Categorized Speakers 5

A quality oriented professional electrical engineer with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics. Mr. Ntiamoah is currently a Senior Engineer in the Energy Division at Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI). He previously worked at Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS) dealing with standards development particularly solar photovoltaic standards and compliance assessment (product testing). He also worked in the construction sector as a building services engineering consultant with A. R. Edwards and Associates.

A seasoned C-Suite executive, Dr. McLean Sibanda is the Managing Director of Bigen Global Limited, leading infrastructure development specialists. Bigen founded more than 50 years ago in South Africa undertakes infrastructure projects in the African continent, in Transport & Logistics, Real Estate, Energy, Health, Water & Sanitation and Development Advisory & Impact. He has held senior and executive positions in private and public sector organisations. He is passionate about the role of innovation, intellectual property, and infrastructure for Africa’s socio-economic development.

Nahungu holds a Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Pretoria. Nahungu is currently a Consultant at Pegasys Strategy and Development in their Transport Practice. She works on numerous projects, including the flagship Blue Dot Pilot Project aiming to improve public transport in the Western Cape.

Professor Patrick Malope is an Associate Professor and Head, the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (BUAN). He holds a PhD degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Manchester (UK) with specialization in policy analysis. Patrick joined BUAN in 2021 from Botswana Institute of Development Policy Analysis (BIPDA), where he served as a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Microeconomics Unit and later the Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Unit. Prior to joining BIDPA in 2013, Professor Malope worked for Botswana College of Agriculture (BCA) as an Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension.

Babulayi B. Wilson MSc, (Construction & Project Mgt; University of Birmingham) B.Eng (Civil & Building; UB) - Specialises in Construction Technology, Construction Law, Project Mgt, Building Science, and Innovation in Global Warming Science.

Segametsi Mafa is an ICT professional with over 18 years of corporate experience and almost 2 years of entrepreneurial experience consulting in areas of ICT, enterprise risks, strategy development and project management.

Pieter Louw studied Electrical Engineering and following, this, obtained the South African Mines Government Certificates of Competency in Electrical Engineering as well as Mechanical Engineering. He is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as well as the Engineering Registration Board (ERB) in Botswana. He practiced as an engineer on several mining operations including the deepest mine in the world, and during his career, he worked in client organisations, fabrication and manufacturing companies, and project performing organisations, at executive and director levels. He is a Project Management Professional registered with the Project Management Institute in the USA.

Eng. Obuile Morewane is an energy systems engineer and specialist in renewable energy technologies (RETs). He joined the World Energy Council (WEC) as active energy expert in 2018. He holds certification on thermodynamic solar water heating systems from the Energie Academy in Portugal. He is currently leading renewable energy division at Bio-Watt Botswana (Pty) Ltd.

Dr. Bokani Mtengi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering at Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) with research interest in biosensors, energy systems and power electronics. She holds a Ph.D. and MEng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Howard University, Washington DC and a BEng. degree in Biomedical engineering from University of Hartford in the United States of America.

Pako Roper Kedisitse is the Managing Consultant of Angels Dome (Proprietary) Limited. He is a local Consultant in Corporate Governance; he is involved and engaged in “360° worldwide Governance initiative. He has over 30 years’ experience on Corporate Governance and board directorship. He has been closely following international evolution of Corporate Governance, with special interest to major codes in Corporate Governance including King IV Report and its iterations. In 2007, he was nominated and confirmed as a Scholar for International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), based in England, with some nine (9) other eminent persons drawn from the whole world.

A manufacturing engineering focused individual proudly holding a Bachelor’s degree engineering in Industrial and manufacturing, Online diploma in Engineering Project Management. Even under immense time and work pressure my track record has proved that I produce outstanding results in a position, department, division that involves either manufacturing processes, Maintenance & Reliability Engineering,industrial operations and administration , engineering in industrial environments or information management, systems management, integration withmedia, IT Hardware and software installation and upgrades , IT Based systems analysis, Networking, cooperate IT functionality and other administrative roles under office work and regular day to day operations of the organization

Tumelo Keitumetse, is a Civil Engineer with an interest in public transport and road safety issues. He began his tertiary education at the University of Botswana where he earned a government scholarship to Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. After completing his engineering degree, he returned to Botswana. He was quickly employed by Botswana Railways as one of the Organizations youngest managers.