This June, EnergyNet’s YES will return to Nairobi, Kenya! Last year, at the Africa Energy Forum in Brussels, the Youth Energy Summit was founded. YES is developing a platform and network for early career professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and educators to help a new generation of African energy leaders improve their skills, connections, and business preparedness.
The Youth Energy Summit (YES!) has lofty ambitions for accelerating access to dependable energy on the African continent; nevertheless, we cannot accomplish this alone. Our experience lies in bringing together the most powerful players in the energy sector to realize their business goals through events such as the Africa Energy Forum. We’re trying something new this time.
The challenge is not a competition, the challenge is not who will succeed first – the challenge is to electrify a continent & create the conditions for economic empowerment.
Eligibility:
For free
Students/Educators:
- Must be associated with or come through a university. Please register with your university email address
Entrepreneurs:
- Must have an established and registered business
- Must be Africa owned and focused solely on one country (Kenya for example).
- Trading for no more than three years
- Less than 20 employees
Cost: $500
Early career professionals:
- Must be no more than five years since leaving university
- Must be working for a company/public sector entity that is attending aef
Training/ Initiative providers
Goals:
- To engage 100 million Africans with the knowledge, tools and resources to engage with energy development
- Bring together 1,500+ active energy actors to the 2023 Youth Energy Summit
- Develop a series of workshops, both online and in-person, to reach a far wider audience
- Connect like-minded organisations, initiatives and networks to develop new, powerful partnerships
- Expand funding for the UN Sustainable Development Goals within Africa
Requirement:
- Bring your organisation, initiative or network to the Youth Energy Summit
- Bring yourself as a delegate
- Work with us or our partners to organise or attend an in-country, in-person energy workshop
- Spread the word, spread the knowledge, share the opportunities, share the ambition
