Africa’s next energy systems are already being built.
AEYF moves credible youth-led energy ventures from technical promise towards investment readiness, procurement conversations, pilots and evidence that can be followed after the forum.
2027 · Dates to be announced
Accra, Ghana
AEYF is powered by Africa Energy Technology Centre, the organisation behind the Africa Energy Technology Conference and its platform for advancing practical energy leadership, innovation and collaboration across Africa.
A platform that keeps working after the room closes.
Discover selected ventures, respond to specific industry challenges, find verified external opportunities, strengthen diligence evidence and follow the outcomes AEYF is prepared to report publicly.
Choose your path
AEYF is designed around three clear outcomes: stronger ventures, more representative policy, and partnerships that keep working after the pavilion closes.
Innovators
Youth-led SMEs and startups
Strengthen your venture, sharpen your capital story and meet the people who can help a working solution scale.
Explore the innovator pathDelegates
Youth Parliament and advocates
Represent your region, debate the choices shaping Africa’s energy future and co-author a policy manifesto.
Enter the parliamentPartners
Investors, institutions and industry
Meet investable ventures, strengthen market ecosystems and fund outcomes that can be measured beyond the event.
See partnership routesFrom ideas to infrastructure
Four connected programme pillars move participants from preparation to influence and scale.
Innovate
Refine solutions for real African energy markets through technical feedback, enterprise support and peer learning.
Connect
Build working relationships with investors, operators, corporate buyers, mentors and fellow founders.
Influence
Bring practical youth experience into policy debate and turn shared priorities into a continental manifesto.
Scale
Move beyond pilots through capital readiness, procurement access, partnerships and stronger market pathways.
Youth voices.
Policy impact.
The African Youth Energy Parliament brings selected delegates from every African region into structured debate, then carries their recommendations directly into AETC’s ministerial and executive conversation.
Debate urgent energy and climate priorities
Co-create the African Youth Energy Manifesto
Present recommendations to decision-makers
Build a pan-African policy network
Put resources behind the people already building.
Sponsorship turns visibility into concrete support: exhibition access, travel grants, pitch capital and structured pathways to procurement and partnership.
Explore partnership optionsAccess investable ventures
Influence policy and market shaping
Demonstrate ESG outcomes
Build long-term partnerships
Be part of Africa’s energy future.
Applications, partnerships and delegate participation open in phases. Start the right conversation today.