Event: Tshwane International Trade and Infrastructure Investment Conference 2012

As part of its annual Business Month activities, the City of Tshwane's Economic Development Department will host the fourth Tshwane International Trade and Infrastructure Investment Conference (TITIIC) at the CSIR International Convention Centre from 23 to 25 May 2012. 

The three-day event is aimed at attracting domestic and foreign investment, facilitating strategic economic development partnerships resulting in growth, competitiveness and job creation, and highlighting the inherent potential of the city to export local niche products and services.
The City of Tshwane has decided to host the TITIIC only once every two years with a view to maximising the business opportunities generated by the conference. It is envisaged that TITIIC 2012 will cement the achievements of the preceding conferences, enhancing the favourable investment profile of the city and attracting large-scale, long-term investments.

The primary focus of the conference is to facilitate the inflow of investments into the following priority sectors of the city's economy through packaging and profiling opportunities in the following areas:

• Tourism and related services
• Automotive and components
• Mixed manufacturing
• Aerospace and aviation technologies
• Business process outsourcing and offshoring
• Urban agriculture and agroprocessing
• Research and development
• Alternative and renewable energies
• Mining and beneficiation

Please see attchment for full details.