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Research & Innovation Week 2026

Research & Innovation Week 2026

Programme

Programme

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Unisa Research and Innovation Week

Programme 25-29 May 2026

Theme: Unisa’s Catalytic Niche Areas: Powering Change

DAY

TIME

PRESENTATION

VENUE

Monday, 25 May

08:00 ‒ 09:55

Formal Opening
Invite | Programme 
Prof Mpho Ngoepe
VP: Research, Postgraduate Studies, Innovation and Commercialisation, Unisa

Keynote address:
Prof Vukosi Marivate
Professor: Computer Science 
ABSA UP Chair of Data Science
University of Pretoria

Fourth Industrial Revolution and Digitalisation

Q&A

Senate Hall and Foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

10:30 ‒ 13:45

College of Graduate Studies
Programme

Speaker: Prof William Amos Pallangyo

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

10:00 ‒ 13:00

Unisa Press

Invitation | Programme

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

Tuesday, 26 May

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Accounting Sciences

Programme

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Science, Engineering and Technology

Programme

Thamsanqa Kambule Auditorium, Science Campus 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, College of Human Sciences

Invitation | Programme

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 - 13:45

Departement of Gender and Sexuality Studies (DGSS), College of Human Sciences

Invitation | Programme

Speaker: Dr Dianne Stewart 

Conference Room 5, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

12:30 ‒ 15:30

College of Law

Invitation | Programme

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:0015:00

 

Institute of Open and Distance Learning, College of Education

Invitation | Programme

4th Floor Function Venue, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

Wednesday, 27 May

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Programme

Speakers

Thamsanqua Kambule Auditorium (Science Campus)

 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Graduate School of Business Leadership

Invitation | Programme

Speaker: Prof Motsamai Molefe

Midrand Campus

09:00 ‒ 15:00

College of Human Sciences

Invitation | Programme

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Library and Information Services

Programme

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 15:00

Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs

Programme

Speaker: Dr Kirstin Krauss

4th Floor Function Venue, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

Thursday, 28 May

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Economic and Management Sciences

Programme

Speakers

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

Friday, 29 May 

09:00 – 12:00

College of Education 

Invitation | Programme

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Directorate Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation: World IP Day

Invitation | Programme

Speakers: Advocate Leslie Sedibe | Daniella de Figueiredo       

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

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