JOHANNESBURG — McDonald’s South Africa corporate affairs director Sechaba Motsieloa and Uber Johannesburg and Durban GM Alon Lits are latest high-profile additions for the Holmes Report's first African Innovation Summit, taking place in Johannesburg on 1 April.

Motsieloa and Lits will join Burson-Marsteller Africa chairman/CEO Robyn de Villiers to explore how communications is being elevated into a C-suite discipline.

Draft programme details for the event are available here.

The new additions join a lineup  that already includes:
- Kate Johns, head of Africa communications, Standard Bank
- Google South Africa communications head Mich Atagana
- Telkom group communications chief Jacqui O'Sullivan
- Weber Shandwick EMEA CEO Colin Byrne
- Samsung Electronics public affairs and corporate citizenship manager Abey Tau
- King James Group co-founder and creative partner Alistair King
- Khadija Patel, co-founder, Daily Vox
- Platco Digital MD Patrick Conroy
- Gau Narayanan, regional director, BBDO Africa
- Kevin Welman, managing director, FleishmanHillard South Africa
- Magna Carta CEO Vincent Magwenya
- Keri-Ann Stanton, managing partner, Engage Joe Public.

The conference, which is taking place at the Hilton Sandton hotel, will explore how communications and marketing are evolving in South Africa and the wider African region. The conference is being backed by eight partner firms: Weber Shandwick, Atmosphere, Burson-Marsteller, FleishmanHillard, Engage Joe Public, Magna Carta, Ogilvy PR and WE Communications.

Limited places, priced at US$50 (ZAR800), are still available.