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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

09:00 ‒ 10:45

Formal Opening
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)

11:15 ‒ 14:15

College of Graduate Studies

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

10:00 ‒ 13:00

Unisa Press

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

Tuesday, 26 May

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Accounting Sciences

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Science, Engineering and Technology

Thamsanqa Kambule Auditorium, Science Campus 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, College of Human Sciences

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

12:30 ‒ 15:30

College of Law

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:0015:00

 

Institute of Open and Distance Learning, College of Education

 

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

Wednesday, 27 May

09:00 ‒ 12:00

College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences

Thamsanqua Kambule Auditorium (Science Campus)

 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Graduate School of Business Leadership

Midrand Campus

09:00 ‒ 15:00

College of Human Sciences

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Library and Information Services

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

09:00 ‒ 15:00

Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs

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

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

Friday, 29 May 

09:00 – 12:00

College of Education

Senate Hall and foyer (Muckleneuk Campus)

 

09:00 ‒ 12:00

Directorate Innovation, Technology Transfer and Commercialisation: World IP Day

Bamboo Auditorium, Kgorong Building (Muckleneuk Campus)

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