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Confirmed Speakers to date

Ministers and Officials

H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia

H.E. Honourable Yonis Ali Guedi, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Djibouti

H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy, Guinea

H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda

H.E. Honourable Bachir Ismael Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy , Burkina Faso

H.E Honourable Fawzia Mohamed Sheikh, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Somalia

H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe

H.E. Honourable Cesar Augusto Hinestrosa Gomez, Vice Minister of Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea

Gouled Mohamed, Director General, Ministry of Energy & Natural Resources, Djibouti

Karim Camara, National Directorate of Energy, Ministry of Energy, Guinea

Multi-Laterals and DFI’s

Erik Bethel, Executive Director, World Bank

Judith Pryor, Director, US Exim Bank

C.D Glin, President, USADF

Daniele La Porta, Senior Mining Specialist, World Bank

Andrew Herscowitz, Coordinator, Power Africa

David Riposo, Finance and Implementation Manager, USTDA

Sasanka Thilakasiri, Energy Policy Lead, Climate Change and Energy, Oxfam

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Lucy Chege, Head of Energy, Environment, Technology, Development Bank of Southern Africa

Utilities

Dr. Abraham Belay Berhe, CEO, Ethiopian Electric Power

Joshua Choge, Chairman, Kenya Electricity Generating Company

Jonathan Amoako-Baah, CEO, GRIDCo, Ghana

John Kabia, Managing Director, EGTC, Sierra Leone

Aly Impija, CEO, Electricidade de Moçambique (EDM), Mozambique

William Liabunya, CEO, EGENCO, Malawi

Yusuf Abubakar, Chairman, Kaduna Disco, Nigeria

Charles Momoh, Chairman, Eko Electricity Distribution Co mpany, Nigeria

Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, CEO, Volta River Authority, Ghana

Siméon Habonimana, Director General, REGIDESO, Burundi

Regulators

Dr Emmanuel Mannah, Director General, Sierra Leone Electricity and Water Regulatory Commission

Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Chairman, EgyptERA

Private Sector

James Shepherd, CEO, Altaaqa Global

Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power

Sakkie Leimecke, Head of Energy Finance, Ne dbank

Gonçalo Neves-Correia, Partner & CEO, ThirdWay Africa

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Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO, Bushveld Energy

Tom Trimble, Partner, Winston and Strawn LLP

Andrew Payne, Senior Product Manager, TESLA

Joseph Tato, Partner, Global Co-Chair Energy and Natural Resources, DLA Piper

Zeynep Harezi, Chief Commercial Officer, Karpowership

Vahid Fotuhi, Vice President , Zero Mass Water

Jake Cusack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CrossBoundary

Charles Eberly, Associate Principal, CrossBoundary

Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables

Gabriel Lorenzi, Sales Vice President, Gali leo Technologies

Kenneth Hansen, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Noam Ayali , Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

David Baxter, Independent Public Private Partnership Expert

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Monday 24 February 2020

09:00-14:00 Power Africa Partners Meeting – By Invitation Only

12:00-14:00 Pre-Summit Registration and Networking Coffee – Open to All Delegates

High-level Opening Ceremony Powering Africa Summit (PAS) & Latin America Energy Forum (LAEF)

14:00-14:10 Welcome Address: Simon Gosling, Managing Director, EnergyNet

14:10-15:30 High Level Addresses Alfonso Blanco Bonilla, Executive Secretary, OLADE

15:30-16:00 Networking Coffee

16:00-18:15 Ministerial Session Distinguished Participants: H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance of Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia H.E. Honourable Yonis Ali Guedi, Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, Djibouti H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy, Guinea H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda H.E. Honourable Bachir Ismael Ouedraogo, Minister of Energy, Burkina Faso H.E Honourable Fawzia Mohamed Sheikh, Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Somalia H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe H.E. Honourable Cesar Augusto Hinestrosa Gomez, Vice Minister of Industry and Energy, Equatorial Guinea

18:15-18:25 Forum Sponsor Keynote Address James Shepherd, Chief Executive Officer, Altaaqa Global

17: 00 1:18:25-20:30

PAS & LAEF Pool Side Welcome Reception Hosted by Altaaqa Global

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Tuesday 25 February 2020

08:00-09:00 Summit Registration and Networking Coffee

09:00-09:15 Day One Welcome Address

09:15-09:30 High Level Opening Address

09:30-10:30

Responsible & Sustainable Resource Management: Mining and the Future of Energy

This session will bring together experts of the mining industry to delve into the importance of responsible and sustainable resource management for the future of

the energy sector, whilst analysing impact IPP energy projects will have on the mining sector.

