CESA
Young Professionals
Sustainability Imbizo - 2025
The YP Imbizo provides a unique and dynamic platform for built environment and engineering young professionals (YPs) in the public and private sectors to discuss pertinent issues relating to all aspects of delivery and maintenance of infrastructure and engineering projects.
It also seeks to establish and maintain structures for YPs to become role-models for school learners as well as providing coaching and mentoring opportunities for YPs from senior infrastructure professionals.
13th YP Imbizo 2025, 08h00 20 August 2025 – 15h30 21 August 2025
Register at R2500 per person, excluding VAT (standard price),
The YP Imbizo is ECSA accredited for 2 CPD Points
YP Imbizo Objectives
The conference offers several benefits to Young Professionals through the following objectives:
- Empower Young Professionals with best leadership-experience embracing objectivity, community participation/activisms, professionalism, and promotion of engineering principles.
- Establish and maintain organisational structures for YPs to act as role models for school learners and for senior infrastructure/engineering to mentor YPs.
- Provide solutions to skills development and retention by public sector and private sector. Without engineering skills there will be no provision for water, housing, and road services but absolute poverty, inequality and unemployment will prevail.
- #SustainingTheFutureOfEngineering
YP Imbizo discussion topics:
- Sustaining the Future of Engineering
- Creating a Conducive Environment for Engineering Practitioners and Built Environment Professionals: Serving society with sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
- Building Relationships and Mentoring
- Ethics and Professionalism in the Future of Engineering
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Transformation, and Capacity Building
- Procurement Strategies and Delivery Models: catalyst for job creation, the business of engineering and economic growth.
- Positioning the Engineering Profession in Politics and Other Professions: Technology and Engineering Innovation
For more information please contact:
Sponsors
Gold AON
Gold Investec
Gold Zutari
Gold Cype
Gold CIDB
Gold KUFANIKIWA
Silver ECSA
2023 YP Imbizo Sponsors
Platinum Nicholas O’Dwyer
Gold AON
Silver AOS Engineers
BVI
Lubisi Consulting
2022 YP Imbizo Sponsors
Call For Abstracts or Topics
We hope you share our excitement and enthusiasm for the upcoming 12th CESA (CONSULTING ENGINEERS SOUTH AFRICA) Young Professionals Sustainability Imbizo to be held from 13 to 14 August 2024, Gauteng.
On behalf of the 2024 #YPImbizo LOC, we would like to invite all Engineering and Built Environment Young Professionals from the public and private sectors to the 12th Conference and to take advantage of the opportunity for personal development (including submitting a one-page abstract on a topic that interests you).
Call for Topics:
We would like to request abstracts in the following topics and sub-topics (but not limited to):
- Engineers and politics
- Solutions to creating a conducive environment for engineers to serve society
- Technology and Engineering Innovation
- Building relationships
- Future Environment of the Engineering Industry
- Ethics in the future of Engineering
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Infrastructure projects delivery
If you are passionate about any of the topics above or one for your own addressing real issues facing the built environment and engineering professionals, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline – Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Presenter notifications – Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Accepted presenters to confirm attendance – by Wednesday, 3 July 2024
“Engineering problems are under-defined; there are many solutions, good, bad, and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution.”
We urge Young Professionals and/or their mentors to play their part by forwarding this valuable information to prospective Young Professionals (who can participate either as speakers or delegates).
All queries and topics/abstracts should be sent via email to: Godfrey Ramalisa at godfreyr@cesa.co.za
Past conferences: CESA Young Professionals Sustainability Imbizo – CESA | Consulting Engineers South Africa
Presentations
Past Events
2020
- 20201016_CESA YP Imbizo_Session 2_DBSA Tshilidzi Ramanyimi
- 20201016_Virtual CESA YP Imbizo Session2_Agenda_16 October 2020_Building Relationships
- 20200929_YP Imbizo_YT Banda_Welcome and Introduction20200929_YP Imbizo_YT Banda_Welcome and Introduction
- 20200929_YP Imbizo_R Petersen_Tommorow leaders
- 20200929_CESA YP Imbizo_S Pillay_Future Leaders
2019
2018
2017
- Download the 2017 Programme
- Watch CE-tv featuring the 2017 YP Imbizo
- Download the 2017 Presentations