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The Employment Equity Regulations are open for comment and will set Sectoral Targets which industry will be required to comply with. Have you considered how will you be impacted? We need your input for a SAMED submission!
In this session, we are joined by Elsabe Klinck, Managing Director of Klinck & Samuels to overview the proposed changes and potential impact of these changes on medtech companies. We also hear from you to inform what to include in the SAMED submission as we work to ensure that industry’s voice is heard.
Attention MedTech Executives, Leaders and Captains of Industry
You’re invited to the SAMED Catalysts of Change Forum: an in-person leadership event to empower and elevate medtech. We look forward to engaging with you on how we should embrace diversity in order to innovate differently to advance the medtech sector.
We are launching not one, but two exciting and relevant initiatives at this event – the SAMED Women Empowerment Index and the SAMED-YES Alumni Platform. We are inviting the press to join us for the event as we raise the profile of our industry.
We will also look at hard-hitting policy changes that affect your business: the Public Sector Procurement Bill and the Employment Equity Bill Sector Targets. These bills are anticipated to soon exert a significant impact on medtech and we must address these proactively to secure and strengthen the sector’s sustainability.
We expect senior leadership from the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities to join us and have confirmed a speaker from the Women Economic Assembly. Invitations to speakers, panellists and facilitators are being extended to member companies and public and private sector stakeholders.
Preliminary programme (subject to change):
- Keynote address | Adv Mikateko Joyce Maluleke, Director General, Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities
- SAMED Women Empowerment Index launch | Tanya Vogt, SAMED Executive Officer and Scott de Oliveira, SAMED Transformation Chair
- Driving change: Women Economic Assembly | Futhi Mtoba, Co-Chairperson
- Panel discussion 1: Catalysing empowerment: progressing diversity, equity and inclusion.
Men and women leaders being collectively and individually the catalysts that mobilise change within their organisations and the business ecosystems. We ask the questions:
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- How male-dominated is the medtech sector compared to other industries? What are the reasons for where we find ourselves?
- What barriers challenge women in breaking through the corporate glass ceiling?
- What do we need to do differently to facilitate the empowerment of women in our sector and beyond?
- People often fear change but change challenges the status quo to unlock new opportunities. How do we bring along everyone in our business ecosystem to facilitate a smooth transition?
- What institutional and societal changes need to be made for women to be empowered?
- What benefits will SAMED members and companies in the medtech sector derive from greater gender equality and women empowerment and advancement?
- How can we measure the positive impacts of having empowered women in the organisation?
- How do you actively communicate with women at your workplace to make them feel included and motivated to stick around in your business and to strive for promotion/climbing up the corporate ladder?
Panel speakers (TBC):
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- Dr Lindiwe Simelane, ex-Chief Director, Department of Health
- Professor Helen Rees, Chairperson, South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
- KZN Health Procurement Official or current female CEO of a public sector hospital
- Dr Noluthando Nematswerani, Head: Centre for Clinical Excellence, Discovery Health
- Annelia Bezuidenhout, Procurement General Manager, Mediclinic
- Tracy Moonsamy, Group Quality Executive, Beier
- Panel Discussion 2: Elevating through empowerment
There are many ways in which women in healthcare can be empowered. Leadership training and opportunities for it, procuring from women-owned businesses and making a meaningful effort to hire women into an organisation are ways to drive the empowerment journey. But where does one start? We ask women leaders to share how they were empowered and are empowering other women on their journey.
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- What is the change that is wanted? What would success look like?
- Is the lack of empowerment an equality issue or an equity issue?
- Procurement from women-owned businesses has been set as a priority by the President. How actively are public and private sectors pursuing this?
- How should we measure the positive impacts at organisational and societal levels of having a bigger proportion of women in leadership echelons across the healthcare system?
- What are the current mechanisms for women empowerment we can leverage and what mechanisms should be developed to fill the gaps?
- What does SAHPRA’s BBBEE policy have at its heart? What does it aim to achieve and how can it align with women and youth empowerment initiatives such as the SAMED Women Empowerment Index, YES, other?
