This ground-breaking first of its kind conference, initiated and produced by the South African Roadies Association (SARA) will address the event, technical and production sector’s critically urgent need to upgrade the sector’s qualifications to a minimum NQF 5 standard so as to enable the nations skill capacity in a digital world to international standards and best practice. The aim of the LEPTC is for a range of relevant stakeholders in education, event, technical and production sectors to engage on sector training, skill interventions and skill development, specifically speaking to the upgrading NQF standards and the alignment of such with international standards and the way forward.