Media and Advertising Breakaway Sponsor

Y&R South Africa

As a family member of the global WPP Group, Y&R South Africa has three ambitious and competitive siblings; Y&R Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Our global network of 182 offices employs many of the top industry professionals worldwide who are primed to put ideas before and ideas beyond advertising.

We Love what we Do.

Seeing that it’s an organisation that produces ideas, rather than a tangible product, Y&R’s greatest asset is its team of ‘anti-usualists’ – the nickname for our staff who are encouraged to be super pro-active and ‘resist the usual’.

We Think Boring is Boring.

Led by an energetic group of left brain/right brain thinkers, the team collaborates to think in possibility to bring a unique perspective to the marketplace. Our major point of difference is the fact that we and our partners function as a single team across all geographies, striving towards a single goal. The integration between strategy and creative sets us further apart, while we take pride in being ‘the ladies and gentlemen of advertising’.

We're Not Huge Fans of Structure, Layers, Limits.

Creativity is at the centre of our universe and we believe that a great idea can come from anywhere and anyone. The goal here is to fashion an environment where everyone feels safe and free to voice their ideas. We champion the work and each other.

We’re Anti-Assholes and Preciousness.

We’re do-ers, not talkers and we think no-one but you should get in your way. Our approach is totally results-driven; we aim to exceed our clients' expectations in our work and in our relationships. Core to our way of working is strong strategic and fanatically focused thinking.

We Thrive on the Getting There.

We use words like cheerleaders, motivators, innovators and dreamers to describe ourselves and think inspirational is essential. We think energy comes from the top, down and the bottom, up.We’re Full of Action, not Excuses.

We like fun, this is fun

www.resist.co.za

Corporate Services Breakaway Sponsor

LegalNexus (PTY) LTD Company

LegalNexus was established in 2004 to provide legal advice, assistance and legal-expense cover and related services to the broader South African population. These services are provided through a carefully selected and contracted network of attorneys, advocates, tax and financial professionals, and trauma and counseling practitioners. The company is fully BEE complaint.

The core of the LegalNexus product portfolio is focused on comprehensive legal coverage. Our approach is to  take care of all the legal-service needs of our clients. Our product portfolio includes legal services and  insurance products for individual families and SMME’s, as well as an Employee Wellness offering to businesses at large.

Affordability in the legal-service industry in terms of cost and awareness of personal rights guaranteed by the constitution has long been identified as a major problem in the protection of people’s rights and liberties. The ever-increasing complexity of the legal environment caused by the laws that are designed to protect citizens, means also that up-to-date knowledge of the law is vital to provide adequate and professional advice and assistance.

The high cost of legal services makes it almost impossible for most people and businesses to source legal advice, assistance and representation when the need arises. This has seen millions of South Africans being unable to exercise their constitutional and human rights.

A number of legal-services and insurance companies have for some time been trying to offer affordable insurance products to help South Africans overcome the affordability challenge. These products have, however, over time proven to be incompatible with the real needs  of the South African community, for example they do not provide cover for divorce, arbitration, maintenance, estates, contract law and counseling.

To ensure all-round client satisfaction, LegalNexus has developed a product range covering legal, tax, financial and counseling services. This provides a one-stop service for the client.

Our Vision is to be the  legal-service provider of choice in the provision of legal, financial and counseling protection services to the broader South African population.

Our Mission is to provide cost-effective and relevant legal cover for our clients and to create sustainable above-industry-average returns to our stakeholders.

For more information visit: www.legalnexus.co.za

Engineering Breakaway Sponsor

ARUP

Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world.

The company’s innovative and fully-integrated approach brings its full complement of skills and knowledge to bear on any given design problem. It exerts a significant influence on the built environment and is the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable designs. Arup is a silver (founding) member of the Green Building Council of South Africa.

Formed in 1946, the firm has now over 11 000 staff working in 92 offices in more than 37 countries.At any one time it has over 10 000 projects running concurrently.

Arup has three main global business areas – buildings, infrastructure and consulting – although its multi-disciplinary approach means that any given project may involve people from any or all of the sectors or regions in which it operates. The company’s fundamental aim is to bring together the best professionals in the world to meet its client’s needs.

Our capabilities include:

• Building Engineering – Civil, structural, public health, façade engineering for buildings and other special structures.
• Development Planning – Project feasibility, economic and environmental impact studies, land-use studies, financial, strategic and business planning.
• Sustainability – Sustainability considerations are reflected in our multi-disciplinary approach to deliver design solutions based on the cornerstones of environmental integrity, economic viability, social welfare and natural resources.
• Industrial Projects – Multidisciplinary engineering, project management and cost services on industrial buildings. Civil and structural engineering for heavy industrial and chemical facilities.
• Infrastructure – Civil engineering, roads, urban and rural infrastructure, water and sanitation engineering.
• Major Projects – Strategic advice and management services to clients for procurement and delivery of major projects.
• Project Management – Scope, time, cost, risk and value management.
• Transportation Planning – Traffic impact assessment, strategic planning, traffic modelling and engineering, public enquiries, expert witnesses and support for EIA’s.
• Specialist Institution Advisory Services – Transaction advice, public private partnerships structuring, due diligence, financial analysis and business planning.

