Dr Rajen Cooppan, director of research and development for the traditional, complementary and alternative medicine unit at Nelson Mandela Hospital in Durban, South Africa, to speak at a weekend workshop titled ‘Gaining a healthy advantage in your life’, organised by the Ayurveda Awareness Centre for April 21 and 22. Tanzanian High Commissioner to Australia Eli Mtango and three delegates from the Tanzanian Investment Centre: Emanuel Ole Naiko (executive director), William Chiume (director investment promotion) and Patricia Mhondo (senior investment promotion officer), to speak at a CCI seminar focusing on trade and investment opportunities in Tanzania, April 23. Professor John Alford, professor of public sector management at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, to speak at a John Curtin Institute public lecture on client focus in regulatory agencies, May 3 at the Constitutional Centre of WA. Australia’s chief scientist Dr Jim Peacock; retired Lockheed Martin Corporation chairman and CEO Norman Augustine and Professor Anil Gupta, executive vice-chairman of India’s National Innovation Foundation, to speak at the Cooperative Research Centres Association’s twelfth annual conference, May 16 to 18 at the Perth Convention Centre.