Embracing a multi-source energy revolution

In parallel with the accelerating shift toward resilient energy economies, the importance of exploring different energy sources continues to rise. Increasingly, it becomes clear that all energy sources will be needed as no single solution will be able to address all challenges.

Nuclear has emerged as a promising low-carbon source of energy. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), nuclear energy is set to reach a new record in 2025 and can improve energy security as electricity demand accelerates. The momentum in nuclear energy is growing, fuelled by new policies, pioneering projects, strategic investments, and technological innovations like Small Modular Reactors (SMRs).

However, challenges remain when addressing timelines for project deliveries and financing. Other energy sources, such as wind and solar, are also emerging, contributing to a growing need to increase the capacity for storing intermittent energy.

Embracing a wide range of energy sources and assessing every integration strategy can open greater opportunities for companies and governments, lessen dependence on a single energy source, and access new markets.

Attendee insights:

Understand the different specifications and opportunities in new energy sources, including nuclear, wind, and solar, and what type of energy sources companies are focusing on now.

AI’s role in emerging economies

Emerging economies are navigating rising energy demand alongside the urgency of building more resilient energy systems. AI is increasingly viewed as a strategic tool to unlock efficiencies, improve system design, and accelerate energy innovation, especially in markets where digital infrastructure is underdeveloped but evolving rapidly. AI-driven analytics are revolutionising energy generation, distribution, and consumption. In emerging economies, real-time data and predictive modelling enable smart renewable integration, grid optimisation, and tailored electrification strategies. As AI adoption accelerates, infrastructure and energy system planning must keep pace to avoid deepening access and equity gaps, especially where energy systems are already under strain. With targeted policy support, these economies can leapfrog legacy models and adopt decentralised, AI-enabled clean energy systems. AI offers emerging markets with an unprecedented opportunity to scale energy innovation without replicating legacy infrastructure. But doing so will require intentional investment in digital infrastructure, inclusive data governance, and energy planning that anticipates the exponential growth of AI-related demand.

Attendee insights:

Discover how AI is reshaping energy systems in emerging economies, unlocking innovation while raising urgent questions around infrastructure equity, scalability, and the energy footprint of digital growth.

Strengthening resilience in emerging economies: ensuring infrastructure resilience and economic continuity

Emerging economies are increasingly vulnerable to disruptions that strain infrastructure systems, destabilise supply chains, and undermine long-term growth. As global risks intensify, resilience is becoming a central pillar of sustainable development, requiring forward-looking investments to protect both physical assets and economic continuity. Many emerging markets face weak infrastructure and limited redundancy that heighten exposure to shocks - whether environmental, economic, or logistical. The infrastructure investment gap in these economies now exceeds $450 billion annually, creating urgent pressure to build systems that are both climate-aware and disruption-ready. Compounding this challenge, over 90% of global supply chain leaders report experiencing disruptions in the past year, with nearly 60% citing infrastructure failures or weather-related impacts as contributing factors. Tackling these vulnerabilities requires rethinking infrastructure design, strengthening logistics networks, and embedding flexibility into energy, transport, and industrial systems. Emerging economies must prioritise resilience through smarter infrastructure investment, economic diversification, and coordinated planning across public and private sectors.

Attendee insights:

Gain insight into how emerging economies are building resilience through infrastructure investment, supply chain protection, and strategic planning to withstand escalating disruptions and sustain economic momentum.

Decarbonising heavy industry – is hydrogen a practical solution?

Heavy industries and shipping are significant contributors to global carbon emissions and face challenges to delivering lower carbon processes due to high thermal demands and stringent carbon reduction targets. Hydrogen could be a promising solution for decarbonising these heavy-emitting sectors due to its high energy content and versatility, allowing it to be used as both a heat source and a chemical reagent in various industrial processes. But, for hydrogen and its derivatives to enable a decarbonised future for heavy industry, substantial advances in hydrogen production, infrastructure development, regulatory support, and technological integration need to happen simultaneously. Scaling up the production of hydrogen, enhancing transport and storage infrastructure, implementing supportive policies that incentivise investment, and developing technologies that effectively integrate hydrogen into existing industrial systems are critical steps towards realising this potential.

