{"id":99094,"date":"2023-02-23T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/?p=99094"},"modified":"2025-05-02T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:16:01","slug":"africa-forum-event-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/blog-uk\/africa-forum-event-february-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Forum Event, February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-127x95.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the Africa Forum event, the role of innovation and sustainability in driving Africa&#8217;s growth was discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The Saint-Gobain Africa team is committed to positively impacting the communities we serve and are eager to continue driving progress on the continent.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/saint-gobain-gyproc-south-africa\/\" data-attribute-index=\"0\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_COMPANY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint-Gobain Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-127x95.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-team-peter-staelens.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-53x95.jpg 53w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-peter-staelens-bunny-bala.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 107px) 100vw, 107px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-166x95.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-peter-staelens-bunny-bala-600x344.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/africa-forum-solargard-peter-staelens-bunny-bala.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAACdONXUB2guAciSEME3YM1tGiyznlZYBcFY\" data-attribute-index=\"2\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunny Bala<\/a><span>, Technical Support Specialist Africa and\u00a0<\/span><a 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Contact\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAACdONXUB2guAciSEME3YM1tGiyznlZYBcFY\" data-attribute-index=\"6\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bunny Bala<\/a><span>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAL6Xl0BUG8JCVjlxBW0Lez8i29ixXkBdC8\" data-attribute-index=\"8\" data-entity-type=\"MINI_PROFILE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Staelens<\/a><span>\u00a0today!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Africa Forum event, the role of innovation and sustainability in driving Africa&#8217;s growth was discussed. &#8220;The Saint-Gobain Africa team is committed to positively impacting the communities we serve and are eager to continue driving progress on the continent.&#8221;\u00a0Saint-Gobain Africa \u00a0 \u00a0 Bunny Bala, Technical Support Specialist Africa and\u00a0Peter Staelens, Saint-Gobain Solar Gard EMEA &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/blog-uk\/africa-forum-event-february-2023\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":99098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solargard.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}