Breakfast Roundtable Hosted by YES! (Youth Energy Summit): Scaling Up Job Creation and Employment on the Continent

State Ballroom

A breakfast meeting between YES! youth members and the world’s biggest initiative providers to discuss and implement a collaborative strategy to scale up youth employment on the continent.

• Participants will be invited to help outline a clear roadmap to achieve the large scale and conspicuous impact needed on the continent to help empower the next generation of energy professionals for success.
• To electrify a continent of one billion people, we need to engage 10% in the conversation. YES! is a fast-growing-populations network bringing energy access opportunities under one roof by enabling learning and development providers, and public and private corporations to recruit and grow their organisations at pace and scale.
• YES! aims to be a network of 100 million people by 2035, creating a community for job creation, grass roots participation and knowledge sharing for the energy sector so vastly untapped human resources across Africa can flourish.

Scene Setting Presentation:
Simon Gosling, MD, EnergyNet & Founder, YES!

Youth Perspective on Energy:
Charlene Ruto, Youth Champion & Climate Action Champion, Kenya

Foundations, Philanthropy & Initiative Providers:
Lisa Witte, Acting Deputy Coordinator, Power Africa
Jay Ireland, Executive Chairman, Milele Energy & Board Member, Mastercard Foundation
Dan Kammen, Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Herscowitz, Executive Director, ODI Global
Aline Varre, Director of Strategy & Business Development, The Foundation for Partnership
Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation)
Abdul Malik, Global Lead, Work & Enterprise, Aga Khan Foundation