Attendee insights:

Gain a better understanding of the opportunities low-carbon hydrogen can open for decarbonising heavy industry, the innovative technologies poised to facilitate progress and the challenges to overcome in integrating hydrogen into industrial processes.

Electrifying the road to net-zero

Electrifying the energy system is widely recognised as the backbone of the energy transition. As the world accelerates efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, electrifying demand across industrial activities, data centers, heating, cooling, and transport is paving the way to a low-carbon future. However, expanding the electricity system to meet the annual demand growth equivalent to that of the world’s 10 largest cities poses significant challenges.

Attendee insights:

This Energy Talks will explore how major electricity players are responding to the surge in demand and the critical role collaboration plays in advancing the electrification agenda.

Scaling investment in clean technology

The International Energy Agency estimates clean energy investment must reach $4.5 trillion per year by the early 2030s to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Despite the rapid growth of the clean tech sector and the new opportunities it creates for businesses and investors, clean energy investment remains significantly lower than required, due to the capital-intensive nature of clean energy projects and their long payback periods. Additionally, many of the technologies and solutions have not yet been proven in the market, adding another layer of investment risk. Supportive policies such as tax incentives, and financial innovations such as large public funding programmes, will pave the way for innovative cleantech projects to thrive.  

 Attendee insights:

Understand strategies for de-risking and incentivising clean technology investment.

The future ahead: strengthening Egypt’s leadership in the energy sector

Egypt plays a key role in the energy sector; not only has the country been driving economic stability and growth through strategic reforms, the government’s commitment to transparency, investment and regional cooperation has really showcased its leadership and robust investment opportunities. In addition, Egypt continues to drive its vision to become an energy hub by investing in key strategic partnerships, and emphasising the country’s focus on maximising production, while assuring global energy stakeholders that it will build on past efforts to drive further progress toward a just energy transition.

Attendee insights:

In this Energy Talk, H.E. Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Arab Republic of Egypt will discuss Egypt’s key priorities and the new government’s mandate, Egypt’s investment opportunities, the importance of partnerships for its energy sector and the country’s progress towards energy security and a sustainable energy future.

Attracting and retaining the energy talent required to deliver the energy transition

In 2023, the IEA reported that energy employment reached nearly 67 million in 2022, with about 35 million in clean energy sectors and about 32 million in fossil fuel sectors. Its Net Zero Emissions by 2050 scenario projects that 14 million new clean energy jobs will need to be created by 2030, while another 16 million workers shift to new roles related to clean energy. Energy organisations have equally critical dual challenges - securing talent and skills to deliver the new energy system while retaining legacy talent and skills for traditional energy production. As with the energy transition itself, solutions will be complex and must take into account employee value proposition evolution, rising employee expectations, the opportunities enabled by a global talent pool, and efficiencies created by emerging new technologies like AI and machine learning. In an increasingly competitive labour market, how can businesses attract and retain the energy talent required to deliver the energy transition?

Attendee insights:

Hear from industry leaders on how they are attracting new talent for the energy transition roles of the future whilst retaining legacy talent for their traditional energy business. Understand from a young graduate perspective what it means to enter the energy industry vs another industry.

Decarbonising heavy industry – is hydrogen a practical solution?

Heavy industries and shipping are significant contributors to global carbon emissions and face challenges to delivering lower carbon processes due to high thermal demands and stringent carbon reduction targets. Hydrogen could be a promising solution for decarbonising these heavy-emitting sectors due to its high energy content and versatility, allowing it to be used as both a heat source and a chemical reagent in various industrial processes. But, for hydrogen and its derivatives to enable a decarbonised future for heavy industry, substantial advances in hydrogen production, infrastructure development, regulatory support, and technological integration need to happen simultaneously. Scaling up the production of hydrogen, enhancing transport and storage infrastructure, implementing supportive policies that incentivise investment, and developing technologies that effectively integrate hydrogen into existing industrial systems are critical steps towards realising this potential.

Attendee insights:

Gain a better understanding of the opportunities low-carbon hydrogen can open for decarbonising heavy industry, the innovative technologies poised to facilitate progress and the challenges to overcome in integrating hydrogen into industrial processes.