Summit
[African Women in Energy]
Greatest Summit of African Women in Energy

Once in a year, a group of interesting and impactful people from Africa gathers for the week-long experience — which bring together women in the energy sectors from across the African continent convening to mainstream the participation of women in the sector, to build capacity for gender enhancement for women and to address numerous challenges facing the Women in this male dominated industry.

Through this platform we endeavour to significantly push women’s ambitions in the energy sectors by creating platform to provide essential support towards women entrepreneurs in the energy business, environmentalists, women in management key decision making positions and to address important concerns facing women engineers in the energy sector. This convention is an important platform to support transformation and to push the energy sector towards the move to foster gender equality.

Schedule
[African Women in Energy]
Tentative Program

Today, what started as a small conference has turned into the unmissable rendez-vous for product people.

Day One
November 10, 2018
Day Two
November 11, 2018
09.00 am
Host Ministry Welcome & Opening Keynote
09.15
Keynote Presentation: Biofuels in Africa - A Pathway to Development?
.Current Global Interest in Liquid Biofuels and African Biofuels Strategies.
.The Reality, risks and opportunities of Biofuels Development in Africa.
.Biofuels and Rural Poverty, Environment and Social Conflict
.Insight from the international banking consortium financing the project.
11:00
Network Break
11.15
Biofuels for African Air Transportation:
Airplane performance
Pollutant
Emissions and other environmental effects.
12.30
Lunch Break, Networking and Exhibition Tour
12.50
Biofuels production, trade and sustainable development in Africa:
Trends in global biofuels production
03.45
Networking Break
04.00
Social benefits of biofuel production for Africa:
.Opportunities for rural development
.Social effects associated with market power structures
.Costs benefits along the value chain, Fuels versus food debate, Land rights
05:30
Networking Reception
09.00
Keynote Presentation: The role of African policies in biofuel market development.
11:00
Networking Break
11:15
Environmental sustainability of bioenergy in Africa
12:30
Lunch Break, Networking and Exhibition Tour
02:00
Biomass Could Be the Future of African Energy
Opportunities, Constraints and Trade-Offs
03:45
Networking Break
04:00
Are Biofuels Economically Competitive with their petroleum counterparts?
05:00
Closing Remarks and Reception
Speakers
[Who's Speaking?]
Tentative Speakers

Hear 9 inspiring talks, meet the best product people in Europe, and party together after the event!

Rachel Kyte

[CEO Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL)]

Aina Calvo Sastre

[Director, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)]

María Erla Marelsdóttir

[Director General, International Development Cooperation of Iceland]

Hela Cheikhrouhou

[Minister of Energy, Mining and Renewable Energy, Tunisia]

Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak

[President General Women's Union]

Amani Abou-Zeid

[Commissioner Infrastructures & Energy, African Union]

Prince Abze Djigma

[Ambassador of Burkina Faso for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Founder & CEO AbzeSolar S.A.]
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