Conference

Registration
Meet our Sponsors
Sponsorship
Exhibition
Accommodation
Speakers

The 2022 SAAMA Conference will be held at The Maslow Hotel, Sandton, Johannesburg on 22 & 23 June. In-person attendance space is limited due to Covid protocols of the hotel and we would love for you to join us in person where you can network with colleagues, visit exhibition stands and interact with speakers in-person.

The SAAMA Awards will only be held in person and will take place after the conference proceedings on day 1 of the conference (22 June) as a cocktail celebration.

A Virtual option is available for delegates who are from out of town or are unable to travel.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

To get member discount you must use the email address associated with your regular SAAMA account.
If you use a new email address a new account will be opened for you, unless you ask the secretariat to update your old account details.
Member discount is only offered to paid-up members.
You and the billing contact of your organisation will receive invoices a few minutes after you have registered.
If you see a red notice on the screen about unpaid invoices please contact the secretariat on SAAMAServices@vdw.co.za to resolve.
Please cancel your registration in writing to conference@saama.org.za by no later than 13 June 2022. The full registration is payable for members, non-members, speakers and students who do not cancel in time or are a no-show at the physical conference or on the virtual platform.

Physical Attendance

Virtual Attendance

Platinum Sponsor:

Gold Sponsor:

Silver Sponsor:

Exhibitors:

Special rates have been negotiated with The Maslow Hotel, Sandton for SAAMA delegates. All accommodation is to be booked and paid for directly with the hotel. Cancellation terms and conditions apply.

Rates:

Single Luxury Queen Room	R1 617 per room per night
Luxury Twin Room	R1 902 per room per night

To book simply contact grpresv@suninternational.com / 011 780 7800 using the reference SAAMAPB.

The accommodation booking form can be found here

Other hotels in the area:

Hilton Sandton
Courtyard Hotel Sandton
Villa Sandton
Protea Hotel by Marriott, Balalaika
Radisson Blu Hotel Sandton
Road Lodge Sandton

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Kiren Maharaj Topic: Job Title: Founder and Chairperson: Trenex (Pty) Ltd & Chairperson: South African National Energy Association (SANEA) Kiren is a dynamic leader and passionate energy professional with over 25 years’ experience at strategic, operational and management level as an executive in Africa’s foremost power utility and in the private sector in construction, engineering and infrastructure. She has strategically directed, governed, and overseen the safe and effective production of electricity from over 14 000 Megawatts of coal fired power generation. She headed up a R40 bn division, accountable for the management of procurement, contracts, operations, logistics and the associated quality, technical and environmental issues of primary energy inputs for power generation.	Berzel Matiyenga Topic: Enhancing Asset Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Safety through Digitalisation and Real-Time Asset Health Monitoring Job Title: Reliability Engineer, Binmak Corporation Experienced Reliability Engineer with demonstrated history of working in the mining, manufacturing, power and utilities industries. Has a deep understanding of Digitalization Strategies, AI, Big Data, IoT and IIoT solutions. Skilled in Asset Health and Performance Monitoring, Project Management, Plant Operations, SCADA, Asset Management Consultation, Cloud Analytics, and Energy Modelling.	Christoff Müller Topic: The Influence of Events on Risk Perception Job Title: SAMP Operations Lead, Sebenzana Experienced project engineer with a demonstrated working knowledge of process design, project planning and commissioning. Successfully completed a Masters in Project Management, specialising in knowledge management. Currently working as a business process engineer and operations manager on a knowledge management system for the asset management industry.
Nomaphelo Ndzundzu Topic: Human-centred design in Asset Management Job Title: Asset Management, Zutari A mechanical engineer by profession. Nomaphelo has spent over 10 years in Operations and her passion as a consultant is to incorporate principles of reliability engineering and operational excellence at the highest level of the organization. I believe making policy makers conscious of the impact their decisions make to the people on the shop floor will result in a more integrated and effective organizational strategies for infrastructure asset management. Through human centred design the organizational asset management system can be tailored to the unique culture and needs of the organization as opposed to applying blanket approach to asset management.	Boudewijn Neijens Topic: Machine Learning Applied to Capital Planning Job Title: CMO, Copperleaf Boudewijn holds a MEng from the University of Brussels, and an MBA from INSEAD in France. He is the CMO at Copperleaf in Vancouver, Canada. He chairs the Canada committees at ISO’s TC251 on asset management systems (ISO 55000) and at IEC's TC123 on management of networked power assets.	Dr Emmanuel Ngcobo Topic: The Sustainable Outlook Job Title: Chairperson of the Centre for Municipal Asset Management (CMAM-SA) Public Servant in Local Government (16 years-experience) . 7 Years – eThekwini Municipality; 9 Years - iLembe District Municipality. Chairperson of the Centre for Municipal Asset Management (CMAM-SA) Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Government Finance, Audit & Risk Officers (CIGFARO); Member of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Finance Working Group, Academic Advisory Board Member for the Durban University of Technology (Public Management & Economics) and the Tshwane University of Technology (Public Finance); Chairperson of the Noble Leaders International
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Jeanine Roelofse Topic: Digitizing metallographic replica intake and evaluation results Job Title: Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Sebenzana Jeanine’s work focuses on projects where metallographic replica evaluation results are used in determining the safe, remaining life of high value assets in the petrochemical- and manufacturing industries. Jeanine collaborated with the Sebenzana “SAMP” Team on the structure required to enable service providers to digitize replica intake- and evaluation results using the Smart Asset Management Platform.	Caroline van Heerden Topic: Reflections on Infrastructure Maintenance Budgeting Tactics in the Public Sector Job title: Physical Asset Management Engineer, IMQS Caroline van Heerden started her career at Transnet Port Terminal working at Cape Town harbour, where she gained hands-on experience in maintenance and reliability. She then joined IMQS in 2017 as a Maintenance Management Business Analyst. After becoming a Certified Asset Management Assessor, she moved to the Professional Services team and supports clients in their Asset Management practice improvement initiatives.	Abraham Van Zyl Fourie Topic: Advantages of using drones and emerging technologies in asset management. Job Title: Director / Co-Founder, ABEOD Abraham attained his Civil Engineering degree in 2009. Since then, he specialised in the field of asset management, attaining extensive experience in the day-to-day workings of government institutions. In 2017, he started ABEOD; a company that strives to develop simplistic management strategies that optimise the workflows and financial turnover of these institutions.
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