Cape Town holds the 35th position in the highly acclaimed ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association) global ranking.

Cape Town hosts a wide variety of conferences, meetings, exhibitions, conventions and events every year. More than 42 qualifying conferences were held in and around the city in 2008.

This section provides details of some of the upcoming MICE events in Cape Town.

Please e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call +27 21 487 6800 if you would like to add your MICE event or find out more information about any of the listed events.

Urbanisation in most of Africa is moving at a very fast pace, especially south of the Sahara. Infrastructure and housing provisions, water & waste management, energy & other utilities supply shortages, traffic congestion, environmental health problems, limited green spaces, extreme poverty, social security and public safety problems place many burdens on people. With a consistent influx of people into African cities, there is a need for a central focus on sustainability, urban planning, regeneration, slum rehabilitation and low-income housing provision.

This Urban & Housing Development large scale event will be a one-stop platform that will encapsulate cutting-edge issues, strategic solutions, investment strategies and pertinent case studies in urban planning, infrastructure and housing development. A vision of this scale can only be achieved by implementing your ideas and experiences into action; so whether you are a driver or enabler towards urban and housing projects, you will find this highly anticipated Urban and Housing Development large scale event an excellent platform to network, exchange ideas, seek business opportunities and to tap into the experience of key industry leaders.

Tailor-make your own programme by selecting from any of these streams:

Day 1 and 2
Stream 1: Urban Planning & Management
Stream 2: Infrastructure Development

Staying on top of the rapid developments in the affording housing projects arena, this event will also be featuring an exclusive multi-streamed Social Housing Day on 17th Feb 2012 to explore the dynamics of low cost housing development, inclusionary housing policies, funding options available, construction materials and technologies, design and sustainability and project management for the enablement of cross cutting collaboration between private and public sectors.

The streams allocated in the Social Housing Day include:
Stream 1: Innovative Materials & Technologies
Stream 2: Housing Finance

* All Cape Town Tourism’s contacts are entitled to a discount of 10% when registering with Ms. Esther. Please contact Ms. Esther for details and quote SO-CT during registration. *

www.urbanhousingdevelopment-lse.com/ct

For further details and brochures, please contact:
Ms. Esther Wong
Phone: +603 2723 6736
Fax No: +603 2723 6699
Email: estherw@marcusevanskl.com

The 6th Annual Africa Economic Forum 2012, from March 5 to 7 2012 will bring together Africa’s leading industries, companies, state players, senior executives, and African government officials to interface in a content rich meeting, including those from countries outside Africa, and so connect fast-growth core industries and players driving Africa’s economies forward.

Plenary Sessions with leading Speakers, drawn from key countries are designed for business and Governments, focused on the fundamentals shaping Africa’s economic future. The Agenda is concentrated around the questions that really matter, leading edge shifts in Africa’s evolving economic landscapes, critical investment and business concerns, and the Continents emerging role and strategic position within a highly-competitive and rapidly globalizing world.

Inside the week is our unique 5th Sub-Saharan Africa Business Briefing which offers insights on the prospects, potential and future economic outlook for business and investment across the Continent, with Presentations made by Dr Duncan Clarke, the world’s leading economic strategest on Africa, as well as author of the widely-acclaimed Crude Continent; The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize (Profile Books, 2010), and Africa’s Future: Darkness To Destiny (Profile, London 2012), to be Launched at the Conference. 
The 2nd Africanus Dinner 2012 will be held on first evening of the conference, on the 6th March 2012, with Guest Speaker: Wayne Hartmann, General Manager, International Business Development, Engen Petroleum South Africa.

Confirmed Speakers - include 30 Top Industry Executives:
Dr Rob Davies, Minister for Trade & Industry, South Africa
Sindiso Ndema Ngwenya, Secretary General, Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa (COMESA), Lusaka, Zambia
Dr Greg Mills, Chief Executive, Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa
Simon Freemantle, Senior Analyst, African Political Economy Unit, Standard Bank
Dr Duncan Clarke, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer,  Global Pacific & Partners, Johannesburg
Professor Tony Hawkins, Graduate School of Management, Zimbabwe: Correspondent, Financial Times, London
Femi Edun, Managing Director, Frontier Capital Ltd, Nigeria
Anthony Lopes Pinto, Managing Director, Imara Securities, Angola
Ngozi Edozien, Head, West Africa, ACTIS, Nigeria
Alec Erwin, Chairman Ubu Investment Holdings (Former Minister of Public Enterprises), South Africa
Lazarus Angbazo, President & Regional Executive, GE Corporate East, Central & West Africa, Nigeria
Paul Eardley Taylor, Head of Energy, Utilities & Infrastructure, Standard Bank South Africa
David Donaldson, Head, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Finance Corporation Infraventures, Senegal
Brian Herlihy, Chief Executive, SEACOM, United States of America
Everton September, Vice President, New Ventures, Upstream, PetroSA South Africa
Paul Kramer, Strategy Manager, International Business Division, Engen Petroleum, South Africa
Mark Pearson, Programme Director, Trademark South Africa
Andy Payne, Chief Executive Officer, Wilderness Safari’s, South Africa
Dianna Games, Director, Africa@Work, and Hon. CEO, South Africa-Nigeria Chamber of Commerce, Johannesburg
Babette van Gessel, Vice Chairman, Global Pacifc & Partners, The Hague
Dr John Purchase, Chief Executive Officer, Agricultural Business Chamber, South Africa
Carlman Moyo, Regional Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, DuPont South Africa
Tore Horvei, Director, NorConsult Africa, Johannesburg
Richard Stout, Principal, Equity Capital Markets, ABSA Capital South Africa
Albert Essien, Group Executive Director, Ecobank, Johannesburg
Dr Lyal White, Director, Centre for Dynamic Markets, Gordon Institute of Business Science, Johannesburg
Professor Francis Wilson, School of Economics, University of Cape Town
Jorge Maia, Head, Research & Information, Industrial Development Corporation, South Africa
Agostinho Pereira de Miranda, Chairman, Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados, Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Mills Soko, Executive, Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town

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