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openSim 2025

Date: 24 October 2025
Format: In-person
Location: Mintek, Randburg
Theme: Fast, Cheap, and Slightly Wrong

Using open source software to explore the power – and the pitfalls – of efficient modelling in a complex world.

Pyro Training 2025

Dates: 17-19 June 2025
Format: In person
Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Essential Theory of Thermochemistry and FactSage Basic Workshop

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.

Opensim

Ex Mente is proud to be associated with openSim, a group of open-source software users from around South Africa. There is an annual symposium where people in the field present from their experience, discuss ideas, learn from each other and build relationships.

We are involved in organising the event and committed to growing this initiative. Follow us on LinkedIn for more information.

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.