Pyro Community Day

Dates: 10 April 2025
Format: In person and Online
Location: Engineering 4.0, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Theme: Making 1 + 1 Equal 11 – Synergy between Industry, Research, and Academia

Prominent speakers will address the audience and share their thoughts on collaboration between Industry, Research, and Academia. They will be speaking on various challenges and breakthroughs they have experienced.

Enquire now

Dr Jaco Swanepoel

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

Jaco is a Chemical Engineer with twelve years of experience in projects that range from reactive metals handling, reactive metal powder production in molten salt slurry reactors, extractive metallurgy to microwave-assisted gas-solid materials processing.
Jaco contributed to three process patents and obtained a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering. Jaco also completed the KTP Management and Leadership Study Program at Ashorne Hill Management College, England.

Stefan van der Merwe

Digital Engineer

Stefan’s greatest passion is to enable people. By combining his greatest passion with his love for technology, he finds joy in making computing infrastructure accessible to the non-technical, and developing software that uncomplicates tasks. As a software engineer with qualifications in electronic engineering and bioengineering, Stefan is responsible for software development, enabling the team and clients to advance through insight.