorMittal's approach to Preferential Procurement: Lessons learnt and the road ahead – Tometsi Azariel Mosai, Preferential Procurement Manager, ArcelorMittal
12h00 – 12h45

Case Study: Managing EE at Comair – Bongani Nzuza, Compliance Manager, Comair

  • Comair’s approach in managing EE
  • Policy implementation
  • Setting and managing EE Targets
  • Strategies in support of EE Targets

The role of Business Incubators in support of Enterprise Development – Leon Lourens, Managing Director, Business Systems 2000 

  • Business Incubation defined: processes and services
  • Models for sustainability
  • Using your ED funds effectively
  • Successes in Incubation and Enterprise Development

12h45 – 13h45

Lunch

13h45 – 14h30

Case Study: Growing Black Talent in the Engineering Sector– Logan Pillay, Engineering Faculty Manager, Eskom Academy of Learning

  • Tackling the challenge of skills shortages in the engineering sector
  • Overcoming budgetary constraints to fund trainees
  • Outlining key learning projects
  • Strategies implemented to ensure knowledge transfer between trainees and contractors

Case Study: Anglo Zimele’s approach in building sustainable enterprises – Lia Vangelatos, Chief Investment Manager, Anglo Zimele

  • Background of the project
  • The approach undertaken
  • Key success drivers
  • Reaping the rewards: How did it effect Anglo’s bottom-line

14h30 – 15h15

Case Study: Implementing a Disability Strategy that adds value – Kgari Manotwane, Chief Director Transformation, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

  • Creating an enabling environment for people with disabilities
  • Eradicating unfair discrimination against employees with disabilities
  • The cost and benefits of accommodating individuals with disabilities
  • Valuable skills and experience gained

Case Study: Sustainable implementation of Socio-Economic Development initiatives at Unilever – Renée Burton, Sustainability Manager, Unilever

  • Outlining Unilever’s SED projects and strategic objectives
  • Growing SED Projects
  • Measure the impact of SED initiatives on the beneficiaries and the business
  • Ensuring sustainability of SED initiatives

15h15 – 15h30

Chairperson's  wrap up and summary of conference
Day Four: 27 October 2011

07h00 – 08h30: Registration/Tea and Coffee
Choice of two workshops

Human Capital Value Chain
Workshop

Product Value Chain
Workshop

08h30 –
09h30

 Changing Managers’ Mindsets – Goodnews Cadogan, Director, The Village Leadership Consulting
 08h30 – 12h00 Preferential Procurement Best Practice – Bernie van Niekerk, CEO, Commerce Edge

9h30 –
16h00

Employment Equity Best Practice – Jan Munnik, MD, EES-SIYAKHA

12h00 – 16h00

Enterprise Development Best Practice – Andrew Bizzell, MD, BEESA Group
 

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