Participants:

H.E. Honourable Cheick Taliby Sylla, Minister of Energy Guinea

Daniele La Porta, Senior Mining Specialist, World Bank

Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO, Bushveld Energy

Andrew Payne, Senior Product Manager, TESLA

10:30-11:15 Networking Interlude & Coffee

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Conference Room Techno Demo Stage

The Powering Africa Summit will look at how African leaders and US

organisations can collaborate to accelerate energy project development,

through access to finance and new technology.

The technology Demo Stage will showcase a large range of innovative tech

solutions and their application in Africa.

11:15-12:15 Empowering Communities: Women, Energy & Agriculture How women will play an intrinsic role in unlocking Africa’s booming agricultural energy sector

- What impact can electrification have on African agriculture? And how are women integral to this?

- How will integrating gender issues into energy projects increase and broaden the projects impact?

- How will this lead to increased benefits for all?

Beyond 4 Hours: The Future of Battery Energy Storage

Participants:

H.E. Honourable Irene Muloni, Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda

Vahid Fotuhi, Vice President, Zero Mass Water

Sasanka Thilakasiri, Energy Policy Lead, Climate Change & Energy, Oxfam

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12:15-12:30 The Switch Over

RELEASE TECHNOLOGY

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12:30-13:30

Disrupting the Energy Business Model and Value Chain Through

Distributed Energy Innovations

How distributed energy is disrupting traditional methods and attracting

significant investment

- Rethinking traditional energy system with a more bottom-up

energy generation: micro-grid, Virtual Power Plant, Battery

Storage - when your customers become producers

- Pros and cons of facilitating energy production from your

customers?

- What are the incentives for developers and investors to be

involved in Distributed Energy Solutions?

- Regulations and policies to accelerate the adoption of such models

POWER PLANT AUTOMATION 12:30-13:00

Moderator:

Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power

Participants:

David Riposo, Finance and Implementation Manager, USTDA

Jake Cusack, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, CrossBoundary

James Shepherd, CEO, Altaaqa Global

From the sun to your tap: breakthrough innovation in drinking water

13:30-14:30 Miami Power Lunch

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14:30-15:30

Reinforcing Grid Efficiency and Stability: A Prerequisite to Cross-border

Energy Trading

This session will explore the technologies and strategy adopted by

governments, utilities, and its importance as an enabler to cross border

energy trading.

- What technologies and strategies are being implemented to

support effective transmission and distribution?

- Digitalising the grid to detect problems and improve resilience of

your network against power cuts.

- Exploring the role of regional African Power Pool’s in laying

guidelines and accelerating wheeling agreements and making

projects more attractive and bankable

- Stressing the role of DFI in facilitating development of energy

routes, and creating market conditions for attracting investors

WIND TURBINES 14:30-15:00

Participants:

Dr Emmanuel Mannah, Director General, Sierra Leone Electricity

and Water Regulatory Commission.

Mr William Liabunya, CEO, EGENCO, Malawi

Jonathan Amoako-Baah, CEO, GRIDCo, Ghana

Paul Hinks, CEO, Symbion Power

Hamid Al Zayani, Managing Director, Midal Cables

Moderator:

Thomas Trimble, Partner, Winston and Strawn LLP

HYDROPOWER TURBINES 15:00-15:30

15:30-16:00 Networking Interlude & Coffee

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16:00-17:00

The Role and Future of Hydropower in Africa

Africa has the highest percentage of untapped technical hydropower

potential in the world, understanding the role Hydropower will have in

Africa’s future energy mix and how to facilitate this will be an important

factor in achieving universal energy access.

- What role will hydropower have in Africa’s future energy mix?

- Mitigating the natural generation risks associated with

Hydropower, and the role of regional power pools in doing so.

- Reducing the risk in the development of project.

