GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTERS

The next biennial Coatings for Africa Symposium is to be held at Champagne Sports Resort, Champagne Valley, Central Drakensberg, KwaZulu Natal 15 – 17 SEPTEMBER 2010

The theme for the 2010 Symposium is “INNOVATION, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION.” The title lends itself to a broad spectrum of topics of common interest and gives an opportunity to share best practice and stimulate innovative ideas for addressing the many challenges facing our industry.  Some of these challenges include skills development, improving productivity, waste management, compliance with health, safety and environment legislation viz. low VOC, high solids, water based, lead-free coatings etc and smart coatings based on nano technology

This symposium presents an excellent opportunity for all levels of management to get a comprehensive view of the challenges and ensure that they can assemble the expertise by ensuring that existing staff acquires the necessary skills. 

While it is true that many of the delegates have a technical background, both the membership of OCCA and SAPMA includes people from other disciplines. Preference will therefore be given to papers with wide appeal and those that not only highlight the problems but provide practical solutions.

There will be 12 Presentations of 30 minutes each (including question time) over 2 days commencing on the morning of 16th September 2010.

The organisers are mindful of the fact that many of the speakers will be specialists in their field and have offered delegates the opportunity to network and discuss technical or other issues with these specialists. To this end the papers will be presented at two plenary morning sessions which will end at lunch time on each day. This leaves the afternoon free for delegates to arrange meetings with presenters (or other delegates) to discuss issues which could be confidential or specific to their organisation.

The Symposium will be coupled with an Exhibition of suppliers' products & services.

We respectfully request that prospective presenters adhere to the deadlines and “Policy for Presentations” as set out below when submitting their papers and presentation material.

Time Frame

• Synopsis of the proposed paper to be submitted by e-mail or fax to the Adjudication Committee together with a short summary of the author’s CV by 31st March 2010
• Full paper to be submitted by e-mail or fax to the Adjudication Committee by 1st June 2010
• All full papers and presentation material must be submitted by email to kenm@telkomsa.net and deidre@confco.co.za by 17 July 2010.

Policy for Presentations

Papers for presentation at the OCCA Symposium to be prepared in accordance with the OCCA Technical Paper Format ( ANNEXURE 1 attached)

Papers that are not prepared in this format will be returned by the Adjudication Committee for revision by the author and must be re-submitted in the correct format to be included in the symposium proceedings.

The OCCA copyright transfer form (ANNEXURE 2 attached) must be completed by the authors and included with the paper submission and transmitted by e-mail or fax papers cannot be included in the symposium proceedings unless this form is on file with the Adjudication Committee.

Contact details:

Ken Von Benecke       Phone +27 31 903 4398     e-mail: kenvb@scottburgh.co.za

Ken Marx                   Phone +27 31 916 6524      e-mail: kenm@telkomsa.net

Vadi Pillay                 Phone +27 31 913 2046       e-mail: vadi.pillay@shell.com

Fax no.:  +27 866172743

OCCA TECHNICAL PAPER FORMAT

Papers must be provided in either MS Word (*.doc) or Adobe (*.pdf format).

Papers and presentations will be made available to the delegates in the form of a CD.

The first page of the paper should include the title and date of the Symposium, the paper title, the author and affiliation / company details,  telephone and fax number, as below:

23rd National Symposium organised by
OCCA SA Division in conjunction with SAPMA
15 – 17 SEPTEMBER 2010
TITLE OF PAPER CENTERED IN BOLD CAPITALS
FONT SIZE 12

Author’s Name

Company/affiliation, postal and e-mail address, telephone & fax

Company letterhead paper should not be used.

Format should be A4 page, 20mm margins all round, 1.5 spacing in Arial font, single column.

COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT

All papers presented at the Symposium will be copyright of the Oil and Colour Chemists' Association (OCCA). The papers will be distributed to delegates on a CD and a selection of papers will be published in Surface Coatings International, published by OCCA.

Such an arrangement does not preclude permission to be given to other publishers.

The Author hereby agrees to abide by these conditions

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Name:..............................................................................................................................

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