DUT INNOVATION INDABA WILL FOCUS ON GROUND-BREAKING TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS SHAPING THE FUTURE

The much-anticipated, second annual Durban University of Technology (DUT) Innovation Indaba 2023 will be held at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Convention International Convention Centre on Monday, 11 October 2023 to Friday, 13 October 2023.

This prestigious four-day event themed: “Unlocking University Innovations for Societal Benefit” is being hosted by the Technology Transfer and Innovation and the Research and Postgraduate Support Directorates at DUT.

This year’s compelling theme places an emphasis on the potential of academic institutions to drive positive change and contribute to the improvement of society, through innovative solutions.

At this year’s DUT Innovation Indaba, stakeholders in attendance will have the opportunity to:

DUT has a strategy called ENVISION2030, and there are three important strategic objectives in the strategy that directly relate to DUT’s academic work. One of them is innovative curricular and research. It is about curricular and research that stimulates innovation in order for the university, students and staff to generate knowledge that will ultimately help to solve these difficult problems DUT has. Another strategic objective is called “Distinctive Education” where DUT aims to create an innovative and future orientated living and learning environment for DUT students. The last element derived from the first two is called “adaptive graduates” and these are graduates who will have the acumen to respond to changes in their own environment, whether local, regional, provincial, national and international.

Providing insight into the prestigious DUT Innovation Indaba 2023 is Professor Keolebogile Motaung, Technology Transfer and Innovation Director at DUT. “Various dynamic presenters are earmarked to share their research and innovation and offer insight into the ground-breaking work that they are doing. Innovative and entrepreneurial are part of the DUT double-stranded helix DNA; and the DUT Innovation Indaba relates directly to the university’s ENVISION2030 strategy,” she stressed.

Prof Motaung indicated that ENVISION2030 placed DUT people (staff and students) as the engines and catalysts of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, so they can contribute meaningfully and productively to this changing world.

Pictured are the DUT Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Thandwa Mthembu and Technology Transfer and Innovation Director, Professor Keolebogile Motaung, speaking at the DUT Innovation Indaba 2022.

Waheeda Peters