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SDG 9 – INNOVATIVE DATA ASSESSMENT

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SDG 9 – INNOVATIVE DATA ASSESSMENT

SDG 9 – INNOVATIVE DATA ASSESSMENT

ECSA Symposium: Reframing Engineering Practice through Digital Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure

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ECSA Symposium: Reframing Engineering Practice through Digital Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure

ECSA Symposium: Reframing Engineering Practice through Digital Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure

ECSA Engineering Week Day 1 and Day 2

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2025 ECSA Engineering Week - Day 2

Experience Day 2 of the 2025 Engineering Week in Botswana! This livestream features all keynote addresses, panel discussions, and interactive sessions from the day, led by industry experts, leading engineers, and innovators shaping the future of engineering in the region. Explore emerging trends, groundbreaking projects, and professional insights as you celebrate the achievements driving the sector forward. Earn 2 CPD points upon completion while watching, learning, and engaging with the ideas powering innovation and excellence in engineering today.

View 2025 ECSA Engineeering Week - Day 1
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2025 ECSA Engineeering Week - Day 1

Experience Day 1 of the 2025 Engineering Week in Botswana — the inauguration day that set the stage for a week of innovation, collaboration, and professional insight. This free on‑demand stream captures the opening keynote addresses, strategic discussions, and high‑profile remarks that formally launched the event. Hear from engineering leaders and policymakers as they explore the future of engineering in Botswana and the region, share perspectives on driving sustainable growth, and highlight the role of engineering excellence in national development. Watch, learn, and be inspired by the ideas, ambitions, and commitments that opened Engineering Week and shaped the conversations that followed throughout the rest of the conference.

Water, Environment & Climate

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Digital Skills & Literacy for the Future of Water

Digital Skills & Literacy for the Future of Water Equipping Water Sector Leaders to Navigate, Govern & Leverage Digital Transformation With 40% of water lost through non-revenue water and climate stress pushing systems to their limits, traditional water management is no longer enough. Yet 45% of water utilities operate without a digital strategy, leaving leaders without the tools to make informed decisions. Digital transformation is not just an IT issue. It is an executive responsibility. This 2-hour interactive session, including Q&A, gives water sector leaders the practical digital literacy to evaluate technology, manage risk and make confident, informed investment decisions without the vendor hype. Presenter: Mzwandile Buthelezi Systems & Innovation Lead, Coefficient Engineers Professionally registered Electrical Engineer (ECSA, M.Eng) with 19+ years of experience in technology deployment, operational readiness and digital transformation. Key Takeaways Executive Data Literacy: Use 5 key questions and 5 data dimensions to identify unreliable data and make better decisions. Technology Risk: Assess AMI, SCADA and AI across technical, organisational, regulatory and financial risks. Digital & AI Governance: Apply 4 governance pillars to support POPIA, DWS and Blue/Green Drop compliance while managing AI risks. Workforce Roadmap: Use the 4 strategic talent levers, Build, Buy, Borrow and Bridge, to close digital skills gaps. Who Should Attend? C-Suite Executives, Municipal Water Directors, Utility Board Members, Operations & Engineering Leads, and Compliance Officers. Duration: 2 Hours, including Q&A CPD Accreditation: 0.20 ECSA CPD Credits (CPD Certificate issued upon completion)

Mining, Minerals & Materials

View Digital Skills and Literacy for the Future of Mining
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Digital Skills and Literacy for the Future of Mining

Equipping Mining Leaders to Read Data, Evaluate Technology and Govern Digital Investment Mining data is growing faster than most operations can use it. Sensors, fleet systems, condition monitoring and planning platforms generate more information every year, yet the decisions that data is meant to improve are still being made on instinct, on habit, or on a dashboard nobody has interrogated. Technology spend continues to rise while the capability to evaluate it lags behind. Digital transformation is not just an IT issue. It is an executive responsibility. This 2-hour on-demand session gives mining leaders the practical digital literacy to read operational data with confidence, evaluate new technology and vendors on their merits, assess adoption risk in a structured way, and connect digital investment back to strategy and capital allocation — without the vendor hype. Watch at your own pace, anytime. Presenter: Mzwandile Buthelezi Professional Engineer | Managing Director and CEO, Coefficient Engineers Mining Innovation and New Technology Specialist, working across technology deployment, operational readiness and digital transformation in the mining sector. Key Takeaways Practical Data Literacy: Read operational data critically, question what it is actually telling you, and act on it with confidence. Digital Tool and Vendor Awareness: Evaluate platforms and suppliers on capability and fit rather than on the pitch. Technology Risk Evaluation: Assess adoption risk across technical, operational, organisational and financial dimensions before committing. AI and Data Governance: Apply governance principles at board level to manage AI, data quality and accountability risks. Investment Alignment: Connect digital investment to strategy and capital allocation so technology spend can be defended like any other capital decision. Who Should Watch? Executives, Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Engineering Technologists working in or supplying the mining sector. Format: On demand, available anytime CPD: 0.20 ECSA CPD Validated credits (CPD Certificate issued upon completion)

Manufacturing & Industrial Systems

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Reliability: A Strategic Capability

