The Africa Energy Indaba is the foremost African energy event for energy professionals from across the globe.

The upcoming premier energy event is an African energy event by Africans for Africa

The Africa Energy Indaba is the foremost African energy event for energy professionals from across the globe.

Adopted by the World Energy Council (WEC) as the African regional event of the WEC and presented by the South African National Energy Association (SANEA), the Africa Energy Indaba is supported by the African Union and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency. As such, the Africa Energy Indaba has achieved the highest level of endorsement and support for an energy conference on the continent.

The three-day event will be held from the 18th to 20th February at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Indaba brings together international and continental experts to share their insights and solutions to Africa’s energy crisis, while simultaneously exploring the vast energy development opportunities on offer in Africa.

The conference is the forum for delegates to debate and exchange solutions to Africa's energy challenges, whilst the exhibition component is a significant marketplace for African and international stakeholders looking for and doing business in Africa's energy sector.

The unique Projects Roundtable session offers delegates an opportunity to get involved in real energy projects that are currently planned or being rolled out, by meeting the stakeholders and being briefed on project requirements and progress.

The topics for the 2014 event are not merely a repackaging of previous years’ topics, but are cutting edge and exploratory topics that are particularly important to the African context, obtained through annual surveys conducted with the WEC and SANEA. The issues of de-centralised energy supply, skills development in the energy sector, political volatility and realisation of gas potential are all topics that are currently being grappled with by Africa’s energy industry players and will be debated during the conference.

Delegates come from across the continent to attend what has become known as the business networking forum of choice for energy industry players on the continent.

Gauteng’s Growth & Development Agency (GGDA) is partnering with Siyenza in hosting the annual Africa Energy Indaba. The event has grown exponentially since its inception in 2009, and draws international and continental energy professionals and business delegates who see it as a not-to-be-missed networking opportunity for serious energy players.

As such, the event is strategically aligned to GGDA’s mandate to be the premier catalyst of innovative and sustainable growth and socio-economic development within the Southern African region.

“As an infrastructure and investment facilitator, the GGDA needs to ensure that companies entering Gauteng and, indeed South Africa, are able to conduct their business with ease.  The Africa Energy Indaba 2014 is a platform that allows the Gauteng province’s business fraternity to engage with our African and international counterparts in ensuring green economy and energy sector opportunities are understood and realised,” says Siphiwe Ngwenya, Group CEO of the GGDA.

“The partnership with the GGDA will help us to grow the Indaba to become a flagship event hosted in Africa that promotes solutions to the challenges the continent faces regarding energy supply,” says Liz Hart, Managing Director of the Africa Energy Indaba. 

“With this comes a host of business opportunities and our aim is to enhance and showcase business whereby new business ventures can be concluded and deals done.  The GGDA partnership allows us to further develop the trade and investment portfolio aligned to the event that will add even greater value to all participants.”

For further information and to register: http://www.energyindaba.co.za/