The industrial sector across Africa is entering a new era of transformation. As organizations face increasing pressure to improve productivity, optimize resources, and operate more sustainably, digital technologies are becoming essential to unlocking greater efficiency, resilience, and long-term growth.
Join us at AVEVA Day South Africa for an in-depth exploration of how AI, industrial data platforms, and digital twin technologies are helping industries accelerate their digital transformation journeys. From improving engineering and operational performance to enabling smarter, data-driven decision making, the event will highlight practical strategies and real-world examples that demonstrate how digital innovation is reshaping industrial operations across the region.
AVEVA Day South Africa is a focused, collaborative gathering designed for industry leaders, technical professionals, and digital transformation specialists to exchange insights, discover emerging technologies, and connect with peers driving the future of industry in Africa.
Event Details:
Date: 22 April 2026
Time: 07:30 – 15:00 (GMT+2)
Venue: Johannesburg Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, South Africa
Agenda
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Time
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Session
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Speaker
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07:30-08:30
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Registration & Welcome Coffee
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8:30-8:40
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Opening & Welcome
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Jesús Hernandez
SVP - EMEA - AVEVA |
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08:40 – 9:00
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Opening: AVEVA’s Vision for Accelerating Africa’s Industrial Future
How AI-powered industrial software and the Digital Twin are enabling Sub-Saharan African industries to leapfrog legacy constraints, drive operational excellence and support the region’s energy transition and sustainability ambitions. Includes AVEVA portfolio overview and strategic direction.
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Hanno van Niekerk
Market Leader - Sub Saharan Africa - AVEVA
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9:00 – 9:30
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The State of Digital Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa – From Strategy to Execution
An industry perspective on where Sub-Saharan Africa stands on its digital transformation journey. Exploring the convergence of AI, IoT, cloud and industrial data platforms as catalysts for productivity, competitiveness and sustainable industrial growth – and what it takes to move from pilot to scale.
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Mogisen Iyer
Principal Director IT/OT - Accenture South Africa
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9:30-10:00
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End-to-End Industrial Digital Twin: From Engineering to Operations
How an integrated Digital Twin strategy accelerates information discovery, breaks down data silos and delivers fast, intuitive, in-context access to critical engineering and operational data. Driving projects on time, improving safety and enabling operational performance through the asset lifecycle.
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Hemant Tiwari
Presales Consultant - AVEVA
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10:00 – 10:30
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Engineering Truth Under Change - Maintaining Control of Engineering Information Across the Asset Lifecycle
As industrial assets evolve through upgrades, expansions and ongoing modifications, maintaining confidence in approved engineering information becomes increasingly complex. This session explores how disciplined governance of revisions and document-to-tag relationships strengthens digital initiatives, and how Assai integrates with AVEVA AIM to ensure trusted, aligned asset information across the lifecycle.
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Abir Khan
Sales Manager, EMEA - Assai Software
Muhammed Minhaj
Solutions Engineer, Africa - Assai Software
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10:30 – 11:00
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Coffee Break & Networking
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11:00 – 11:30
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Expanding the Value of Your Industrial Data with AI
Collect, aggregate, contextualize and enrich real-time operations data for immediate problem solving. Leverage AI assistants for data analysis, discovery and seamlessly deliver data to enterprise applications and advanced analytics – turning raw industrial data into actionable intelligence.
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Husain Al-Shaikh
Presales Consultant - AVEVA
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11:30-12:00
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Driving reliability, productivity and energy efficiency for mining equipment
Mobile equipment is one of mining's biggest remaining value levers — yet most operations remain plant-centric in their digital focus. Connecting and contextualizing fleet telemetry, maintenance, and operating data — integrating existing systems rather than replacing them — can shift mobile operations from reactive to predictive, stabilize plant feed, and amplify mine-to-market performance. Customer examples illustrate measurable outcomes: lower downtime, reduced fuel use and emissions, and improvements that scale from site to enterprise.
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Glenn Kerkhoff
Industry Principle - MMM - AVEVA
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12:00-12:30
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Closing the Gap Between Plant Floor and Balance Sheet
How integrated production tracking, material balance and loss/gain accounting enable organizations to close the gap between planned and actual performance – improving yield, reducing unaccounted losses, streamlining reconciliation and delivering audit-ready production data. Particularly relevant for Mining, Metals and Minerals industries across the region seeking to tighten operational control and improve margin transparency.
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Charl Marais
OT Optimization Digital Transformation Lead - 4Sight
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12:30-13:00
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Partner Innovation Spotlight: Unleashing Industry 4.0 in Sub-Saharan Africa
How AVEVA’s partner ecosystem is driving real-world innovation across the region. Showcasing the Connected Industrial Ecosystem (CIE) and how partners are leveraging CONNECT to address local challenges: end-to-end connectivity, smarter operations and data sharing in the Water and Wastewater Industry.
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Wilhelm Swart
Chief OT Officer - 4Sight
Sebasti Badenhorst
COO - Calcamite
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch & Networking
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14:00-14:30
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Improve Enterprise Sustainability & Visibility through Digital Twin leveraging Generative AI assistants and 3D visualization while enabling remote operations
Enhance insights into energy consumption and source, GHG emissions and sustainability metrics with a single 360-degree view by bringing together data sources and data types from across your operations to identify new relationships and extract new value. Facilitate access to the most critical enterprise data in a contextualized by bringing together data sources and data types from across your operations powered by AI assistance to support data analysis and discovery while exploring options for future remote operations.
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Husain Al-Shaikh
Presales Consultant - AVEVA
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14:30-15:00
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Panel Discussion:
Drawing on the themes explored throughout the day — from AI-powered Digital Twins and industrial data platforms to production optimization and sustainability — the panel will tackle the defining question facing African industry: How do we transform data from a byproduct of operations into the foundation of industrial resilience?
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Khaled Salah
VP - Africa - AVEVA
Dion Govender
MD - IS³
Wilhelm Swart
Chief OT Officer - 4Sight
Lucinda Arlow
GM Advanced Solutions - Moore
Ayanda Nomyate
Business Development Director - CSI
Facilitator: Anna Lamber
VP - Enterprise and Regional Marketing - AVEVA
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15:00
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End of Day
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Participation is free and there will be a limited number of seats available so please confirm your attendance as soon as possible.
