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The Energy Week is a high-level event in the energy sector in Latin America and the Caribbean, where experiences and knowledge are shared, and a space for contact and dialogue between public and private actors in the sector is established. The IX edition will be held from October 28 to November 1, 2024, in Asunción - Paraguay. Leaders will meet to promote the regional energy sector.
What is this event looking for?
The IX Energy Week promotes collaboration between governments, companies, academia and international agencies to innovate and promote equity in the energy sector. Key topics include renewable energy, transitions 2.0, gender equality and energy adaptation. Representatives of the 27 OLADE Member Countries and leading representatives of the public and private energy sector will participate in this event.
Previous editions
The previous eight editions brought together leading energy sector experts from Latin America and the Caribbean, along with world-renowned specialists. They managed to create a meeting space between the regional public sector and key actors of the private sector. The eighth edition attracted 3461 participants, 247 speakers and more than 54 energy-focused events in the region within the global context.
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IX ENERGY WEEK
The IX edition of the Energy Week will be a space for the exchange of experiences and knowledge, as well as a suitable setting for high-level meetings between decision-makers and public policy makers, the private sector, academia and all actors in the regional and global energy sector.
The event will address the following topics in depth:
– Innovation in the energy sector: next generation fuels, regional advances in innovation, energy storage solutions, etc.-
Gender equity in the energy
sector- Women’s access to STEM-
“Last mile” – universal access to modern energy in the region.
-Energy efficiency goals and policy and plans progress
– Sustainable mobility in the region
– Adaptation of energy infrastructure to climate change
– Policies and regulations for transitions 2.0
– Decarbonization of demand
– Among others.
In addition, the following will take place:
– OLADE Council of Experts- LIV
OLADE Meeting of Ministers
– II Business Council
These and other topics will bring together the most prominent regional and global panelists.
What is this event looking for?
- Lay the groundwork for analysis of the global landscape and how regional and national actors foresee energy development in the short, medium and long term
• Create spaces for exchange and multi-stakeholder dialogue
• Create a framework conducive to establishing agreements and business
• Promote public/private participation in the discussion of energy progress in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Energy Week Speakers
(Previous and upcoming editions)
Santiago Peña
President of the Republic of Paraguay
Leticia Ocampos
First Lady of Paraguay
Michelle Bachelet
Former UN Women Director
Andrés Rebolledo
OLADE’s Executive Secretary
Faith Birol
Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
Patricia Vincent-Collawn
Vice President, North America World Energy Council
Christian Asinelli
Corporate Vice President of Strategic Programming at CAF - Development Bank of Latin America
Marcelino Madrigal
Head of the Energy Division IDB
Mohamed Hamel
GECF Secretary-General
Claudia Centurión
Minister of Public Works and Communications of Paraguay
Mauricio Bejarano
Vice Minister of Mines and Energy of Paraguay
Francesco La Camera
Head of the Energy Division IDB
Mohamed Hamel
GECF Secretary-General
Claudia Centurión
Minister of Public Works and Communications of Paraguay
Mauricio Bejarano
Vice Minister of Mines and Energy of Paraguay
Francesco La Camera
Head of the Energy Division IDB
Julio María Sanguinetti
Former President of Uruguay
Luis Alberto Lacalle
Former President of Uruguay
José Mujica
Former President of Uruguay
HE Haitham Al Ghais
Secretary General OPEC
Tomás Serebrisky
Infrastructure and Energy Manager -IDB
Testimonials
Mary Burce Warlick
"For LAC countries to achieve their clean energy commitments, it will be essential to have large public-private partnerships that bring together innovative, financial and community support ecosystems."
Deputy Executive Director. International Energy Agency (IEA)
Oliverio Álvarez
" One key element for successful digitization processes in the energy sector is to share the benefits well."
Deloitte Spain
Claudia Lliting
"To take advantage of the quality employment that clean hydrogen will bring, it is important to train and work together with companies to understand the profiles that are needed."
GIZ
Enio Verri
"Hydropower is the best alternative in environmental and social terms. We have regional conditions for many development policies that make our sector grow."
Itaipu Brazil
Pedro de la Fuente
"The viable solution today, which is more feasible and does not require technological changes that could cost the industry billions of dollars, is the development of sustainable aviation fuels."
IATA
María Francisca Valenzuela
"In the energy sector we have the potential to work on economic autonomy, to change lives, to improve career paths. There is a shortage of professionals and we need women. We have a giant window of opportunity.”
Ministry of Energy, Chile
Pat Vincent-Collawn
"As a panelist in the session on gender inclusion in the energy industry, I was honored to contribute with strategies to integrate gender perspectives into policies and practices in Latin America and the Caribbean, driving equality and empowering women."
Chair for the North American Region at the Worlds Energy Council/ CEO at PNM Resources, In
Invitation to the IX Energy Week
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