- The Eastern Cape has included Women and Youth Ownership criteria to their tender document. What does this aim to achieve and how can the SAMED Women Empowerment Index tie into this?
Panel speakers (TBC):
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- Dr Boitumelo Semete Makokotlela, CEO, SAHPRA
- Prof Glenda Gray, ex-President, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
- Dr Rolene Wagner, Head of Department, Eastern Cape Health Department
- Ilhaam Solomons, National Procurement Manager: South Africa, Life Healthcare
- Dr Karmani Chetty, Chief Executive Officer, NHLS
- Sybil Seoka, Managing Director, Ample Resources
- SAMED-YES Partnership and Alumni Programme launch | Ravi Naidoo, CEO and Leanne Emery Hunter, COO, Youth Employment Service
- Update on the Public Procurement Bill and sector targets published for comment and their impact on medtech | Elsabe Klinck, Managing Director, Elsabe Klinck and Associates
- Colleges of Medicine Journal: Enabling value | Professor Fagen
- Close and networking
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SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
18 April 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Third Party Organised Educational and company events, Revised HPCSA ethical guideleines, Educational Grants, 18 A, B & C update, Code Certification test update
SAMED Regulatory Forum
23 April 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
ICASA for medtech, CSIR support offering, Radiation Control update, ISO 13485 Management Responsibility
SAMED Market Access Forum
25 April 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
NHI Procurement and HTA mandate for medtech (progress), Discovery reimbursement processes, KZN Health procurement policies
SAMED Orthopaedic Suppliers Forum
14 May 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Update on the latest developments affecting the orthopaedics industry
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
16 May 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Maximising learnership and skills development initiatives and understanding the medtech talent pools available to you
SAMED Annual General Meeting
28 May 2024, 09:00 – 11:00
Update on SAMED activities, Finance report and election of SAMED Board
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
6 June 2024, 13:00 – 15:00
Fair market value, POPIA compliance review and update, Competition update
SAMED Regulatory Forum
9 July 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
SABS standards and technical working groups, medical waste South Africa, ISO 13485 Resource Management
SAMED Market Access Forum
11 July 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Gauteng health procurement policies and processes, Life healthcare procurement policies, an update on HQA, Medikredit overview and processes
SAMED CEO Pulse
19 July 2024, 13:00 – 17:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
23 July 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Bonus rebates and incentive schemes, failure to prevent corrupt activities offence
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
25 July 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Medtech ESG, Equity equivalence programmes, YES and alumni update
SAMED KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson’s Forum
26 July 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
Engagement with regionally based SAMED members
SAMED NHI Forum
30 July 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED Women in Medtech Forum
2 August 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
Women Empowerment Index update
SAMED Western Cape Chairperson’s Forum
7 August 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
Engagement with regionally based members
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
3 September 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Medical device representatives in the clinical environment, Loan sample and demonstration products, Competition law update
SAMED 2024 Annual Conference
10-11 September 2024, 08:00 – 17:00
View the preliminary agenda here.
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
19 September 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Purpose drivent transformation
SAMED Gauteng Chairperson’s Forum
20 September 2024, 10:00 – 13:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED NHI Forum
29 October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Content to be confirmed
SAMED Orthopaedic Suppliers Forum
30 October 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Update on matter affecting the orthopaedics industry
SAMED Regulatory Forum
5 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
ISO 13485 Measurement analysis and improvement, MD SAP for local manufacturers, Direct to consumer communications and marketing
SAMED Market Access Forum
7 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Eastern Cape procurement and tender process, Cure Day Clinics procurement policies and processes, MediClinic procurement policies and processes
SAMED Medical Device Code Forum
12 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Whistle-blowing hotline process, updated on 18 A B & C, Trends and challenges in compliance
SAMED Diversity in Medtech Forum
14 November 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Practical aspects of B-BEE verification, YES and alumni programme update, Women Empowerment Index update
SAMED CEO Pulse
15 November 2024, 13:00 – 17:00
Content to be confirmed