The conferences and expo will take place from 15-17 July at the Cape Town International Conference Centre.
Nigel Blackaby, POWER-GEN Africa event director and conference director for PennWell's International Power Group, says the free platform maximises the value of this event, which brings together stakeholders from across the continent.
"The POWER-GEN CONNECT business matchmaking platform allows visitors and exhibitors to view profiles, see recommended connections, direct message to other stakeholders and arrange meetings with potential business partners. This new tool will help visitors to connect quickly and easily to fast track business talks," Blackaby says.
"We are also proud to announce that a number of top Russian energy and nuclear power experts will participate in a workshop entitled 'Russian technologies for Thermal Power Engineering in Africa'. This is particularly topical at a time when most stakeholders are assessing different energy sources to find a solution to the continent's power challenges," he notes.
The workshop will include insightful presentations on modern equipment solutions and new developments that pertain to the African energy sector and will include experts such as Nikolay Drozdov, director of the international business department at ROSATOM State Corporation; Igor Kotov, CEO of ZIO Podolsk; and Knox Msebenzi, executive director of the Power Institute for East and Southern Africa (PIESA).