Hospitality Breakaway Sponsor

AA Travel

Make sure that when you travel you choose accommodation away from home where the service and hospitality are of a high standard, in order to have an enjoyable experience.

AA Quality Assurance assessors understand how important it is that you receive good service and warm hospitality. Of course the cleanliness and comfort of the unit is important but you can get establishments with similar furnishings, and one will rate "highly recommended" and one will be "superior". Ticking a check list might give the same scores but rating the less tangible interactive experience that a guest is likely to have takes a lot more skill and is likely to produce a different result.

So when you are planning to travel make a safe choice – make sure that the establishments you select are AA Quality Assured.

Find details of more than  2 500 AA Quality Assured establishments on www.aatravel.co.za. Establishments vary widely from self-catering cottages, chalets and caravan resorts through to luxury lodges and hotels. 

Establishments are rated as AA Recommended, AA Highly Recommended or AA Superior. Bookings and inquiries made via this site are free of commission and go directly to the establishment.

AA Travel Guides operates the AA Quality Assured Programme for accommodation. In addition we use consumer feedback to identify establishments offering guests a warm welcome that exceeds expectations.

Apart from www.aatravel.co.za, details of member properties are available in our popular pocket guides published twice a year in time for distribution at overseas travel trade and consumer shows, at Indaba and at tourist offices country-wide,  Johannesburg and Cape Town international airports, the V&A Waterfront and other major tourist locations.

Bronze Sponsor

Airports Company South Africa

Since inception 15 years ago, Airports Company South Africa Limited (ACSA) has transformed a fragmented, infrastructural parastatal into a focused, profitable and commercial enterprise that is market-driven and customer service oriented.

ACSA's network of 10 airports continues to play a dominant role in the South African aviation industry, handling over 98% of the country's commercial air traffic.

In the 2008 financial year, this network processed more than 36 million departing and arriving passengers and 291 thousand aircraft landings from nearly 50 international destinations, connecting Africa with all other continents.

The sustained growth in traffic over the years, coupled with a creative and performance focused management and leadership team, have contributed to the Company's excellent financial performance over time. This has enabled the Company to transform South Africa's airports into world-class airports, delivering value for customers, stakeholders, shareholders and employees.

Welcome Bag Sponsor

Neo Africa

Neo Africa as a group lives by the philosophy and value of empowering nations through recruiting, developing and positively impacting historically disadvantaged individuals, not just in South Africa but all over the continent.

As a truly African organisation, we have a proven track record for developing and implementing large-scale operations and projects for both the public and private sectors.

The company is 100 percent black-owned and managed and employs over 300 people. We have performed projects in Southern Africa and are currently expanding our footprint into the rest of the continent.

Neo Africa was developed as a platform for like-minded people with a flair for innovative business solutions. We have, through our various initiatives and projects, earned credibility as a group that can deliver large-scale turnkey solutions that are often groundbreaking.

Neo Africa focuses on the following unique segments and sectors:

IT and Consulting

›       Business process re-engineering

›       Supply-chain management 

›       Information technology and communications 

›       Consulting - private and public sectors

›       Security and safety

›       Aviation and transport

›       Environmental management

›       Fuels and energy

Lifestyle

›       VIP concierge services

›       Event management

›       Travel, including hotel and leisure

›       Properties and facilities division

›       Security and VIP protection services

›       Exclusive car-hire and chauffeur services

In each of these sectors we have specialist expertise generally reserved for a few niche players and we are often able to serve as thought-leaders, helping to transform the sectors we enter.

Neo Africa epitomises the change we are striving to achieve, not just for the continent, but globally.

Tel: +27 11 484 2833

Fax: +27 11 484 2899

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www.neoafrica.com

Lanyard Sponsor

Maweza Technologies

With Over 20 years of combined expertise in communications cemented by skills, industry knowledge and experience, Maweza Technologies focus on:

• IP and Legacy voice equipment
• Unified Communications and Contact Centres
• LAN-WAN data networks and infrastructure
• Reducing your total cost of communications
• Improving your management information and access to business intelligence
• Provision and management of a converged Mitel unified communications platform.

The Main objectives of Maweza Technologies is the empowerment of sustainable long-term savings within the full scope of the communications environment by focusing on the following client communication cost drivers:

• Voice infrastructure costs
• Networking infrastructure costs
• Data Centre Costs
• Maintenance and support costs
• Finance costs
• Telecommunication costs
• Mobility costs

The mechanism of achieving this cost-saving strategy on behalf of our clients is through a combination of:

• NGN Mitel Unified Communication technologies which include:

(1) Converging routing and switching with I.P. telephony

(2) Data centre consolidation

(3) Storage switching

(4) Network security

(5) Wireless

(6) Unified messaging

(7) Collaboration

• Communication expense auditing and resource management applications
• Next Generation least cost routing and alternative network solutions that have been structured to overcome and resolve historical shortcomings of the LCR environment

Tel: +27 (0)11 695 4800

Fax: 086 6162 778

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www.maweza.co.za