- The role and relationship between the public & private sector to

promote the success of hydropower projects

SOLAR PANEL 16:00-16:30

Participants

Dr. Abraham Belay Berhe, CEO, Ethiopian Electric Power

Emmanuel Antwi-Darkwa, CEO, Volta River Authority, Ghana

Charles Eberly, Associate Principal, CrossBoundary

GENERATORS

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:10 Closing Remarks

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Showcasing the latest finance and technology innovations to achieve universal en ergy access in growing economies

Wednesday 26 February 2020

08:00-08:45 Registration and Networking Coffee

08:20-09:05 Breakfast Briefing: Battery Storage – Preparing for the Storage Boom

With an increasing number of renewable energy projects developing in the world, battery storage is expected to increase seven-fold over the next five years

to support the frequency and reliability of RE sources. The distinguished speakers in this closed doors session will engage and discuss with the audience the

current regulations, and how utilities and government can prepare for a storage boom on the continent.

- Cost of storage VS new energy generation project

- Outlining loan structure of storage - How to get your project funded and how to reach bankability of your storage project?

- Discussing the impact of introducing storage on existing PPA

- Examples of hybrid and storage projects throughout Africa and Latin America

Participants:

Joshua Choge, CEO, Kenya Electricity Generating Company

09:05-09:15 Day Two Welcome Address: Harry Gibson Programme Manager EnergyNet

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09:15-10:15 Guidelines to Government and Financial Institutions to Scale-up Renewable

Energy Projects

Analysing how governmental and financial institutions can create market

conditions for private investors to enter the market to invest in renewables

- Exploring lessons learnt from major Renewable Energy projects in

Africa: Morocco, South Africa and Senegal

- Developing and attractive, transparent and robust regulation

landscape to facilitate energy trading and plan for future cash-flow

- Increasing transparency on liquidity to identify investment ready

renewable energy projects

- Engaging with local financial institutions to access more affordable

investment and identifying on-lending companies to access

international funding

- Facilitating PPP and project finance to avoid sovereign guarantee

PAY AS YOU GO 09:15-09:45

Participants:

H.E Honourable Dr Teshome Tafesse, State Minister of Finance and

Economic Cooperation, Ethiopia

Lucy Chege, Head of Energy, Environment, Technology, Development

Bank of Southern Africa

Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Chairman, EgyptERA

Kenneth Hansen, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Moderator:

David Baxter, Independent PPP consultant

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

09:45-10:15

10:15-10:25 The Switch Over

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10:25-11:25 Gas to Power Perspectives in Africa - Lessons from Historical Discoveries This session will present case studies of gas route development in Africa to explore how to nurture knock-on effects on local economies

- How can DFIs and private sector support downstream effects of gas

route in Africa?

- What are the long term strategies to consider for countries

producers?

- From Mozambique, to Tanzania and Senegal, what are the best

lessons learnt to develop a gas economy?

SMART GRID MANAGEMENT 10:25-10:55

Participants:

H.E Honourable Fortune Chasi, Minister of Energy and Power Development, Zimbabwe

Aly Impija, CEO, Electricidade de Moçambique Zeynep Harezi, Chief Commercial Officer, Karpowership

Gabriel Lorenzi, Sales Vice President, Galileo Technologies Noam Ayali, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

FEASIBILITY STUDIES SOFTWARE 10:55-11:25

11:25-12:00 Networking Coffee

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12:00-13:30 Interactive Roundtable Sessions! This session focused on Finance and Access to Capital, will bring together public and private sector and facilitate knowledge

and experience sharing to find solutions to common challenges related to financing energy projects.

Each roundtable session lasts 45 minutes, and attendees will participate in two discussions.

Table 1: What is the future of Export credit?

Table 2: Bridging the gap between off-takers and technology providers: How can on-lending companies, insurers, or credit exports can help you getting

projects off the ground?

Table 3: How to innovate financially? From project finance to green bonds, what financial mechanism can you leverage to access financial closure?

Table 4: Road map of credit score rating: what are the key points to consider from public sector point of view to attract private investors?

Table 5: What are the alternative to sovereign guarantees?

Moderator: Gonçalo Neves-Correia, Partner & CEO, ThirdWay Africa

13:15 1 13:30-14:30 Closing Remarks & Miami Power Farewell Lunch