Sweden-South Africa Business Delegation

During the Swedish Presidency of the European Union the EU-South Africa Summit will take place in Capetown and the Swedish Prime Minister Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt will be in South Africa. In conjunction with his visit there will be an official Swedish trade delegation on 8-10 September to Namibia, Pretoria and Johannesburg.

The pupose of this trade delegation is to increase trade and strengthen business by identifying new projects, investment opportunities and business partners.

The Embassy of Sweden and the Swedish Trade Council are responsible for the arrangements of the Swedish business delegation with trade in focus.

Draft agenda

08.00 Registration

08.30 Welcome Address, Jan Ketnakker, Swedish Trade Commisioner

09.00 Presentation: SymbioCity, Sustainability by Sweden, Miakel Edholm, Senior Project Leader, Swedish Trade Council

09.45 Sustainable Development - global and local challanges , Prof. Thomas Andersson, Jonkoping International Business School, Sweden

10.15 Sustainable Design, Tengbom Architects, Sweden

10.45 Tea & Cofee break

11.00 Government Sustaibability Programme , Department of Environmental Affairs

11.30 City of Johannesburg, Sustainable Urban Design and Planning

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Broader Economic Cooperation Programme

13.20 Sustainable Transport

13.40 Sustainable Energy

14.00 Sustainable Design

14.20 Tea & Coffee break

14.40 Sustainable Communication

15.00 Sustainable Safety and Security

15.20 Sustainable Water

15.40 Swedish Prime minister

16.15 Panel questions and discussions

16.45 Closure

17.00 Networking session