{"id":47,"date":"2017-11-13T04:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2018-10-21T03:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:04:47","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Program<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>October 29, 2018 (Monday)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/dc2018\/pre-conference-workshops\/\">Pre-Conference Workshops: 8:00 am -12:00 pm<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Entrepreneurship and Innovation <\/em>by Professor Don Reimer &#8211; UJ Campus<\/li>\n<li><em>Lean Six Sigma<\/em> &#8211; Dr. Ahad Ali &#8211; UJ Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 20:00 Registration<br \/>\n20:00 \u2013 22:00 IEOM Meetings<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>October 30, 2018 (Tuesday)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 17:00 Registration<br \/>\n08:00 \u2013 09:30 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n09:40 \u2013 10:00 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Welcome Keynote Address<\/em><\/span>:\u00a0<strong>Mr. Livhuwani Tommy Makhode<\/strong>, Deputy Director-General: Institutional Planning and Support, Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa<br \/>\n10:00 \u2013 11:00 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Opening Keynote<\/em><\/span>:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dr. Rupy Sawhney, <\/strong>Professor and Heath Fellow in Business &amp; Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Executive Director of CASRE (Center for Advanced System, Research and Education), University of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA<br \/>\n11:00 \u2013 11:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n11:30 \u2013\u00a0 12:15 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Tuesday Keynote II<\/em>:<\/span> <strong>Khaya Madiba,<\/strong> Bogie &#8211; Subsystem &amp; Maintenance Engineer, Gibela-Rail, South Africa<br \/>\n12:15 \u2013 1:00 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Tuesday Keynote III<\/em>: <\/span><strong>Cobus Oosthuizen, <\/strong>Chief Executive Officer, ESTEQ, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:30<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"> <em>Tuesday<\/em> <em>Networking<\/em> <em>Lunch<\/em> <em>Buffet<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>14:30 \u2013 16:00 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n16:00 \u2013 16:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n16:30 \u2013 18:00 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n18:00 \u2013 19:30 <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Poster Session<\/strong><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Student Chapters Mixer<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>October 31, 2018 (Wednesday)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 17:00 Registration<br \/>\n08:00 \u2013 09:30 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n09:40 \u2013 10:20 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Wednesday<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Keynote I<\/em><\/span><strong>:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Professor Angina Parekh, <\/strong>Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Former Special Advisor on Higher Education to the Minister of Education<\/p>\n<p>10:20 &#8211; 11:00 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Wednesday<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Keynote II<\/em><\/span><strong>: <\/strong><strong>Dr. Abu Masud, P.E., <\/strong>Professor Emeritus, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing, Engineering, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n11:30 \u2013\u00a0 12:15 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Wednesday Keynote III<\/em>:\u00a0<\/span><strong>Arthur Mutambara,<\/strong> Former Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe and Visiting Full Professor at the University of Johannesburg<br \/>\n12:15 \u2013 1:00 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Wednesday Keynote IV<\/em><\/span>: <strong>Dr. AAA. Atayero,<\/strong> Vice Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 14:30 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Wednesday Networking<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Lunch Buffet<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>14:30 \u2013 16:00 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n16:00 \u2013 16:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n16:30 \u2013 18:00 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n<p><strong>19:00 \u2013 22:00 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CONFERENCE AWARD DINNER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>November 1, 2018 (Thursday)<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 17:00 Registration<br \/>\n08:00 \u2013 09:30 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n<p>09:40 \u2013 10:20 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Thursday Keynote I<\/em><\/span><strong>:\u00a0Dr. Sundaravalli Narayanaswami, <\/strong>Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:20 &#8211; 11:00: <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Thursday<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Keynote II<\/em><\/span><strong>: <\/strong><strong>Seydou Kane, <\/strong>Managing Director Africa, Eaton Electric (South Africa) Pty Ltd, Gauteng, South Africa<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Thursday<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>Networking Lunch Buffet<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n14:30 \u2013 16:00 Parallel Sessions<br \/>\n16:00 \u2013 16:30 Networking Break<br \/>\n16:30 \u2013 18:00 Parallel Sessions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program October 29, 2018 (Monday) Pre-Conference Workshops: 8:00 am -12:00 pm Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Professor Don Reimer &#8211; UJ Campus Lean Six Sigma &#8211; Dr. Ahad Ali &#8211; UJ Campus 13:00 \u2013 20:00 Registration 20:00 \u2013 22:00 IEOM Meetings October 30, 2018 (Tuesday) 07:00 \u2013 17:00 Registration 08:00 \u2013 09:30 Parallel Sessions 09:40 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}