1975 called. Your maintenance strategy answered. Fixed intervals. Break-fix routines. Tribal knowledge locked in the heads of your longest-serving technicians. It's how most organizations still run reliability — and it's quietly costing them service delivery, budget, and public trust. Session 1 makes the case for a different mandate: reliability as an executive organizational capability, not a reactive repair task. See how modern maintenance replaces guesswork with proof — using connected operating evidence, onboard diagnostics, and fleet-wide learning to safeguard service delivery — and how the 8-step PureCraft™ reliability learning chain turns raw data into verified performance your board can trust. Series Details: Part 1 of an 8-Part Executive Learning Series Session Number: Session 1 of 8 Duration: 2 Hours (Discussion-led, including interactive Q&A) By the end of this session, you'll be able to: Reframe maintenance in your organization from a cost-centre task into the strategic capability that protects every service outcome you're accountable for. Shift your team's practices from calendar-based fixes to condition-informed, connected, evidence-based decisions. Apply the 8-step PureCraft™ reliability learning chain to convert raw data into verified service performance. This session is CPD Validated, live or on demand. A certificate is issued on completion.

Leadership, Management & Business

View Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 2 Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine
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Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 2 Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine

Why TVET? Skills as Africa's Economic Engine Moderated by Ing. Bismark Otoo, MEng, BSc, GhIE — Air Traffic Safety Engineer, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. Speaker: Zephaniah Tsado — Educator and TVET Advocate. Technical skills are not a fallback — they are the engine of the continent's economy. This session makes the economic and social case for TVET as a first-choice career pathway, and asks what it takes to prepare young Africans for the future of work. 11 August 2026, 2:00PM (GMT) · 4:00PM (SAST) · 3:00PM (WAT) · 5:00PM (EAT). Duration: 90 minutes.

View Engineering Workplace Readiness: Professional Conduct & Communication
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Engineering Workplace Readiness: Professional Conduct & Communication

A qualification proves you can do the work. It doesn't prove you can be trusted to do it. Every engineering organisation has technically excellent people who are operationally dangerous — the technician who conceals a mistake to avoid blame, the supervisor who signs an inspection record for work they never witnessed, the team that has normalised a shortcut because nothing has gone wrong yet. None of that is a skills gap. It's the gap between holding a technical qualification and practising as a professional, and it's where service delivery, safety and public trust are actually lost. Session 1 works that gap directly. It separates technical competence from professional workplace competence, marks where compliance ends and ethics begins, and sets out the three pillars of ethical decision-making — duty, consequence and character. It then takes on the uncomfortable reality that good people make mistakes inside badly designed systems: the Swiss cheese model of causation, the normalisation of deviance, and a just-culture matrix that separates human error from at-risk behaviour, reckless behaviour and deliberate misconduct — each with a different correct response. The second half turns principle into protocol: raising a concern with professional language templates, filtering an unclear or unsafe instruction, reporting a mistake, closed-loop communication, shift handover, confidentiality, the boundaries of your own competence, psychological safety, and stop-work authority. Two full incident case studies — pressure to bypass, and the normalised shortcut — plus six live audience votes run throughout. Session 1 — Building a Future-Ready Technical Workforce Series Duration: 120 Minutes (including interactive Q&A and live polling) By the end of this session, you'll be able to: Distinguish technical competence from professional workplace competence, and explain why a qualification grants entry while conduct determines whether the work can be trusted. Classify a workplace behaviour under a just-culture framework — human error, at-risk, reckless, deliberate — and apply the correct system response rather than defaulting to blame. Raise a concern, decline an unsafe instruction, report your own mistake and hand over a shift using professional language and closed-loop protocols that hold up under operational pressure. Presented by a senior learning and development practitioner in the water sector — registered HR professional, assessor and moderator. This session is CPD Validated, live or on demand. A certificate is issued on completion.

View Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 3 Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs
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Skills Build Africa: Reimagining TVET for the Continent's Future — Session 3 Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs

Digital & Green Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs Moderated by Ing. Bismark Otoo, MEng, BSc, GhIE — Air Traffic Safety Engineer, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority. Speakers: Joyline Chepkirui — Digital Transformation Coordinator, State Department for TVET / Digital Learning TVET Trainer. Anne Kamonjo — Head of the Greening TVET and Climate Change Unit, State Department for TVET, Kenya. The energy transition and digital economy are creating jobs faster than training systems can fill them. This session identifies where the opportunities are emerging, and how technical education can move quickly enough to meet them. 25 August 2026, 2:00PM (GMT) · 4:00PM (SAST) · 3:00PM (WAT) · 5:00PM (EAT). Duration: 90 minutes.

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View The Ethics Connection - February
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The Ethics Connection - February

Real-world ethics. Tough decisions. Insights that shape smarter engineers. This interactive webcast explores real ethical challenges faced by engineers and how to navigate them with confidence and integrity. Join the conversation, ask questions, and engage with practical insights into ethical leadership, accountability, and regulatory expectations. This one-hour session is CPD accredited and designed to support responsible decision-making in everyday engineering practice.

View Women in Engineering - March
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Women in Engineering - March

Empowering women. Inspiring leadership. Advancing engineering. Women in Engineering is a flagship, CPD-accredited webcast series celebrating and empowering women in the engineering profession. Through inspiring leadership stories, technical expertise, and mentorship-driven conversations, the series highlights achievements, drives inclusion, and motivates future talent. Join the interactive session to ask questions, gain practical insights, and learn from leaders who are shaping a more equitable and innovative engineering landscape. This one-hour webcast provides both professional development and actionable inspiration.