SA’s biggest board meeting - The Directors Event – goes online
Wednesday, 05 August 2020
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Johannesburg, 27 July: Billed as ‘SA’s biggest board meeting’ The Directors Event – futured by BCX, and part of the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies profile – is where the business community comes together to unpack major issues affecting the country’s economy. This year, because of the Covid-19 lockdown, the sixth iteration of The Directors Event will be presented as a live-streamed web-conference
on 20 October 2020. The theme for this year’s event is Building a sustainable new normal.
In previous years, The Directors Event has attracted an audience of more than 300 senior management and C-level executives to a full-day
conference at the Sandton Convention Centre. High profile speakers have included South Africa’s Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, Nhlanhla Nene (former Finance Minister), Jabu Mabuza (Chairman, Eskom), Caroline Galvan (Lead Economist, World Economic
Forum), and Mcebisi Jonas (former Deputy Minister of Finance), amongst others.
“BCX is a proud sponsor of one of the largest boardroom meetings in South Africa, for the second year. I believe that the event is an important opportunity for private
sector and public sector partners to engage on real issues affecting our country. In addition, the virtual Directors Event further emphasises the critical role technology is playing in our lives and in driving our economy,” says, Jonas Bogoshi,
CEO of BCX.
Similarly, Parmi Natesan, CEO of the Institute of Directors in South Africa believes that “now more than ever, the role of directors of organisations that need to survive and thrive in the new normal, becomes ever so critical. As
business has had to adapt to this new world, so too has The Directors Event, through going digital.”
This year, three expertly moderated panel discussions will be presented in a linear format and streamed online as a full-morning digital event.
Industry
experts participating in The Directors Event will focus on historical, pre-lockdown issues that have hampered SA’s progress, but are now magnified through the Covid-19 lens: the slow pace of government reforms; corruption in both private and
state-owned enterprises; the skills-readiness of our workforce to gain employment in Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) jobs; the devastating effects of rapid climate-change in a country already gripped by drought; and an energy crisis that’s straining
our economy.
Panel discussion topics at The Directors Event in 2020 are:
- The South African economy is in ICU. How will it be revived?
- How will the Fourth Industrial Revolution create jobs to grow the SA economy?
- How do we manage climate change to become self-sufficient?
The complete list of confirmed panellists and moderators, along with details to register for the online event, will be announced in due course. For more insight about previous events and to stay informed, please visit: https://arenaevents.africa/events/the-directors-event/
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