Prof. Zeblon Vilakazi

Vice-Chancellor and Principal University of the Witwatersrand

Zeblon Vilakazi is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand. He was instrumental in establishing South Africa’s first experimental high-energy physics research group at CERN, working on the Large Hadron Collider where he was involved in the development of the ALICE detector high level trigger. Vilakazi has fostered international collaborative research, as Director of iThemba LABS (the largest cyclotron facility in the southern hemisphere) where he initiated a flagship rare – isotope beam (RIB) project. In 2019 he played a role in securing a place for African academic partners in the development of practical applications through access to the IBM Quantum Computing network. He has served on various advisory boards including amongst others the IAEA, IUPAP (International Union of Pure & Applied Physics), and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. In May 2022, Professor Zeblon Vilakazi was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

2024 Agenda Sessions

How can academia & research and development organizations keep up with the exponential technology pr

How can universities use technology to keep up with the current pace of change to address the mining industries talent gap? 
How academia can work with OEMs and mining companies to provide a highly skilled and hungry workforce 
Making mining an attractive industry: how can we make the mining industry seem less “dirty” and more attractive to the next generation of professional.

Tuesday 06 February 15:35 - 16:20 Innovators Stage

Tech and Innovation Hub

Add to calendar 02/06/2024 15:35 02/06/2024 16:20 How can academia & research and development organizations keep up with the exponential technology pr

How can universities use technology to keep up with the current pace of change to address the mining industries talent gap? 
How academia can work with OEMs and mining companies to provide a highly skilled and hungry workforce 
Making mining an attractive industry: how can we make the mining industry seem less “dirty” and more attractive to the next generation of professional.

Innovators Stage Africa/Johannesburg

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