Agenda

During the week of 12 – 16 October 2020 you will be given the opportunity to take advantage of a years’ worth of unusual legal learnings, insights and knowledge delivered in an unusual way!

Through condensed, bite-sized sessions our team of experts will arm you with insights and key takeaways related to major legal themes and trends from the past year. These topics include the rise of an unusually agile and flexible workforce, unusual opportunities for businesses and industries, as well as unusual innovation.

09:00 – OPENER: OBJECTIVES OF THE DAY AND KEY LEARNINGS TO DATE

Jenny Pienaar

09:15 – PANEL DISCUSSION TOPICS

Unusual cases and legal issues that have occurred during lock down.

Meet The Panelists:

Mia de Jager

Demand Shocks and Temporary dominance – Lessons from Dischem & Babalegi

Alissa Naran

Is Booking.com a Trade Mark

Cohen Grootboom

A disconnect between the means and the purpose – Court declared certain sections of government’s COVID regulations to be irrational (Travel; Hairdressers; Funerals, etc)

09:50 – SPEAKER TOPICS

Meet The Speakers:

Adv. Steven Budlender

Senior Counsel:
PABASA Sandton Chambers

Zoom Court – Implications for the future.

Kareema Shaik

Copyright Housekeeping: Navigating your relationship with your design agency

Sophia Smallbones

Enforcing partially invalid patents – Unusual requirements in South Africa

10:16 – UNUSUAL STORIES™

Showcasing unusual business stories or learnings from the past year as told by you.

09:00 – OPENER: OBJECTIVES OF THE DAY AND KEY LEARNINGS TO DATE

Darren Olivier

09:10 – PANEL DISCUSSION TOPICS

The Work Revolution 2020

Is there a need for physical office space? What will the future workplace look like? How do I nurture and manage culture, performance, collaboration, and innovation? What skills do I need? What does my employment contract need to say? Is business or personal IP at risk? What is so liberating about all of this? Join us to find out.

Our panel brings together a leading architect and designer, an industry 4.0 and cognitive expert, leading employment and intellectual property lawyers, and a working mother with 3 very young kids, to discuss the results of a comprehensive workplace survey conducted by Savile Row and Adams & Adams which will be published for the first time on the day.

Topics covered:

Findings of the survey
Workplace design considerations
Productivity management
Impact on collaboration and innovation
Traditional workplace contracts and policies
Restructuring the workforce
Nurturing and protection innovation in the new workplace with a
focus on the HOP™
Skills development
Work life balance