The Brand Summit South Africa had the pleasure of announcing additional professional partnerships with the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (PRISA) and City Nation Place Ltd.
Other professional partner, at a global level, is The Davos, Switzerland based World Communication Forum whose Founder & President, Yanina Dubeykovskaya, attended and spoke at the 2018 Brand Summit South Africa.
The 2019 Brand Summit South Africa event will be hosted at The Forum, Bryanston, Gauteng, on 6-7 June 2019.
The inaugural event was opened in 2018, by South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, who delivered a resounding keynote address anchored on the spirit of and values enshrined in the Preamble to South Africa’s Constitution.
He had local and international delegates, including media, glued to their chairs devouring every word he uttered. His entire address served as a good basis to start conversations about the potential that still resides in the country South Africa could still be, if led and managed properly.
Delegates came from as far afield as Nigeria, Ghana, France, Ethiopia, Namibia, Kenya, Russia, and Switzerland, with others sending video recorded messages from Beijing, New Delhi, Budapest, Moscow and more.
Absent from the 2018 summit, now introduced into the 2019 program, will be a brand-new discussion panel consisting of “Leaders of The Future”, dynamic speakers under the age of 35 who will share their views about and expectations of South Africa, the country brand, in the context of fast-evolving domestic, regional, continental and global dynamics. Particularly interesting will be a discussion about what they understand by “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and how they think South Africa should best prepare for it.
In addition to an expected bigger African and global delegation, the 2019 keynote address will be delivered by the much-respected Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, Associate Professor of Public Law & Founding Dean at the Kabarak University School of Law, Kenya.
Sisa Ntshona, CEO of SA Tourism, will also speak at the 2019 Summit.
