Welcome and Opening address

• Clifford Nxomani (National Research Foundation)
• Tshepo Ntsoane (Necsa)

Access to global research infrastructures

• Clifford Nxomani (National Research Foundation)

The EBS programme at the ESRF and first science

• Francesco Sette (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF))

Overview of SA’s synchrotron activities

• Tshepo Ntsoane (Necsa)

Structural Biology in South Africa and its links to the ESRF

• Wolf-Dieter Schubert (University of Pretoria)

Characterisation of Materials and Synchrotron X‐ray deep learning

• Mashikoane Mogodi (University of Cape Town)

Palaeontology at the ESRF: Past, present and future

• Kudakwashe Jakata (University of the Witwatersrand)

4th generation light source for scientific and industrial development

• Dean Barrett (LNLS/Sirius)

Residual stress characterization using synchrotron XRD for the development laser shock processing applied to steam turbine blades

• Daniel Glaser (CSIR)

Importance of synchrotron techniques to characterisation of Energy Materials

• David Billing (University of the Witwatersrand)

Engineering Research and Technology Transfer for Light Sources, Beamlines and Measurement Instrumentation

• Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

Panel discussion session

Closure